Press

Press Coverage

Read the latest coverage in the press here.

29 September 2009

Toronto Star:

"Fashion and intrigue...and it's mobile"

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29 September 2009

iPhone Hacks:

"Indie Movie Releases Via iPhone App - Is This The Future?"

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29 September 2009

O Globo:

"Trailer do curta 'Rage' mostra Jude Law interpretando um travesti"

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29 September 2009

The Huffington Post:

"Interview with Sally Potter, Director of Rage"

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29 September 2009

Cineman:

"Movie distributed via cell phone"

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29 September 2009

USA Today online:

"Sally Potter's 'Rage': Watch the film online this week"

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28 September 2009

Entertainment Weekly:

"Jude Law in drag and other fashion fun from Sally Potter"

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28 September 2009

ReadWriteWeb:

"A New Venue for Indie Films: Your iPhone"

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28 September 2009

Daily Online:

"Кинопремьера на мобильном телефоне ('Film premieres on mobile')"

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28 September 2009

Sole 24 Ore online:

"Rage: e Babelgum esordisce nel lungometraggio"

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28 September 2009

MSN (UK edition):

"Rage becomes first 'mobile phone' movie"

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28 September 2009

TechRadar:

"Rage becomes first 'mobile phone' movie"

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27 September 2009

TrustMovies:

"Sally Potter's RAGE opens all around us -- and TM gets a private Q&A w/filmmaker"

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24 September 2009

Hosokinema.com:

"Interview with sally Potter"

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24 September 2009

Paste Magazine:

"Jude Law, Steve Buscemi and Eddie Izzard: On Your Phone for Free"

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24 September 2009

PEOPLE.com:

"Who's That Girl? It's Jude Law - in Drag!"

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24 September 2009

Channel 4 News:

"'Rage' premieres on mobile phones"

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23 September 2009

Gaydarnation.com :

"Sally Potter"

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23 September 2009

FILM NEWS BRIEF:

"FNB Innovators: Sally Potter"

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23 September 2009

CBS:

"Movies go mobile"

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23 September 2009

Montages:

"Spillefilm pa mobil – hva er Sally Potters Rage?"

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22 September 2009

Style.com:

"Anger Management "

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22 September 2009

Sundance Channel:

"RAGE premiere"

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22 September 2009

PerezHilton.com:

"Jude Law Is Coming To Your Cell Phone"

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22 September 2009

Thefader.com:

"Sally Potter's Rage Goes Live, Jude Law in Drag"

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22 September 2009

IFC.com:

"All the Rage"

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22 September 2009

ELLE News Blogs:

"Jude Law's Latest Film is All the Rage"

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22 September 2009

Corriere.it:

"Rage, il film debutta su telefonino"

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21 September 2009

Pagina 12:

"Sally Potter estrena en los celulares"

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21 September 2009

Wired online (UK edition):

"Rage against the multimedia future"

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21 September 2009

Mobilized TV:

"RAGE: First Made-for-Mobile Feature Debuts Today"

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21 September 2009

The Wall Street Journal:

"Rage Director Sally Potter on Movies, Mobile Content and World of Fashion"

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19 September 2009

The Times (UK):

"Sally Potter explains why her new film will go direct to our mobile phones. Please switch on your phones, the film is about to start"

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18 September 2009

Netribution:

"Sally Potter: The beginning of a new way of looking at film"

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18 September 2009

Repubblica.it:

"La rabbia di Sally Potter "Faccio un cinema semplice"

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17 September 2009

Independent (UK):

"Lily Cole: The catwalk queen who conquered Hollywood"

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14 September 2009

Folha de S. Paulo:

"TV pela internet mostra arte urbana no mundo"

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14 September 2009

New York Times:

"A Movie Reveals a Lot by Eliminating the Fashion"

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11 September 2009

The Independent:

"Rage: Are you ready for their close-ups?"

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5 September 2009

The Independent Magazine:

"Cold comfort: Can the man who gives away free ice creams turn his frozen assets into a working business?"

