Archive for the 'joost' Category
Is it Time to Quit Cable?
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 6th, 2007 in IPTV, Market Research & Intelligence, Online TV, TV, Zoombie Industries, cable, futute tv, joost.Cable TV service sucks! Most Americans get more satisfaction from waiting in line at the bank, visiting the post office and conversations with their insurance company then they do from their Satellite or cable provider.
According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Cable and Satellite TV companies perpetually scrape the bottom of the barrel when it [...]
Good News/Bad News: Joost Gets $45 Million, Networks get Fewer Viewers
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello May 11th, 2007 in ABC, Broadband, Broadband-Wagon, CBS, CNN, Conjecture, Digital downloading, Funding, GooTube, IPTV, NBC, Online TV, TV, Technology & Entertainment, TrendSpotting, deals, futute tv, hot betas, joost, social media.Good news: Today Joost announced they raised $45 million bucks with power VC firm’s from around the globe and a YouTube hating media giant. The deal brings together Index Ventures of the EU, Sequoia Capital of Silicon Valley fame, and the Li Ka-shing foundation run by Hong Kong based billionaire, Li Ka-shing. The international focus [...]
Playing with Joost Ads and Channels
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello May 8th, 2007 in ad serving, ad systems, advertising, joost.Today I discovered something really interesting on Joost, ad’s. Thats right apparently they are starting to play with interesting ads on the service. From the initial ads that have been served to me the good folks at Joost seem to be toying with a few different models. So far I’ve seen three different types of [...]
Joost Signs Deal with CBS
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 12th, 2007 in BitTorrent, Broadband, Broadband-Wagon, CBS, Entertainment, IPTV, Online TV, deals, hot betas, hot invites, joost, viacom, video.CBS just put out a press release announcing that they have cut a deal with Joost to show “first run and other premium content”. They are slated to launch content through the application in the spring and say that it will come from a bunch of the CBS divisions. The release says that they will [...]
Joost Invites on eBay: Buy Them Now for $85
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 8th, 2007 in Foolishness, Web 2.0, ebay, hot betas, hot invites, joost, web 3.0.I was trolling the Joost forums looking for a way to get back one of the invites I sent out, the person I sent it to is sitting on it, when I saw a comment about selling invites on eBay. I was curious so I popped over to eBay to see what the deal was [...]
