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Joost withdraws from free video distribution.
MyAnimeList.net Forum »» News Discussion »» Joost withdraws from free video distribution.
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07-04-09, 7:15 AM
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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 Modified by Zirgo, 07-04-09, 7:16 AM       |
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07-04-09, 7:16 AM
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Never heard of this :< also fix source. |
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07-04-09, 7:18 AM
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One down, still plenty to go, though... |
#5
07-04-09, 7:25 AM
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Phew. I thought it was over. Joost is a good website. The anime are of perfect quality in sound and video. |
#6
07-04-09, 10:54 AM
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Oh well. Never knew about them before and its quite pointless to know about it now. Click on any of the 3 below to feed them.    |
#8
07-04-09, 2:55 PM
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I hope they stick around. Joost has always been the best in terms of quality. |
#9
07-04-09, 4:36 PM
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Offline Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 78 |
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. |
#10
07-04-09, 5:17 PM
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Well now, I suppose I should have heard of them before it as too late, then.  |
#11
07-04-09, 5:39 PM
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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.  |
#12
07-04-09, 6:45 PM
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Offline Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 375 |
Was it better than the mighty stage6?   |
#13
07-04-09, 7:22 PM
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Offline Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 6441 |
I actually watched some shows on Joost, too bad to hear this. |
#14
07-04-09, 8:45 PM
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Offline Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 5 |
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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07-04-09, 10:36 PM
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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. |
#16
07-05-09, 1:02 AM
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Kinda sad to see the word "animes" in a news post.  |
#17
07-05-09, 2:02 AM
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lols, bawd grammers 'ight t'her! Johnny Hunter, Megamurican!!  (Haruhi's Biggest Fan Husband Right Here!) |
#18
07-05-09, 5:12 PM
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Offline Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 5 |
i tried joost once. I didn't like it Veoh all the way! |
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07-28-09, 7:32 PM
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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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07-28-09, 8:36 PM
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Offline Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 5206 |
There is a Joost? Never heard of it.  |
