The new “all legal” P2P service from Azeurus called Zudeo announced this morning that they saw more than 1 million unique visitors last month in the service’s first full month online. The announcement provides great evidence that P2P is a viable avenue for legal distribution of online video.
We covered the company’s content deal with the BBC in December and the company said at launch that its goal was to offer content from 20 major TV and film studios. Parent company Azureus reports more than 140 million downloads in 100 countries of its BitTorrent platform in 100 countries. The company has raised $12 million in funding from Redpoint Ventures and BV Capital.
Today’s Zudeo announcement will provide an interesting reference point for the eventual launch of Joost. Both companies will bring offer online distribution of commercially produced, high quality video content and may compete for eyeballs with low-quality user generated content.
Our previous coverage of Zudeo can be found here.
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The getting attention part isn’t so hard, it’s the making money bit that’s notoriously dodgy.
I also liked the disclaimer on the Zudeo website: “This site is not affiliated with Ziddio.” You know it’s a crowded marketplace when they start to run out of strange-sounding names.
this is great news. p2p is too strong not to work.
I tested it too , but got realy quickly bored, and never used azureus again. Its so overloaded.
I’d take this announcement with super pessism.
Alexa isn’t the best investion, regardless their Alexa data does not suggest they are ANYWHERE close to the million visitor mark, even given Alexa’s inaccuracies.
I call bull on this. Nice try.
-Zaid
Azeurus/Zudeo,
Not enough content.
Redpoint funded startup is NOT a selling point. Redpoint recently has put money on too many failures.
Best wishes to Zudeo.
Mininova gets between 1.5-2 million uniques PER DAY. TorrentSpy gets around the same. TPB gets over a million daily uniques. Isohunt similar. So you’ve got a whole bundle of torrent sites offering five million + plus uniques daily (with a very very long tail of other torrent sites, public and private adding significantly to that) against a single legit site getting a fifth of that in a whole month. It’s actually a good start for zudeo, but let’s not get carried away… though I guess this is Techcrunch, so I suppose getting carried away is what it’s all about.
http://www.alexaholic.com/mini.....+zudeo.com
And notice the problems bittorrent.com have had leveraging their brand name into anything approaching increasing traffic.
Tried it a while back but the content wasn’t that great, so it no longer resides on my machine. When they begin offering some great content - then I’ll take another look.
I DON’T like it that Zudeo is integrated into Azureus. I think the two apps should be separate for those of us who just want a bittorrent client.
The only time Alexa should ever be used for anything is if you ever find your self needing to have a random number generated.
out of that million 250K came from techcrunch, another 100k from Digg and more from technorati(http://technorati.com/search/zudeo). To actually see how good this services is we need some download numbers.
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