The company

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ran several similar video services. Yahoo! Video, a

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, was established in 2006. Later, the ability to upload videos was removed, changing it to a more pure

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service; the website became a portal for curated video content hosted by Yahoo's properties. In 2011, the service was re-launched as Yahoo! Screen, placing a larger focus on original content and

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. Created for the service were the series ''

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'', '' Electric City'', ''

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'', '' Losing It with John Stamos'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Yahoo! Screen also acquired the sitcom ''

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'' for an additional season, following its cancellation after the fifth season on NBC. In January 2016, following a $42 million write-down on the poor performance of its original content, Yahoo! Screen was shut down. In August 2016, Yahoo! announced a partnership with the subscription video-on-demand service

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to move its free video library to a ''de facto'' successor known as Yahoo! View. Yahoo! View streamed recent episodes of television series from the

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, and

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networks in the United States, as well as a moderate selection of archived programs from various distributors, the "

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" model. Yahoo! View was decommissioned on June 30, 2019.

History

Yahoo! Video was intended to be as a

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website on which users could upload videos, similar to

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. At launch, Yahoo! Video started as an internet-wide video

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. 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

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. The Yahoo! Screen rebrand was launched October 2011, alongside eight original programs. Yahoo! Screen has streamed three seasons of its Emmy-nominated original series, ''

'', which was syndicated for TV through E! in 2013. On April 24, 2013, Yahoo! acquired rights to stream content from the

series ''

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'', including archive clips from current and past seasons, behind the scenes footage, and other content. Yahoo! holds non-exclusive international rights to the archive content, and non-exclusive rights to clips from the current season. In June 2014, Yahoo! announced that it had picked up former

sitcom ''

'' for its sixth season, which premiered via Yahoo! Screen on March 17, 2015. Within a month of ''Communitys season six premiere, Yahoo! had premiered full first seasons of two new original series, ''

'' and ''

'', but available only in the United States. Also in 2014, Yahoo! expanded its licensing agreement with

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to allow Vevo's content (music videos, concerts, etc.) to appear on the platform. ''Community'' ultimately would not be as profitable for the company as it hoped with ''

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'' blaming the acquisition for the platform's eventual demise. Yahoo!_Screen

In June 2015, Yahoo! Screen won the worldwide rights to distribute the

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's International Series game between the

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and

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, set to take place October 25. The one-off stream was the first NFL game to be broadcast almost exclusively through the Internet, with no

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outside Buffalo, Jacksonville and other international markets. 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. On August 8, 2016, Hulu announced they would end their free viewing tier and move exclusively to a subscription service. 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 from

, and

, into a new service known as ''Yahoo! 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 with

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to provide access to fan content related to programs. Yahoo View! ceased operations on June 30, 2019.

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