Vine
Media & StreamingUSAClosed 2017
Total Raised
$30M
Peak Valuation
Undisclosed
Employees
—
Year Collapsed
2017
Business model
Six-second looping video sharing social app.
In brief
A pioneer of short-form looping video and an early launchpad for many creators, Vine was acquired by Twitter before it even launched. Twitter never built a sustainable monetization or creator-payment program for it, and as Instagram and Snapchat added competing video features, Tw…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2012
- Closed
- 2017
- Headquarters
- New York, USA
- Industry
- Media & Streaming
- Employees
- —
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, Colin Kroll
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Often compared with: TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts.