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Thursday, April 23 2009

Cannes 2009: Sign-up now!

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The official selection has been made. The greatest film festival will again gather most of the movie industry, a large number of stars and many many journalists. The coverage of the event will be available online.

Wednesday, April 15 2009

The European Commission available on Newspusher.com

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The production of the European Commission will be available for free on Newspusher.com. The access will be granted to Akamedia's client. Register now!

Monday, January 19 2009

Akamedia becomes the distributor of Fox News production outside the US

Akamedia is pleased to announce that all the news stories produced by FoxNews and its affiliates are now available on Akamedia's news service www.newspusher.com for licensing. Starting January 20th, 2009 Akamedia distributes the entire production of FoxNews for broadcast, online and mobile usages outside the US. Topics include US politics with a very special highlight on Obama's first weeks at the White House, but also business reports, entertainment news, sports coverage and international news...

About Fox News...
Fox News Edge is the number one news service in the World. Fox News Edge combines the newsgathering forces of Fox News Channel, over 150 Fox Affiliates and over 450 Network News Service affiliates to produce the most comprehensive news service available and to support Fox affiliates news operations with live breaking news coverage from around the world. Fox News is an affiliate of the News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). News Corporation is a diversified entertainment company with operations in eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers and information services; book publishing; and other. The activities of News Corporation are conducted principally in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Basin.

Friday, January 16 2009

Akamedia awarded "Red Herring Global Winner 2008"

Akamedia, today announced that it has been awarded "Red Herring Global Winner 2008". Red Herring 100 Global Winners are companies chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100. Out of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to the Top 100 winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration.

The announcement of the winners was made at the Red Herring 100 Global taking place in San Diego in January. "We were so pleased to announce Akamedia as a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company," commented Red Herring publisher Alex Vieux. "Akamedia has proven to be a company excelling in its industry and its ripples have turned into waves. We are pleased to have included Akamedia in our list of promising companies. We look forward to the changes it make to its industry in the future."

"We are very honored to receive this amazing Award that pointed out in the past leaders like Google, eBay, Skype or Salesforce," says Akamedia CEO & Founder Lionel Faucher. "The RedHerring awards not only our work as entrepreneurs, but also the involvement of all our staff, and the support of our partners and investors. This Award is also a duty of excellence for the future."

Red Herring honored the Global Winners at the Red Herring global conference scheduled January 15-16, in San Diego, California.

Thursday, January 15 2009

Fashion week, Paris 2009

Akamedia will provide an amazing coverage of the ready-to-wear collections for Fall & Winter 2009. The coverage will be available as footage, ready-to-use daily packages or dedicated coverage. Contact-us!

Monday, December 15 2008

Akamedia first video member of CEPIC

On the 5th of December, Akamedia has been accepted as CEPIC Affiliate. It is a first time that a video company becomes member of CEPIC. The board of the coordination accepted Akamedia's application in acknowledgement of the convergence of the technologies and the interest of the organisation and its members in sharing knowhow with an innovative player.

About CEPIC...
CEPIC, the Coordination of European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage, was established in Berlin in 1993 as a European economic interest group (E.E.I.G) not for profit in accordance with the European Communities Regulation and registered in Paris in 1999. CEPIC has Observer Status at WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organisation and is an Associate Member of I.P.T.C, the International Press Telecommunications Council. CEPIC represents over 1,000 picture sources in Europe with members from most different European countries.

Thursday, May 15 2008

Akamedia starts distributing the video production of Xinhua

Starting this month, the video production of Xinhua, the National Chinese news agency, will be available thru Akamedia's news service www.newspusher.com. Akamedia will start offering 5 to 10 stories in English per day.

About Xinhua...
The Xinhua News Agency (pronounced /
shin-hwah/ in English) is the official news agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC. Xinhua employs more than 10,000 people as compared to about 1,300 for Reuters, has 107 bureaus worldwide both collecting information on other countries and dispensing information about China, and maintains 31 bureaus in China - one for each province plus a military bureau. Xinhua prints in all six languages (Chinese, English, French, Russian and Arabic).

Thursday, March 27 2008

Akamedia, conseillé par Aelios Finance, a réalise une levée de fonds de 1,7 millions € auprès des fonds gérés par Alto Invest

Akamedia, conseillé par Aelios Finance, a réalisé une levée de fonds de 1,7 millions € auprès des fonds gérés par Alto Invest. Akamedia, spécialiste de la distribution online de contenus à destination des diffuseurs TV, Web & Mobile ouvre son capital à Alto Invest. Cette levée de fonds de 1.7M€ donne les moyens à la société de financer son développement sur un marché en forte croissance avec comme objectif de devenir le leader européen de la distribution online de "footage" (images d'actualité et formats courts servant à la construction de programmes audiovisuels).

