Yahoo Live
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Yahoo Live was a short-lived live-video broadcasting service launched by Yahoo in 2008, similar to Stickam, Justin.tv, and Ustream. Users could broadcast live webcam video on Yahoo. It was shut down in December 2008, less than a year after launch.
02 / Yahoo Live FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
The service never found an audience against entrenched rivals and was killed within months, part of Yahoo's broad late-2008 cull of underperforming services.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launched
Yahoo launched Yahoo Live, a live-video broadcasting service in the mold of Stickam and Justin.tv.
- Shutdown
The service was shut down in December 2008, less than a year after launch.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
The experiment ran for less than a year; no financial details were disclosed.
- 02
No loss figure exists for the service; loss_amount is left null.