As has been widely reported, Yahoo! has finally announced their decision to discontinue the Maven product that they purchased last year for $160 million. 

This may be news to many, but it seemed pretty clear to most Maven customers that their video platform was in trouble long before Yahoo!'s formal announcement that they were shutting it down.  At Brightcove, we've had a front row seat to the Maven customer migration over the past year.

Today it was announced that Maven has been acquired by Yahoo!. Although they were a relatively small player in the Internet TV platform category, with significantly less market share than Brightcove, we believe their acquisition is a good validation of the value of the category as a whole.