NewTeeVee is reporting that someone new has stepped up to pay Veoh’s bandwidth bills as it figures out its business. The Internet video portal and software maker is announcing today it has raised $30 million from Intel Capital, Adobe Systems Inc., and Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Research Global Investors.
Veoh now has $69.5 million in total investment from these three plus previous investors Shelter Capital, Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Time Warner Investments and Jonathan Dolgen. The Los Angeles-based company reports 28 million viewers per month, spending an average of more than 100 minutes per month.
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LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ — Guinness World Records TV has this week announced an increase in the line up of portals on which its multi-language original TV programming may now be viewed. Building on existing successes with the likes of YouTube and Joost, new channels have now been added on [...]
Internet TV company Veoh has added shows such as The Office and House to its line-up after including content from NBC Universal/News Corp joint venture Hulu.
Veoh, which is backed by former Disney chief Michael Eisner and ex-Viacom president Tom Freston, has taken the step despite not having an official distribution agreement with Hulu.
The NBCU/News Corp online [...]
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.
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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?
Internet TV provider Veoh Networks appears to be the darling of big-name former entertainment company CEOs.
Already backed by ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner, Veoh yesterday said that former Viacom CEO Tom Freston and Jonathan Dolgen, who once helmed Paramount Pictures, were among the investors involved in a $25 million third round of venture capital financing.
Another marquee name, [...]
Hewlett Packard has announced a deal to ship a P2P IPTV system with their notbooks (notably the Presario and Pavillion models) beginning in late September. The system is called Next.tv and powered by Dave Networks, a white label IPTV provider. For the launch, Next.tv will feature content from CBS, Freemantle, and Endemol. Their sneak preview also [...]
Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, said Veoh Networks Inc., the Internet video-site operator backed by former Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner, infringes its copyrights. “Veoh follows in the ignominious footsteps of other recent mass infringers such as Napster,” Universal said in a complaint filed today in federal court in Los [...]
No one has filed a lawsuit against VeohTV yet, but it could just be a matter of time. The service is something of a cross between YouTube and Joost, giving you the ability to surf for online videos without using a web browser.
The problem is that many of those videos don’t come from Veoh, but from [...]
Dmitry Shapiro is tired of hearing about Joost, the peer-to-peer Internet TV service launched by the founders of Skype. “Joost is your old man’s TV,” sneers Shapiro, the CEO of competing Web video service Veoh.
By that, he means that Joost is merely replicating the cable and satellite TV model using the Internet as the new [...]
