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The Hottest 100 mediatech companies in Europe

Boris Written on 16th November 2008                                                                                                              3 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

The Hottest 100 mediatech companies in EuropeLibrary House, a Cambridge based research firm, just published The Mediatech 100. It is a list with the 100 hottest private media technology companies from Europe. These companies were selected after extensive research by an expert advisory panel of 20 most prominent mediatech investors and experts in Europe. 

This is their top 10:

1. Flirtomatic United Kingdom
A fast-paced messaging platform, entertainment and dating.

2. MOO Print United Kingdom
MOO Print is a printing company, producing a variety of printed products (cards, stickers etc) based on users’ photograps.

3. Where Are You Now? United Kingdom
Where Are You Now (WAYN) is a social networking community which emphasises the formation of contacts between travellers around the world.

4. Dailymotion France
DailyMotion is a destination website hosting user-generated videos.

5. King.com United Kingdom
Midasplayer.com Ltd runs the King.com website, a successful casual gaming site where players compete against opponents from around the world.

6. Sulake Finland
A free-to-use, browser-based virtual world in which players customise an avatar character and its room in a virtual hotel.

7. Playfish United Kingdom
Playfish develops and publishes games for integration into social networks.

8. Blyk Finland
Blyk is an advert-funded mobile telecoms network for 16-24 year olds.

9. Plastic Logic United Kingdom
Plastic Logic has developed a low-power, flexible display, initially for use in the company’s portable document reader.

10. Stardoll Sweden
Stardoll is an online community website and browser game aimed at people aged 9-17 who are interested in fashion.
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3 comments/trackbacks to “The Hottest 100 mediatech companies in Europe”

  1. Nov 17, 2008: The state of innovation in Europe — Vad NU!

    [...] in Europe? What are the coolest privately held tech companies? Library House just published The Mediatech 100 list, which The Next Web quotes. And looking at the list I think there are some things worth looking at from an innovation [...]

  2. By Simone Brummelhuis on Nov 16, 2008

    And the women involved are mentioned here:
    http://thenextwomen.com/2008/1.....in-europe/

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  3. By Peter Evers on Nov 17, 2008

    It’s really interesting Flirtomatic. The latest Direct2Mobile research (which uses tracking technology) shows that Flirtomatic is the biggest offportal mobile website. Yes. So bigger than Facebook, bigger than MySpace, bigger than Google, bigger than Yahoo and bigger than MSN. Unbelievable. A whopping 142 million page impressions p/m!

    I spoke to a mobile content portal owner the other day. He told me something quite interesting: Every medium has it’s own brands. Throughout the history this has been proved time and time again. When tv came around, people thought Paramount (big in cinema) was going te be big on tv. When internet came into play people thought all the big tv channels we’re going to be big on internet. Now mobile comes around a lot of people seem to think the big internet brands are going to be big on mobile as well. Truth is that every medium has different strenghts and weaknesses and is used for different needs. So good internet content, would probably be bad mobile content and a good internet service will probably not be very good as a mobile service. I think this partly explains Flirtomatic’s success.

    Sorry, went a bit off topic there. I’ll write a post some day :)

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