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Joost just released version 1.1.8 of it Windows and OSX client. Again, there is apparently nothing visible at this point with the client. Joost is said to be releasing a web based version of the client later this summer… so within the next couple of weeks… most likelly in time for back to school I guess. Simply [...] After Joost, Babelgum, iPlayer, Livestation, Vuze et al comes yet another online TV platform. Web video search index Blinkx is branching farther out in to distribution by launching its own version – hybrid P2P player Blinkx Broadband TV (BBTV). Its only content partners at launch are said to be film distributor Dogwoof and ubiquitous news provider [...] The 2nd Annual International Film Festival Summit (IFFS) Europe (www.iffseurope.com) is [...] Guess what just showed up in my mailbox? An email from Babelgum inviting me to have a second look at it! And what new platform just got added? Right, Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5! And apparently there is support for both PPC and intel processors! This is great news and will certainly [...] Internet television platform Babelgum has lost another top executive — its CTO, Mallku Caballero. (Thanks for the tip, commenter Rumpelstiltskin.) Caballero, who left the company about a month ago, told paidContent:UK: ”Let’s just say that I did not fully adhere to the vision and to the management style brought in by the new CEO.” As we reported [...] Cambridge UK and San Francisco, USA (October 30, 2007) – CacheLogic, provider of the world’s leading Digital Asset Delivery Network, today announced that the next generation global Internet TV network Babelgum is using its Velocix network to deliver progressive video streaming of on-demand TV content. The Velocix Network is designed to enable content owners, movie studios, and broadcasters to deliver video and other large digital assets over the web, with unprecedented performance, breakthrough economics and an asset delivery lifecycle management system that provides content owners the control, analytics and reporting they need to manage their asset libraries through the digital distribution chain. Continue reading Babelgum Turns to CacheLogic for Web TV Streaming IPTV could be on a collision course with the Internet TV services being offered by the likes of Joost and Babelgum, according to a senior executive at IBM. Speaking at the Broadband World Forum in Berlin yesterday, Rob Van Dem Dan, the European telecom leader for IBM, said there are a number of potential collision points between [...] Babelgum has launched a new direct upload facility for independent producers, rights owners and program partners to manage their assets on the online platform. In addition, on 29th October 2007, the facility’s features will advance to provide for the simultaneous upload of entire content libraries, saving time and placing control in the hands of all pre-qualified professional [...] Update: A Joost IRC user (xMattx) pointed to me the fact that Veoh was primarilly a video distribution site much like Youtube… and as such comparing it directly to Joost was unfair. So a better comparison would be with VeohTV (The TV side of Veoh):
Now… you can’t see VeohTV on the (or hardly). I guess this is what I was expecting to see last night. Let remove Joost from the equasion to see the details of Babelgum and VeohTV:
It is clear that VeohTV + Veoh TV combined trends have the lead over Babelgum… but are far behind (trend wise) Joost in the TV distribution space. But note the constant increase of VeohTV… if Joost decline and Veoh TV incline was to stay constant then they would intersect in about a year. End of Update I was curious to see what kind of popularity trend Joost had compared to it’s rival Babelgum and Veoh. So I turned to Google Trends to paint a picture for me. The picture depicted was not at all the one I was expecting:
As you can see Joost has been loosing popularity ever since it was announced that it had raised 45$ million dollar in funding (News C). The news about Joost new CEO Mike Volpi was not even seen as a blip on the chart (News D). Veoh actually passed Joost in popularity at around May 15 2007 and has kept getting more and more popular ever since (with a noticeable slowdown in August and September). I am curious to see what kind of effect the recent Joost announcement will have on it’s popularity. Google trends is not the all and be all for success measure… but it certainly is a variable to take into account. Babelgum is clearly not a strong competitor at this point. To be sure that Google was not leading me in the wrong direction I also checked with Alexa and got a similar picture:
Continue reading Joost losing steam… Veoh eventually taking the lead? Peer-to-peer streaming media company RawFlow has appointed Babelgum founder Erik Lumer as its new CEO, to take its user-generated broadcasting platform “to the next level.” Prior to joining the company, Lumer co-founded on-demand internet TV network Babelgum and was its CEO. Lumer’s role at Balderton Capital-backed RawFlow includes driving industry uptake of the Selfcast user-generated broadcasting platform, [...] |
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