Joost is an online TV site that brings many channels together. Some of the channels and where they are available include:
| Channel | Available in |
|---|---|
| Alliance Atlantis Sci-Fi | Worldwide excluding United States and Canada |
| Atlantic Street | United States |
| BET | United States |
| Beyond the Pit | United States |
| Bite TV | Worldwide |
| BoomChicago | Worldwide |
| Braindead | Worldwide |
| Bridezillas | Worldwide excluding United States |
| Channel Frederator | Worldwide |
| Chat the Planet | Worldwide |
| Classica Channel | Worldwide excluding Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland |
| Comedy Central | United States |
| Critical Shorts | Worldwide |
| DR | Worldwide |
| Explora Channel | Worldwide |
| Fabchannel Concerts | Worldwide |
| Fifth Gear Shortcuts | Worldwide |
| Fight Network | Worldwide |
| Floating Worlds | Worldwide |
| GameStar TV | Worldwide |
| GONG | Europe |
| Guinness World Records TV | Worldwide |
| Havoc Action Sports TV | Worldwide excluding Japan |
| Havoc Music TV | Worldwide excluding Japan |
| Healthination | Worldwide |
| Hot & Wet | Worldwide |
| i-concerts | UK |
| IndieFlix Premier Hits | Worldwide |
| IndyCar Series | Worldwide |
| Intimate & Interactive | Worldwide |
| Joost Suggests | Worldwide |
| Jump TV Arabia | Worldwide excluding Middle East |
| Jump TV Latino | Worldwide excluding Canada and Latin America |
| Lassie | Worldwide |
| Lazy TV | United States |
| Lazy TV UK | Worldwide |
| Life on Terra | Worldwide |
| Lime | Worldwide |
| Live @ Much | Worldwide |
| Logo | United States |
| LXTV | Worldwide |
| Ministry of Sound Access All Areas | Worldwide |
| Ministry of Sound Music Videos | Worldwide |
| MTV | United States |
| MTV Benelux | Selected countries in Europe, South America, US and Japan |
| MTV Nordic | Selected countries in Europe, South America, US and Japan |
| MTV Staying Alive | Worldwide |
| Much Does Wakestock | Worldwide |
| MuchAdrenaline | Worldwide |
| MuchMusic Video Awards | Worldwide |
| MuchNews Weekly | Worldwide |
| MuchOnDemand | Worldwide |
| Music Nation | Worldwide |
| Nardwuar | Worldwide |
| National Geographic | United States, Canada |
| Nettwerk | Worldwide |
| New Atlantis | Worldwide |
| Off the Fence Docs | Worldwide |
| OnSet | Worldwide |
| PokerHeaven TV | Worldwide |
| Ren and Stimpy | United States |
| Rehearsals.com | Worldwide |
| Saavn | Worldwide |
| Saturday Morning TV | Worldwide |
| SecondsOut.tv | Worldwide |
| The Circus Channel | Worldwide excl IT |
| The Diddy Channel | United States |
| The Hobby Channel | Worldwide |
| The New Music | Worldwide |
| The Recipe Channel | Worldwide excl ES, PT |
| The Roger Sisters | Worldwide |
| The Soccer Channel | Europe, United States, Middle East |
| The Trance Channel | Worldwide |
| VH1 | United States |
| Virgin Fest 2006 | Worldwide |
| VOY TV | Worldwide |
| Warner Bros. Records | United States |
| Whereitsat.tv | Worldwide |
| WildLight | Worldwide |
| Witness | Worldwide |
| World Poker Tour | Worldwide excluding United States |
| World’s Strongest Man | Worldwide |
| XL Recordings Channel | Worldwide |
Information below from article ‘Idiot box smartens up its act‘, in ‘The Age‘ Livewire, 22 March 2007.
- Joost plans to give users access to free online, high quality, full screen TV, with hundreds of channels to choose from, full length features, as well as extras like instant messaging and chat.
- Joost will be released mid year (end of June). 14,000 ‘invited’ users are currently testing the service.
- What does Joost bring that is differnt to current online TV? is that it brings high-quality, full screen and feature length programs.
- The control panel (that appears when users move the mouse during a program), includes suggestions of shows by Joost, as well as volume control and the program information. A program search box is also on the panel.
- Joost is made by the people who founded KaZaA and Skype, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom.
- Joost’s viewers will be able to select programs from up to 100,000 channels.
- Users can use widgets as overlays, BUT content owners can disable widgets from being used during their program. Zennstrom is discouraging this, as he believes that these overlays are the future of TV.
- “Joost will make money by creating what amounts to an individualised mass market for advertisers, Mr de Wahl says. And advertisers will love the fact that there is no way for viewers to avoid the advertisements, but there will be only three minutes of advertising an hour.”
- Viewers in the US of prime-time TV put up with up to 15 min of ads an hour. British commercial channels show between 7 and 8 min an hour. So 3 sounds pretty darn good.
- Ads will be tailored to each persons viewing history and postcode. They understand that the postcode part is a problem, as many people lie about where they live. “More Skype users claim to live in the Bahamas than the entire population of the Islands.
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