LiveLeak
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thumb|Video of the Tongo Tongo ambush in [[Niger (October 2017).]] LiveLeak was a British video sharing website headquartered in London. It was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind Ogrish.com, a shock site that closed on the same day. LiveLeak aimed to freely host real footage of politics, war, and other world events and to encourage citizen journalism, although it became known for hosting videos with gore and extreme violence.
Key facts
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.caption
- Screenshot of LiveLeak's homepage
- Website.name
- LiveLeak
- Website.logo
- Logo of LiveLeak (2008-2021).svg
- Website.founder
- Various co-founders including Hayden Hewitt
- Website.type
- Video sharing
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.location_city
- London
- Website.location_country
- United Kingdom
- Website.current_status
- Inactive (defunct)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- shock site
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- London
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- inception
- 2006-10-31
- Commons category
- LiveLeak
- end time
- 2021-05-05
- language of work or name
- English language
- Alexa rank
- 1170
- hashtag
- LiveLeak
- review score
- 1.9/5 (Poor)
- social media followers
- 39862
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Video of the Tongo Tongo ambush in [[Niger (October 2017).]] LiveLeak was a British video sharing website headquartered in London. It was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind Ogrish.com, a shock site that closed on the same day. LiveLeak aimed to freely host real footage of politics, war, and other world events and to encourage citizen journalism, although it became known for hosting videos with gore and extreme violence.
LiveLeak ceased operations on 5 May 2021, and the URL now redirects to ItemFix, a safe-for-work video sharing site.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LiveLeak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.