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This week, both Dailymotion and Metacafe got acquired, ending the independence of two sites that at one time went head-to-head with YouTube, competing for the attention of users uploading their homemade videos. This made us wonder: Whatever did happen to all those other once-promising YouTube competitors?
After enduring a torrid few months, Netflix is hoping to get that it can generate some positive momentum by announcing plans to launch in the U.K. and Ireland early next year — its first product launch outside the Americas. But it will face stiff competition.
The world is about to get another online video service. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who co-created KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, is se…
Adconion Media Group has secured nearly $34 million (£21 million) in a financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The ad network, which is based i…
As big guns like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reportedly gear up to launch their own music streaming services, the smaller sta…
The economics of attention is much more ruthless and unforgiving than the real economic underpinning of a product. Just as it is hard for a movie to recover from a bad opening weekend, today’s “apps” lose if they don’t make a good first impression.
For all the fuss over Steve Burke laying out the planned structure for a post-approval Comcast-NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), you’d think this wa…
Whether you liked or loathed the premiere of NBC’s The Event last night, the transmedia elements accompanying the series are super-disappointing. While there are a few sites and Twitter accounts, their level of success ranges from mildly entertaining to flat-out disjointed.
Today on the Net: ABC has doubled the number of ads it shows in its iPad app, Demand Media chooses Joost for its video ad sales and technology, and Epix is adding authentication with a new HD site aimed at Cox and Mediacom customers.
— Skype: The VOiP firm is adding game firm Mig33’s chief marketer Doug Bewsher as its own chief marketing officer, based in Luxembourg to “…
Joost, just a few months after having its assets purchased by Adconion Media Group, has found new life as a video ad network. The just-launched Joost Video Network will serve up in-banner and in-stream ads to targeted audiences.
– Bauer: Carl Lyons has left his job as digital marketing director for Bauer Media. The move follows another change in the digital team earl…
At NewTeeVee, we usually prefer to talk about the future rather than the past. In light of a decade coming to an…
We’re not at this year’s Le Web, the Paris web shindig that has itself at times proved controversial (bitching and temperature control). But…
Before web music service Spotify launched, serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky called it “Joost for music.” Indeed, Spotify would be well-advised to learn from Joost’s mistakes — or it could wind up suffering a similar fate.
Joost isn’t dead, it’s just getting more advertising.
Adconion’s main aim in acquiring the video firm is to offer its web player to brand m…
So Joost’s been put out of its misery and its assets have been acquired by Santa Monica, CA-based online ad network Adconion Media Group. Te…
After three years of trying — and failing — to make a business out of running an online video portal, Joost has…
When Joost wound up its UK office last month, it looked like just a strategic response to it having given up on the VOD game.
But, in doing…
[With Staci D. Kramer] For weeks, Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have claimed in legal filings and through representatives…
Joost is liquidating its UK division as it works to shrink the business following its switch from a video portal to a white-label video prov…
If history is any guide, then recent actions by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom indicate that they wouldn’t hesitate killing…
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the founders of a P2P maze of Skype, Joost and other startups based on code owned by their company Joltid,…
Many people in the online video space are trying to make sense of the lawsuit Joost filed against former chairman and CEO…
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom’s Joost and Joltid today announced that they have filed a lawsuit against Michaelangelo Volpi, Joost’s former president,…
Joost Removed Volpi as Chairman; brouhaha gets more interesting as Joost says it “is conducting an investigation into Mr. Volpi’s actions during…
When the virtually wound-down Joost confirmed to us late last week that former CEO Mike Volpi has also exited as chairman, it didn’t tell us…
Ratings Consortium Gets a Name; Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) is the supergroup of media companies and advertisers trying to take…
Mike Volpi is no longer Joost’s Chairman, Silicon Alley Insider has confirmed. In June, Volpi resigned his position as CEO of the…
Mike Volpi kept the role of chairman when Joost switched to a white-label tech provider and he left as CEO for Index Ventures, an investor i…
Joost was squeezed out of the market by broadcasters picking their own VOD channels instead of aggregators, acknowledges Mike Volpi, who res…
So much for any of the whispers that had Mike Volpi moving to another executive operations role — less than a week after stepping down as C…
Former Joost CEO Mike Volpi won’t be waiting in line at the unemployment office. He’s landed at Index Ventures — which invested…
Former Joost CEO Mike Volpi already has a new gig lined up. He’ll be a venture partner at Index Ventures, which was…
Joost, a much-vaunted online video startup, has announced that it will offer a white-label video hosting platform, thus entering a crowded market littered with the carcasses of other failed video hosts. As someone who has followed Joost from its very inception, I’m amazed at how badly it’s stumbled. It shouldn’t have.
