| Joost, established in 2007 and one of the pioneers within audio and video streaming, announced on the 30th of June that they would stop with offering free video distribution to the public. The reason for this was said to be the difficulty of making money from advertising and recent years competition with other providers like YouTube and Hulu. Among the titles that Joost Japan provided was animes like "Death Note", "Naruto" and "Slam Dunk" and an overall coverage of the top titles broadcasted in Japan. At the same time Joost.com published news that they will make a reorganization and restructure of its business model to try and provide professional online video platforms for companies and cable and satellite providers. Sources: Anime!Anime!, Joost.com |
ZirgoJul 4, 2009 7:16 AM
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| Fixed. |
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| One down, still plenty to go, though... |
| Oh well. Never knew about them before and its quite pointless to know about it now. |
| Hello! |
| I've never heard of Joost... |
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| I hope they stick around. Joost has always been the best in terms of quality. |
^)^ DeathfireD ^)^ Anime Alliance P2P Network *OPEN FOR NEW MEMBERS* |
| Hmm, I've never heard of Joost either. I guess they never really made a point of advertising themselves. No wonder they're going under. |
| Well now, I suppose I should have heard of them before it as too late, then. |
 Old avatar and sig retired for now. |
| I think majority of us are in the same boat here.. They've been operating since '07 and quite a number of people have heard of the site. I guess with sites such as YouTube and so on, Joost would hardly be noticeable. |
"It's because you exist.. That I'm here right now.."  |
| Was it better than the mighty stage6? |
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| I actually watched some shows on Joost, too bad to hear this. |
| I had heard about them when they went into beta but then I moved and the new nets had bandwidth limits so pretty much has taken me out of all the streaming content. |
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Somnia said: Was it better than the mighty stage6? It was when Joost had the stand alone player that used bittorrent technology. It's to bad they killed that and went with the web player just to try and get more users. |
| ^)^ DeathfireD ^)^ Anime Alliance P2P Network *OPEN FOR NEW MEMBERS* |
| Kinda sad to see the word "animes" in a news post. |
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| lols, bawd grammers 'ight t'her! |
Johnny Hunter, Megamurican!! (Haruhi's Biggest Fan Husband Right Here!) |
| i tried joost once. I didn't like it Veoh all the way! |
Pops said: Kinda sad to see the word "animes" in a news post. First thing I thought after reading the first post. |
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| There is a Joost? Never heard of it. |
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Asako said: One down, still plenty to go, though... yeah looool exactly X) |
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| Another fail like Veoh. The founders of Joost were also the founders of Skype. And they only have a few animes on the site now. |
ShojoSamuraiNov 30, 2013 12:29 PM
 Are you the bloody applause monkey? Keep your sh*t comments to yourself or go troll on 4chan. |
| Joost and Veoh both were good and had a promising future while they lasted. edit: Seems like Joost is gone and Veoh is run by Qlipso. |
ShojoSamuraiNov 30, 2013 12:30 PM
Are you the bloody applause monkey? Keep your sh*t comments to yourself or go troll on 4chan. |
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