Justin.tv
Sign in to saveJustin.tv was a website created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel, and Kyle Vogt in 2007 to allow anyone to broadcast video online. Justin.tv user accounts were called "channels", like those on YouTube, and users were encouraged to broadcast a wide variety of user-generated live video content, called "broadcasts".
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- Website.name
- Justin.tv Inc.
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- Website.url
- www.justin.tv (inactive)
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- Website.successor
- Twitch
- Website.owner
- Twitch Interactive (called Justin.tv, Inc until February 2014)
- Website.type
- Live streaming
- Website.dissolved
- August 5, 2014
- Website.current_status
- Defunct
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- Company history
- Lifecasting origins
- Expansion into platform
- Technology
- Content accessibility
- Localization
- Criticisms
- Suicide broadcast
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Justin.tv was a website created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel, and Kyle Vogt in 2007 to allow anyone to broadcast video online. Justin.tv user accounts were called "channels", like those on YouTube, and users were encouraged to broadcast a wide variety of user-generated live video content, called "broadcasts".
The company was an Internet startup based in San Francisco, California, with seed funding from Paul Graham of seed capital firm Y Combinator and Series A funding with Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates.
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American companies established in 2007Companies based in San FranciscoDefunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay AreaDefunct software companies of the United StatesFormer video hosting servicesInternet properties disestablished in 2014Internet properties established in 2007Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay AreaSouth of Market, San FranciscoTwitch (service)Y Combinator companies