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Soapbox launched in 2006–the same year Google announced its deal to buy YouTube–but never emerged as a significant threat to the market leader.
Microsoft gives up YouTube chase | Beyond Binary – CNET News.
I’ve never heard of the website and when I just searched for it, it sent me to MSNvideos. It sounds like they ran into the same issues Google inherited: copyright infringement and filter troubles. According to the link above, they may turn it into the model CNN is using with citizen journalism and blogger videos.
Microsoft though has a super rigid business agenda, so legal headaches + no profit = exit plan. Thankfully Google is holding on to Youtube to at least get some of the networks to come on board and inject adverts anywhere they can fit them…
Did you ever use Microsoft’s Soapbox?
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