Joost looks to China

Joost in an aggressive push to further its brand internationally has ventured into a business deal with TOM Group that will see it be co-branded with TOM where they will provide the technology and TOM will handle the local ad sales.

With this deal Joost is pushing the hands of other portals by making a considerable push into one of the largest media markets in the world with a group that is co-owned by politically connected billionaire Li Ka-shing.

ABC IN Asia

Much has been said of companies like ABC and NBC making deals and working in other countries. ABC has been in the Japanese mobile space for years, but was slow to move forward in the U.S., but this new deal is aggressive in it is providing ABC content on-line (for now only 4 series) much like they do in the U.S., but Asian customers will get the added benefit of VOD-like services that is not fully available to U.S. customers.