Flickr Pro Account: Features and Review

Someday back I bought for myself a Flickr Pro Account (for Personal Photo and Video Collection) and Flickr Pro Services are just awesome!

In this post we will see Flickr Pro Account Features as compared to Flickr Free Account. If you are also interested in an Online Photo Sharing/Storage Solution, than a Flickr Pro Account is the best choice for you!

Difference between Flickr Free Account and Flickr Pro Account

Following are the main differences between a Free and Pro Account of Flickr:

With Flickr Pro Account you can:

• Upload Unlimited Number of Photos – Flickr Pro Account enables you to upload Thousands of Photos during your whole subscription period. Here the maximum size for each photo must not exceed 20 MB
• Unlimited Video Upload – With a Flickr Pro Account you can upload Thousands of Videos (including HD Videos) to your account. Here the maximum size of video must not exceed 500 MB and total duration of videos must not be greater than 90 Seconds
• Unlimited Storage Space and Bandwidth – There’s practically No limitation on Storage and Bandwidth for your Pro Account
• Access to Original Resolution Images – With a Pro Account you/your friends will have access to Original Resolution of Images.
• No Advertisements – With a Flickr Pro Account, there’s No Advertising for your Account at all. Fully AD Free Browsing and Sharing with others.
• Archiving of High Resolution Images – Flickr Pro Account enables Archiving of all your High Resolution Images!
• Post Images and Videos in up to 60 Group Pools – Flickr Pro Account users can post their Photos and Videos in up to 60 Flickr Groups! A very useful feature if you are a Photographer and want to share your Work with people participating in very active Flickr Groups!
• Complete Account and Referrer Statistics – Flickr Pro Account Users get complete Account and Referrer Statistics for their Photos and Videos. You will get complete information from where your Photo/Video visitors are coming from and which of your Photo/Video is the most popular among them!

While Flickr Free Account:

• Have only 100 MB Storage per month. And the maximum size of photo must not exceed 10 MB
• Have only 2 Video upload per month Limit. Here the maximum size for video is 150 MB and maximum video duration is 90 Seconds with NO High Definition Video Capability.
• Only shows First 200 Images in your Photostream. Rest of the Images are Hidden permanently (though links will remain active for them) unless and until you upgrade to a Pro Account.
• Have Advertisements
• Have only Smaller (Resized) Images available. No Access to Original Resolution Images!
• A photo/video can be posted only to 10 Flickr Groups.

Following are some of Flickr Pro Account Features I personally like:

Flickr Stats

The stats page is just awesome. This Page gives you complete information regarding What’s popular in your Photostream Today, Yesterday and throughout all Time?

The stats page also shows from where your visitors are coming? E.g. From Google Image Search, Yahoo! Image Search, Direct Landing etc. It also shows what Keywords people are searching on Search Engines before they lands on your Photo/Video.

Also Individual Stats Links are present for each Photo/Video. Just Click Photo Stats or Video Stats present in the Bottom Right of each Photo/Video (See Screenshot above)

Additional Layout for your Photostream

Flickr Pro Account users gets 2 Additional Layouts (Small + Collections and Medium + Collection) for their Photostream, which they can select from the Account Settings Page.

Enhanced Privacy

A Flickr Pro Account has got enhanced Privacy and Permissions Options. You have full control over What people see in your Photostream? What information your want to show and hide? like Hiding EXIF Data, Hiding certain Photos and Videos from Search Engines etc.

SEO Optimized

Your whole Photostream, Photos and Videos are highly SEO Optimized (Read How and Why?). Even you can use Flickr as a Photoblog!

Pro Batch for Every Pro Account User

Flickr distinguishes it’s Free Account Users and Pro Account Users with a Pro Batch (See Screenshot above). This Pro Batch will gets displayed:

• At the Top of your Photostream (Example here)
• Whenever you comment on any Photo/Video throughout Flickr (Example here)

Ability to Replace Photos

Flickr Pro Account Users can Replace any Photo with a Single Click! All you need is to click Replace this Photo present at the Bottom Right of each Photo Page!

Do check out following Screenshots (Click to Enlarge):

There are Tons of More Useful Features in a Flickr Pro Account. You can read more about Flickr Accounts in the Flickr FAQ Section and Don’t forget to Explore What’s Hot on Flickr!

Also If you want to Gift Flickr Pro Account to someone , Start from the Flickr Gift Section! If you already have Flickr Pro Account Gift Code, than you can activate your Pro Account using THIS PAGE

Indeed a Highly Recommended Online Photo Storage/Sharing Service!

Also See: Create Photo Collage Online, Gmail as your Photo Sharing Album and Convert Photo to Sketch

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