Veoh Blocks Some International Access
Video-sharing startup Veoh has blocked visitors from all but 33 countries from accessing its site, a spokesperson confirmed to NewTeeVee today.
Veoh’s Gaude Paez told NewTeeVee, “The markets we are exiting collectively represent less than 10 percent of our viewer base.” She maintained that the decision was “not about saving resources but rather re-focusing those resources.” Paez was not able to immediately provide the list of countries where Veoh is still available.
Competition is high in the video space and we want to make sure we’re differentiating ourselves in terms of products and ad platforms to monetize. As a startup we just have to make choices.
Paez said the company would soon be enhancing its ad targeting and working to expand access beyond the PC.
Users flooded the Veoh forums with complaints over the weekend, saying they felt discriminated against for being from certain countries: “I’m from Dominican Republic, and when I saw that message I really wanted to cry… I still want to,” wrote one user, and “this is very unfair not even an email alert i just couldn’t enter, its sucks!!!” said another.
According to Wikipedia, users report being blocked from Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Indonesia, Chile, Argentina, St. Kitts and Nevis, Guatemala, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Guam, Jamaica, Barbados, El Salvador, Hungary, Malta, Macedonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Colombia, Cyprus, Romania, the Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Panama, Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia, Lithuania, Jordan, Egypt, Bulgaria, Serbia, Iceland, Bermuda, Thailand, Brunei, Honduras, the Bahamas, Nicaragua, Anguilla and Guyana.
Paez said Veoh is “absolutely not” running out of cash, but she did confirm the company is looking for funding. “We’re in the midst of talking to additional entities, partnerships and looking at strategic things as well,” she said. Veoh has raised more than $40 million from Goldman Sachs, Tom Freston, Jonathan Dolgen, Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, and Time Warner Investments. Update 6/3: Veoh raised $30 million more from Intel, Adobe and others.
We wonder if Veoh’s move portends a long-expected shakeup in the online video industry — after all, these services aren’t paying for themselves yet. Lack of overseas revenue is hardly their only problem. Earlier this year, when DivX shut down Stage6, its high-quality video-sharing option, it cited operating expenses. Ironically enough, Stage6 (now just a landing page) prominently recommends Veoh as an alternative for its users (”Stage6 is introducing Veoh Networks Inc. as a site that promises to offer our users a smooth transition. Millions of people use Veoh each month and we feel it is a great fit for our users.”).
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This seems to be a trend lately. One I don’t understand at all. Why deliberately block out part of your audience or potential audience? I just wrote a blog entry at my site this weekend about how the BBC is blocking US citizens from their shows and even commercials.
Devon on June 1st, 2008 at 8:57 pm - Permalink
IMO, this seems like a smart business move - why spend money serving every single country on earth when you can’t generate revenue from them? A giant like YouTube has Google’s coffers to help keep service in Malaysia and Cyprus up and running, but it doesn’t make sense for smaller, privately funded companies to sacrifice good business just so they can keep everyone happy.
Brian E on June 1st, 2008 at 9:21 pm - Permalink
It’s all about the ad revenue. Apparently it’s easier to block countries and tell advertisers that you’re specific to x region than it is to combine advertisers in specific regions and videos that are being viewed by a user in x country.
I’m sure you can hike up CPMs now that the ads are “Geo” targeted.
David Rodriguez on June 1st, 2008 at 9:27 pm - Permalink
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Veoh Re-focuses, Blocks Some International Access - GigaOM on June 1st, 2008 at 11:52 pm - Permalink
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Veoh Re-focuses, Blocks Some International Access - GigaOM on June 1st, 2008 at 11:52 pm - Permalink
Hi Devon, i AM from Malaysia , and thanks for your condescending comment.
And congrats to Veoh, i think you have very successfully differentiated yourselves!
While i accept downsizing as a sometimes necessary business tactic, it is ‘usually’ accompanied by a timeline and assistance for users to move accounts and services elsewhere. I think they’ve moved suddenly and without warning so as to limit most of the complaints and commentary to those from the affected countries - in the hope that they’ll be largely ignored by the twitterati of the infinitely more important group of 33.
I alwys thought Eisner was a jerk anyway
paullmf on June 2nd, 2008 at 12:57 am - Permalink
apologies Devon, my frustration should have been directed at Brian E
paullmf on June 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 am - Permalink
What a bunch of idiots at Veoh, this must be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of.
