Yahoo! brought together photo aficionados

Yahoo! India hosted unique community events for Flickr across Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore this month to provide an offline platform for Flickr photo and video enthusiasts. Designed around the theme "Hello, India!", these community events celebrated the growing success of Flickr in India and served as a vibrant platform for people to connect with their communities, meet new friends and exchange their exciting experiences.

"Hello, India!" community events brought together nearly 200 Flickr community members in each city and helped them connect through the language of photography.

Flickr offers a compelling online photo-sharing platform that is at the centre of people's online lives. Yahoo! India already boasts of over 2.29 million Flickr users (comScore, March 2010) with over 12,500 groups connected with the term "India". Globally, Flickr already has over 4 billion photo and video uploads and a monthly unique visitors of 85.9 million, worldwide (comScore, March 2010). Flickr allows users to effortlessly upload, organize, edit, control, share, explore and do more. "Flickr has established itself as the eyes of the world, with millions of people all over the planet sharing photos and video of every imaginable aspect of life," said Arun Tadanki, Managing Director, Yahoo! India.

"Our community events in India witnessed an overwhelming response which truly testifies Flickr's popularity. Yahoo! India already has over two million Flickr users. With Flickr, we want to help people make their photos and video available to those who matter to them. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video," added Arun.