Joost to dump consumer video service

By Editor on Thursday, July 2, 2009
Filled Under: Misc Tech

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.

According to the service, now they will focus on developing white label video platforms for video aggregators, broadcasters and satellite providers.

This decision appears as a giving up of the service in front of competitors like Hulu and YouTube.

Previously, Joost has given some indications that it was getting ready to give up. Two months back, Sony Pictures pulled its content off the service after the news that the company was shopping itself for different cable providers that also included Time Warner Cable.

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YouTube Video Streams Top 1 Billion/Day

By Editor on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Filled Under: Internet Tech

There are various reports regarding the number of videos daily streamed on YouTube. Differebt services like Nielsen, Comscore and some other services have also been reporting in this connection.

According to Comscore, YouTube gets nearly 7billion videos every month in the United States while during the last year it was nearly 5b videos per month. That comes to nearly 225m streams every day that are enough to prove them quite above the different competitors like Hulu, MySpace, Microsoft and Yahoo. On the other hand, Nielsen reports that nearly 5.5b videos are streamed every month in the United States.

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