The Praized Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seeing Niklas Zennstrom’s name on LeWeb’s list of speakers along with the news that Joost’s assets were being acquired by Adconion Media Group got me thinking about the dynamics of that specific startup. Joost was founded in 2006 to build a online video portal with the core idea that legal video streaming would be more efficient [...]
eCoustics.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Video streaming Website Joost will sell most of its assets to Adconion in a bid to stay alive
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Joost will swhowcase branded entertainment, says Tyler Moebius of online ad network Adconion 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 marketing clients, CEO Tyler Moebius told paidContent.org. But Adconion's acquisition also includes the Joost.com trademark and rights for much of Joost's TV content…...
Today @ PC World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Video streaming Website Joost will sell most of its assets to Adconion in a bid to stay alive
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | yesterday
*Joost gets bought Chris Forrester 24-11-2009 Joost is more or less dead as a consumer product, now that Adconion Media Group has picked up the assets of the bankrupt internet...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Joost as we knew it back in 2007, an ad-supported video streaming service, has been gone for some time now, with this summer seeing the company shift focus and deciding to only offer white-label video platforms. Today, Joost is closer still to becoming a page in history books as Adconion Media Group, the largest independent global audience and content network, has announced the acquisition of certain...
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | yesterday
I hope the buyers read the fine print, given eBay’s experience with Skype… Joost , the struggling video Web site, said on Tuesday that it was selling most of the company to the Adconion Media Group , an online advertising and marketing company, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition ends a long sales process that at one point was thought to involve possible interest from the cable...
ITProPortal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Adconion Media Group has proclaimed that it has snapped up certain significant assets of Joost, an online video service launched by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström that had apparently failed to carve its niche in the online video sharing space.
Tech News at TechWhack (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Adconion acquires Joost Joost is no longer operating as an independent service. The company has been acquired by Adconion. Adconion gains access to the technology that powered the Joost video... ...
CURRY.COM (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Kindle does on-the-fly upgrade. Climate science data still in the news. Nobody knows what to do. Moto is loved by the men according to a study. I’m dubious. Old G-Phone users can use Google Map navigation software. Joost is done. Chrome OS stories abound. HTC Droid Eris now free with a Verizon deal. Nokia [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Before web music service Spotify launched, serial entrepreneur Martin Varshavsky 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.
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Adconion Media Group, an ad network, quietly purchased "certain assets" of Joost, the company said in a statement Tuesday.
bub.blicio.us (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
What ever happened to Joost? The company that was hailed the bridge between the television and Internet worlds, Joost came out of the gate with a strong founding team and several millions in investment funding. Joost went on to gain the support of major media companies and, finally, the content distributors themselves. [...]
Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Adconion, an online advertising company, has acquired most of Joost, bringing to an unhappy end the online video venture backed by the founders of Skype. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who founded Joost in 2006, raised $45m from investors including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon, before launching the service to [...]
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
(AP) -- The struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, has been sold to an online advertising company.
The 2 latest articles published by users on Joost :
majababadina | 07/02/2009
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom who were behind the creation of Skype, Kazaa as well as Joost, now have decided to dump their third major creation Joost that is a consumer-video service.
misticque3 | 03/23/2009
Dutch designer Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg has created a cardboard office interior for innovative Amsterdam advertising office Nothing.
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