Joost loosed!

As Joost goes public with 32 advertisers signed up and 150 channels available to view, as the implications of Joost and other game-changers such as Slingbox and AppleTV begin to dawn on us, via NewTeeVee's Liz Gannes we learn how this adds up in terms of dollars and cents. Lots of them!

U.S. Video Startups Raised $682 million last Year "It amounts to a hill of beans and then some. U.S.-based video startups gathered $682.17 million in venture capital funding in 2006, according to statistics gathered by Dow Jones/VentureOne and emailed to NewTeeVee. The amount was spread across both infrastructure and consumer plays, 74 companies in total. It’s up 95 percent from the $350.05 million that 54 video-related startups raised in 2005. And already, in the first quarter of 2007, some 19 video software and services companies have raised $210.7 million. Put another way, American video startups raised $1.96 million per day over the past 15 months."



Also today via LostRemote, "Some interesting numbers from Michael Eisner’s daily teen soap opera, Prom Queen, which is produced exclusively for the web. The show has been live for 40 days so far, and it has racked up 5.2 million total views so far: 3.7 million views on MySpace, 854,000 on Veoh and 232,000 on YouTube (there are other sites, too). Over 18,000 people have added the show as a friend on MySpace."