MixBit was a video sharing service created by

Steve Chen Steve Chen (; born August 25, 1978) is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After having co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc ...

and

Chad Hurley Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "5 ...

, two of the co-founders of

YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...

. It was released on August 8, 2013. MixBit let users create dynamic shared videos, and competed with

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(owned by

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) and

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(owned by

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) in the video sharing website market. Its iPhone app was released in August 2013 and its Android app followed two months later. MixBit ceased operations on August 21, 2018.

AVOS Systems

AVOS Systems was an Internet company founded by

, and Vijay Karunamurthy. In April 2011, it was announced that AVOS purchased Delicious, with the transition occurring in June 2011. In May 2011, AVOS purchased the social analytics company Tap 11. In May 2014, AVOS sold Delicious to Science Inc. In 2012, AVOS launched Zeen, a web curation service allowing users to create video magazines, based on the word "zine." AVOS shut Zeen down in 2013. In 2014 AVOS transformed from an incubator into a single company working only on MixBit. MixBit later became part of InvoiceOwl.

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