This new service targets amateurs and hobbyists who are interested in sharing short video clips with family and friends, according to the Chicago Tribune article posted on MediaInfoCenter.

Community manager Heather Champ stated on the Flickr blog Wednesday that videos would be limited to 90 seconds and 150Mb in size.

"While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse," she said.

According to the Guardian, videos appear along with photos in a Flickr user's photoset, but the video service will be available only to "pro" users, who pay for a $24.95 a year annual subscription.

Champ added that Flickr is doubling the upload allowance for free accounts and for pro accounts.