Vlare
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Type of site | Video hosting service |
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| Founded | August 30, 2018 |
| Dissolved | July 25, 2021 |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Jan-Nick Eul |
| Founder(s) | Jan-Nick Eul |
| Website | https://vlare.tv/ |
| Alexa rank |  614,901 (As of 26 July 2020[update])[1] |
| Users | 35,167[2] (As of 26 July 2020[update]) |
| Launched | May 7, 2019 |
| Current status | cancelled |
Vlare was a German video-sharing platform founded by Jan-Nick Eul.
Vlare showed an emphasis on creators and original creators, as opposed to YouTube, which in recent years has shown a disinterest in creators and more favors large corporations. Like YouTube, Vlare allowed its users to upload, watch, rate, favorite, comment, favorite, and report videos, as well as create blogs and join groups. Videos could also be marked as age restricted, so only registered users who have confirmed they are at least 18 years of age could watch age-restricted videos. Like most other online social platforms, users had to agree that they were at least 13 years of age to register an account on Vlare. Similar to Twitch, users could "follow" other users for free, however they could also "subscribe" to partnered creators for a fee of US$4.99/month through PayPal to directly support the creator.
Prior to being cancelled, Vlare had over 35,000 users.[2]
History[edit]
On August 30, 2018 founder and coder, Jan uploaded a video to another, more experimental website owned by him called VidLii, showing the visual code side of Vlare. It was originally going to be used as a theme for VidLii but the community suggested Jan to create it as a new video sharing website. The original name for Vlare was “Modern VidLii” but the beta testers called it “Logo” because of the placeholder picture Jan used. Vlare was opened to a closed audience around the 20th September, 2018 to test the code which had been proven successful.
Another site called Vanillo opened on the 25th December, 2018, users moved over to Vanillo because of the hype around the site due to it being stuck in development for the past year.
On The 24th August, 2019, Ex founder of Vanillo, Melony moved her focus to Vlare after a falling out with the Vanillo staff members.
On the 7th May, 2019, Vlare was released to the public. Melony uploaded a video called a funeral which depicted a funeral for Vanillo which few hours after Vlare opened, Vanillo announced that the site was closing due to them running out of storage and being unable to afford the site anymore. Most of the former Vanillo staff moved onto work for Vlare, however some stayed behind to develop a new version of Vanillo, however in November, 2019, the project was cancelled and the remaining Vanillo staff merged with Vlare.
In November, 2019, many popular YouTube content creators such as Daniel T. Gaming joined Vlare and promoted it on various other platforms. This caused the size of Vlare's userbase to rapidly increase. This eventually led to nearly 2,000 users joining in the span of a single day. This increase eventually calmed, however Vlare still gained an average of around 450 new user signups per-day.
On the 14th August, 2020, Vlare temporally closed due to DMCA reports sent to their host which they weren't noted before hand. As of the 27th of February 2021, the site is still down and being recoded. In early February 2021, Vlare announced on their Twitter that development would stop permanently,[3] but that would change later that month after they were acquired by Discord user Toby R.[4]
On July 25th, 2021. Toby announced on Discord that Vlare had been cancelled, saying the website required more effort to run than expected.[5] Their Emails and social media accounts are set to be deleted on August 27th.
Features[edit]
Vlare Premium[edit]
Vlare offered a premium subscription service called Vlare Premium, which a user could obtain by paying a monthly fee of US$5.99. Vlare Premium benefitted the user with extra features not available to regular users, such as all on-site ads being disabled, the ability to download videos and to upload in 1080p (regular users can upload in up to 720p), the ability to upload videos up to 90 minutes in length, and the ability to have an animated GIF profile picture.
Partnership[edit]
Users could apply for a Vlare partnership, which if an application is accepted, the user was benefited with all the same additional features as a Premium member (with the exception of ad disabling), as well as the ability to monetize their videos, add custom channel emotes, and gives other users the ability to subscribe to partnered channels for a monthly fee.
Gallery[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "vlare.tv Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Statistics". Vlare. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
- ↑ Vlare [@vlaretv] (February 11, 2021). "We've decided to permanently halt development on Vlare" (Tweet). Archived from the original on February 23, 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2021 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Vlare [@vlaretv] (February 23, 2021). "Here's to a new era of Vlare" (Tweet). Retrieved February 24, 2021 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Vlare [@vlaretv] (July 25, 2021). "What a journey this has been!" (Tweet). Retrieved July 27, 2021 – via Twitter.
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