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".
Key facts
- Website.name
- Justin.tv Inc.
- Website.logo
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- Website.url
- www.justin.tv (inactive)
- Website.registration
- Optional
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Company history
- Lifecasting origins
- Expansion into platform
- Technology
- Content accessibility
- Localization
- Criticisms
- Suicide broadcast
- References
- External links
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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