AOL People launches Bebo across Europe

AOL People Networks has launched Bebo across a series of key European territories, and opened its doors to established and emerging media brands AlloCiné, Clipfish, Telecom Italia owned Yalp!, Diagonal View and Preview Networks' Filmtrailer.

To increase viral marketing opportunities for media owners and publishers, Bebo has created a 'Share on Bebo' button for publisher sites, making it simple to implement and creating a two-way conversation between the publisher and Bebo platform.

Bebo enables users to connect with friends and other users who share common interest and similar tastes. Through the Open Media platform and the Lifestream, they can discover and share the media they love wherever it lives. With the new international expansion, the social network is adding several channels of premium entertainment content from major local and global entertainment brands and emerging media companies.

Bebo's Lifestream platform affords users a simple way to connect and keep up with everyone and everything they care about irrespective of which medium they use or where the activity takes place, be it on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace or elsewhere.

When users share their favourite media content, a status update appears in the user's  'sayings' and in their 'Lifestream,' virally spreading the news to his or her entire network and driving traffic back to the media owner or publisher.

Translated in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, Bebo has been streadily pushing its presence in these countrries, expanding globally to add to its 22 million unique visitors spread across the UK, the US, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Poland.