Much-hyped video portal Joost is remaking itself as a “cost-effective” white-label video provider — slashing staff, closing and shaking up…
Joost announced today that it is shifting business strategies and it “will focus on providing white label online video platforms for media…
Joost has announced that it is going to allow third-party developers to add Flash widgets to its video player soon. The Joost…
From desktop app, to live streaming web TV service… to top of Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster? It sounds like something of a wild…
— Flip’s new video channels: After shaking up the video camera market with the Flip, Pure Digital is moving into video-sharing with the la…
Joost Labs launched a version of its web TV service for the PlayStation 3 today, making it accessible on your television set…
— Myvideorights.com: The independent video rights distributor has won a one-year contract to distribute and monetise short-form content fro…
— Zinio-Vaio: How do you increase magazine subscriptions? Give them away for free with laptops. Digital edition-maker Zinio has signed a de…
How to Recognize Swine Flu Symptoms; new video from CDC is among the many posted in response to the outbreak. (YouTube Blog)…
Joost is looking to sell itself and become an online video platform for cable or satellite operators, with Time Warner Cable (s…
Joost has given us a “no comment” to reports it’s trying to sell itself. The site is pitching itself as an online video platform to cable an…
— Virgin Media: The Advertising Standards Agency has banned an ad in which the ISP said its 20Mbps service could be received by all custome…
Joost, which has been steadily building its content repertoire, has now had to do a takedown. CEO Mike Volpi writes in a blog post he had to…
Video site Joost wants to show more than just English-language videos. The service has just added 11 German content partners; their vids wil…
More evidence that the major video-aggregation sites are morphing into hubs and distributors of content rather than pure destination sites:…
VOD site Joost and pan-European social network Netlog, have signed a content sharing partnership giving the latter
Watch Hulu on Your TV through Plex; those bummed over Hulu’s departure from Boxee may want to try this other XBMC-based project.…
NewTeeVee has learned that video platform startup Ooyala will soon power video portal Joost. Representatives for the two companies confirmed that Ooyala…
Web TV service Babelgum launched a six-month trial of its mobile service today in conjunction with Vodafone UK, which lets users watch video through both WiFi and 3G connections.
Boxee announced today from CES that it has added Joost and the BBC iPlayer to the litany of video services that run…
Turns out Joost has made 14 staff redundant in the last few weeks, after dropping its old desktop app in favour of a web version, CEO Mike V…
Joost has informed its users via email that it will discontinue the support of its desktop client today and instead completely concentrate…
Online video site Joost told subscribers it will end all software support for its original software application as of this Friday. The softw…
Web TV platform Joost launched its Facebook Connect integration this morning, allowing users to log into Joost using their Facebook account. Once…
CBSSports.com to Stream SEC Basketball Games Live; select games from the 2008-2009 SEC College Basketball regular season to be shown live online…
Joost launched an iPhone app over the holiday break, making its P2P web TV service mobile.
New Video Chat Options From Google and TokBox; Plugin allows video chat embedded within the Gmail interface (CNET), while TokBox now lets…
Forget filters, DRM and locked-down set-top boxes. The makers of the open-source media center Boxee have a novel approach aimed at getting…
Joost has been robustly criticized since its 2007 launch, in part for lacking decent content. The man in that firing line, Danny Passman, sy…
Online video site Joost is finally, officially easier to use. The Flash-based, download-free version for browsers can be accessed now but th…
Joost CEO Mike Volpi told us today that his company is dropping downloads altogether for its Internet TV platform. Though Joost previously required desktop software and more recently offered a browser plug-in, now even Joost users who have the new plug-in installed will default to Flash.
