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The most popular francophone video-sharing destination, Daily Motion, recently struck a deal with the leading French TV station TF1. DM has developed a Web site for TF1 called

Wat.tv where users can post and view videos. TF1 are following in the footsteps of another French TV station M6 who have launched Wideo with the help of Kewego. Although TF1 are going one step further in smudging the dividing line between TV & the Net.

Since November the 17th, the best clips from Wat TV are being broadcast on a national TV show called Watcast, every Friday night

Company co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Benjamin Bejbaum says it’s only the first of several planned partnerships with traditional French media.

November saw the birth of yet another. Nine months in preparation and a private beta testing period later, Vpod.tv was was up and running on the 14th.

“Vpod.tv allows companies or individuals to quickly set up their own Net broadcasting channels”.

They are offering up a free service with unlimited space for videos and a 50% share of add-generated revenues (early 2007). Along with a premium, bigger file sizes (+ 600MB) & no adds, service.

source JDN & JDN