Hi-media News
Hi-Media Group Announces Growth in Sales to €230 Million in 2011
Jan 25th
Online media group Hi-Media, the European leader in monetizing the Internet audience, today published its sales figures for the 2011 financial year.
· Sales up by 6% pro forma
· Profitability improvement throughout the year
· Strategic partnerships in the UK and Netherlands
· Solid perspectives and a greater integration of the Group businesses for 2012
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Hi-Media Advertising Signs an Exclusive Contract with SeLoger.com Group
Jan 5th
Online media group Hi-Media (Code ISIN FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), the European leader in monetizing the Internet audience, today announced an exclusive advertising network agreement covering the audience for SeLoger.com Group websites: SeLoger.com, Immostreet.com, Bellesdemeures.com, SeLogerVacances.com, Vacances.seloger.com and Agorabiz.com.
SeLoger.com is one of the leaders in the “Real Estate” category>, ranked as one of the flagship French websites on the Net, attracting over 4 million unique users (1) and generating 360 million ad impressions a month. The site offers precise advertising targeting (geographical location, section, price or type of transaction), thereby leveraging advertising campaign performance.
Se Loger also has substantial advertising inventory developed for tablets and smartphones: over 50 million impressions. Advertisers may choose from classic or impactful formats according to their particular requirements.
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(1) Source: Nielsen NetRatings, September 2011
Hi-Media and Weborama join forces in the UK
Dec 20th
Hi-Media (Code ISIN FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), the European leader in monetizing Internet audiences and Weborama, the European leader in technologies and data for online advertising, announce a joint venture to operate in common the media business of both Group for the UK.
Operating under the Hi Media UK brand, the entity will be held on equal basis and will combine both Groups’ on line advertising sales assets. Besides, Weborama will operate independently its technology and data business under the Weborama UK brand, and Hi Media will develop independently its digital payment business under the brands Hi-Pay and Allopass.
Mathieu Roche will take the role of Managing Director of Hi-Media UK, in addition to his position as Managing Director of Weborama UK.
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Le Parisien.fr chooses Hi-Media Payments for its website premium section
Dec 15th
Hi-Media Payments, the payment activity of online media group Hi-Media (ISIN Code FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), today announced the signature of a new contract with leParisien.fr/Aujourdhui.fr, as part of the redesign of the website’s premium section.
leParisien.fr/Aujourdhui.fr is the website of France’s leading daily newspaper; the site attracts over 28.5 million visitors (1) a month and is ranked as the 3rd (source: MNR Oct. 2011) news website in France (1).
A global payment solution to meet online reader needs
leParisien.fr/Aujourdhui.fr chose Hi-Media Payments as its partner in providing payment solutions geared to the various options available on its premium section and to its online readership profiles. Hi-Media’s Allopass and Hipay were selected to handle:
- One-off payment for individual articles and daily editions in PDF format;
- Payment by weekly, monthly or annual subscription;
- Multi-channel payment for content available on Internet, smartphone or tablet;
- Payment of combined online + print subscriptions.
Allopass will operate as a Bank of France approved payment service platform (PSP) handling one-off payments and subscriptions for amounts ranging between 1.50 and 13 euros. The Hipay electronic wallet will be used more specifically for subscription payments of between 1.50 and 500 euros, and will also enable users with a Hipay account to make 1-click payments.
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(1) OJD October 2011
Hi-media wins a new marketing mandate in Germany with FILMSTARTS.de
Dec 5th
Hi-media Advertising further expands its entertainment and video portfolio
Starting 1 January 2012, Hi-media Advertising, the Online Advertising division of Hi-media Deutschland AG, will take over the exclusive marketing of FILMSTARTS.de, one of the leading film magazines on the German Internet. Within the framework of this cooperation, FILMSTARTS.de will be integrated into the existing entertainment and video portfolio. Hi-media’s Premium network in the field of entertainment/movies & TV already encompasses attractive partners such as the internationally active video platform Dailymotion.com, the film portal CinemaxX.de, and the online programming guide TVinfo.de.
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Two new contracts for Hi-Media in Spain: Cocina.es and the ADSLZone mobile application
Nov 21st
Following the launch of its ad exchange at the beginning of September this year, online media group Hi-Media (Code ISIN FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), the European leader in monetizing the Internet audience, today announces two new contracts in Spain with Cocina.es and ADSLZone’s mobile application.
