Yahoo! Screen

Yahoo! Screen was an on-demand streaming service for TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media from Yahoo!. The homepage contained editorially-featured videos that changed daily and skewed towards comedy, current events and viral videos. The service had more than 1,000 hours of programming when it went live in September 2013. Due to low viewership and financial writeoffs in 2015, the service was closed in January 2016.

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. The content that Yahoo! deleted was saved by the Archive Team. The Yahoo! Screen rebrand was launched October 2011, alongside eight original programs. Yahoo! Screen has streamed three seasons of its Emmy-nominated original series, Burning Love, which was syndicated for TV through E! in 2013.