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Goodbye Akimbo

Posted on May 23, 2008

Word is out that Akimbo, the pioneering over-the-top VOD provider that has had a million different business models, just shut its doors. I remember first getting the Akimbo pitch in 2004, when they were having a coming out with their set top box with accompanying video service. It was very early days, before YouTube and the wholesale move towards large media to over to top distribution, so Akimbo was forced to use whatever they could get their hands on for content, which needless to say at that time wasn't very much. In a nutshell, that really sums up where Akimbo failed. Sure, there was the m...

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