—Joost: The P2P online premium video streaming company Joost, founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are no longer involved but it’s still kicking about under current owners Adconion, who have today promoted Maria Cadbury to the position of general manager. Under Adconion, the company has pivoted to become a…

Adconion Media Group has secured nearly $34 million (£21 million) in a financing from Silicon Valley Bank. The ad network, which is based in London, will use the proceeds in support both acquisition and and general operations.

—Skype: The VOiP firm is adding game firm Mig33’s chief marketer Doug Bewsher as its own chief marketing officer, based in Luxembourg to “shepherd Skype’s viral technology marketing, advertising and digital strategy”. Via Marketing. —Tom Coates: The former BBC, Time (NYSE: TWX) Out and UpMyStreet product lead (pictured) is leaving…

- Bauer: Carl Lyons has left his job as digital marketing director for Bauer Media. The move follows another change in the digital team earlier this month, when Richard Phillips took over as head of digital sales. It is not clear if Lyons, who has been at Bauer since 2008,…

We’re not at this year’s Le Web, the Paris web shindig that has itself at times proved controversial (bitching and temperature control). But all manner of hopeful startups are, and some that have already made it… Niklas Zennström, one half of the Zennström-and-Friis entrepreneur double act that brought you KaZaA,…

Joost isn’t dead, it’s just getting more advertising. Adconion‘s main aim in acquiring the video firm is to offer its web player to brand marketing clients, CEO Tyler Moebius told paidContent.org. But Adconion’s acquisition also includes the Joost.com trademark and rights for much of Joost’s TV content… Though Joost itself…

When Joost wound up its UK office last month, it looked like just a strategic response to it having given up on the VOD game. But, in doing so, Joost UK Ltd declared itself insolvent, with deficiencies of £14.35 million.

[With Staci D. Kramer] For weeks, Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have claimed in legal filings and through representatives to have evidence that former Joost CEO Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi put together an investment group to acquire the virtual phone company by promising access to a technology workaround. Now…

Joost is liquidating its UK division as it works to shrink the business following its switch from a video portal to a white-label video provider. Techcrunch and Insolvencynews.com report the move, and Joost gave us a “no comment”.

When the virtually wound-down Joost confirmed to us late last week that former CEO Mike Volpi has also exited as chairman, it didn’t tell us that owners had forced him out of the role. Now, in a statement via WSJ and elsewhere, it says: “Mr. Volpi was removed from the…

Joost was squeezed out of the market by broadcasters picking their own VOD channels instead of aggregators, acknowledges Mike Volpi, who resigned as CEO after abandoning the company’s consumer focus and has joined its equity holder Index Ventures as a partner. “The biggest lesson - people want to watch great…

From desktop app, to live streaming web TV service… to top of Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster? It sounds like something of a wild card, but The Sunday Times says Joost CEO Mike Volpi is on headhunter Russell Reynolds’ shortlist to be named ITV (LSE: ITV) CEO. Volpi was silent on…

—Myvideorights.com: The independent video rights distributor has won a one-year contract to distribute and monetise short-form content from Hat Trick Productions, owners of the rights to Father Ted and Armstrong & Miller. The deal covers online, mobile and IPTV platforms and MyVideoRights claims it can digitally fingerprint the clips to…

—Zinio-Vaio: How do you increase magazine subscriptions? Give them away for free with laptops. Digital edition-maker Zinio has signed a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) to give Europeans who buy a Vaio laptop a year’s online access to one magazine of their choice. Buyers have to also sign up for…

Joost has given us a “no comment” to reports it’s trying to sell itself. The site is pitching itself as an online video platform to cable and satellite providers, with *Time Warner* Cable amongst those to have “expressed interest”, according to anonymous sources cited by News.com. CEO Mike Volpi had…

—Virgin Media: The Advertising Standards Agency has banned an ad in which the ISP said its 20Mbps service could be received by all customers. Sky had challenged the claim on bandwidth grounds and the ASA upheld the complaint as it had not seen evidence to support Virgin’s claim. —Joost iPhone…

Joost, which has been steadily building its content repertoire, has now had to do a takedown. CEO Mike Volpi writes in a blog post he had to remove “some retro TV shows and movies” from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures: “Naturally, it’s disappointing to us – but we are optimistic that…

Video site Joost wants to show more than just English-language videos. The service has just added 11 German content partners; their vids will be published through Joost’s new distribution partnership with pan-European social network Netlog, as well as on Joost itself, but international acquisitions VP Stacey Seltzer, in a release,…

VOD site Joost and pan-European social network Netlog, have signed a content sharing partnership giving the latter’s 41 million users access to Joost’s 57,000 TV shows, music videos and films. Joost benefits through more exposure and traffic for its catalogue and ads, while Netlog has some extra stickiness to keep…