Hi-Media Advertising has signed an advertising network agreement with Cocina.es , the leading Spanish food and cookery website. The signing is another step in the process of developing the Hi-Media women’s lifestyle vertical, which already attracts over 3.5 million unique users in Spain (source: comScore) and over 54 million unique users across Europe (source: comScore, Nielsen, CIM) and will soon be offering advertisers real-time access via the Hi-Media Ad Exchange platform.
Raúl de la Cruz, Director of Hi-Media Advertising Spain, had this to say: “In bringing Cocina.es into our premium offer, we are considerably extending our reach on the Spanish market. With Cocina.es, we can provide a wide range of innovative advertising formats offering greater opportunities for advertisers seeking to reach a finely-targeted audience.”
Hi-Media Publishing has also completed the development of mobile apps for iPhone and iPad for the ADSLZone group, one of Spain’s leading online publishers with an audience of over 5.5 million unique users a month (source: Google Analytics). The application will provide a rich variety of editorial content and advertising solutions featuring rich media formats using HTML5. The cutting-edge technology employed will provide vital information on video display times and user reactions to the advertising.The advertising spaces will be marketed by Hi-Media Advertising.
For Javier Sanz, manager of ADSLZone Group: “We have chosen to work with Hi-Media on the strength of the Group’s extensive experience as a publisher and multi-platform advertising network with established expertise in the mobile sector”.This
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Hi-Media Group Announces an 11% Increase in Third Quarter 2011 Sales to €54.1 Million
Nov 3rd
- Group activity positive growth trend
– Advertising confirms its upturn momentum
– Electronic payment maintains its strong growth pace
Online media group Hi-Media (Code ISIN FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), the European leader in monetizing the Internet audience, today publishes its activity report for the third quarter of 2011.
Commenting on the 2011 third quarter figures, Hi-Media Group founder and CEO Cyril Zimmermann declared: “Increasing the Group activity level despite a worsening macro-economic climate is a remarkable performance. The return to double-digit growth confirms the accuracy of Hi-Media’s positioning as the marketing and e-commerce partner to the digital content industry in Europe.”
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Skynet and Hi-Media Combine the Advertising Potential of Netlog and of Skyrock in Belgium
Oct 20th
Online media group Hi-Media (Code ISIN FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), a European leader in monetization of the Internet audience, has announced an advertising link-up between Netlog et Skyrock on the Belgian market.
In both northern and southern Belgium, the Netlog and Skyrock sites are the most popular social networks for the under-25 crowd. As such, Hi-Media and Skynet Advertising are now proposing a linked offer for simultaneous advertising on both sites.The combined audience of the two sites will provide advertisers with a unique opportunity to reach no less than 60% of girls between 12 and 17 years of age, and 48% of their male counterparts (source: CIM Metriprofil November 2010 – April 2011).
Building on its exclusive advertising network of 150 million monthly unique users, its proprietary technology and its partnership with Appnexus, Hi-Media is in a position to establish one of the most powerful European Ad Exchange. As such, Hi-Media has become the leading independent European actor able to offer more than 200 billion monthly ad impressions through Real Time Bidding on major sites, most of which are in the Nielsen/Comscore top 300.
The press release is available for download, here
Hi-Media Group subsidiary Allopass extends its payment institution approval in Europe
Oct 12th
Online media group Hi-Media (ISIN code FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), a European leader in monetization of the Internet audience, today announces extended “Payment Institution” approval for its subsidiary Allopass in Europe.
In August 2011, France’s Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACP) licensed Allopass, the Hi-Media Group’s electronic payments subsidiary, as a recognized payment institution. This allows Allopass to provide payment services under the meaning of article L314-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code (Code Monétaire et Financier) for categories 3 and 5, i.e. the execution of bank credit transfers including standing orders, the issuance of payment instruments and/or the acquisition of payment orders.
Allopass has since successfully completed the formalities required for approval to operate as an independent service provider in the other European Union countries. To date, Allopass has received approvals from BaFin (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht) in Germany and from five other national supervisory bodies to provide payment services directly to e-tailers in the countries concerned.
These latest European approvals are in addition to those already granted in Europe since 2008 to HPME (Hi-Pay electronic wallet) for the issuance of e-money. Hi-Media’s Payments Division has thus reinforced its position as a leading payments service provider for publishers of digital goods, with two entities now licensed:
- E-money issuer (Hi-Pay)
- Payment institution (Allopass)
Hi-Media Payment is one of the few players on the European market to have brought its activities into compliance with recent regulatory changes in the European Union and is thus in a position to offer its partners and clients total European compliance and and the legal certainty necessary to develop their activities in the retailing of digital goods.
The press release is available for download, here
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