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3 September 2009

The Apple Blog:

"Movie Set to Premiere on iPhone and iPod Touch"

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3 September 2009

Ad Week:

"Film Set for Mobile Phone Premiere"

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2 September 2009

Hollywood Reporter:

"Film to premiere via mobile phone"

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2 September 2009

Screen:

"Babelgum releases Rage in pioneering mobile launch"

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2 September 2009

Variety:

"'Rage' to receive new-media premiere"

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2 September 2009

Reuters :

"Potter's film "Rage" to premiere via mobile phone"

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2 September 2009

New York Times:

"Indie Films, Children's Books Coming to iPhone"

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2 September 2009

IndieWIRE:

"Babelgum and Liberation Set Plan For Potter's 'Rage'"

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13 May 2009

Yuppy:

"9 site-uri unde poti vedea filme, absolut gratuit! (Nine websites to watch movies on, absolutely free of charge)"

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12 May 2009

Tree Hugger:

"The "Extinction Sucks" series and Other Ecological Films : TreeHugger"

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12 May 2009

Screen:

"Rage to receive multi-territory online and mobile release"

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11 May 2009

indieWIRE:

"Potter’s “Rage” Finds Unique Home"

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11 May 2009

The Hollywood Reporter:

"Babelgum attracting original productions"

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8 May 2009

WalletPop:

"Best sites online to watch movies for free"

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7 May 2009

Il Sole 24 Ore (Nova):

"Babelgum all'italiana (Italian style for Babelgum)""

5 May 2009

IGN.com UK:

"Bananaz online"

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30 April 2009

Repubblica.it:

"Cinema online in gara al Babelgum Due siciliani premiati da Spike Lee (Films compete online on Babelgum - 2 Sicilians awarded by Spike Lee)"

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30 April 2009

IlSole24Ore.com:

"Spike Lee annuncia i vincitori del Babelgum On Line Film Festival: tre premi all'Italia (Spike Lee announces winners of the Babelgum Online Film Festival: 3 awards for Italy)"

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28 April 2009

Variety:

"Sperandeo nabs Babelgum prizes"

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28 April 2009

Screen:

"Babelgum's second online film festival presents $130,000 in prize"

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27 April 2009

Mediapost:

"Babelgum Targets US Audience With Flash Player"

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24 April 2009

The Independent:

"Gorillaz tale makes tracks online"

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20 April 2009

Wired:

"The Linguists Battles Language Extinction on Web"

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20 April 2009

Pitchfork:

"Gorillaz: Bananaz"

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19 April 2009

New York Times (NYTimes.com):

"Italians Look to Small Screen"

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16 April 2009

Wired:

"Win Gorillaz Prize Pack and Go Bananaz"

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1 April 2009

Screen:

"Babelgum takes on Downstream and The Linguists"

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1 April 2009

Tree Hugger:

"Tar Sands Documentary Causes "Big Stink" in Alberta: Now Online"

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30 March 2009

Music Week:

"Bananaz on the menu at launch of online platform"

30 March 2009

The Guardian:

"Damon Albarn's studio tricks revealed"

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30 March 2009

Entertainment Weekly:

"The Gorillaz' 'Bananaz' documentary: An exclusive preview"

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28 March 2009

New York Times:

"Goodnight Burbank Spins Off to Babelgum"

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24 March 2009

USA Today:

"New Gorillaz doc will premiere online"

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24 March 2009

Screen:

"Babelgum offers mobile video application to US users"

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23 March 2009

Pocket-lint:

"Babelgum updates mobile video app and launches in US"

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23 March 2009

indieWire:

"Babelgum Relaunches; Cinetic Offers 'Hamilton'"

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23 March 2009

The Hollywood Reporter:

"'Bananaz' goes online with Babelgum"

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23 March 2009

PaidContent :

"Babelgum Rejigs Again, Takes Mobile App To US"

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20 March 2009

International Herald Tribune:

"Babelgum bids to break into US mobile video market"

