With early availability for Peacock starting April 15 before its wide July rollout and the launch of HBO Max this May, the streaming wars are seriously heating up. Since nobody knows when theaters will reopen, streaming is a more prominent part of the entertainment landscape than ever before, and the competition for people's time and subscriptions is fierce.

Not every streaming video site has lasted, however. NBC's comedy-focused Seeso failed to make an impression, and its few notable original series are now exclusive to VRV. Warner Bros. shut down the K-drama service DramaFever and the classic movie service FilmStruck, though the latter has been made into something of a revival as The Criterion Channel and will be integrated into HBO Max. No streaming failure might be more embarrassing, however, than that of Yahoo! Screen.

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Many people probably haven't even heard of Yahoo! Screen, which is the simplest explanation for why it doesn't exist anymore. The service tried to chase trends, but a poor quality video player, limited content selection, and the general irrelevance of Yahoo! as a brand killed its chances of long-term success.

Yahoo!'s first foray into streaming was Yahoo! Video in 2006, an attempt to compete with YouTube. Similar to YouTube, users could upload their own videos to Yahoo! Video. Most independent content creators just stuck with YouTube, though. This, unsurprisingly, resulted in Yahoo! Video's user-created content being deleted in 2011 when it transformed into Yahoo! Screen.

For its first four years, the content of Yahoo! Screen was all series with short episodes, all of which were 13-minutes at most. Essentially, its content was very similar to that of Jeffrey Katzenberg's new Quibi service. There was a lot of reality programming,  a few scripted comedy series and two sci-fi dramas (Electric City and Cybergeddon) intended to be "online digital blockbusters." The only short scripted series to last more than one season was Burning Love, a spoof of dating shows that got picked up for cable television by E!

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In 2015, Yahoo! Screen transformed itself yet again to try to compete with the full-length streaming originals that had recently become all the rage on Netflix and Amazon Prime. Its new line-up consisted of three series. The basketball series Sin City Saints was a complete flop both critically and with viewers. Other Space, a sci-fi comedy created by Paul Feig, fared better with critics but was significantly under-promoted and lost a lot of money.

Then there was the one show anyone actually watched on Yahoo! Screen: the sixth and final season of Community. Despite cast shake-ups, it managed to be a fitting send-off to the cult hit. According to creator Dan Harmon, Community actually managed significantly higher viewership on Yahoo! Screen than it had on NBC. Actually monetizing those numbers, however, was a challenge given the rates for internet advertising.

One cult success and two expensive flops were not what Yahoo! Screen needed to become a serious streaming player. In 2016, Yahoo! had to take a $42 million write-down and shutter the service. Yahoo! would re-enter the streaming world once again later that year with Yahoo! View, which consisted of what used to be the free part of the now subscription-only Hulu. Yahoo! View shut down last year.

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