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[Interview] Ebuzzing, changing the game in social and video advertising
Ebuzzing was originally founded at the end of 2007 by 12 year web veteran Bertrand Quesada, whose vision from the beginning focused on offering brands a platform to help scale their PR and ‘buzz’ on social media. Quesada joined forces with Kelkoo founder and serial entrepreneur Pierre Chappaz shortly thereafter with the objective of building Ebuzzing into a […]
Ebuzzing and Schibsted climbing quickly towards the top of France’s most visited sites
Comscore has just released their latest figures and, not surprisingly, the ranking of top general and video sites doesn’t show much movement. When looking at top (general) internet properties, Google sites, Microsoft and Facebook are still far in front of the competition, including Yahoo who remains a distant fourth and virtually tied with Orange, Wikimedia, and […]
eBuzzing-owned Beezik to shut down – employees to join eBuzzing team
After having launched 2009 and grown to over 3 million subscribers last year, the music download service Beezik will be ceasing its operations. The owners of the Beezik platform, BeeAd, decided to voluntarily shut down Beezik principally because their model, which was based on advertising supported downloads, was deemed not to be viable outside of […]
Ebuzzing sees big revenue jump in 2012; announces US expansion
Ebuzzing, the leading European platform for video advertising distribution, has just announced very strong results for 2012, having achieved $52 million in revenues which is a 79% increase over 2011. This strong performance also helped them, 5-years after their founding, break-even for the first time. Ebuzzing’s differentiated approach to video advertising distribution vis-a-vis their competitors […]
IDInvest Parters, the most active VC in France
I love when entrepreneur tell me that "it is impossible to raise VC funding in France." Honestly, it has become one of my favorite phrases. I have come across numerous entrepreneurs - on both sides of the Atlantic - that have told me that VCs are risk-averse weirdos and that their capital is extremely limited and/or drying up. And while Chausson Finance did declare France's VC activity for the first half of 2011 as remarkably less than in 2010, this