Captain Crap on June 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 am - Permalink
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Veoh nur noch in 33 Ländern erreichbar on June 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 am - Permalink
As someone who runs an online video site, I can understand why Veoh would want to block some countries, but they went about it the wrong way.
(1) You have to communicate with users and explain things, otherwise you earn their wrath.
(2) Veoh should offer them a fee-based version for countries that are currently hard to generate revenue from - they will either generate revenue to cover the delivery costs or they will reduce the users from that country automatically due to the new barrier.
It is extremely hard to monetize limited amounts of traffic from multiple countries because most ad networks are only interested in specific regions. Also, approaching advertisers in EACH country is too time-consuming.
It makes no financial sense to spend money serving video to users in Jamaica (where I am from) if you generate $0 from that traffic. You either find a way to monetize that traffic and at least break-even, or you eliminate that cost, otherwise you are throwing away money.
David Mullings on June 2nd, 2008 at 8:54 am - Permalink
I’m a U.S. viewer, but I gave up on veoh after they started 30-second pre-rolls without any kind of cap. If you try to watch three or four videos, you see the same ad over and over and over and over.
Phil on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 am - Permalink
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gkoya » links for 2008-06-03 on June 2nd, 2008 at 5:37 pm - Permalink
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[...] NewTeeVee has a list of countries that are blocked currently taken from the Wikipedia entry. If you do the math you notice that many countries are still missing on that list. If you sum it up you could say that access is blocked for most countries in Africa, Central and South America, Eastern Europe and Asia. [...]
Veoh blocks all but 33 countries on June 3rd, 2008 at 1:26 am - Permalink
The Question, which major vid sharing site will be next.
Pyrmont on June 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 am - Permalink
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Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford on June 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm - Permalink
My home, Hungary has also been blocked. Stage6 is gone, now Veoh… At least Stage6 gave us a warning a week before they actually shut down, but what Veoh did, I found it quite abrupt. Anyways, if they don’t need us, their call, still I think imposing fees or requiring donations might have been more a bit profitable than cutting off 80% of the world. Then again, I’m not their marketing manager, I’m sure they know better. I still hope they’ll reconsider this bold decision ’cause I really loved the premium quality service the site offered. Best regards, khamul
khamul on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm - Permalink
[...] 本アナウンスは、Veohが実入りの良い市場に集中するために（また、コストの問題も大きいに違いない。動画配信には資金がかかる）33カ国（および米国の地域）を除くすべてからのアクセスをブロックすることを発表した翌日に行われた。ブロックされた国々は南アメリカの多くと、東ヨーロッパ、および中央アジアの国々で、Veoh視聴者の10%に満たないとのこと。 [...]
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This website is no longer available in… « Illuminaare on June 3rd, 2008 at 7:33 pm - Permalink
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I can understand blocking a few countries but 165!
The manner in which it was done was not only reprehensible, but an insult.
No prior notification. No apologies. No access to them directly to air your views.
This is the first time in the entire history of the internet that such a company has resorted to such dirty tricks.
I have accessed my erstwhile site and removed all of my videos, and many are doing the same.
We gave them our trust, and they have clearly demonstrated they are not worthy of any.
Many in the remaining “elite” 31 countries are now moving to other sites in disgust, which includes my UK and USA accounts.
VEOH, you are not worth rescueing.
michal on June 4th, 2008 at 5:24 am - Permalink
Living in one of the “privileged” countries (USA), I find VEOH’s action to be unique in the annals of the Internet.
The backlash to this act of treachery to 82% of its community sums up the untrustworthiness of corporate america.
VEOH has made me ashamed in the manner of thier actions and I am hereby withdrawing all my contributions to the aforesaid site and wish to ask the “blocked” world not to judge my country because of the open stupidity of some of my countrymen.
George on June 4th, 2008 at 5:43 am - Permalink
Everything veoh representatives said about the issue of blocking these countries are just excuses.
Blocking the countries only proves the incapability of the Veoh stuff to built and maintain a competitive video base. First Mac users are being excused because veoh stuff can’t built the mac software and then countries are blocked? Incapability is obvious
If you can’t do something right then just give up and don’t do it all.
