Europe’s Leading Video Advertising Platform, Ebuzzing, announces $52 million in revenue for 2012 and it’s opening in the US London, 29th January 2013 Ebuzzing, a 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 European offices in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, also broke even. Ebuzzing, founded in 2007, has emerged in the last few years as the European Leader for Video Advertising Distribution. Video Ads distributed within Social Streams and Content Streams While other platforms tend to focus on pre-‐roll formats, which replicate TV ads, Ebuzzing has created new Distribution Channels and Formats that leverage the interactive nature of the Web. Ebuzzing distributes video advertising campaigns into Content Streams and Social Streams 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. Social Targeting and Self-‐Targeting (ad selector) allow Ebuzzing to optimize the distribution throughout it’s network. Pierre Chappaz, Co-‐founder and CEO explains: ““We strongly believe that the message is better remembered when the user chooses to watch the ad themself. And there is such a great opportunity for brands to interact with their users within Social Streams and Content Streams. Users like Videos Ads when they are well targeted, creative and relevant to them, and when they have the choice to watch the ad or not.” 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 and many more.
Opening in the US Ebuzzing have opened operations in New York, with a West Coast office opening during the next few months. With Ebuzzing already working with many Global brands such as Ford, Oakley, Gillette and 20th Century Fox, Ebuzzing co-‐founder, Bertrand Quesada, is also moving Stateside to focus on the company’s global operations. Bertrand comments: “The US provides Ebuzzing with a huge opportunity for continued growth and as we already work with many US based global brands we felt it was important to build a base closer to them.” 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, headquartered in Luxembourg. 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), Overblog and BeeAd (France). Today Ebuzzing is the European leader for Video Advertising Distribution with over 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 8581 Mob: 07595599860 Email: rebecca.mahony@ebuzzing.com www.ebuzzing.com