Live video broadcasting
site Justin.tv is freeing up space. Lots of it. The site announced today
that it will be deleting all archived broadcasts that are stored on its
servers starting next week. That's seven years worth of video that's
going into the recycling bin.
Those videos charter the site's
rise from a small startup centered on live streaming co-founder Justin
Kan's life 24/7 to a massive web destination that accounts for nearly two percent of all US internet traffic.
However, Justin.tv is far different from what it once was. Most all of
that traffic doesn't come from Justin.tv — one of its sub-channels
dedicated to video games, Twitch, has essentially consumed its parent site.
Earlier this year, the parent company renamed itself to Twitch
Interactive to reflect the importance of the video game streaming site,
and Google's reportedly offering $1 billion for the company.
For Justin.tv broadcasters,
however, there are more pressing concerns: namely, their videos. In an
article on its official blog, Justin.tv says that more than half of the
archived live broadcasts it has have no more than one view. The "vast
majority" have fewer than ten total views. After looking at the data,
the company decided that "it’s quite clear ... viewers come to Justin.tv
because they want to consume content and interact with their
communities in real-time." That means that recordings of live broadcasts
no longer have a home on the site, and, in a rather unusual move, the
company's giving content owners a single week to save their recordings.
If you're one of those people, the site's published a help page with instructions on how to download your videos. June 8th is the cutoff.
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