Global web video site Joost announced last week that it was adding 12 new content partners to its roster, stepping up its offering of original web series content. While a number of the new additions are traditional TV series, a new handful of primarily web series makers are on the list.
The curated site favors a global audience, and all but a few of the new partners (RDF, Marvel, ReelzChannel, TOEI) are opening up their content globally without geo-blocking.
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New web series content partners:
- MWG Entertainment (My Two Fans, Road to the Altar)
- Marvel Entertainment (Marvel Super Heroes: What The –?!)
- RDF Digital USA (RDF USA’s digital arm which has web series in the works)
- Vogue.TV (Model.Live, Trend Watch)
Existing web series providers:
- 60Frames (Private High Musical, Brangelina Bunch)
- Atom (Modern Day Jesus, Hot Sluts)
- Billboard Magazine (Billboard Underground)
- Bite TV
- CBS Interactive (Clark & Michael, Novel Adventures)
- CollegeHumor (Hardly Working, Clock Suckers)
- Cool Hunting (Cool Hunting Video)
- Diagonal View
- Drawn By Pain
- Generate (Pink)
- Howcast (Howcast: Sex & Dating, Howcast: Health & Beauty)
- MTV ($5 Cover)
- National Lampoon (National Lampoon Lemmings)
- Next New Networks (ThreadBanger, Indy Mogul, Barely Political)
- Onion News Network
- Purple Truck Media (Acts of Love & Sex)
- Revision3 (Diggnation, Wine Library TV, Tekzilla)
- Rooftop Comedy (NewsPop Comedy, WTF?, Standup Women)
- Strike.TV (Mountain Man, Luke 11:17)
- TheWB.com (Pushed, Sorority Forever, Rich Girl Poor Girl)
- Tooth & Claw (Tooth & Claw)
- Uncensored Interview
- Vice/VBS (VBS News)
- Wizzard Media (Tiki Bar TV)
After ditching its clunky standalone application in favor of a flash-based web site, the site is now drawing just under 2 million global visitors monthly according to Quantcast, and claims 400 television series and 1,200 movie and short film titles. Incidentally, there’s also now a downloadable Adobe Air app if you still don’t want to rely on your browser.
