AniBoom Gets Its Own Channel on Joost

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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

picture-220.pngIsraeli-startup AniBoom just went live with an animation channel on Joost to launch, the peer-to-peer Internet TV service. AniBoom is an animation site with 30,000 videos, contributed from about 3,000 animators around the world. AniBoom, which competes with MyToons, currently splits advertising revenues with animators who contribute to the site, and holds an annual $50,000 contest to attract the best animations. Now the best of those will be featured on the Joost channel as well (with ad revenues being split three ways amongst AniBoom, Joost, and the animators).

Here’s an oddly disturbing, yet captivating, AniBoom short called Bendito Machine:

http://api.aniboom.com/embedded.swf?videoar=1510

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