Yahoo! Screen
| Yahoo! Screen | |
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| Web address |
screen |
| Commercial? | Yes |
Type of site | Video hosting service |
| Registration | Optional |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Current status | Online |
Yahoo! Screen is an on-demand streaming service for TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media.
The homepage contains editorially-featured videos that change daily and skew towards comedy, current events, viral videos, and premium entertainment content.
History
Yahoo! Screen began as Yahoo! Video, a video sharing website on which users could upload and share videos. At launch, Yahoo! Video was an internet-wide video search 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.[1] The content that Yahoo! deleted was saved by the Archive Team. The Yahoo! Screen rebrand was launched October 2011, alongside eight original programs.[2] Yahoo! Screen has streamed three seasons of its Emmy-nominated[3] original series, Burning Love, which was syndicated for TV through E! in 2013.
In June 2014, Yahoo! announced that it had picked up former NBC sitcom Community for its sixth season, which premiered via Yahoo! Screen on March 17, 2015.[4] Within a month of Community's season six premiere, Yahoo! had premiered full first seasons of two new original series, Sin City Saints and Other Space.
See also
References
- ↑ Rao, Leena (December 15, 2010). "Yahoo Video No Longer Accepts Video Uploads". TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- ↑ Ludwig, Sean (October 4, 2011). "Yahoo rebrands its video site as Yahoo Screen, adds 8 original programs". VentureBeat. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- ↑ Lyons, Margaret (July 18, 2013). "9 Surprising and Fun Tidbits From the 2013 Emmy Nominations". Vulture. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- ↑ Hibberd, James (June 30, 2014). "'Community' saved! Yahoo orders sixth season". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
External links
- Yahoo Screen (Official Homepage)
- Yahoo Screen Tumblr page
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