CanalWeb version 2.0: Europe’s First Internet Television Operator Experiences Rapid Development

CanalWeb benefits from being the very first player on the European Internet Television market. As of today, CanalWeb has over 200,000 viewers every month. CanalWeb proposes 60 hyper-thematic programs (of which 7 are multilingual), 40 hours of live webcasts every week, and over 3,000 hours of on-demand content. CanalWeb aims to continually strengthen its position as the European leader of Internet Television. Within the next four years 1,000 programs, representing 75,000 hours of webcasting will be available.CanalWeb's highly-themed catalogue is becoming more and more multilingual. CanalWeb's international deployment deems necessary the production of programs in principal European languages: (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian…). Taking account of national specifications, content will not be centrally produced and translated, but localized in order to adapt to the local audience.The CanalWeb offer is composed of themed and specialized programming co-produced with external partners. Programs are first diffused live, and may then be accessed on demand via CanalWeb's distribution platform - either via the CanalWeb .net portal or via CanalWeb's affiliated partners.Each webcast takes the form of a 30 to 60 minute talk show with one or more invited guests. Programs are enriched with Text and Photo pages and related Site Links.CanalWeb proposes over 40 hours of live webcasts per week, through 60 channels. From Chess to Comic Strips, Music to New Technologies, Video Games to Gastronomy, CanalWeb embraces many specialized communities.CanalWeb develops Corporate TV channels dedicated to both internal and external business communications.Programs produced by CanalWeb are archived, allowing consultation of all previous webcasts. This is one of the most important points differentiating Internet TV from traditional TV, and today represents over 80% of viewer consultations. CanalWeb's on-demand archived catalogue includes over 3,000 hours of ready to access webcasts.The majority of CanalWeb's programs are co-produced with external partners (companies or individuals) bringing content to CanalWeb in exchange for web-TV production know-how. CanalWeb co-owns content it produces, enabling the creation of a program catalogue and ensuring CanalWeb's prime position, notably with the perspective of broadband content development. The program catalogue has always been the prime asset of any audiovisual production company, and today represents a key element of the current and future value of CanalWeb. CanalWeb, and its subsidiary TVBourse.net, re-transmit their programs via thirty affiliated distributors. Agreements will multiply in response to the high demand of Web Sites for which video content represents a major competitive advantage. According to Forrester Research (Sept.99), 70% of the most visited sites are enriched with audiovisual content and are looking to increase the effective use of this media.CanalWeb has already signed affiliate agreements with generalist portals (Spray, Freesbee, Tripod, Liberty Surf, Voilà…), themed sites (Cyperus, CPReTrade, SBF, GOA, Sports24…) and important media (Libération, Le Monde, NRJ…).CanalWeb.net, Paris, Francehttp://www.canalweb.net/