Marilena on June 4th, 2008 at 12:14 pm - Permalink
I’m from JAMAICA and i was heart stabbed when i saw the message being dispalyed saying the VEOH was no longer available. Now no dissing of other sites like but most of their vid streams are from VEOH so so even if you go to other site they all get their streams from VEOH which can’t be view here as it was blocked. Well i guess people can always do what they want with their product and forget the loyal customers. All i’m saying was they could have given us soem form of notice but in the end VEOH will be missed here…………………now i got to move to the US…………..LOL
Prino on June 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pm - Permalink
First of all let’s all remember that Veoh does not stand for the US or any of the other 32 countries where it is still accessible.
Now, trying to sum this all up, Veoh decided to withdraw their services from 165 countries (taken from another comment) using “re-focusing” of funds as their main reason.
It is said in the article in the top of this page that “Veoh is ‘absolutely not’ running out of cash” and that they’re only looking for funding, but still they are shutting their services in the already mentioned countries.
So, it’s not as if they are in economical danger in a way they have to cut those people out of their service list, they actually have the money, but just don’t care/like you. That’s what comes straight into my mind, when I read that text part.
So much for getting funds, by decreasing your own reputation in (probably) 50% or more, since even US users called this a scandal.
And maybe they are in the “red numbers”, but are just too proud to admit it. Perhaps just trying to maintain the image, but maybe they really just don’t want to make themselves available for people in those countries, including me (Brazil).
Personally, I see it exactly like this: You and 4 friends are listening to someone, a conversation. Suddenly, the speaker steps forward to you and three other friends of yours and slaps them in the face, including you. Then you are lead to the door, which is shut right in your and your three friend’s face, one still in the room listening to the one speaking.
You and your remaining friends now can’t talk to that friend in that room, but still can meet outside. That’s what’s exactly going to happen. Veoh will only be useful to the ones in those countries, while the “rest” won’t, so people will remove their movies linked to Veoh from their sites, worldwide forum users will have to use another service to show videos and that one will eventually get all the attention.
Arthur on June 4th, 2008 at 2:19 pm - Permalink
this was a dodgy move by veoh, im spending the summer in a foreign country so this is gonna suck really bad, i reccomend to all dropped users. http://www.myspace.com, upload videos there, its reliable XD and they support tons of other countries. quality is fair. i own my own site and i used veoh to link some of my important videos because of quality and length :| damn it sucks being a 15 yr old i have no say xD anyways gl veoh, hope your move helps you out. its make or break with you guys now. appearently people complain that they got no notification D: anyways c ya
Kev on June 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm - Permalink
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Veoh no longer available - Anime-Planet forum on June 4th, 2008 at 4:05 pm - Permalink
stu-pid decision made by stupid people.
yeahyeahyeah on June 4th, 2008 at 11:20 pm - Permalink
[...] Eerder deze maand blokte Veoh de toegang voor een groot aantal landen waaronder Luxemburg, Tsjechie en Hongarije. Er waren speculaties dat er financiële problemen waren. Veoh verklaarde dat er veel duur dataverkeer door deze landen werd opgeslokt zonder dat ze daar een advertentiemodel tegenover konden zetten. [...]
Adobe en Intel investeren $30 miljoen in Veoh | zoomz - Alles over internetvideo vanuit een zakelijk perspectief on June 5th, 2008 at 3:04 am - Permalink
veoh is a lil bitch for doin this crap, only certain sites have as many vids an can be accessed from the bahamas
slkjdkndjnd on June 5th, 2008 at 5:50 am - Permalink
It may interest you all to know that a new site (which emphasises it is “Anti-VEOH”) has come to the fore in the last few days.
The site is http://www.stage-next.com/
Thier motto “For loyalty that is quality”
Refugees from Veoh are welcomed with open arms.
I’ve found that many “chosen ones” have also moved there.
George on June 5th, 2008 at 7:03 am - Permalink
[...] from all but 33 countries from accessing its site since last weekend, a spokesperson confirmed to NewTeeVee [...]
Veoh Closes Doors on Countries with Low Viewers Base « Coolsmurf Domain on June 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am - Permalink
i’m utterly disappointed with the people at veoh. this is what happens when stupid people do business.
