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It’s a sensible move from Yahoo, establishing itself in the video market which will potentially become another form of revenue through advertising and paid video. Further as bandwidth becomes bigger the growth in this market will be immense as high quality video on demand becomes reality.

Thankfully though, they have stayed well away from integrating this into Flickr, which commercially would have been suicide. Flickr’s absolute success is directly proportional to the immense communities that have built up in since the beginning. Photography is a mature market and the Flickr audience is generally reflected in that but video is still in its infancy on the web. By combining both markets at this stage would have introduced the wrong audiences to this first rate photo sharing site and destroyed everything it has in its favour.

That is not to say it won’t be incorporated in the future but at this stage the Flickr fan base can sleep easy in the knowledge Yahoo will iron out the creases for a while and further gage the audience and usage before any potential integration. Hopefully….

Under the terms of the agreement, EBay will incorporate Yahoo into their toolbar which has been downloaded over 4 million times. Further Yahoo will become the sole source for ‘graphical advertising’ on the site and provide some search based advertising. In return Yahoo will use Paypal, Ebays online payment service, as the preferred solution to their storefronts, shopping and subscription services. There is also a likely collaboration into click based advertising using the recently acquired Skype telephony service.

This must be major news for both Google and Microsoft though not entirely unexpected considering the rumours of late in the business sector. The will move will surely prove great business on both parts, but significantly Yahoo with the exclusive advertising. Time will tell but for a deal where it has cost neither financially, this will surely be the start of more cooperation in the future between powerhouses of the net.