clickz.com — Online video platform Joost has signed three-month contracts with a group of 31 big brand advertisers, including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Nike, General Motors and Visa. It will offer these marketers traditional units such as :30 mid-roll spots as well as unique formats, including a small digital overlay ad.
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zonk3rApr 27, 2007
It's still a beta, what do you expect?I'm sure the technical details of the program will be dealt with before going live. My biggest concern is content. I hope with these new advertisers comes much more new content as I'm close to seeing all of the stuff that is currently available that interests me (Comedy Central and National Geographic) so I need a reason to keep going back.
mactardApr 27, 2007
Great we have no content and we keep adding more ads.Joost is an advertising experiment, get joost to it.
dogstyleeApr 27, 2007
May as well stick to torrenting and dailymotion. I'm not watching anything with ads, I don't give a **** how short the ad is, I don't want to see it, I don't *need* to see it. Whenever I watch TV and adverts come on - and I'm sure many of you do this too - I flip channel until I find something - anything - that isn't showing ads. Sometimes I end up going through about 20 channels withing 2 minutes to find something other than ads to watch.
ghostfreemanApr 27, 2007
Wow. All that good programming in the EU and they don't even have the balls to tell us about it.Why am I even bothering with this crap anymore...
izzie2Apr 27, 2007
First off let me describe beta.Beta is a testing session.Potential advertisers or content providers surely aren't going to offer up their best shows for testing.They just want to see that it works.Beta means they want the community to report bugs.This is not a release.I also had major issues with Joost in the previous versions but the latest (9.04) rocks so far.(24 hrs straight so far).It's people who bitch and complain,having no idea what beta testing even means,that have made me hold on to my invites tighter.Also the e-mail thing for the super secret beta testers only affected the idiots with no spam filters.Gmail anyone?Joost has signed with Viacom(bet,MTV,comedy central,paramount pictures,dream works..etc etc)now CBS and who knows who else is jumping onboard.The advertisers see it but if you don't then it's your loss.
dustonApr 27, 2007
@superkendall (#6373184)Let me get this straight, you want HD streamed on traditional broadband? Not all of us have Fiber to the Curb connections man.
ghostfreemanApr 27, 2007
Just as an addendum, I'd like to point out that living on s**tty 512/256 also means I haveta wait on the video to finish downloading about halfway before I can watch it fully...if it dosen't tell me it's not available about 10 minutes in. The player gives me no information on how much has been downloaded, either.Also, I am continuously annoyed at how the app has to be fullscreen to use widgets (which really aren't that special). So much for multitasking, it's like sitting in front a genuine TV set, getting irradiated by its moving pictures.Maybe i'm expecting more out of a beta...like more programming.
jaredvolklApr 27, 2007
Dugg in hopes that Joost will improve with the new revenue. I rarely can find a show that isn't "unavailable." Or it plays for 5 min and then refuses to continue.
superkendallApr 27, 2007
If you have to set up a proxy, the design of the site is fundamentally broken. This is the Global Internet! Come on.
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