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Marketing Pilgrim: Google’s YouTube Losing Viacom Deal to Joost.com?

  • Dave Davis · 2 years ago
    I think this is great. Living outside the US, sometimes there are only certain ways we can watch our favorite TV shows and there is nothing worst than watching a full length episode at youtube quality.

    Been playing around a little with the Joost beta and it looks VERY promising. And if this deal goes ahead I think they will have something VERY special.
  • Mark Tomin · 2 years ago
    YouTube is already paying enormous amounts for the bandwidth. How's Joost.com going to be profitable from advertising alone if the content they are going to offer is "full episodes with high-quality resolution"?
    And then again, how legal it is to distribute full length episodes?
  • Jason Schramm · 2 years ago
    I tested Joost a bit, but I didn't like how it took the entire screen. It doesn't let you multi-task like YouTube does, though YouTube is extremely slow.