Don’t Miss the Internet Content Syndication Council Summit

Tomorrow, October 20th, don’t miss the Internet Content Syndication Council Summit in NYC.

The Internet Content Syndication Council (ICSC) Summit will feature industry leaders in a discussion about creating value and increasing revenue. The ICSC Summit will enable Internet content syndication providers to find out the latest trends, research and licensing issues that impact the industry.

Panel [...]

Streaming Records Broken

Internet traffic hit a record peak at the start of President Obama’s speech, according to Bill Woodcock, of Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit organization that analyzes online traffic.

Akamai Technologies Inc. said 7.7 million people watched video streams on streams from their CDN. Limelight Networks said 2.5 million people watched the inauguration using their bandwidth.

CNN.com [...]

Joost Kills P2P; Gets Focused on Getting Bought

After much speculation Joost has announced the shutdown of their downloaded player app and P2P video service as of tomorrow. If content is king then Joost is dead. But if user experience is king they may still have a shot, at least in the form of acquisition by a mainstream media company seeking to increase [...]

Joost Set to Relaunch Tuesday

Much hyped, much maligned video portal Joost is set to relaunch tomorrow, this time, sans download. Oddly, the logins from my previous accounts don’t seem to work, so I’m guessing there will be plenty of signing up again. Unfortunately, in my attempts to sign back up, I keep getting a “Something went wrong, please try [...]

Why Joost Isn’t Dead

Joost has become the new Hulu, (ed. note: this was written when the memory of pre-launch Hulu bashing was still fresh) the online video company everyone loves to hate. Unfortunately for them the criticism comes after they launched, but Joost has two critical things going for it: advertisers love it, and as a result content [...]