Greg on June 6th, 2008 at 10:21 am - Permalink
Esto apesta tanto material subido y de repente se les canta las bolas y se pasan todo por el culo son unos hijos de puta
hacko on June 6th, 2008 at 6:37 pm - Permalink
Veoh GO HELL !
ddfds on June 6th, 2008 at 9:34 pm - Permalink
Perhaps this is just a movement to get more people aware of Veoh, And in time everyone will most likely get Veoh again. Like i said just a publicity stunt. ^^
b.p.s on June 6th, 2008 at 9:35 pm - Permalink
So let me get this straight, Veoh was having low traffic on its site, and it’s solution to increase the traffic and therefore make themselves some money was to BLOCK USERS? I felt hurt when I logged on and saw the message saying my country was blocked. It was so out of the blue, so shocking that I don’t think that I could ever be talked into using Veoh again, this is betrayal in its simplest form. Add St. Vincent and the Grenadines to that ever growing list of banned countries and add me as a user that will never go back.
Nickie on June 7th, 2008 at 12:02 pm - Permalink
eisner and shapiro can go to hell for all i care… i only have one message for them:
great business plan guys!
robo on June 7th, 2008 at 6:50 pm - Permalink
[...] les ressources nécessaires. Cette annonce intervient également après la décision de Veoh de blocker l’accès à un certain nombre de pays; 33 exactement d’Amérique du Sud, d’Europe de l’est et du moyen-orient. Une [...]
Veoh lève Millions supplémentaires avec Intel Capital, Adobe et Gordon Crawford on June 8th, 2008 at 3:01 am - Permalink
Now. That’s What I Call Capitalism.
Jose on June 8th, 2008 at 8:34 pm - Permalink
It’s not the end of the world that veoh blocked half of the world. Probably veoh themselves never thought they would’ve gotten this big. So there you go, business without prior proper planning.
Phew, i’m glad i’ve sold my anime streaming site to a Canadian a few days before veoh went on the blocking rampage. :D
Ren on June 8th, 2008 at 9:25 pm - Permalink
Isnt this especially ironic considering Veoh’s main original vision was about how peer2peer was the way forward for net video, and how that would solve problems like bandwidth & server costs.
Unfortunately I fear people better get used to having the rug pulled from under them, as the wider economy has a fit and reality bites web 2.0.
Steve Elbows on June 9th, 2008 at 3:09 pm - Permalink
“Unfortunately Veoh will be ending service in your country due to a low concentration of users. Veoh is maintaining markets when we have the highest concentration of viewers.”
i from MY use proxy la =.= i wan look how many veoh can block IP ^_^ GOODLUCK I CAN i can open have nices sever IP so happy ^^
use proxy for noob (go http://www.youtube.com type proxy can help u how to use proxy ) or hacker for pro ( i can use but wasted time ) ( not good for veoh ) but i like veoh just use proxy ( veoh cant block many IP but if him make id + pws hard to hacker) veoh only find money $$$$$$$ money $$$$ money $$$$$ no money no anime =.= i love money next time sure veoh ….. pay money to log in veoh web sure
LifeStar on June 11th, 2008 at 8:48 am - Permalink
Veoh eats poo
Byjty1995 on June 11th, 2008 at 5:56 pm - Permalink
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Veoh’s Short-Sighted Strategy: Alienate 83% of World | Armchair Theorist on June 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pm - Permalink
Well im ok, its reasonable that if they want to make some profit, need to define well its target public, but nontheless they should have make a huge press something to make sure all users were aware coz just click a link and finding out ur banned its really like a kick on the balls.
Zadig on June 17th, 2008 at 12:18 pm - Permalink
[...] with a contact form. I urge everyone to visit the site and fill the form. Update: According to this “not about saving resources but rather re-focusing those resources.”. By blocking over 160 [...]
Saudi TechView » Blog Archive » Veoh is no longer available in SAUDI ARABIA on June 18th, 2008 at 11:32 am - Permalink
I’m glad I don’t have any videos uploaded there …
kalsaud on June 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm - Permalink
I’m from Brazil and I’m deeply upset by this police they arrenged. Veoh is just not fair ¬¬ If they were going to shut us up, them they should have not opened their doors in the first place.
Ana on June 21st, 2008 at 2:45 pm - Permalink
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Lets attract people by discriminating and block them! « Raison d’etre on June 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am - Permalink
[...] NewTeeVee has a list of countries that are blocked currently taken from the Wikipedia entry. If you do the math you notice that many countries are still missing on that list. If you sum it up you could say that access is blocked for most countries in Africa, Central and South America, Eastern Europe and Asia. [...]
