Comments on: Veoh Announces VeohTV, A Sort of Distributed Joost

By: Veoh’s Hail Mary: Spreading Video Search Across The Web With Video Compass | Güncel Teknoloji Haber Takibi

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:52:58 +0000

[...] down 18 percent from their high a year ago to 15.2 million worldwide, and users of its desktop app VeohTV are down 40 percent to 7.2 million worldwide, according to comScore (see chart [...]

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:02:00 +0000

[...] down 18 percent from their high a year ago to 15.2 million worldwide, and users of its desktop app VeohTV are down 40 percent to 7.2 million worldwide, according to comScore (see chart below). [...]

By: Veoh’s Hail Mary: Spreading Video Search Across The Web With Video Compass

Veoh’s Hail Mary: Spreading Video Search Across The Web With Video Compass — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:11:14 +0000

[...] down 18 percent from their high a year ago to 15.2 million worldwide, and users of its desktop app VeohTV are down 40 percent to 7.2 million worldwide, according to comScore (see chart [...]

By: Aggregators and Navigators… | DownloadTV

Aggregators and Navigators… | DownloadTV — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:16:18 +0000

[...] “Veoh Announces VeohTV, A Sort of Distributed Joost”: [...]

By: Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford

Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:28:30 +0000

[...] as of April, and another 8.7 million who watch on the startup’s P2P software client, VeohTV. If you add the two together (the red and purple lines in the second chart below), it comes to 27.2 [...]

By: Veoh Adds Videos From Hulu

Veoh Adds Videos From Hulu — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:53:23 +0000

[...] of video on the Web, something he already does with his downloadable client, VeohTV, which can show (and download) Flash video from anywhere on the Web. Now he is embedding video [...]

By: The open door policy - Advertising 2.0

The open door policy - Advertising 2.0 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:27:26 +0000

[...] of Joost is a closed system. Veoh is launching VeohTV, described as TiVo for the Internet, or distributed Joost. It works by scraping RSS feeds for all available video content on the web. It then presents this [...]

By: Pulver Launches An Online TV Guide In The Form of a Cube (PrimeTimeRewindTV)

Pulver Launches An Online TV Guide In The Form of a Cube (PrimeTimeRewindTV) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:42:33 +0000

[...] and streams the videos from all of those TV network sites? That’s the idea behind desktop app Veoh TV, NewsClipper for network news (which I wrote about earlier), and Blinkx is finally about to launch [...]

By: Veoh Names Mitgang CEO | Tekjuice.com

Veoh Names Mitgang CEO | Tekjuice.com — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:31:28 +0000

[...] closed a $26 million funding round and launched distributed television platform Veoh TV in June. According to the LA Times, Veoh’s founding CEO Dmitry Shapiro has moved to the [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » YouTube peut-il être détrôné? (sondage)

TechCrunch en français » YouTube peut-il être détrôné? (sondage) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:12:11 +0000

[...] visionnage d’émissions TV complètes grâce à des applications telles que Joost, Babelgum, Veoh TV, Netflix (qui est aujourd’hui une application Silverlight) et d’autres encore. YouTube [...]

By: Everyone’s Gunning For YouTube

Everyone’s Gunning For YouTube — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:26:01 +0000

[...] on YouTube to watching full length shows on downloadable TV applications like Joost, Babelgum, Veoh TV , Netflix (which now has a Silverlight application) and others. YouTube continues to grow, but [...]

By: Drew Robertson

Drew Robertson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:27:48 +0000

It seems like most people on this board are shills for the latest hot video service on the web – Joost or Babelgum or now Veoh. None of these guys can scale to the size of traditional media outlets (offline or online). But they can undercut the old business models. Joost replaces 15 minutes of ads with 3 minutes of super-targeted ads! Veoh shows publishers prerolls! Now maybe you don’t like advertising but dammit I will miss the WSJ and NYT when they’re gone.

By: Manuel Rivas

Manuel Rivas — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:31:14 +0000

As a freelance content producer, I have tried different video distribution platforms and I can say that Veoh is moving in the right direction. The video streaming is high-quality and they have the best distribution tools and features to launch video channels. Once they put a revenue-sharing system in place they will make more waves.

