Justin.tv facts for kids
JustinTv or JTV was a free account broadcasting website. It was founded by Justin Kan in Los Angeles, California.
 |
|
| Available in | Various |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | August 5, 2014 |
| Owner | Twitch Interactive (called Justin.tv, Inc until February 2014) |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | March 19, 2007 |
| Current status | Defunct |
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.
The original Justin.tv was a single channel featuring founder Justin Kan, who broadcast his life 24/7 and popularized the term lifecasting. In 2007, Justin Kan stopped broadcasting and Justin.tv relaunched into its later form as a network of thousands of various channels.
Users were permitted to broadcast to an unlimited number of people for free, and watching broadcasts did not require user registration. Broadcasts that were considered to contain potentially offensive content were available only to registered users over the age of 18. Broadcasts containing defamation, copyright violations, or encouraging criminal conduct were prohibited by Justin.tv's terms of service.
On February 10, 2014, Twitch.tv's and Justin.tv's parent company was rebranded as Twitch Interactive. On August 5, 2014, Justin.tv was officially shut down so that the company could focus on Twitch.
Company history
The original Justin.tv was a single channel featuring Justin Kan. Wearing a webcam attached to a baseball cap and streamed online via a laptop-backpack system designed by co-founder Kyle Vogt, Kan decided he would wear the camera 24/7, and he began streaming continuous live video and audio at midnight March 19, 2007.
The novelty of the concept attracted media attention. His lifecasting project has been compared to EDtv, Being John Malkovich, and The Truman Show.
Some of the few original life casters still exist today, while many faded into obscurity. A few of the original and popular lifecasters include: iJustine, a caster who still makes YouTube videos and has almost 5 million subscribers on YouTube; Mooncricket Films, a San Francisco life caster who began lifecasting since the launch of Justin.tv; and JoeInIraq, the first and only lifecaster to stream his lifecast in Iraq in 2007–2008 during the War in Iraq, giving the world a unique view of how troops spent their downtime while in a hostile environment.
See also
In Spanish: Justin.tv para niños
