While in Perpignan at the Festival of Photojournalism, negotiations were going on yesterday by phone between the News wire agencies against the International Rugby Board (IRB). In the afternoon, Reuters, AFP, Getty, AP and PressSport (L’Equipe) all agreed to boycott the media coverage – text and photos – of the Rugby world cup which starts […]
La semaine dernière a vu un grand nombre de sorties qui permettent aux fabricants de préparer le boom des ventes du weekend de Thanksgiving aux Etats-Unis, avant celui de Noël. Avec Visa pour l’Image qui démarre ce jour, c’est l’occasion de parler photo! Je trouve 4 segments de marché pour les fabricants : le […]
You love to write, conceive and animate comics but just don’t know how to sell them. Zuda Comics is for you and will launch in October 2007. DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, announced yesterday that they will open up to new talents and let people upload and share their cartoons in a variety […]
Simultaneously to its acquisition strategy, Maurice Levy, predident of Publicis Groupe, is building its know-how in the web 2.0 through a couple of entrepreneurial projects. It is this unique combination – M&A and entrepreneurship – which, in my opinion, makes their web2.0 and interactive strategy more relevant. On June 28, in partnership with Dassault Systèmes […]
SoundTribes opens its beta version today. The announcement was made iin Paris on June 19th, 2007 by Pascal Thomas who runs NeXt as a start-up within Orange and developped the service with its team. To make a long story short, Soundtribes is a european MySpace with an integrated revenue potential for self-produced artists: they can […]
Gilles and I were interviewed by Christian Jegourel, founder YouVox, an online community magazine. The real news here is that i believe it is our first joint interview. The real challenge was to say as little as possible until we have more announcements to make… starting next week 🙂 Gilles Babinet and Franck Perrier, co-founders […]
Eyeka is at “Salon de la Télé” Porte de Versailles in Paris for 2 more days this weekend June 16 and 17. You can’t miss it…we have a beautiful booth next to Orange and Europe 1. Our editors will welcome you; you’ll be able to showcase you work or just discover our platform and team. […]
Very interesting notes from a conversation between Loic and geeks. Nothing better that to read it quickly. Remember the landscape starts with the leaders as Youtube or DailyMotion and ranges from Joost, Bablegum to Eyeka and others. But the number of players in this field, 300 or more, makes it difficult from the outside to […]
Orange is about to launch Soundtribes : a new business model for self-produced artists. Soundtribe is a community for Music Lovers, artists and musicians to promote, to distribute and to sell their music as ringtones on mobile phones. The artist receives a revenue share from ringtones made from his own music. Price is around 3€ […]