mocoNews notes that Vivendi (owner of Universal Music Group and World of Warcraft publisher Vivendi Games), is planning to launch a new ‘multimedia website’ with downloadable (paid-for) content for your mobile. Apparently the site may incorporate a social aspect, as it is intended to in some way rival MySpace and YouTube (uh huh). Selling movies, TV shows, games and music, it would launch first in France before hitting the rest of Europe.
Vivendi certainly has the content-muscle to do something like this, with UMG controlling 26% of the world’s physical music market (let’s get physical, physical), its large back-catalogue of gaming franchises, and a recently launched mobile gaming division. It also has the Canal+ TV group which includes the StudioCanal movie studio that’s been involved with several hits, including Basic Instinct and The Pianist.
So pulling together all that content into a single portal would certainly make for a powerful proposition… But actually getting it off the ground will be something else all together.
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