— Kewego: Express Newspapers, Spain’s Metro newspaper, Filmtrailer.com and France’s FC Metz football club have picked the French white-labe…
HealthiNation Raises $7.5 Million; online video network gets second round led by Intel Capital and existing investor MK Capital. (paidContent) Joost Picks…
Popular video aggregator Hulu, which says it now has roughly 900 titles from more than 100 providers, has added genre-based channel browsing…
Joost just soft-launched its long-awaited in-browser version. It’s throwing several errors (see the red bar in the screen grab) and crashe…
Internet TV startup Joost is ditching its downloadable desktop software, as NewTeeVee previously reported. But now the company is taking things a…
As we previously reported, Internet TV startup Joost is ditching its downloadable desktop software. But now the company is taking things a step further, to give users the option to access the site without even downloading a P2P browser plug-in. All its content and new social features will be available in Flash, with higher definition, live, and some international programming only available with download of a “premium” (but still free) plug-in.
Technology companies like Google/YouTube and Joost are “parasites,” said British broadcaster ITV Chairman Michael Grade, at the IBC technology conference in Amsterdam today. “The day that Google or Joost or any of these people start investing £1bn a year in UK content is the day I’ll start to be worried… They’re all parasites, they just live off our content is what they do. As long as we can create the content, the content is the keys to the castle for us going forward.”
Joost, the once-hyped online video startup which was a non-starter with a desktop-only client, is now killing it, Om reports. It will go bro…
Om broke the news today that Joost is abandoning its full-on client for a browser plug-in, falling in line with the way…
Exclusive: In what is likely to be a major shift in the company strategy, peer-to-peer start-up, Joost is going to stop making…
Exclusive: In what is likely to be a major shift in the company’s strategy, peer-to-peer startup Joost is going to stop making…
Joost, which is already frustrated at its failure to get any content from BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV) and C4, has told the Competition Commission th…
Joost, the once-hyped-but-struggling-for-relevance online video firm started by Skype founders, has made an interesting move with one of its…
Joost launches a Chinese version today as a joint venture with TOM Online, the Chinese media conglomerate that’s majority-owned by Joost investor…
— Music Trade News: ToyNews and CasualGaming.biz publisher Intent Media has bought Music Trade News from from publisher MB Media, and will…
Yvette Alberdingkthijm, Joost’s NYC-based EVP of content, has quit the company to become executive director of Peter Gabriel’s Witness human…
Tidal TV, a startup trying to compete with Hulu and Joost with its offer of premium content, launched in beta last week.…
To commercial newspapers’ gripes the BBC is “the 300lb gorilla on our garden”, add a collection of concerns on web TV and travel guides. The…
You really get the sense from CBS and Viacom that Joost is their forgotten stepchild. Despite their participation in Joost’s $45 million…
— Seatwave: The secondary tickets marketplace is adding Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) global business development unit chief financial officer Aks…
Web TV company Joost has made two hires to help where it is sorely lacking — content. Danny Passman is the company’s…
Mike Volpi, CEO of Joost, spent his first weekend in California in many months dealing with the blowback from a story in…
Joost, the online video service which has had more than its share of troubles since its founding, had another story this weekend to contend…
Perhaps answering critics who argue its content line-up isn’t compelling enough, P2P TV platform Joost will start showing Premier League soc…
— Electronic Arts: Eric Brown, currently CFO at security firm McAfee, will take the same title at Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS). The CFO slo…
In a rather surprise move, Joost has won the rights to show on-demand match highlights across the Indian subcontinent. It appears rights wer…
Peer-to-peer TV start-up Joost will make live-streaming video available to all its users tomorrow; it has also scored a deal with its…
Six years after KaZaA was forced to reform, co-founder Janus Friis, who went on to co-found Skype and Joost, offered this analysis of the P2…
Joost’s CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik (pictured) will join the BBC next month to become chief technical architect. Joost accordingly is hiring M…
– Joost: The P2P PC TV platform has done a deal with web-based IM chat service Meebo to offer its instant messaging facilities through the a…
Turner Broadcasting System used Cannes to announce it’s inked digital distribution deals with three online video platforms. The company will…
Joost will eventually reach the living room, isn’t planning a mobile launch but can expect more attention from one of its founding fathers.…
Joost plans to begin testing add test live TV shows alongside its on-demand content in the first quarter of 2008. In an interview with paidC…
— Online video outfit Joost has added ITN and Major League Baseball to its programming line-up. The ITN service will cover news in the UK a…
UK-based news service ITN will expand its online offerings through a new partnership with interactive television platform Joost. As per the agreement,…
Joost, the impeccably pedigreed, funded, and hyped Internet TV platform is releasing its software to the general public on Monday. For those…
Joost just released version 0.12.0 of its P2P TV client this week. The new releases offers end users a bunch of bug…