Akamedia fournit aux fabricants de programmes audiovisuels un point unique d'accès à une multitude de sources d'images d'actualité et de programmes courts. La société anime la place de marché de contenu audiovisuel www.newspusher.com avec sa propre technologie. Avec plus de 100 sources internationales, Akamedia livre tous les jours de nombreux sujets d'actualité aux grandes chaînes, aux principaux sites Web et aux opérateurs de téléphonie mobile.

Lionel Faucher, Fondateur d'Akamedia explique son choix: " Nous hésitions à confier notre levée de fonds à un intervenant extérieur. Avec le recul, nous avons pris la bonne décision et nous sommes ravis d'avoir choisi Aelios Finance. Leur professionnalisme, leur connaissance du marché, leur compréhension de notre business model nous ont permis de focaliser notre énergie sur le développement de notre activité, développement qui reste le meilleur argument pour convaincre un investisseur. L'entrée d'Alto Invest au capital d'Akamedia nous permet de passer à une nouvelle étape : De la même manière que nous avons convaincu la majorité des diffuseurs français, nous allons proposer nos services à tous les diffuseurs européens. "

Rodolphe Herbelin, Responsable d'investissements chez Alto Invest souligne le fait que " Alto Invest a été séduit autant par la rigueur et la capacité d'exécution des fondateurs que par le business model et les perspectives de croissance d'Akamedia. Nous sommes heureux de donner les moyens à la société d'accélérer sa croissance. "

Eric Félix-Faure, Directeur Associé d'Aelios Finance rappelle que " le potentiel d'innovation d'Akamedia associé à un solide positionnement et à une stratégie pragmatique nous ont permis de travailler dans des conditions optimales et de réaliser une levée de fonds stratégique pour le développement de notre client. "

''A propos d'Alto Invest... Alto Invest est une société de gestion de portefeuilles indépendante agréée par l'Autorité des Marchés Financiers (N° GP 01-39), spécialisée dans l'investissement dans les PME. Les fondateurs et associés d'Alto Invest ont plus de 15 ans d'expérience dans l'investissement au sein d'institutions financières de grand renom. Alto Invest propose une gamme de fonds communs de placements agréés par l'Autorité des Marchés Financiers et destinés à une clientèle institutionnelle et privée. Alto Invest est membre actif de l'Association Française de la Gestion Financière (AFG), et de l'Association Française des Investisseurs en Capital (AFIC).''

''A propos d'Aelios Finance... Aelios Finance est la société leader en France dans le montage de levées de fonds et de fusions-acquisitions pour les entreprises des Technologies de l'Information et des Sciences de la Vie. Les associés d'Aelios Finance totalisent plus de 130 opérations réalisées avec succès représentant un montant total de capitaux levés de près de 570 M€. Aelios Finance est membre du premier réseau mondial de fusions-acquisitions midcap M&A International Inc.''

Thursday, March 20 2008

Akamedia named "Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe"

Red Herring today announced that Akamedia was named a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.

“This year's impressive list of submissions from companies demonstrates Europe's growing role as a major center of innovation in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology startups and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”

Red Herring's lists of top private companies are an important part of the publication's tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google, eBay, and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors, and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.

Red Herring will honor the Red Herring 100 Europe Finalist companies at its Red Herring Europe 2008 event. Scheduled for April 14-16, at the Westin Dragonara.

Saturday, June 2 2007

Vote for Akamedia as the most promising start-up with international focus!



In partnership with the International Awards organised by the IE Club, the Journal du Net organises a readers' prize.

You can vote for us at the following: VOTE HERE!.

There is nothing to win but mindshare of the entrepreneurial environment.

Friday, May 25 2007

Akamedia nominated for the International Award of the IE Club

Akamedia has been nominated by the IE Club in France as one of 30 most promising start-ups with international focus. The Award ceremony will happen on the 14th of June with the participation of great entrepreneurs: Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux (Virgin mobile & ThePhoneHouse), Denis Payre (Kiala & Business Objects) et Tariq Krim (Netvibes).

Take a look at the list of the nominees.