Veoh blocks all but 33 countries - Ken’sTechnology Blog on July 2nd, 2008 at 2:35 am - Permalink
This is such an absurd that it is hard to believe that is actually happening.
There is no excuse for this level of arrogance and blatant prejudice.
Who the hell do they think they are?
Who the heck do they think we are?
I was a frequent user of video tutorials available in Veoh, and I’m deeply disappointed to know that Veoh banned so many countries in this low, prepotent and fascist attitude.
Montalvo - São Paulo - Brazil
Montalvo Machado on July 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm - Permalink
veoh is disgusting. i woke up one morning and decided to visit veoh since i had not gone on it in a few week. “Veoh is no longer available in JAMAICA.
If you are not in JAMAICA or you think you have received this message in error, please report the issue below.” I’m like “Wha???
veoh has poor management issues, a business plan with holes in it and a lot of disgruntled users who got betrayed and kicked out. its like veoh is prejudiced against people who don’t live in financially well off countries or countries which do not advertise on their sites, giving them tonnes of $$$ to fuel their website which is probably in the red zone. they might not be admitting it but probably are in financial troubles. i hope you go down veoh; i hope you go D O W N!!!
Stephen on July 5th, 2008 at 3:57 pm - Permalink
Hey everyone!!! go to http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/06/04/access-and-watch-veoh-even-if-veoh-is-no-longer-available-in-your-country/ to learn how to go on veoh without the message of being bloacked!
Mark on July 5th, 2008 at 4:02 pm - Permalink
Veoh is shit!!!! segregation and racism! they are Pigs.They Will fail. Idiots…..Only a big Fool could run this “enterprise” jajajaja enterprise…..A LOT TO LERN VEOH!!!! See you later in my ATARI box!!!
Pablo on July 17th, 2008 at 3:57 am - Permalink
Well, now the list of blocked countries is a little bigger, with 170 instead of just 164 countries (Wikipedia). I’m Brazilian and since I was too busy and later without my computer, so I took a while to notice the problem. At the midle of June I’ve got the message “Veoh is not available for Brazil”. At 1st I thought it could be some kind of bug (like tons of problems that Veoh has) and didn’t mind. But today, when I tried to acess it again…The same message I decide no make a search on Google. How big it wasn’t my surprise when understand what happend!!!
I never uploaded videos there, but I usually watch anime series there.
It’s amazing how racist, ditactor, discriminative (and lot of other words that I can’t say) simple block 170 countries, with the poor excuse of low number of viewers at these countries. It’s a great lie that all these countries aren’t even 10% of the members.
Latin America, Central America, parts of Asia and Europe (the poor parts of course). The could be poor, but that poor that doesn’t have an expressive number of viewers.
If they would black at least they could send a warning e-mail!!!
Interesting: The still sending me e-mails with news.
Stupid!!!!!!!!!!
Shayera on July 23rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm - Permalink
Get a monkey , make it wear a suit and voilà!! you get a corporate person.
I am absolutely sure that more than 70% of blocked users are capable,eligible and hardworking enough to run such a service from all its departments, and get this: “no monkey business” .
P.S: Stage-Next.com message:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Remember the end scene from “The Day After tomorrow” ? ;)
enjoy
3rd world on July 26th, 2008 at 3:05 am - Permalink
Well, they’re only serving the 33 richest countries in the world. One might think they did this in order to “prevent” piracy, which it seems they’re assuming it to come from the poorest countries :-)
Justme on July 26th, 2008 at 11:55 am - Permalink
The ugly truth veoh just won’t accept is that most of their top (and most viewed) content is in fact illegal! I’m talking about anime ,series ,movies(that they don’t have licenses to) …let’s face it…if you want to watch something like that you go to veoh, if you want to watch anything else, you go to youtube…
Now, the problem veoh is facing is that a lot of that less-then-legal content comes from those 170+ banned countries. And even some of the non-banned users are pulling their vids as a sign of solidarity and moving to other sites. From a scrupulous capitalist “get money now, who cares about human relationships” view this move is pretty sound, but what veoh didn’t anticipate is the whiplash effect this action has caused. Veoh had great ambitions and goals from the start, and they were ready to achieve them through any means, whether they are necessary or not.
Banned and distraught on August 12th, 2008 at 4:12 pm - Permalink