Ahh Dailymotion - le YouTube Francais, oui? “Non!,” says CEO Mark Zaleski, who’s heard it all before: “Okay, so we both show videos, but it’s like saying BBC’s the same as Five.” That is, Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) site may have a lot of the same material, but it lacks Dailymotion’s…

Under-the-spotlight Babelgum has quietly promoted its chief technical architect Egidio Corsini to be its new chief technology officer (CTO), hoping to bury a year of animosity between its tech team and its new leadership. The heavily-funded outfit is also hiring general managers for each of its five key content areas.…

You’re reading it here first (maybe)... Project Kangaroo will offer US TV shows and movies, despite being formed by three UK broadcasters. CEO Ashley Highfield, in a panel, revealed he has been in “back-to-back meetings with US studios” here in Cannes this week: “We hope to acquire US TV and…

The BBC is encouraging TV and set-top box makers to adopt an open IPTV platform it hopes to develop. Confirming details of the rumoured Project Canvas at Cannes’ Mipcom conference Wednesday, future media and technology director Erik Huggers said Auntie is mulling building an “open industry standard” that would put…

—RAI joins YouTube: Italian TV net RAI says it will upload several videos each week to its own YouTube channel and will use the site’s VideoID fingerprinting technology to monitor for infringements. That’s a far cry from RAI’s domestic rival MediaSet, which this summer said it would sue YouTube for…

The first person you’ll see on your arrival at the big Mipcom audiovisual conference in Cannes, as you’re shoved from pillar to post by clueless registration clerks, is WorldTV CEO Alx Klive - forced to hug the power point whilst sitting on a corridor floor, for lack of chair provision.…

Doug Richard, co-founder of British social media app Trutap and formerly a Dragon’s Den judge, led a ritual roasting of a network operator in a morning mobile session here in Cannes. Neil Walker, Vodafone’s senior content relationship manager, was the operator put up to fend off the many grievances of…

LonelyGirl15 UK spin-off KateModern is to be made available on UK mobile phones. Orange will shortly release a mobile application in conjunction with Bebo, the show’s distributor. In a session on interactive drama at the Mipcom TV market and conference in Cannes, Miles Beckett (pictured), the brains behind production pioneer…

Orange will roll-out its innovative Rewind TV service in the UK as part of its IPTV plans. Pascal Thomas, VP of Orange’s NExT mobile media division, told paidContent:UK the tri-platform French service would figure after the initial delivery of the Orange TV offering in the UK. Rewind TV, which complements…

BT’s (NYSE: BT) Vision TV service is to launch a service tailoring advertising to individual viewers as part of a phase-two ramp-up of the slow-burning offering. Sharing a Mipcom stage with execs from Orange and Fastweb, the platform’s director of business affairs, Mark Cranwell, said: “I’m pleased to say the…

- Tiscali: Tiscali and Carphone Warehouse may have aired concern about BBC’s P2P iPlayer “sucking up” bandwidth in August. But maybe you can look for your own clues in the views of Tiscali content strategy MD Jonathan Sykes, given to paidContent:UK today: “Peer-to-peer delivery TV is here, full-stop. TV platforms…

BBC Worldwide digital media director Simon Danker said the corporation would like to introduce sponsorship as one monetisation method. Speaking in Cannes on a panel with online video distributors YouTube, Brightcove, Tiscali and Vuze, Danker: “We’re looking to work on sponsorship - if you bring the brands we’ve got with…

So says Google (NSDQ: GOOG)/YouTube’s head of video partnerships Patrick Walker, speaking on a panel: “Is the internet killing television? The answer is ‘no’ - we have seen for the last four decades the primary medium for brand advertisers has been television. Now ... as you add quantifiable accountability and…

Turner Broadcasting System used Cannes to announce it’s inked digital distribution deals with three online video platforms. The company will this month add short-form content from the CNN International channel and its Adult Swim show to European users of the Joost platform. US users have had this since May. It’s…

Joost will eventually reach the living room, isn’t planning a mobile launch but can expect more attention from one of its founding fathers. In Cannes for the Mipcom TV programming market, CEO Mike Volpi outlined the company’s strategy to paidContent:UK from a Riviera rooftop apartment. The overriding message - still…

Joost plans to begin testing add test live TV shows alongside its on-demand content in the first quarter of 2008. In an interview with paidContent:UK in Cannes, content strategy and acquisition EVP Yvette Alberdingkthijm said the programming has been arranged for testing, though she declined to identify the source. Alberdingkthijm…

In a press conference at Mipcom here in Cannes, CBS (NYSE: CBS) president Leslie Moonves added more detail to his view from yesterday on Last.fm’s worth to CBS: “Our next step is monetising it - as it is with all these internet sites - there’s a lot of sites out…

What exactly does Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) want to do with the 50Mbit broadband service it’s currently trialling? HD TV over the net, that’s what. Here in Cannes, it was announced the company would this month add Voom HD, a hi-def internet TV operator, to the service currently being trialled…

Subscribers to Orange’s French three-screen TV offering have been watching trial shows more on mobile than via other available media. The telco’s Rewind TV service offers TV programming to computers, over broadband IPTV to the lounge and to mobile phones. “One interesting thing we have seen in the past year,…