Wednesday, May 16 2007

Opening of Cannes Film Festival 2007

Cannes ON Cannes OFF Cannes Daily Report

With three production companies involved in the coverage of the biggest film festival, Akamedia will provide during the 12 days of the event great images to many broadcasters around the globe. Our technical staff and partners especially installed a server within' the media zone of "Le Palais des Festivals" connected with a 2 Gbits dedicated line to the Internet! Media clients should be able to download most clips @ 3 times the real time!

We will provide the coverage of the festival ON (the press conference, the trailer, some extracts & the red carpet for each film in competition and the other main movies), the festival OFF (all the scoops and side events of the two weeks), as well as a finished 3mn-daily report available on subscription!

Friday, February 23 2007

60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival: VOD for VIP!



We are preparing a paramount coverage of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in High Definition. All the stars, all the press conferences, the red carpets and some exclusive footages will be shot in an amazingly beautiful quality. The coverage will be available for all media usages: TV, Web, Mobile & IPTV.

We believe that broadcasters can make a big step forward by providing their audience with a unique VIP access to the whole coverage of the Festival On Demand: The most exclusive days of the movie industry, as if your audience was invited as a professional or a journalist!

Monday, January 29 2007

Nominee for the European ICT Prize

We received this morning a very cool email informing us that Akamedia had been selected as one of the 70 "Nominees for the European ICT Prize" out of 450 applications from 30 countries.
The next stage should ended on the 19th February with the final selection of the 20 Nominees for the European ICT Grand Prize.

The press releases can be found there:
Nominations for 2007
French nominees for 2007

Thursday, December 7 2006

IHA coverage joins Akamedia's World News segment

Starting this month, Akamedia will offer the amazing production of IHA to its clients. The coverage of Turkey, the greater Middle East, but also Central Asia and Europe, will be included in the World News feed provided by Akamedia.

About IHA...
IHA is one of the biggest news agency in the Middle East. Ihlas News Agency has been providing news services to Turkish, European, American and Arabic television companies and many Turkish dailies and radios. As a member of one of the biggest media groups in Turkey, IHA follows the latest agendas worldwide. IHA covers Turkey, Europe, the greater Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Central Asian states. IHA races against time with its television news department and photo and wire news department, providing quality news all over the world.

Saturday, October 28 2006

Bauer Griffin joins Akamedia

The famous celebrity photo agency based in Hollywood will provides its new video production to Akamedia for distribution in Europe.

Tuesday, October 3 2006

The Press Association will use Akamedia to distribute its video production outsite the UK

The Press Association, the experienced and famous UK national news agency, part of the PA Group, just signed with Akamedia to distribute its video production outside the UK.

About The Press Association...
The Press Association is the national news agency of the UK and Ireland, covering all the news that matters 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Since 1868, The Press Association have been setting the UK news agenda with fast, fair and accurate reporting for national and regional, daily and weekly newspapers; TV and radio broadcasters; Magazines, periodicals and contract publishers; and digital platforms – websites, open space TV, mobile phone operators. From the core newswire services to video bulletins for digital platforms, The Press Association is providing a continuous stream of news, images, information and data.

Saturday, September 2 2006

Cihan brings a Turkish point of view of world news

Akamedia just signed with the Turkish based News Agency Cihan. Cihan's journalists cover most European and Middle East countries with a great focus on Sports and Celebrity news beyond hard news.

Friday, July 21 2006

ZDF archives accessible via Akamedia

Akamedia just signed a distribution deal with ZDF to provide access to the amazing archives of the German public TV.

About ZDF Enterprises...
ZDF Enterprises was founded in the year 1993 as a 100% private subsidiary of ZDF, one of the biggest and most renowned television broadcasters in Europe. On behalf of ZDF, ZDF Enterprises is responsible for worldwide program sales, the implementation of international coproductions, license purchasing for quality programs, marketing online rights and the merchandising of strong ZDF program brands.

Wednesday, July 5 2006

Akamedia selected for Tremplin Entreprises at the French senate

Tremplin Entreprises

Akamedia has been selected for the 2006 edition of Tremplin Entreprises as one the Top 30 most innovative start-ups in France.

Co-organized by the French Senate and Essec Business School, Tremplin Entreprises is the premier venture capital event in France, equally indispensable for both venture capitalists and the entrepreneurs behind innovative projects. The eighth edition takes place on July 5th and 6th, 2006, in the prestigious setting of the Luxembourg Palace, Paris, France.

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