Justin.tv in the Papers Again

• Author: smojo
• Filed under: Justin Kan, Justin.tv, iJustine, press
• Date: Oct 13,2007

Justin and the crew are in the papers again. This time they make it into the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In the NY Times article they touch on some of the statistics for Justin.tv after they opened it up to everyone.

Justin.tv formally declared that it was open for business to one and all. In its first five days, the company said, it created 18,500 hours of video and pulled in 500,000 unique visitors.

also we hear from someone who we rarely hear anything from. Stewart Alsop, from the venture capital firm Alsop Louie Partners who are one of the firms investing in Justin.tv.

“If there are 6 billion people in the world,” he said, “imagine one million people broadcasting live, 999,000 of whom are boring — but the other 1,000 are really interesting. - Stewart Alsop

Here are the full articles to check out. JTV continues to get positive press. Hopefully Justin and Justine will be able to get on a TV show together sometime.

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iJustine, Justin on Yahoo.com

• Author: smojo
• Filed under: 2.0, Interview, JTV feeds, Justin Kan, Justin.tv, LifeCast, iJustine, internet, iphone, press, video, yahoo
• Date: Aug 29,2007

For the second time this month Justine is on the front page of yahoo. This time it is for lifecasting. Justin and Justine are featured on Yahoo’s People of the Web. The amount of traffic coming to JTV from this article is staggering. At one point the number of viewers watching Justine was over 3,000. Which makes me cringe when I think of the chatroom. The chat goes by fast when there is under 200 viewers. Just imagine how bad it is when you have 3000 viewers trying to get Justine’s attention as they all scream “JUSTINE SAY MY NAME!!!!!!!” or “WAVE TO ME JUSTINE!!!!!!!!”
It is nice to see Justin being included in this story. He hasn’t gotten any big press in the past few months. For Justin’s interview they talked about the night he got “laid” and how that brought in many viewers. Also during the taping of the interview an unexpected thing happens. A random guy gets his cell phone stolen from him and Justin catches the whole thing on video. Justin then offers to send the archive video to the guy to see who the criminal was. It was just a matter of time before Justin caught something illegal on his cam.
The Yahoo article is titled The Real Reality TV which is a great title for this story about the 2 lifecasters. I suggest you take a look at the article and video. http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/40075/the-real-reality-tv

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