Lycos launches free video portal

Lycos has launched Lycos TV, a free online video portal. Lycos TV will offer film, music and TV content to users as well as news and sports reports. Lycos has also teamed up with content provider Roo and will make Roo's entire back catalogue available to users. Roo will additonally provide Lycos with its video streaming tools. Lycos plans to add its own original video content soon after the launch and will also be adding user-generated content in the future. “Our users demand an enriched web experience and moving to a comprehensive online video content service was the obvious place to start," said Jeffrey Lee, managing director of Lycos UK. “Roo’s technology meant that we could get a video portal up and running with a huge amount of video content available to users from the word go. However, it also provides us with a platform that we can use to add content from other partners, our own Lycos UK-generated content and which we will use as a platform for content generated by our community of users over time,” he continued. Robert Petty, chief executive of Roo said: “With the increasing importance of offering streaming video to keep audiences engaged, we are pleased to be given the opportunity to work with the Lycos brand.” http://www.lycos.co.uk/lycosvideo/ http://www.rootv.com/

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