These figures are slightly lower than the previous year, primarily due to the closure of traditional video rental stores, which are being supplanted by online platforms.
Those interested in the history of public masturbation to grot movies will recall the furore around the closure of Fantasy Video in Islington in 2014, a business that had offered the sticky trench-coated denizens of King's Cross somewhere to go for a friendly communal wank for 40 years.
Closure of Google Videos in 2012 offered little assurance that commercial organisations are benign, long-term custodians of cultural heritage, as librarian Simon Barron argued.
The closure of the video-sharing app Vine was met with sadness but some amount of inevitability by an elite group of social media stars who found their six seconds of fame on the app.
The closure of Google's Video service, even while the company itself is going from strength to strength, leaves a cloud over the future of DRM-protected video which can be downloaded but which cannot be permanently unlocked: if a company shuts that service, will those films or shows also stop working too?
Yahoo's closure of their Jumpcut video service feels like the slow peeling off of a bandaid.
Rdio laid off some staff before Bay's arrival, after which he led the closure of its sister video site Vdo, the introduction of free streaming on desktops, and a redesign of the Rdio mobile apps that put the focus on the free radio.
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Meanwhile, Verizon, TC's parent company by way of Oath, could also be looking for a better entry into the market following the closure of its own new-fangled mobile video service, go90, whose failure cost it $658 million.
