Yahoo! Video is a Yahoo! website dedicated to video. It is similar to sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, MSN Video and Veoh.

Yahoo! Video began as an internet-wide video search engine and added the ability to upload and share video clips in June 2006. A re-designed site was launched in February 2008 that changed the focus to Yahoo-hosted video only. The site now consolidates all premium video from across Yahoo! properties with user-uploaded video.

The free service provides users with a means to search and play videos, save videos to their 'favorites', subscribe to channels, create playlists, and embed videos in web pages and blog posts. The homepage contains editorially-featured videos that change daily and skew towards comedy, viral videos, talented users, odd stuff, animation, and premium entertainment content.

Technical notes

Yahoo! Video accepts videos in WMV, ASF, QT, MOD, MOV, MPG, 3GP, 3GP2 or AVI formats and transcodes to a 700 kpbs bitrate. Video playback is in Flash and presented in a 16:9 aspect ratio by default.

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