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YouTube's new TV Channels confirm its dominance over Dailymotion

YouTube has launched several TV channels in France, based on content specifically developed and curated for the new channels.  The new channels will be focused on various subjects, including news, health, comedy, cooking, celebrities/gossip, etc., which to develop, YouTube will lean on newly established partnerships with Endemol France, Groupe Aufeminin, Euronews, Capa Prod and Lagardère Active.  In addition to France, new channels are […]

Rude VC: Outsmarting the system vs. Cheating

Rude VC: Outsmarting the system vs. Cheating

Two distinct incidents in the sporting world stood out last month that caught my attention in their contrast on a similar theme. Undoubtedly the most prominent was the United States Anti Doping Agency’s (USADA) stripping of Lance Armstrong’s seven Tour de France championship titles. Quick recap: USADA alleged that Lance had used banned substances during […]

qunb: The Youtube of Statistical Data. Graph Everything.

qunb: The Youtube of Statistical Data. Graph Everything.

Yesterday LeCamping Season 2 company qunb finally opened their search engine for finding, compiling, and comparing figures to the pub. The company has build its platform of open data and aggregated data on the basis of one premise: researching figures is hard, and it shouldn’t be. With a rapidly growing list of sources for data, […]

WYDIF: The French startup with the best online video

Let me preface this by saying first that I have seen a lot of French startups. But I definitely haven't seen them all. If there is one thing that many French companies are getting better at, it's social marketing. Last year, I published a little list of some of my favorite Youtube videos published by French startups. But I have to say that the one I'm presenting now takes the cake - by far.