The Global Media Business Weekly

French streamer Molotov for sale

Broadcast-streaming. Paris-based Molotov, which offers 34 channels of free live streams, is looking for an acquiror. It has raised $34m from Sky and others since its launch in 2015. Molotov was founded by serial media entrepreneurs Jean David Blanc, Pierre Lescure and Jean Marc Denoual. There is rumoured to be interest from French telecom giant Orange. Molotov.tv claims it has 2m regular viewers, of which 500k use the platform “almost daily”. Some 4.1m registered users are said to have used the service at least five times. A strong cocktail.

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