Video & Streaming

Video sites and streaming services that went dark, from Google Video and Joost to Vine, Quibi and Mixer.

18 projects

Veoh The video site that beat Universal in court, went bankrupt two months later, and then took fourteen more years to actually die 2005–2024 Video & Streaming IGTV Instagram's vertical answer to YouTube, launched with an orange button nobody pressed and folded into Reels 2018–2022 Video & Streaming Popcorn Time Piracy with a Netflix interface, killed twice, faded once 2014–2022 Video & Streaming Periscope Live from anywhere, until the money ran out 2015–2021 Video & Streaming Quibi $1.75 billion, six months, gone 2020–2020 Video & Streaming Mixer The $100 million assault on Twitch 2016–2020 Video & Streaming YouTube Gaming YouTube's Twitch rival, a separate app and site for game video, merged back into YouTube after four years 2015–2019 Video & Streaming Musical.ly The lip-sync app that became TikTok 2014–2018 Video & Streaming Go90 Verizon's free mobile video app for teenagers, over a billion dollars spent, closed after 34 months 2015–2018 Video & Streaming Vidme The YouTube alternative for creators fleeing the adpocalypse, out of money in December 2017; its domain now points at porn 2014–2017 Video & Streaming Vine Six seconds, looped forever 2013–2017 Video & Streaming Meerkat The live streaming app that owned SXSW 2015 until Twitter bought Periscope and cut off its friend graph 2015–2016 Video & Streaming Yahoo Screen Yahoo's video hub, home of the SNL archive, Community season six and a $42 million write-down, closed in January 2016 2011–2016 Video & Streaming Blip Where web series lived before YouTube channels, bought by Maker Studios and deleted a year later 2005–2015 Video & Streaming Justin.tv One man's life stream that became Twitch 2007–2014 Video & Streaming Google Video Google's own YouTube, made redundant the day Google bought YouTube 2005–2012 Video & Streaming Revver The first video site that paid the people who made the videos, sold to a company that stopped paying them 2005–2011 Video & Streaming Joost The Skype founders' peer-to-peer television, the most hyped video start-up of 2007, sold for parts in 2009 2007–2009 Video & Streaming