Metacafe

Metacafe, Inc.
Type of businessPrivately held company
Type of site
Video hosting service
FoundedJuly 2003 (2003-07)
Dissolved28 August 2021 (2021-08-28)
Key peopleReza Izad
Current statusDefunct/Inactive

Metacafe was an Israeli video-sharing website, launched in July 2003. During the mid-2000s it was one of the largest video-sharing websites, though it eventually began to be superseded by YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. On 28 August 2021, the platform's website became inactive, along with its social media pages having become abandoned.