Yahoo’s closure of their Jumpcut video service feels like the slow peeling off of a bandaid. In December they announced that no new videos could be uploaded, but that they “will be keeping the Jumpcut site up and running for the foreseeable future.”
Apparently the foreseeable future ends in June, when the site will be shut down. From an email they sent out to users today:
Dear Jumpcut user,
After careful consideration, we will be officially closing the Jumpcut.com site on June 15, 2009. This was a difficult decision to make, but it’s part of the ongoing prioritization efforts at Yahoo!
Very soon, we’ll be releasing a software utility that will allow you to download the movies you created on Jumpcut to your computer. We’ll send instructions to this email address when the download utility is available.
Once you download your movies, you may choose to upload them to another site such as Flickr, which now allows video uploads. You can find out more here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/video/
Thanks for your understanding and thanks for being a part of Jumpcut.
The Jumpcut Team
Yahoo bought Jumpcut, one of the best online video editing tools we’ve seen, back in 2006. It’s a shame to see them die. We’ve added it to the deadpool.
Why? Sell it to some one that can do something with it or give it back to the founder. Buying companies just to shut them down? No wonder they have lost so much value.
With the current market condition, maybe there is no more value to it and it also take time to sell it. And yahoo currently want to layoff more employees after they announce their quarterly result on April 21. I think most likely jumpcut employee will be part of it
I agree with the market conditions and the cost to try to sell the product.
So many people work on projects for free why not see if there is a group of people willing to maintain the service and maybe even charge for it.
Shelving it just seems like a waste.
I agree on shelving it seems like a waste.
“Flickr. Now with JumpCut.” It’s as easy as that. Introduce the features into the array of Flickr features and start segmenting the site’s user communication into two primary channels: video bloggers and photographers.
And they wonder why they’re no google. When google buys things they do things with them… poor yahoo, always a bridesmaid, never a bride. lol.
Dodgeball?
Dodgeball, Jaiku–are those the only purchases that Google did nothing with?
Unfortunately, it’s just another Yahoo services shutting its doors (yahoo photos, briefcase and now jumpcut).
I wish Yahoo would take its products and focus on not just copying similar players in the space but improving upon them. For example, it seems like Gmail is constantly being enhanced and improved upon whereas it has been slow for even the new Yahoo mail to be stable.
The Jumpcut team did a great job and there’s lot of value in their work and experience. However, no one (i.e Jumpcut, Flektor, Kaltura) have been able to succeed in the online video editing space. Still no killer app and no revenue model. Kaltura try some cool thinks in Facebook (groups making videos) and other have tried music videos made by fans, or commercials, etc.
The technology is well understood, but where’s the kiler app ?
Take a look at Aditall, they have a cool business model.
Wow, this has been the first news from the Yahoo camp in a while. I was hoping that they would be able to bring out some exciting news but sounds like things haven’t changed too much over on their end. For their sake I hope things start to pick up for them sooner rather than later.
Peter Epstein
http://www.thewebwar.com/yahoo
Never mind that Flickr has a 90-second limit on video duration.
Perhaps Yahoo’s closure of their Jumpcut video service, is to let their staffs go and participate in the California Tea Party protest over the high taxes.
It’s too bad they are letting it go.
The best thing they could do would be to put it out their as open source and let it reside on the servers for the common good of the community. It’d be a nobel gesture on Yahoo’s part!
Yahoo how about putting Jumpcut into Open Source so the community could tend to it and be greatful to you for it.
Great informative post!
There’s a much better service at http://www.animoto.com that Jumpcut users will find as a nice alternative. Animoto has just been nominated for this year’s Webby Awards.
I think JumpCut was a little ahead of it time in some ways.
The online editing feature was cool but had they allowed a content provider (like me) to embed the tool into their own site it could have spread further and earned them a little money. I think there’s a role for an online editing widget for audiences to re-edit and mash-up specific content made available on that content provider’s site.
Great! i love it.
Surf Anonymous
You love Fail?
Online video editing is lame.
There are things thin clients are very bad at, and that’s one of them. One day thin clients will be good at editing video, we’re not there yet.
Embracing or worse paying for a technology who’s platform has not yet been fully developed is a waste of money. Then again 2006 saw a bunch of money thrown out there for acquisitions.
I came up with a new quote tonight about the US and Canada in tough economic times.
“In America, you sacrifice, in Canada, you get sacrificed” – Chris
I am afraid that Jumpcut is not the only one service to join the deadpool but many other service will be retired soon.
I never really understood the point of Jumpcut. It didn’t really seem to do anything that I couldn’t already do with the video editing software I already have.
Yahoo is also shutting down it’s fantasy sports service.
We’re still strong (fart sound in the background) Dude, be nice.
yahoo goes down
Too bad. This was a good service that had a lot of potential as video adoption continues to increase.
It is really sad that Yahoo Shuts up JumpCut . Yahoo needs to take more care before buying other services and companies.
Sad news. I used JumpCut for a while then switched to MASHER http://www.masher.com as its got clips from the BBC you can mashup with your own vids & pics
Is there any good news to come from Yahoo?!
I don’t know why you want word about Yahoo and Jumpcut…..Masher has just redesigned their site http://www.masher.com. Man, it was good before (few bugs but it is in beta so thats normal)….
Now though, Masher.com is awesome! Better than jumpcut ever was! RIP Jumpcut…
I’m sorry to see Jumpcut go. They had a very nice product, and I had hoped to see them flourish as a Yahoo! property.
Benjamin Wayne
CEO, Fliqz
Considering Jumpcut dead is like considering Writely dead.
I liked Jumcuts interface for creating videos. A great alternative to this site if you are a Realtor or a Homeowner trying to sell a home is http://www.prop...rtypreviews.com I use the site all the time.
Funnily enough, you’ll be able to recycle the beginning of this headline in 2010. Specifically, the first 3 words: Yahoo shutting down.
I think there is value in having a web or mobile based video editing thin client. And it’s a shame that Yahoo! didn’t see the value in it. If Adobe was into acquiring web peoperties I could see them doing something with JumpCut. A web version of Premiere could certainly help them. I see the possibilities for these kinds of things with the iPhone app “Beatmaker” by Intua http://www.intu...t/products.html.
It’s a sophiisticated mobile recording studio that let’s you produce and arange music on your phone and then export the files as .wav or MIDI data. ‘Final Cut Mobile’ anyone?