Publicis Groupe’s Digital Revs Grow In Q4, Closing In On CEO Levy’s Goal
As the traditional ad agency structure struggles to reorient services to emerging markets and new media, Publicis Groupe’s digital revenues… Read more »
France’s Le Fig Unveils Paid Features, But ‘News Will Be Free Forever’
Another week, and another newspaper opts for a paid-content model: French daily Le Figaro has now announced price tiers for its delayed, pre… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Orange IPTV Channels; Hitwise In France; More Online Olympics Coverage
– France IPTV: Orange France is upping its game in competition with pay-TV providers CanalSat and TV Numeric. It is in discussions to carry… Read more »
Paris-Based Hi-media Expands Micropayments Business To U.S.
Paris-based Hi-media, a publicly held company that operates an ad network, a publishing business and a payments platform around the world, h… Read more »
France’s ISP Tax Draws A European Competition Inquiry
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy went down pretty badly with ISPs, mobile operators and commercial broadcasters when in 2008 he announced he… Read more »
France’s Le Fig And L’Express Planning Paywalls, Too
The dominoes keeping falling – now it’s the turn of leading French publications Le Figaro and L’Express, which are both gearing up to restri… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Bambuser For Journos, Virgin’s MusicFish, French Broadband
– Bambuser deal: The Swedish mobile vidcasting rival to Qik and Flixwagon has signed its first commercial partner since starting in ’07 -… Read more »
Amazon In Europe Roundup: MP3s On UK Android; Kindle In German/French
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When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched its larger Kindle, the DX, in Europe two weeks ago, the promotion around the product was noticeable for be… Read more »
Now France Seeks Google’s Help To Digitise Books?
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File this one under “humble pie.” According to a report in the New York Times, France’s culture minister, Frederic Mitterand, is getting rea… Read more »
France Will Send Its First Three-Strikes Warnings Starting April
France isn’t letting a delay to its approval by a privacy agency stop it from pressing ahead with creating its new Hadopi anti-piracy body.… Read more »
Google’s ‘Scam’ Suggestion Earns A Court Reprimand
It’s not really Google’s day in France, is it? First there was the Zelnik report calling for a “Google (NSDQ: GOOG) tax” on online advertisi… Read more »
Sacre Bleu! France Mulls Tax On Web Ads To Bail Out Old Media
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Could operators like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) be taxed every time a Frenchman clicks a web ad? A report presented to the French government sugges… Read more »
As In UK, French Three Strikes May Be Delayed To After Elections
Looks like another stay of execution for illegal file sharers in France. The “three-strikes” anti-piracy law approved by the French senate l… Read more »
Glam Face-Off, Round Three: French Site Warns Glam Media Off
When we heard of the latest product launch from France’s vertical publisher and social network business Glam One — owner of the “Glam” trad… Read more »
Hi-Media Reaps Micropayment Revenue Rises After AdLink Deal
No one really knows if micropayments will take off for online news but they are working out fine for French Fotolog owner and vertical conte… Read more »
French Music Streamer Deezer Adding Premium Options, Mobile Streaming
Paris-based music streaming service Deezer, last seen raising Read more »
French Digital Comic Publisher Aquafadas Receives
French digital publishing company Aquafadas has raised Read more »
Publicis Groupe Declares Downturn Over, Restates Digital Goals
Many in the media world are still struggling through the slashed budgets and changed business models, but at least for French advertising gr… Read more »
Euro-MPs Give Up Demand For Court Hearing Before ISP Disconnection
The EU Parliament has controversially dropped plans to force ISPs and content owners across the continent to seek a court ruling before disc… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Eastenders Online; Orange IPTV; French Piracy Warnings; Absolute Radio
– Eastenders online: The BBC soap opera will get an online spinoff in February to mark its 25th birthday. Eastenders:E20 will be a standalo… Read more »
Interview: Dailymotion CEO Cédric Tournay’s American Dream, VC Money Will Fund US Offensive
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Corrected: Dailymotion Confirms
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Broadband Content Bits: Zoopla; Guardian.co.uk; Canal+; CompareMyRadio; Zavvi; U2 Gig; Tradeclips
– Zoopla: The property site is upgrading all its sites with Zoopla’s property search database and technology. Zoopla, which uses public dat… Read more »
Virgin Mobile France Buying Tele2 France, Adds 385k Customers
Carphone Warehouse-controlled Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) France announced on Friday it had entered an agreement to buy Tele2 Mobile France fro… Read more »
French Content Delivery Provider Ipercast Buying VOIP Platform 3G Factory
French content delivery company Ipercast has bought Lyon-based mobile video provider 3G Factory for an undisclosed fee.
Ipercast delivers o… Read more »
Investment Round-Up: Easyvoyage In
French-based travel site Easyvoyage has secured a PE-backed leveraged buyout worth Read more »
Stardoll Dresses Piczo Up As A Blogging Network In Another Relaunch
Seven months after merging with fellow tween-and-teen-friendly sites Stardoll and Paperdoll Heaven to form the Stardoll Network, Sweden-base… Read more »
French News Satire Site Looks For Money In Print
Another bunch of atoms going to bits… French satirical news website Bakchich.info is launching a weekly print edition, as FT.com says.
Ho… Read more »
Google Now Defending Books Project In French Court
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Before Google’s book-scanning project has even gone to court in the US, the company is already defending itself in a French court against cl… Read more »
France Finally OKs Three-Strikes, Socialists Remain Opposed
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After embarrassing delays and a complete re-drafting, France’s Creation Et L’Internet anti-online piracy legislation has finally been passed… Read more »
Havas Joins Google's Real-Time Ad Bidding
Havas is finally ready to join the other leading ad holding companies in offering real-time ad bidding to its clients, Adweek reports. The F… Read more »
Spotify Restricts Access In Some European Countries
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As its hype curve rises and grows around the world, music service Spotify is locking out eager, enterprising users from outside the six coun… Read more »
France Joins Germany In Google Books Protest
First Germany, now France. Nicolas Sarkozy’s government has written to a US court urging it to stop a $125 million settlement between Google… Read more »
Earnings: Havas Digital Ads Edging Up Despite Falling Profit
French advertising group Havas saw both its profits and revenue slide in the first half of 2009 — but the company continues to grow its dig… Read more »
Corrected: Earnings: Vivendi H1 Up On Games, Digital Music Growth
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Fast growing digital music sales and the ongoing popularity of online multiplayer video games helped Vivendi (EPA: VIV) to a recession-beati… Read more »
PayPal Brings Billing To BlackBerry's App World In 10 New Countries; Four Languages
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We knew that Research In Motion was rolling out its BlackBerry App World in new countries, but now PayPal — which is the exclusive billing… Read more »
French Papers Want Paywalls Too: Le Figaro Plans Paid Content Model
It’s not just UK newspapers that are putting their hopes in online paywalls, their French neighbours are just as keen on charging readers fo… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Motive TV Signs Global DTT Deal; TF1-Orange; Babelgum-Coldplay App; Ten Alps
– Motive TV signs DTT deal AIM-listed Motive Television has signed a deal with Barcelona-based broadcast-technology firm Adecq Digital SL t… Read more »
France’s TF1 iPhone App Offers Live, On Demand TV
French terrestrial broadcaster TF1 has launched an iPhone app allowing users to watch live and on demand TV either via wifi connection or 3G… Read more »
Earnings: Vodafone Declares iPhone Interest; Profits Rise On Asia Growth
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) isn’t alone in wanting to prise away O2′s exclusive rights to distribute the iPhone in the UK — but it is shouting the… Read more »