18 February 2009

Filmmaker Magazine:

"Gondry and Ford announce winners of first Babelgum Music Video Awards"

15 February 2009

Repubblica.it:

"Spike Lee nella giuria del Babelgum. Il cinema cerca nuovi talenti in Rete (Spike Lee on the Babelgum jury. The film industry seeks new talent on the web)"

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9 February 2009

Screen:

"Babelgum gets 24 from Content Republic"

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2 February 2009

The Hollywood reporter:

"Babelgum online film festival boots up"

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26 January 2009

Repubblica (Affari & Finanza)

"Babelgum, la tv mobile è pronta per l'America (Babelgum, mobile TV is ready for the US)"

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15 January 2009

Electricpig

"Vodafone users get free babelgum mobile video trial"

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13 January 2009

Pocket-Lint

"Babelgum Mobile launches on Vodafone Live!"

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13 January 2009

MacWorld

"Vodafone mobile phone users promised six months of free Internet TV"

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13 January 2009

PC Advisor

"Vodafone users get free trial of internet TV"

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11 December 2008

Sole 24 Ore

"Babelgum presenta l’Internet TV gratuita (Babelgum presents free Internet TV)"

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10 December 2008

International Herald Tribune

"Babelgum launches free video to mobile"

10 December 2008

paidContent

"Babelgum To Do Over-The-Air Mobile VOD; Vodafone Partners For iPhone, Nokia"

18 October 2008

The Mystic Geek

"Weekend Fun Watch Online Videos With Babelgum"

18 October 2008

The Wall Street Journal Europe

"Coming to a small screen"

23 October 2008

International Herald Tribune

"Babelgum launches online music video award"

15 October 2008

Variety

"Babelgum chews over extinction "

5 October 2008

Screen

"Martesko-Fenster joins Babelgum as GM, publisher of film division"

19 September 2008

The Hollywood Reporter

"Babelgum, Spike Lee renew digital film fest"

7 September 2008

Variety

"Spike Lee launches Babelgum Online Film Festival 2"

31 July 2008

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Keiner glaubt es, aber alle wollen dabeisein (No one believes in it but everyone wants a piece of it)"

28 July 2008

C21 Media

"Babelgum Brings In New Indie Films"

18 July 2008

PaidContent.org's Contentsutra

"Babelgum launches new Bollywood channel with WEG India Pictures"

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16 July 2008

International Herald Tribune

"Babelgum web TV poised for US expansion, seeks greater content, more advertisers"

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10 July 2008

World Screen

"BBC Worldwide in Global Deal with Babelgum"

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03 June 2008

Corriere della Sera

"Telefono e Internet. Arriva la nuova tv (Internet and Phone: Here comes the new TV)"

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22 May 2008

MSNBC

"Spike Lee champions online films"

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21 May 2008

Le film Français

"Spike Lee remet les prix Babelgum. (Spike Lee hands out Babelgum awards)"

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20 May 2008

Screen

 

"Babelgum gives $187,500 to six first online fest winners"

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21 May 2008

The New York Times

 

"Spike Lee at online film festival"

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21 May 2008

Yahoo!

 

"Spike Lee at online film festival"

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21 May 2008

MSN

 

"Spike Lee at online film festival "

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21 May 2008

ABC

 

"Spike Lee at online film festival"

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21 May 2008

Il Sole 24 ore

 

"Babelgum, paradiso del nuovo cinema (Babelgum: The new film-making heaven)"

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21 May 2008

AOL

 

"Spike Lee at online film festival"

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20 May 2008

The Hollywood Reporter

 

"Italian director wins main Babelgum award"

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16 May 2008

Rotten Tomatoes

 

"Cannes 2008 Exclusive: Michel Gondry Joins Babelgum Jury"

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04 May 2008

South China Morning Post Magazine

"It’s a small world"

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2 May 2008

The Guardian

 

"The web heralds a new era in film-making"

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27 March 2008

The Irish Independent

"World's first online film festival goes live"

