ACCESS
VIEWER ACCESS
Access to any publisher with video RSS feeds, including anyone on YouTube, Revver, Blip, and many, many more.
Access only to Joost-distributed content.
CREATOR ACCESS
Open to any creator or publisher via RSS, direct download, or free hosting.
Must be selected by Joost, must sign contract.
FEATURES
DRM
No DRM.
All content has DRM.
SEARCH
Search YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Google Video, and other major video hosts.
Only search Joost content.
PRIVACY
No tracking of what is downloaded or watched.
All users are required to register and sign in. Every video a user watches is tracked and recorded.
VIDEO QUALITY
Hundreds of channels in HD.
No HD available. Streaming video resolution only.
VIDEO CONTENT
CHANNELS AVAILABLE
2,600+ listed in the Miro Guide. In addition, any video RSS feed can be added directly.
250+
MAJOR MEDIA
About 200 channels of commercial broadcast content.
About 200 channels of commercial broadcast content.
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Over 2,000 channels from independent creators.
A few dozen channels from independent creators.
VIDEO GUIDE
Anyone can create a content guide.
Joost controls the content guide.
ORGANIZATION AND REACH
ORGANIZATION TYPE
501c3 non-profit charitable organization.
For-profit corporation.
MISSION
Open access, open distribution.
Unknown. Previous company was sold to eBay.
STAFF SIZE
11 people.
Over 100 people.
DOWNLOADS IN 2007
1.3 million as of October 1.
2.6 million listed on website on roughly October 1.
MARKETING BUDGET
Zero dollars.
Many dollars.
OUTREACH
Extensive outreach to grassroots videomakers, free tools for independent publishers.
No support for grassroots videomakers.
TECHNOLOGY
SOURCE CODE
Free, open-source (GPL).
Uses open-source code, but does not open its own code.
CONTENT DELIVERY
Open standards: RSS, HTML, BitTorrent.
Proprietary system.
CUSTOM VERSIONS
Co-branded and custom versions available to publishers as a service, source code free to use.
One proprietary client.
PEER-TO-PEER
Open-source BitTorrent protocol.
Proprietary protocol.