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Type of site | Video on-demand |
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| Dissolved | June 30, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-06-30) |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Parent | Verizon Media |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | June 1, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-06-01) (as Yahoo! Video)[1] |
| Current status | Closed |
The companyYahoo! ran several similar video services.Yahoo! Video, avideo hosting service, was established in 2006. Later, the ability to upload videos was removed, changing it to a more purevideo on demand service; the website became a portal for curated video content hosted by Yahoo's properties. In 2011, the service was re-launched asYahoo! Screen, placing a larger focus on original content andweb series. Created for the service were the seriesBurning Love,Electric City,Ghost Ghirls,Losing It with John Stamos,Sin City Saints, andOther Space. Yahoo! Screen also acquired the sitcomCommunity for an additional season, following its cancellation after the fifth season on NBC. In January 2016, following a $42 millionwrite-down on the poor performance of its original content, Yahoo! Screen was shut down.[2] In August 2016, Yahoo! announced a partnership with the subscription video-on-demand serviceHulu to move its free video library to ade facto successor known asYahoo! View.[3] Yahoo! View streamed recent episodes of television series from theABC,NBC, andFox networks in the United States, as well as a moderate selection of archived programs from various distributors, the "skinny bundle" model.[4] Yahoo! View was decommissioned on June 30, 2019.[5]
Yahoo! Video was intended to be as avideo sharing website on which users could upload videos, similar toYouTube. At launch, Yahoo! Video started as an internet-wide videosearch engine. Yahoo added the ability to upload and share video clips in June 2006. A re-designed site was launched in February 2008 that changed the focus to Yahoo!-hosted video only.
On December 15, 2010, Yahoo! Video's functionality to upload video was removed for its relaunch as Yahoo! Screen the following year. All user-generated content was removed on March 15, 2011.[6] The content that Yahoo! deleted was saved by theArchive Team. The Yahoo! Screen rebrand was launched October 2011, alongside eight original programs.[7] Yahoo! Screen has streamed three seasons of its Emmy-nominated[8] original series,Burning Love, which was syndicated for TV throughE! in 2013.[citation needed]
On April 24, 2013, Yahoo! acquired rights to stream content from theNBC seriesSaturday Night Live, including archive clips from current and past seasons, behind the scenes footage, and other content. Yahoo! held non-exclusive international rights to the archive content, and non-exclusive rights to clips from the current season.[9][10]
In June 2014, Yahoo! announced that it had picked up formerNBC sitcomCommunity for itssixth season, which premiered via Yahoo! Screen on March 17, 2015.[11] Within a month ofCommunity's season six premiere, Yahoo! had premiered full first seasons of two new original series,Sin City Saints andOther Space, but available only in the United States.[12][13] Also in 2014, Yahoo! expanded its licensing agreement withVevo to allow Vevo's content (music videos, concerts, etc.) to appear on the platform.[14]Community ultimately would not be as profitable for the company as it hoped withThe A.V. Club blaming the acquisition for the platform's eventual demise.[15]
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In June 2015, Yahoo! Screen won the worldwide rights to distribute theNational Football League'sInternational Series game between theBuffalo Bills andJacksonville Jaguars, set to take place October 25. The one-off stream was the first NFL game to be broadcast almost exclusively through the Internet, with notelevision broadcast outside Buffalo, Jacksonville and other international markets.[16]
On January 4, 2016, following a $42 million write-down in the third quarter of 2015, as a result of the poor performance of its three original series, Yahoo! Screen as a portal was discontinued. Yahoo's original video content was re-located to relevant portals of the site; in particular, its original television series were moved to an "originals" section on the Yahoo! TV site.[17][18]
On August 8, 2016, Hulu announced they would end their free viewing tier and move exclusively to a subscription service.[19] That same day, they announced a partnership with Yahoo! to spin out its free video on demand streaming service, which features recent episodes of series fromABC,NBC, andFox, into a new service known asYahoo! View. It features the five most recent episodes of the networks' series; new episodes are added eight days after their original broadcast. It also integrated withTumblr to provide access to fan content related to programs.[20]
Yahoo View! ceased operations on June 30, 2019.[5]
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