Ebuzzing, the Group born from the merger of BeeAd, We Spread and Ebuzzing Social, announces revenue growth of 79% from $29 million in 2011 to $52 million in 2012, establishing itself as the global leader in Video Advertising Distribution London, 29th January, 2013 Ebuzzing, the leading Video Advertising Distribution Platform, announced that its revenue grew 79% from $29 million in 2011 to $52 million in 2012. The company, who operate globally from its offices in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the US, also broke even. Ebuzzing, founded in 2007, has emerged in the last few years as the Global Leader for Video Advertising Distribution. Video Ads distributed within Social Streams and Content Streams Ebuzzing is focused on creating innovative Video Distribution Channels and Formats that leverage the interactive nature of the Web. While other platforms only focus on pre-‐roll formats which replicate TV ads, Ebuzzing’s creative technology helps brands meet customers in a relevant context, respectful of the users choice to watch an ad or not. Ebuzzing’s offerings (Ebuzzing Social, BeeAd, We Spread) leverage premium inventories and formats in order to answer Brand’s needs, with one common DNA: “User engagement”. Pierre Chappaz, co-‐founder and CEO explains: “We strongly believe that the message is better remembered when the user chooses to watch it, whatever the format. It can be a video inserted within Blogs and Social Streams (Ebuzzing Social’s offering), an Ad-‐selector for Content Gating (BeeAd’s offering), or innovative rich media formats developed by We Spread.” Ebuzzing distributes video campaigns through an extensive network of 40,000 media and premium websites, influential blogs, mobile, tablet and desktop apps and social media sites in over 90 countries.
All of Ebuzzing’s video formats are user-‐initiated. The click to play, user-‐initiated model means that brands are guaranteed to have users who purposely click to watch their video and what’s more, they only pay for those engaged views. Ebuzzing is the trusted online video partner of many of the world’s leading brands, such as Heineken, Mastercard, SONY, Toyota, Red Bull, Adidas EE, Virgin, Vodafone and many more. Opening in the US Ebuzzing has opened commercial operations in New York, with a West Coast Office opening in the coming months. Ebuzzing are already working with US brands such as Ford, Oakley, Gillette and 20th Century Fox. New Corporate Site Ebuzzing is also today launching its new Corporate Site www.ebuzzing.com, which features all of Ebuzzing’s Advertising Products and hundreds of their latest Campaigns. About Ebuzzing Ebuzzing have distributed several thousands of campaigns for many of the world's leading brands, delivering an innovative mix of influence, reach and engagement across a variety of formats. Ebuzzing was founded by Bertrand Quesada in 2007 and merged in 2009 with Wikio Group, a technology company founded by Pierre Chappaz. The combined entity adopted the Ebuzzing brand name. Over the last four years, Ebuzzing has completed a series of mergers and acquisitions of specialised European technology companies, including Promodigital (Italy), Trigami (Germany), and Overblog (France). In 2012 the merge with BeeAd and We Spread, founded by Jean Canzoneri and Thomas Pasquet, gave birth to a new global leader in Video Advertising Distribution. Ebuzzing has 200 employees, an R&D department of 50 people and offices across the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg and most recently New York. Ebuzzing has raised a total of $32 Million from Lightspeed Ventures, Gemini Ventures, Gimv and TF1. For more information: Rebecca Mahony (VP, Global Marketing) Tel: 0207 467 8582 Mob: 07595599860 Email: rebecca.mahony@ebuzzing.com www.ebuzzing.com