Posts tagged Hi-media Payments
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
To download the press release, click here
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.
To read the complete press release, click here.
(1) OJD October 2011
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.”
To read the complete press release, please click 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
Hi-media Group Announces a Profitability Upturn and Record Performances for the First Half of 2011
Aug 31st
- Sales: 118 million euros (+8% growth)
- Current operating profit : 9 million euros (+26% growth)
- Net results after tax: 5.1 million euros (vs – 63 million in H1 2010)
- The Payment activity remains in the Group perimeter
The on-line media group Hi-Media (ISIN Code FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), the European leader in monetising the Internet audience, releases its results figures for the first half of the year 2011.
Commenting the results for the first half of 2011, Cyril Zimmermann, founder and CEO of Hi-Media declared: «Hi-Media did recover its profitability level in a remarkable way and posted its best first semester ever. After the strategic review, its positioning is reinforced and its current strategy confirmed. Hi-Media is THE marketing and ecommerce partner for the digital content industry across Europe. We are going to continue the development of the company toward a one stop shop solution for monetizing audience around the three business units of the Group Advertising, Payments and Publishing. We work on a better integration of these units for higher synergies. »
To read the press release, click here
Hi-media Group posted a 9.5% sales growth for the 2011 first quarter to 56 million euros
May 3rd
- Advertising activity uptake confirmation
- Continuous strong organic growth of the Payments activity
- Positive stance with respect to the 2011 operating results increase
The on-line media group Hi-media (ISIN Code FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), the European leader in monetising the Internet audience, releases its activity figures for the first quarter of 2011.
Main consolidated figures (in million of euros)
| Q1 2010 | Q1 2011 | Variation | |
| Sales | |||
| Advertising | 23.9 | 23.9 | - |
| Advertising at constant perimeter | 22.4 | 23.6 | 5% |
| Payments | 27.1 | 31.9 | 18% |
| Total | 51.0 | 55.8 | 9% |
| Q1 2010 | Q1 2011 | ||
| Proforma gross margin[1] | |||
| Advertising | 45.7% | 45.5% | |
| Payments | 24.9% | 22.4% | |
| Total | 34.6% | 32.3% |
Commenting on the 2011 first quarter figures, Hi-media Group’s founder and CEO Cyril Zimmermann declares:
« The Group activity has been very well oriented during this first quarter of the year with a satisfying gross margin level in line with our expectations. This positive trend allied with a control and optimization of the cost structure enable the Group to renew its guidance of a full year 2011 operating income improvement. »
[1] Including the gross profit coming from the own and operated websites of the Group (Hi-media Publishing)
To read the press release, click here
Hi-media Payments: Allopass, compliant with all virtual currencies
Feb 8th
A proprietary technology dedicated to the online video game market
Hi-media Payments, the leading ePayment business unit of Paris based Hi-media Group announced that it has launched a new Allopass script dedicated to virtual currencies.
Virtual currencies, a growing market!
Virtual currencies usage recently strongly grew on Asian, US and European gaming platforms. They allow these platforms to manage with high flexibility their community and to implement “freemium” business models which mix a free user experience and a premium part inside the game scenario.
This market, which already worth several billions of dollars worldwide, represents a huge market opportunity and Hi-media Payments intends to continue to accompany its clients in this specific segment.
A “plug and play” proprietary technology
Thanks to its new optimization algorithm, Allopass is now able to automatically generate the most accurate price points and method of payments in a given geographical area and targeted audience in order to optimize the purchase of virtual currencies on online gaming platforms.
Hi-media Payments also implemented a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) in its solution to enable the publishers to closely monitor the users gaming habits and thus optimize their client relationships.
- Hi-media Payments will launch its VCS solution (Virtual Currency Script) during the Casual Connect Conference in Hamburg from 8th to 10th
Good news! A new means of payment to be launched in France!
Feb 4th
http://blogs.lesechos.fr/by-les-echos/french-telecom-players-launch-e-payment-system-to-rival-paypal-a5055.html
The Hi Media Payments teams are thrilled at the idea of being in a position to distribute this solution to their clients in addition to the many other payment means the Allopass Platform offers in close on 80 countries.
France’s mobile telephone operators have decided to set up a common interoperable system along the lines of Internet+. The Internet+ system in France can be used to debit online purchases by Internet subscribers authenticated by their ISP. Buyster will offer the same service to mobile phone users authenticated by their operator. Just as Allopass has been making the Internet+ solution available to its clients over the past few years, now it will be able to roll out Buyster to clients.
Every launch of a new means of payment gives an added boost to the growth of the electronic payment market. We have seen this rule hold good since 2003: the more diversified and easy to use the means of payment on offer, the more Internet users consume and buy online.
Hi-media Payments: 20 million potential users more
Jan 12th
New contract signatures for Allopass and Hipay with online video games publishers Owlient, Chapatiz and Virtual Tweens representing together more than 20 million users mainly localized in Europe.
Paris, January 12, 2011 - Hi-media Payments, the leading ePayment business unit of Paris based Hi-media Group (ISIN Code FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), announced that it has signed new contracts with three online game publishers Owlient, Chapatiz and Virtual Tweens. These publishers represent all together more than 20 million users mainly localized in Europe among which France, Germany and Poland.
While reinforcing its leadership, Hi-media Payments is actively pursuing its development in the online gaming sector, ideally suited to the use of micropayments by gamers.
To read the press release, please click here: Hi-media PR website section
Hi-media Payments announces a new partnership with Mobilians in South Korea
Dec 29th
Paris, December 29, 2010 – Hi-media Payments, the leading ePayment business unit of Paris-based Hi-media Group (ISIN Code FR0000075988 – HIM, HIM.FR), announces that it has signed a partnership with Mobilians for co-branding of mobile payments in South Korea, already available on the micropayments platform Allopass.
To read the press release, please click here: Hi-media PR website section
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