Canal+: more talk to markets, less to subscribers
Canal+ is banking on international expansion and takeovers to emerge as a rival to the streaming giants after reaching 40 million subscribers, but a lack of global franchises, an aging technology platform and low international revenue per subscriber leave serious doubts about its ability to achieve this. Canal+ is a…
Millions in public money for RSF and the Journalism Trust Initiative
Supported financially and politically by the European Union since 2020, cited in the Media Freedom Act and deployed via several European and national programs, the Journalism Trust Initiative appears less and less like a simple associative project. Although not legally an instrument of the Commission, it seems largely shaped by…
From experimentation to industrialization: Oracle’s AI roadmap
As generative AI gradually moves out of the demonstrator phase, Oracle intends to support organizations towards operational, measurable uses. At an event held at Roland-Garros, the publisher highlighted its strategy of unifying data and cloud platforms, illustrated by several industrial and public feedbacks. There was nothing innocuous about the setting.…
Stephan Hadinger, AWS: « Agentic AI makes it possible to turn once-impossible ideas into viable business models »
Re:Invent, Amazon Web Services' (AWS) global event, confirmed the acceleration of agentic AI and the group's ambition to democratize ever more advanced computing capabilities. In France, Stephan Hadinger, Head of Technology at AWS, details this technological shift and the implications of the future European sovereign cloud, designed to meet the…
Sony Music France’s acquisition strategy in recent months
Between targeted acquisitions of heritage catalogs (Lusafrica, Africa Nostra) and equity stakes/partnerships with independent labels (Duchess, Avalon), Sony Music France is deploying a hybrid strategy aimed at internationalizing and industrializing the monetization of repertoires, while nurturing its pool of local artists and preserving creative autonomy. Sony Music maintains a local…