Hiroshi Tanaka is associate director at NHK, Japan’s leading public broadcaster. He has a long and loyal history with NHK where he used to produce highly successful programs for children. He is now a digital content producer to build mobile TV. NHK Mobile G is a 24-hour channel. It delivers a seamless blend of TV […]
For our international friends who may be catching up on the french elections, France’s next president will be elected next sunday by 8pm. The 2 finalists are Nicolas Sarkozy, conservative/liberal and Segolene Royal, socialist/in favor of government assistance on most matters. Most of international observers agree that politically France lives with the memories of its […]
Friday April 27 – 7pm. Meeting point Eyeka‘s terrasse. 11 young directors will receive their brief and they will return on Sunday April 29 with their film, cut and ready to show. It’s a little special since the teams have already proven their talent in previous editions. The winners will be rewarded at The Cannes […]
Adrian Johnson was very at ease in Cannes at the MIP TV…but I assure you that he had back to back meetings. In 2003, he co-founded MrFootage, with his old friend from the Berlin days, Swedish former media executive and Strix Television CEO, Johan Sundberg. MrFootage ambitions to create one of the largest independent online […]
Mobile and 2.0 geeks met yesterday at the Hard Rock Cafe in Paris, France for Fanny’s party. A number of start-ups, bloggers and influencers were there: Parrott, Jubii, Wowwee and his Dragon Fly, Jerome Bouteiller, Gregory Pouy, Altaide, Moovement, Blue Kiwi, Pikeo etc. Networking was intense. And Fanny made sure everyone got a little present. […]
I wanted to know more aboutBabelgum, the new venture from Silvio Scaglia and Erik Lumer. They call it “The global internet TV network”. Scaglia is chairman of FastWeb, the second largest wireline telecommunication company in Italy. Previously, he was CEO of Omnitel, now Vodaphone Italy. He is known to be the 746th richest man in […]
Orange is about to launch Soundtribes : a new business model for self-produced artists. Soundtribe is a community for Music Lovers, artists and musicians to promote, to distribute and to sell their music as ringtones on mobile phones. The artist receives a revenue share from ringtones made from his own music. Price is around 3€ […]
After the first round of the local french presidential elections, we are back to a traditional Right/Left opposition (after the right/extreme right in 2002). The specific about France is that these two positions relate to 2 different visions of our french society. I am not sure that it is the case in the US where […]
As the MIP TV market was in Cannes last week and it was Easter vacation, i had moved my family to a nearby city, in Grasse. Played in the evening in the garden…broke my arm. …I’m not Tarzan. Copyright Marvel and Edgar Rice Burroughs