Email: Vincent X. ROGER,
Mob : +33 (0)6 64 76 54 55 VP Business Development
Mobibase, is a reference catalogue in Europe of images (photographs and illustrations, still and animated) dedicated to mobile telephone services in white label. Mobibase supplies images to all mobile service providers wishing to get the best content to sustain the development of their offer.
Mobibase focuses on high quality positionning distributing renown world-class agencies, photographers and illustrators. Mobibase clears the rights and manages technical integration on mobile business of their work.
As an example of the portfolio: Mobibase represents under exlusive agreements photograph agencies like Sipa Press (news), Abaca Press (celebrities), Stock Image (illustration), Panoramic (Sports), Roger Viollet (B&W classics), Ada Press (Horce Racing), etc.
As photographers, Mobibase is proud to distribute the work of Uwe Ommer (world, ethnics), Eric Neveu (erotics), Marc Robin (erotics, fashion), Serge Jacques (erotics), Christian Martin (cars), Joel Peyrou (cars), Eric Planchard (pets), Philipp Plisson (the sea) , etc.
Mobibase is an access to millions of pictures, but a carefull selection of 25.000 successful images for mobile services.
The offer is divided into three lines of products:
- Stock images: all pictures on all thematics (People, Sports, Nature, Fashion, cars, Glamour/eroctics, etc)
- Value Added Content (building up services under specific brands)
- News (push services to receive 1, 3, 5 images of a specific event like the Film Awards, concert, soccer games, etc).
Dozen of companies are customers of Mobibase around the world. They are devided into three groups: mobile telecom operators, mobile service providers and mobile game providers. Since the start of its activity, Mobibase enjoys an average growth of 30% per month of its turnover.
Mobibase was created in 2002 and is located in Paris. Vincent X. ROGER (VP in charge of Business Development) and Laurent SARVER (CEO) are the two founders and main shareholders of Mobibase. Laurent SARVER was the founder and CEO of CPIO/CREANET specialised in audiotel and web services.
BACKGROUND
Before starting up Mobibase, Vincent was in charge of Telecom project at KPMG Peat Marwick/CSC Telecom Practice in France. For three years, he went through a numbers of missions in strategic marketing, operationnal marketing, and business-re-engineering for major European operators.
Prior to KPMG, Vincent spent six years in Japan. In particular, he was the Business Development Director of SBA Licensing in Tokyo sharing his time between the development of license business in East Asia for western customers and the launch of new activities in the region.
Vincent is graduated from Engineering at Ecole Supérieur des Sciences et Technologie de Nancy (ESSTIN) and spent 2 years at Strathclyde University in Glasgow (UK).
He has been a co-founder of different companies in multimedia and has received different Prices for studies on Japan and on small businesses.
Vincent is the author with S. Dubreuil of the reference handbook, The Marketing of Mobile Multimedia, Editions d’Organisation, Paris, 2003.
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Update Sept. 2003