Only a month off from their decision to scale back Soapbox, Microsoft has decided to close the service altogether. Soapbox launched as a YouTube competitor in 2006, but failed to gain foothold on the market. Redmond’s announcement last month stated that they intended on transforming Soapbox into a forum where bloggers and citizen journalists could post videos relevant to MSN’s focal points (entertainment, lifestyle, finance etc).

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Is this a bad thing?

I've never heard even heard of it...

Me neither Rick, saw the headline and had to click to see what it was all about.

If reasonably tech savvy digirati like ourselves did't know what SoapBox was, maybe that was part of it is failure.

I'm sure MSN pushed it as part of their services, but relatively speaking, not many people use MSN.

And concerning Microsoft, it's probably for the best anyway, since YouTube loses about $1,500,000 every day it operates. If YT can't generate money, I doubt Soapbox could even be in the positives, let alone lucrative.

whats soapbox, agree with Rick, I've never heard of it....maybe thats the problem.