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Yahoo Video Ditching Video

In 2010, corporate decisions at Yahoo caused more head scratching than New York City's bed bud epidemic. Adding to a year of confusion, Yahoo Video -- which TechCrunch calls Yahoo's "YouTube-like video site" -- is no longer letting users upload video, and it plans to delete all user-generated content by next spring. "After careful consideration, we will be removing all general user-generated content upload capability and user-uploaded video from Yahoo Video," the company explains in an email to Yahoo Video users.

Careful consideration of what? "Unable to compete with YouTube and even Facebook for traffic to its video site, it appears that Yahoo is shifting focus away from user-generated content," TechCrunch surmises. "But it's unclear what Yahoo Video will become." Unclear, indeed. According to TechCrunch, "Yahoo is hoping that its photo-sharing site Flickr will become a popular destination for videos."

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  1. Jonathan Mirow from BroadbandVideo, Inc., December 17, 2010 at 3:25 p.m.

    It will become just another wasteland of corporate sponsored content. Hard to see why they even want to continue on with YouTube kicking their ass in such a profound way. Check out my weekly New Media Commentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzsr9bceSSQ (YouTube, needless to say).

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