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Saavn, Joost inks deal to provide Bollywood hits in US

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saavn.jpgSaavn has joined hands with Joost to make hit Bollywood music and movies more accessible to fans in America.

Joost will serve the rapidly growing market for Bollywood movies and music by providing programming from Saavn’s vast library on the platform. With the Saavn content being available on Joost, music fans can enjoy Bollywood music on their own schedules and watch rare music videos in their entirety.

“The user experience with Joost is far more advanced than with any other company in its arena. Their approach to video distribution takes full advantage of the nature of the Internet and also provides a secure environment for professionally produced content. This is just the beginning – Bollywood fans around the world will be taking many work breaks once they see how easy and fun this new service is,” said Vin Bhat, co-founder and General Manager of Saavn.

Originally posted on June 2, 2007 @ 10:12 am

Joost inks deal with CAA

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caa.jpgJoost has inked a content agreement with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a talent and literary agency. CAA will assist Joost in its efforts to find content for distribution on its online entertainment platform.

“CAA will provide Joost greater access to programming through our relationships with networks, studios, record labels, artists and independently-controlled content libraries,” Michael Yanover, head of business development at CAA, said.

Originally posted on May 25, 2007 @ 7:05 am

Joost do it

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Joost is all over the place forging deals with everyone. Guinness World Records announced that it has agreed a partnership deal with Joost, the online TV distribution platform brought to us by the founders of Skype. Through the partnership, Guinness World Records television will distribute original programming via Joost.

Initially, more than 35 hours of the UK show, Ultimate Guinness World Records, will be available on Joost globally. Additional content will be added each month with Guinness World Records controlling its programming line-up on the platform.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with a company as exciting as Joost, once again this shows how easily Guinness World Records content can be adapted to fit into so many areas of new media and for such varied audiences,” said Rob Molloy, Director of Television at Guinness World Records.

Originally posted on April 13, 2007 @ 11:51 am