By: Adam Jackson

Adam Jackson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:33:26 +0000

This is a very smart move on Veoh’s part. Joost will have no choice but to keep up and let users add 3rd party content sources. If they do so they’ll be back on top.
Dream setup:
primetime TV content + any Internet video anywhere + my own media
all on 1 TV-connected box (TiVo, AppleTV?) that doesn’t rely on a computer in the middle.
I just wrote a post about this earlier today. I think we’ll see this in the next year – esp. since Joost is talking to set-top box manufacturers.

http://www.jack...id-differently/

By: Jon Carder

Jon Carder — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:09:50 +0000

Again great news for Veoh. They’ve got the vision, they’ve got some serious cash in the bank, they’ve got smart management and they’ve got the development talent. They’re a force to be reckoned with.

It is companies like this that will redefine how we consume and interact with TV content. It’s exciting to watch this industry grow and change at such a rapid rate. It’s a real win for us as consumers.

By: Cardinal

Cardinal — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:52:43 +0000

When these video search companies make money from banner ads shown while playing videos from other websites, are they not stealing content? Is it fair/legal that they make money from other websites’ inventories?

By: Michael Hoffman

Michael Hoffman — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:34:09 +0000

This was exactly what I was saying in response to Duncan’s overly positive piece about Joost. The web will always — hopefully — be a distributed world with video everywhere. This to me seems like a better model than essentially recreating the walled garden of cable TV on the web.

By: Charlie Jackson

Charlie Jackson — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:35:48 +0000

Something that never seems to be mentioned in articles about Veoh is that by using its software, you’re opening your computer up, that it becomes a mini-server for them. I will never use software that opens my computer to everyone else, so that they can retrieve files from my hard disk.

By: Niraj

Niraj — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:52:51 +0000

>>This avoids the time and cost of doing licensing deals with content owners.

While true, licensing deals mean you get a certain level of quality, and it is consistent. You’re not going to find a YouTube resolution video on Joost. So it’s nice that there’s more content, but they could easily have resolutions all over the place, and it includes user-generated content too. I think each one has it’s pros and cons, but ultimately the one that combines licensing and general video content the best will be the one that prevails. And YouTube is getting into licensing now…

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:46:14 +0000

- any comparisons to Democracy player?

-RB

By: Richard Miller

Richard Miller — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:25:16 +0000

I wonder what the advertising rate will be on it? Let’s hope we don’t get flooded with commercials

By: tny

tny — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:13:46 +0000

There are also open source platforms in development for watching Internet TV directly on your Tv. For example ToxTox (http://toxtox.tv/). It’s like Democracy meets Apple TV meets Firefox. You can extend and mashup your own set top experience and add new features and content to a standard platform.
It is very important that we keep looking at the open and free alternatives as well. Free and Open media are a key for democratic society. You don’t want commercial corporations only to control what you watch!

By: steve

steve — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:43:18 +0000

Over at last100, I've posted my thoughts on VeohTV, picking up on the company's plans to get its software into a set-top-box: ...we're hearing more and more about software-based online TV solutions harbouring plans to get their services into a dedicated set-top-box, rather than relying on the PC. Joost has hinted at this direction, and recently we’ve reported on BitTorrent’s Software Developer Kit for set-top-boxes and other Internet devices, along with DivX’s work on a media streaming box. And let’s not forget Apple who have put a stripped down version of their desktop OS into the AppleTV so that it can act as a media extender for streaming iTunes content onto a TV, as well as, more recently, connect directly to YouTube.

By: Guy Snir

Guy Snir — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:08:23 +0000

I didn’t do a feature to feature comparison, but this sounds similar to the Open Source Democracy Player (http://www.getdemocracy.com/)

I have been using it for some time and I am very happy with it.

Guy

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:00:00 +0000

I got a demo of this last week and it looks good. It does a great job of web search finding all sorts of video. I’m waiting for my beta invite now.