Kewego

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Kewego
Type Private
Founded 2003
Headquarters Flag of France Paris, France
Key people Michel Meyer, Co-founder
Olivier Heckmann, Co-founder
Industry Internet video sharing
Owner Kewego SA
Employees 40 (2007)
Website www.kewego.com
multilingual[1]

Kewego is a video platform provider website. The company is based in Paris, France. Kewego operates over 140 video platforms for a range of clients in sectors such as TV Broadcast, Newspaper and Magazine publishing and Web Sites. Clients include well-known brands such as Orange, Ebay, Lycos, M6, and L'Equipe. Kewego also operates its own branded video sharing sites such as www.kewego.com, www.kewego.co.uk, www.kewego.fr and so on.

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[edit] Background

Kewego was founded by Michael Meyer and Olivier Heckmann, two well known French entrepreneurs. They founded Multimania in 1995, which they subsequently floated on the French New Market at the Paris bourse in March 2000. It was subsequently sold to Lycos for 220m Euros. Meyer and Heckmann then founded PulseVision in 2003, which was renamed Kewego in 2006. As Kewego the company operates white labelled video portals for its clients.

[edit] Features of the platform

The Kewego video platform is a white label video hosting platform. Kewego provides all software, hardware and bandwidth necessary to operate a video portal. Videos are converted to Flash Video format and the platform is provided with a branded Flash Video Player.

The Kewego platform is highly optimized for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Videos hosted on the Kewego platform often feature high is search engine results.

Kewego also offers a viral video placement / seeding service.

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