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 Send to email | Report: Joost Restructuring To Focus On US Market in General |  By Silicon
el 06-Apr-2008 |
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 The Sunday Times reports troubled Web-TV service Joost "is expected to reign in its global amitions and focus solely on the US market."*
The Times' rationale: securing international rights to content has become a slog, and Joost has been "overshadowed" by the success of BBC's iPlayer in the UK and Hulu in the US.
The BBC's iPlayer, a 30-day playback service for BBC content, isn't really a Joost competitor. Hulu is a bigger problem for Joost, and part of the reason its developing a Web version of its service.
It's true, however, that Joost needs to make inroads in the US, or it's probably toast. The US is where advertising is shifting online fastest, and where rates are highest. It doesn't do you much good to show clips to Estonians if you can't make money showing them to Americans.
Joost's major investors are US-based, as are its biggest content
parters (CBS and Viacom), and Joost recently shifted its technical operations to New York from The
Netherlands.
*Totally not true, says PaidContent, which gets its info directly from a Joost PR person. Except that there's enough wiggle-room in Joost's denial to squeeze a couple elephants through: Joost isn't "restructuring", but it is "realigning".
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| Joost: Web Version Coming This Year | | About time. Way past time, actually: Joost plans to let you watch its Web video directly through a browser window, instead of requiring users to download special software. So says Portfolio, in a lengthy profile of the once-hyped company:
This year, viewers will be able to watch Joost videos in a browser
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| Joost Hires Two From Dailymotion |  Joost, the troubled peer-to-peer Web TV operator, has hired two execs from rival Dailymotion, according to Mediaweek. Joining the company are Danny Passman, named Joost's global head of programming [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-May-2008 by Silicon in General
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