Metacafe
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Metacafe was an Israeli video-sharing website, launched in July 2003. During the mid-2000s it was one of the largest video-sharing websites, though it eventually began to be superseded by YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. On 28 August 2021, the platform's website became inactive, along with its social media pages having become abandoned.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Metacafe is referenced by 169 other articles, and connects out to online video platform, Starz and Fandango at Home.
It sits within the topics 2003 establishments in Israel, 2012 mergers and acquisitions and American entertainment websites.
Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Metacafe, Inc.
- Website.logo
- 200px|Metacafe Logo
- Website.company_type
- Privately held company
- Website.key_people
- Reza Izad
- Website.website_type
- Video hosting service
- Website.current_status
- Defunct/Inactive
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto
- Official website
- www.metacafe.com
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- inception
- 2003-07-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2021-08-00
- Alexa rank
- 14097
- social media followers
- 14205
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Producer Rewards
- Closure
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
Metacafe was an Israeli video-sharing website, launched in July 2003. During the mid-2000s it was one of the largest video-sharing websites, though it eventually began to be superseded by YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. On 28 August 2021, the platform's website became inactive, along with its social media pages having become abandoned.
==History== Metacafe Inc. was founded in July 2003 in Tel Aviv by Israeli entrepreneurs Eyal Hertzog (Chief Technical Officer) and Arik Czerniak (CEO) and raised $3 million from Benchmark Capital. In June 2006, the company closed a Series B financing round of $12 million. Investors included Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital. That September, the company moved its headquarters to Palo Alto, California and in October, Metacafe was ranked the third largest video site in the world according to comScore. It used to attract more than 13 million unique monthly U.S. viewers and streamed more than 53 million videos in the U.S. each month, according to comScore Video Metrix (March 2011). The site's global audience was more than 40 million unique monthly viewers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metacafe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.