What can you use the application for?
Joost is an online video network, which distributes the recorded television shows and on-demand videos over the web. This application incorporates a cluster of internet tools including channel chat, and instant messaging that allows users to share their television experiences. Joost is an authentic and credible application as it takes care of the security of the content owners and respects their rights. It not only makes effort to protect their brands, but also strives hard to promote them.
Joost also sports certain unique built-in applications that include an IM client, a channel-based chat room and RSS-based news ticker. In addition to these widgets, the application also enables its users to rate the shows or videos broadcasted or distributed through this network. Joost is considered as an amazing and effective way for the advertisers to reach their targeted audience globally. Thus, Joost is not only confined to the service of internet videos, but is also believed to be the next generation TV for the viewers, advertisers as well as content owners. Till date, Joost hosts approximately 160-hours of professional-grade videos that are provided by around 100 content providers all across the world.
What is the history and popularity of the application?
On May 5, 2007, Joost was launched by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, namely Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. This application was started with the idea of changing the web world into a platform for the global television distribution. Joost started as a downloadable P2P video sharing client but went completely web based since December 2008.
The current success of Joost can be estimated by the number of deals with the huge content providers like CNN, NHL and Sony. The recent development of this application is a new Widget ‘API’ that invites the third parties to make their own widgets.
What are the differences to other applications?
Joost has not yet completely fit into the streaming multimedia world. The application has a number of competitors including YouTube, Netflix and BitTorrent that are striving hard to beat this upcoming application. Despite this fact, Joost has been making constant efforts to form a special position for itself worldwide with their social features.
How does the application look and feel to use?
Joost lacks a good and well designed interface which makes it hard for the users to operate it initially. However it sports a number of buttons and animations which helps user in navigating through the site with ease. In addition its small controls make it bit intuitive and engaging to use.
How does the registration process work?
For watching a video, the users are required to undergo a registration process, which is annoying for a video network. This process asks for the personal details of the user including email id, zip code, name and date of birth, gender and password. After getting done with the registration process, the application sends a confirmation email to the user.
What does it cost to use the application?
Joost is a valuable application that extends innumerable services to its users without charging them anything at all. Since, the application is based and supported by 1 minute of the targeted advertisements broadcasted every hour.
Who would you recommend the application to?
Joost broadcasts and distributes the on-demand videos across all genres, including entertainment, film, cartoons, animation, sports, sci-fi, comedy, lifestyle etc. Thus, all the users can watch shows and download videos that match their personal and individual interests. Thus, the application can be recommended to all age groups regardless of their preferences.
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