Comments on: Akimbo Alters Strategy (Again), Gets Money

By: Developing: Akimbo Closed for Good? « NewTeeVee

Developing: Akimbo Closed for Good? « NewTeeVee — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:44:49 +0000

[...] written before, Akimbo has always struggled to find its place in the modern video landscape, trying numerous business models and burning through even more cash. In its journey from hardware maker to content services provider [...]

By: Developing: Akimbo Layoffs « NewTeeVee

Developing: Akimbo Layoffs « NewTeeVee — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:06:48 +0000

[...] recently changed course to become a white-label video provider — the last resort for companies with failed video business [...]

By: JS

JS — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:38:35 +0000

The two companies I wouldn't try to compete with in the video space: YouTube - low res, short-form, streaming video Brightcove - back-end/front-end video player for content owners sites

Given this is another change in direction for this small company, you have to seriously question how much they've invested in this new service they're now offering. Also the fact they're not saying how much money they landed means that it wasn't much at all.

This feels like a last gasp. Too bad.

By: Andrew Baron

Andrew Baron — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:56:11 +0000

Interesting. Rocketboom decided to stop distributing on Akimbo February 1st due to lack of views on the platform over the last three years. We decided it was actually not worth the time it took to upload to the site since our videos only received a few views per month. Meanwhile Akimbo usually told us that we were one of the most popular content partners on the site so I can imagine that most of the other partners got about zero or one view per month.

The company expected to offer us major revenue from selling itv boxes. Then when that didn't work, they were going to offer revenue based on partnering with Microsoft Media Center. Then after that didn't work, it was the AT&T home box. I guess now after that the AT&T deal didn't work, they have a new, forth plan.

Maybe this time after several years they will be able to offer partners more than a few views per month. As far as a publishing platform, there sure area lot of those out there already. . .