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Swedish Video Ad Overlayer VideoPlaza Gets £335,300 Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Jul 2008 03:39 AM PST

Online video advertising startup VideoPlaza has received a €420,000 seed investment from Creandum plus angels Henrik Torstensson and Magnus Hultman to launch outside of its native Sweden. Sweden is seeing…

Pirate Bay Seeks ISP Block Pay-Out - From Same Music Biz That’s Suing It - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 04:03 AM PST

The Pirate Bay‘s capacity to poke and rile the music business for laughs knows no bounds. This time, the BitTorrent index is seeking compensation from the IFPI for traffic lost…

Interactive Agency Special Ops Media Sold To European Firm LBI For Up To GBP 22.6M - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Apr 2008 11:06 PM PST

New York City-based interactive marketing and design agency Special Ops Media (SOM) has been sold to European digital agency holding firm LBI. Over 2007 Special Ops realized gross billings of…

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Aegis Acquires Swedish Marketing Firm Jämterud, Jiffer & Partners - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 03 Apr 2008 05:19 AM PST

UK media buying firm Aegis Group has bought Sweden’s Jämterud, Jiffer & Partners, an experiential marketing company. Aegis, the parent of media buyer Carat and search marketing network Isobar, will…

Sweden Ready To Act On Piracy; Would Subpoena ISP Data - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 17 Mar 2008 02:43 AM PST

Sweden may be ready to follow the prevailing wind on internet media piracy, with a legal clampdown expected this spring. Justice minister Beatrice Ask and culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth…

Pirate Bay Defiant As Prosecutor Serves Court Notice - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Feb 2008 02:12 AM PST

Swedish prosecutors have filed charges against Carl Lundstrom, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg - the brains behind torrent tracker The Pirate Bay - as expected, accusing the…

Swedish Authorities Expected To Charge File Sharing Service The Pirate Bay - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 15 Jan 2008 06:30 AM PST

Swedish prosecutors are expected to charge the operators of Swedish file sharing service The Pirate Bay with “conspiracy to breach copyrights,” later this month according to the Wall Street Journal.…

Aegis Buys Finnish Digital Agency White Sheep - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 07 Jan 2008 06:15 PM PST

UK media buying firm Aegis Group has acquired Finland’s White Sheep, a provider of web development and digital creative production services. Financial terms were not disclosed. White Sheep will be…

Web Ad Spend To Outstrip TV Starting This Year: Forecast - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jan 2008 02:19 AM PST

Sweden will this year become the first country where internet ad spending will surpass that given over to TV ads, according to the This Year, Next Year 2008 forecast from…

UK Digital Penetration Driven By Cheapest Bundles: Ofcom - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 12 Dec 2007 07:48 AM PST

British consumers are getting some of the best deals for broadband, mobile and television services in Europe, thanks to cheap bundled services, according to an exhaustive report from Ofcom, looking…

Private Media Group Takes 1Million Euro Stake in Horse Creek Entertainment - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sun 09 Dec 2007 10:01 PM PST

Spanish adult content provider Private Media Group has taken a 17.2 percent stake in Swedish company Horse Creek Entertainment, a content aggregator and creator of a broadband VOD platform. Horse…

Europe’s VOD, Digital Cinema Grants Almost Doubling - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 14 Nov 2007 02:41 AM PST

The European Commission is increasing its funding for video-on-demand and digital cinema distribution projects to meet higher-than-expected demand, Variety reports. The commission’s Media programme recently approved 4.9 million euros (£3.4…

Ericsson, Endemol Partner On Me-On-TV Viewer Video Participation Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 06 Sep 2007 02:32 AM PST

Ericsson and TV producer Endemol (AMS:EML) have partnered to distribute mobile phone technology allowing viewers to participate in TV shows through 3G video. Me-On-TV, a platform developed by the Swedish…