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20 March 2008

Il Sole 24 Ore (Nova)

"Con Spike Lee il cinema riparte dal web (With Spike Lee, cinema starts from the web)"

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10 March 2008

Repubblica (Affari & Finanza)

"La sfida di Babelgum Internet diventa la tv. (Babelgum’s challenge is the TV)"

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10 March 2008

International Herald Tribune

"Prime time on the web"

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10 March 2008

Silicon Republic

"World's first online film festival goes live"

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5 March 2008

Folha de S. Paulo

"Cineasta Spike Lee é júri em festival de filmes na internet (Cineaste Spike Lee to judge film festival on the web)"

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5 March 2008

Repubblica

"Girate film solo per Internet ho capito che il futuro è sul web (Make films for the Internet: the web is the future)"

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13 February 2008

The Hollywood Reporter

"Babelgum sticks online"

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15 November 2007

L'Espresso

"Si accende Babelgum (Babelgum is 'on fire') "

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15 September 2007

La Repubblica

"Spike Lee: Il cinema via Internet è aperto anche agli studenti (Spike Lee: online cinema opens to students)"

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10 September 2007

La Stampa

"Il Festival di Spike Lee scopre talenti da lanciare sul web (Spike Lee champions talent on the web)"

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05 September 2007

C21 Media

"Babelgum courts factual indies"

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04 September 2007

Business Week

"Spike Lee on Internet TV's Reach"

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04 September 2007

The Guardian

"Spike Lee launches online film festival"

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03 September 2007

The Hindu

"Spike Lee will head jury of Babelgum Online Film Festival"

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03 September 2007

Variety

"Spike Lee backs online film fest"

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01 September 2007

El Pais

"Spike Lee presenta en la Mostra un festival de cine en internet (Spike Lee present the online film festival at Cannes) "

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02 August 2007

New Media Age

"Indipendent streak"

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24 July 2007

Business 2.0

"It's a Web, Web, Web 2.0 world"

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5 July 2007

San Francisco Chronicle

"Besides Joost, there's Babelgum"

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13 June 2007

Les Echos

"Babelgum fait le pari de la télévision à la demande (Babelgum places its bets on TV on demand)"

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12 June 2007

PaidContent.org

"Interview: Silvio Scaglia, Founder, Babelgum"

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11 June 2007

Business Week

"Babelgum's Big Bet on Internet TV"

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09 May 2007

CNN Money

"Spike Lee, Italian billionaire take on YouTube"

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17 April 2007

Variety

"Spike Lee touts Babelgum at Mip"

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26 March 2007

Red Herring

"Battle of the Billionaires"

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06 March 2007

Forbes

"Scaglia Set to Launch Free Internet TV"

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08 March 2007

Il Sole 24 Ore

"Babelgum cerca il business (Babelgum is looking for business)"

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05 March 2007

The Irish Time

"Internet TV firm to locate global HQ in Dublin"

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04 March 2007

International Herald Tribune

"FastWeb founder turns his attention to Internet television and video-on-demand"

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02 March 2007

The Times

"Multimillion backing for the latest bright idea in online video"

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02 March 2007

Broadcast

"Babelgum in studio talks over content"

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17 January 2007

NewTeeVee

"Hey Joost, Have Some Babelgum "

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15 January 2007

Financial Times

"Supplying more air for online TV's bubble"

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Press Releases

To keep up to date with what's going on in Babelgum, read the latest press releases.

