Lesson 9. Upgrading Your Account

So how does Flickr make its money? It’s free, isn’t it?

Well, yes and no. Like so many Internet business models, Flickr makes its money by offering premium services for a fee. Those services are known as the Pro package, and according to Flickr, this is what Pro gives you:

• Unlimited photo uploads (20MB per photo)

• Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video)

• The capability to show HD Video

• Unlimited storage

• Unlimited bandwidth

• Archiving of high-resolution original images

• The ability to replace a photo

• Post any of your photos or videos in up to 60 group pools

• Ad-free browsing and sharing

• View count and referrer statistics

Flickr is quick to point out that you get considerably ...

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