As founders, Gilles Babinet and I are stepping up Eyeka’s international development in Europe. It is a turning point in our growth and a commitment to create value for our clients, our authors and our shareholders. Three leaders in their respective fields are joining Eyeka. Sadek Chekroun takes over as CEO. Sadek was a key […]
Hard for me not to share with you our latest PR relase about EYEKA. We’re launching our recrutment campaign today, after a few months of Alpha and Beta testing. Some say that we could have launched before. I kind of agree…Our vision is to help define how will TV on mobile and web look like […]
Je suis passé voir Jean-Michel l’autre jour qui m’a interviewé dans sa fameuse séquence “Connaissez-vous…”. A découvrir sur son blog. Bien entendu, je lui avais fait le coup de l’arroseur arrosé. A écouter ici.
La lecture d’un article dans Le Figaro du 31 mars me laisse penser qu’il peut y avoir des mouvements dans le User Generated Content. TF1 a lancé WAT à partir d’une technologie DailyMotion. Le site annonce 600 000 visiteurs uniques. TF1 veut faire décoller WAT en le lançant en Europe et recherche activement des partenaires […]
7 millions de spectateurs sont invités à filmer et envoyer leur vie quotidienne sur le site TF1.fr dès lundi 2 avril à l’occasion du Journal de 13 heures de Jean Pierre Pernault. Certaines vidéo seront donc diffusés sur le site et les crèmes à l’antenne pendant le JT. Tout passe par WAT, propriété de TF1. […]
As you know, Viacom launched a $1 billion legal action against YouTube. DailyMotion is a success story on the same concept. A few weeks back, rumor was that they had a paper offer for $330 million which they refused (my sources are CEOs of 2 Web 2.0 start-ups). Do you think that their value is […]
I was discussing the Viacom/YouTube $1 billion legal action with Gilles Babinet this morning. Do you remember Napster? According to Gilles, Napster’s valuation was close to $4 billion at some point. You know the story. They got sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), agreed to pay a settlement of $24 million for […]
Today Viacom announced that they were filling against YouTube “for massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacom’s entertainment properties.” The suit seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as well as an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. The complaint contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom’s programming have been available on […]
I attended and spoke yesterday at the Online Pubisher Association global forum in London. Day one was very much focusing on the impact of digital on traditional pubishing businesses. The forum is called “Forum for the Future” : i assure you that projects and revenus are happening NOW. Specific emphasis was place on web publishing, […]