3 December 2009

Babelgum Present Razorlight In 'Rock And Roll Lies'

25 November 2009

Babelgum Releases Exclusive Cmj Music Festival Footage from Hype Machine, Green Owl, Terrible Records and the Iamsound Showcase

17 November 2009

Babelgum Partners With Ringtales to Exclusively Premiere New Dilbert and New Yorker Animated Series

12 November 2009

Warp and Babelgum Present "Nyc", a 30-Minute Film Featuring Live Performances from Battles, Jamie Lidell, Flying Lotus, Clark & More

11 November 2009

Babelgum and Vice Present Vice Versus

4 November 2009

Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize Attracts over 450 Video Entries

26 October 2009

Babelgum Launches New Exclusive Sci-Fi/Horror Block on Its Web and Mobile Comedy Channels

22 October 2009

"The Yes Men" Get Exclusive Broadband Channel On Babelgum

22 October 2009

Weezer - Global Video Exclusive On Babelgum Web And Mobile

19 October 2009

Metacafe and Babelgum Partner to Deliver On-The-Go Video Entertainment

14 October 2009

Scope Art Fair/Perpetual Art Machineʼs Lee Wells Joins Judging Panel for Babelgum Metropolis Art Prizes

13 October 2009

Season Two of Sci-Fi Comedy "the Crew" Launches Today on Babelgum

7 October 2009

"Radar" Season Two Premieres October 28, 2009 on Babelgum

6 October 2009

Babelgum Sponsors the Golden Starfish Competition and Powers Online and Mobile Video at the Hamptons International Film Festival

5 October 2009

Editors Live in London – Exclusive

30 September 2009

"Dirty Oil" world premiere at Hamptons International Film Festival

30 September 2009

Road Trippin With Ice Cream Man

24 September 2009

Merge Records to Feature Exclusively on Babelgum

16 September 2009

Mew Special Premieres Exclusively on Babelgum Web and Mobile

15 September 2009

Critically Acclaimed Graffiti Art Documentary Bomb It Launches on Babelgum

2 September 2009

Sally Potter's Rage To Premiere On Mobile Devices Via Babelgum

2 September 2009

Babelgum Launches Art Video Competition

18 August 2009

Exclusive Competition To Win Artic Monkeys Tickets

31 July 2009

Babelgum Launches Coldplay Customized Mobile Application Today

30 July 2009

Babelgum Brings Funny or Die to Mobile

30 July 2009

Babelgum to Air Exclusive Live Films from Warp20 Events, Featuring Warp Records Artists & Produced by Multi-Bafta Winning Warp Films

23 July 2009

Babelgum and Good Announce Global Brainstorm to Save the World

23 July 2009

Arctic Monkeys New Video Premieres Exclusively on Babelgum

14 July 2009

Global Premiere of New Coldplay Video Strawberry Swing Launches July 20Th on Babelgum Web and Mobile

2 July 2009

Award Winning Entertainment News Series Your Geek News Launches on Babelgum Mobile and Web Platforms

1 July 2009

Peter Doherty Unveils His New Video and Unique Performance Footage Exclusively on Babelgum

25 June 2009

Babelgum Launches New Us Music Series Road Trippinʼ With Ice Cream Man

22 June 2009

Babelgum Goes on the Road With the Prodigy

19 June 2009

Award-Winning Comedy Series Turbo Dates and Soap Opera Parody Horrible People Premiere on Babelgumʼs Comedy Channel

8 June 2009

Babelgum partners with producers of The End of The Line to present worldwide mobile & web exclusive series based on feature documentary

12 May 2009

Babelgum Partners With Cinetic Rights Management to Present Sally Potterʼs Rage

6 May 2009

Babelgum Partners With Urban Screen to Premiere Its Films on the Media-Facade in Piazza Duomo, Milan

27 April 2009

2nd Babelgum Online Film Festival Winners Announced

27 April 2009

Stolichnaya Vodka becomes Babelgumʼs first launch sponsor

9 April 2009

2nd Babelgum Online Film Festival closes Audience Voting

30 March 2009

First online wildlife TV series "Extinction Sucks" premieres on Babelgum web and mobile

30 March 2009

Babelgum expands Comedy Channel with critically acclaimed comedy series

26 March 2009

Controversial Oil Sands documentary "Downstream" by Oscar® nominated director Leslie Iwerks premieres on Babelgum web and mobile

25 March 2009

Babelgum partners with WBP labs, a division of the Workbook Project, to present the original weekly 3 minute made-for-mobile video series, "Radar"

23 March 2009

Babelgum launches first, global online premiere "Bananaz" about virtual cartoon band Gorillaz

23 March 2009

Babelgum launches in the United States with an integrated digital TV platform for mobile and web

17 February 2009

Award-Winning Director Michel Gondry and Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter David Ford Announce Winners of "Babelgum Music Video Awards" Launched in Partnership With Music Nation

09 February 2009

Babelgum Partners With Content Republic to Present 24 Independent Film Classics As Online Exclusives

02 February 2009

2nd Babelgum Online Film Festival Kicks off With Pioneering Cross-Platform Web and Mobile Viewing and Voting

12 January 2009

Babelgum launches with Vodafone UK a "free tv" service for 3g mobile phones

10 December 2008

Babelgum and Vodafone italia present the first "no pay-tv" for mobile phones

22 October 2008

"BABELGUM MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS"TM launched in partnership with Music Nation, with Michel Gondry heading the jury.

14 October 2008

Babelgum partners with off the fence and WWF to produce second film from its digital studio initiative.

6 October 2008

"indieWIRE co-founder Karol Martesko-Fenster joins Babelgum as General Manager & Publisher of the company's Film Division

5 September 2008

Spike Lee launches 2nd edition of the Babelgum online film festival.

18 July 2008

Babelgum to offer largest free to view collection of Bollywood films online.

16 July 2008

Babelgum establishes us presence.

10 July 2008

BBC worldwide and Babelgum sign global content deal.

20 May 2008

Babelgum Online Film Festival winners announced.

16 May 2008

Michel Gondry Joins Babelgum Online Film Festival

1 May 2008

Seattle International Film Festival Signs Up With Babelgum

29 April 2008

Babelgum Strikes Worldwide Content Deal With PBS

16 April 2008

Babelgum Announces Three New Content Deals for Over 160 Hours of Programming

7 April 2008

Babelgum commissions first film from its digital studio initiative

31 March 2008

Babelgum and Paranormal TV go bump in the night

26 March 2008

Toseland and Babelgum join forces

20 March 2008

Three new content channels from leading film festivals available on Babelgum

11 March 2008

Babelgum Online Film Festival Content Launch

11 March 2008

Babelgum Launches New TV Platform

29 January 2008

Babelgum sees web revamp - Babelgum accelerates interactivity and improves usability withrelaunch

29 November 2007

New channel offering comprehensive highlights of Serie A kicks off with mouthwatering games betweenInter and Juventus v AC Milan

29 November 2007

Film-lovers given opportunity to view the work of some of this year's award-winning directors

20 November 2007

Babelgum launches dedicated Encounters channel on platform

14 November 2007

Babelgum Online Film Festival - Now open for submission

9 November 2007

Multiple upload function now available

1 November 2007

Babelgum partners with Leading Short Film Festival Encounters

30 October 2007

Babelgum Turns to CacheLogic for Web TV Streaming

9 October 2007

Babelgum and Ministry of Sound Bring Dance Music to the Masses

8 October 2007

Babelgum introduces free direct upload facility to professional content producers and rights owners

4 September 2007

Babelgum to launch major Online Film Festival - Spike Lee named honorary judge of the festival

19 July 2007

Babelgum and Off The Fence strike deal for 200 hours of non-fiction programming

12 July 2007

Babelgum Giffoni Film Festival

5 July 2007

Babelgum Announces Partnership With GONG

27 June 2007

Valerio Zingarelli appointed CEO of Babelgum

13 June 2007

Babelgum Announces Deals With 25 Independent Content Partners

13 June 2007

Soho Shorts Premiers on Babelgum

12 June 2007

Babelgum Kicks Off A Season Of Festival Broadcasts

8 June 2007

Babelgum Delivers Niche Programming to the World New Beta Opens to the Public

5 June 2007

Babelgum And Ministry Of Sound Going To Ibiza

4 May 2007

3DD Goes Global With Babelgum

18 April 2007

Babelgum MIPTV

7 March 2007

Babelgum Launch Press Release