{{Short description|French website devoted to news and entertainment media}} {{Infobox website | name = Puremédias | logo = Logo PureMedias 14042017.jpg | screenshot = | caption = | url = {{Official URL}} | commercial = | type = Entertainment news | language = French | registration = Optional | owner = Webedia | launch_date = December 2002 | current_status = Active }}
'''Puremédias''', formerly named '''imedias.biz''' until April 2008,<ref>{{cite web |first=Aude |last=Courtin |url=http://www.journalismes.info/imedias-biz-devient-ozap-com_a1252.html |title=imedias.biz devient ozap.com |publisher=journ@lismes.info |date=24 April 2008 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011}}</ref> and '''Ozap''' from April 2008 to January 2011, is a French website devoted to news and entertainment media.
==History== imedias.biz was created in December 2002 as a bimonthly webzine in the free hosting from Internet service provider Free.<ref name="Imedias.biz devient OZAP.COM">{{cite web |url=http://www.cyrealis.com/docs/cp_ozap_2008_04_lancement.pdf |title=Imedias.biz devient OZAP.COM |publisher=Cyréalis |format=pdf |date=29 April 2008 |page=2 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090222003105/http://www.cyrealis.com/docs/cp_ozap_2008_04_lancement.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Then in November 2004, the site turned into a media portal, including the publication of briefs (including the results of médiamétrie), articles and interviews.<ref name="Imedias.biz devient OZAP.COM"/> In September 2005, news related to films were added.<ref name="À propos">{{cite web |url=http://www.ozap.com/divers/apropos.php |title=À propos |publisher=Ozap.com |language=fr |access-date=31 January 2009}}</ref>
In September 2006 a new version was launched, including a system of files records on films, series, shows or personalities from the media universe.<ref name="À propos"/>
In September 2007, imedias.biz associated with Cyréalis and had a permanent editorial.<ref name="Imedias.biz devient OZAP.COM"/>
In April 2008, imedias.biz became Ozap.com.<ref>{{cite web |first=Julien |last=Lalande |url=http://www.ozap.com/actu/ozap-imedias-lancement/136728 |title=OZAP.com, c'est parti! |publisher=Ozap.com |date=21 April 2008 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118235203/http://www.ozap.com/actu/ozap-imedias-lancement/136728 |archive-date=18 January 2009 }}</ref> Then the website content was divided into four sections: "media", "cinema", "music" and "series". In addition to its many files records, Ozap.com also aimed to develop interactivity with its readers and new services (television programs, movie times, compare prices and pre-listening music tracks or movie trailers). In June 2010, a new version of the site was launched with more photographs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ozap.com/actu/nouveau-ozap-fonctionnalites-actu-lifting/344060 |title=Ozap dévoile sa nouvelle version! |publisher=Ozap.com |date=3 June 2010 |language=fr |access-date=3 June 2010}}</ref>
In January 2011, Ozap.com changed its name after the arrival of Webédia group in its capital and become Puremédias.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ozap.com/actu/ozap-puremedias-webedia-changement-de-nom/389376 |title=Ozap devient Puremedias |publisher=Ozap.com |date=7 January 2011 |language=fr |access-date=7 January 2011}}</ref>
==Slogans== * November 2004: « Imédias, en long. en large. en décryptage. » * 2004 - 2006 : « Imédias, toujours + de médias » * 2006 - 2008 : « Imédias, toujours plus de médias » * 2008 - Août 2009 : « Ozap par imédias » * August 2009 - June 2010 : « Ozap ils en parlent tous » * June 2010 - January 2011 : « OZAP : Buzz et Actu TV » * From January 2011 : « PureMédias by Ozap »
==Capital== Ozap.com is published by "The News Box",<ref name="À propos"/> which is 50% owned by founder journalists and 50% by Cyréalis,<ref name="Détrôné par le site Ozap">{{cite web |url=http://www.arretsurimages.net/contenu.php?id=1595 |title=Détrôné par le site Ozap, Morandini trafique les chiffres d'audience |publisher=Arrêt sur images |date=27 January 2009 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011}}</ref> which was absorbed in the spring of 2008 by M6net, a subsidiary of M6.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infos-des-medias.net/m6-web-rachte-le-groupe-cyrealis-ozapcom-jeuxvideofr.php |title=M6 Web rachète le groupe Cyrealis, Ozap.com, Jeuxvideo.fr |publisher=infos-des-medias.net |date=2 May 2008 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724094226/http://www.infos-des-medias.net/m6-web-rachte-le-groupe-cyrealis-ozapcom-jeuxvideofr.php |archive-date=24 July 2011 }}</ref>
In December 2010, "through a mutual agreement" between the founders of the site and M6, the group Web"dia, editor of the PuprePeople site, replaced M6net as owner of the site.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ozap.com/actu/changement-actionnariat-ozap-m6-capital-webedia/386788 |title=Changement dans l'actionnariat d'Ozap.com |publisher=Ozap.com |date=21 December 2010 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011}}</ref>
==Competition== Ozap.com is the main competitor of jeanmarcmorandini.com, a blog by French TV and radio host Jean-Marc Morandini also specialized in media information.<ref>{{cite web |first=Augustin |last=Scalbert |url=http://www.rue89.com/2008/03/12/morandini-susceptible-avec-son-principal-concurrent |title=Morandini susceptible... avec son principal concurrent |publisher=Rue 89 |date=12 March 2008 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011}}</ref>
In April 2008, Jean-Marc Morandini accused the site of bias as it was part of Cyréalis, which was then bought by M6, itself owned by RTL Group which also owns the station RTL, the main competitor of Europe 1, for which he worked.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-14900-m6-entre-dans-le-capital-d-un-site-d-infos-sur-les-medias.html |title=M6 entre dans le capital d'un site d'infos sur les médias |publisher=Jean-Marc Morandini |date=30 April 2008 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011}}</ref>
In January 2009, Ozap.com said it attracted 909,000 visitors in November 2008 according to Médiamétrie/Nielsen Company,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ozap.com/actu/chiffre-jour-audience-ozap-909-000-visiteurs/249848 |title=Le chiffre du jour: 909.000 |publisher=Ozap.com |date=8 January 2008 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807190842/http://www.ozap.com/actu/chiffre-jour-audience-ozap-909-000-visiteurs/249848 |archive-date=7 August 2011 }}</ref> which ranking the site behind Programme-tv.net and Programme.tv and before Jean-Marc Morandini's blog. Citing "errors" although other media have confirmed this information,<ref>{{cite journal |first=C. |last=C. |url=http://www.voici.fr/potins-people/les-potins-du-jour/jean-marc-morandini-guerre-des-communiques-267654 |title=Jean-Marc Morandini: guerre des communiqués - Problèmes de chiffres |journal=Voici |date=9 January 2009 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216220916/http://www.voici.fr/potins-people/les-potins-du-jour/jean-marc-morandini-guerre-des-communiques-267654 |archive-date=16 February 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tele-news.org/article-26652913-6.html |title=La guerre continue entre Ozap.com et Jean-Marc Morandini |publisher=tele-news.org |date=11 January 2009 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323111108/http://www.tele-news.org/article-26652913-6.html |archive-date=23 March 2012 }}</ref> Jean-Marc Morandini claimed that his site continues to be "the first media blog in France".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jeanmarcmorandini.tele7.fr/article-22475-jeanmarcmorandini-reste-le-1er-blog-media-de-france.html |title=jeanmarcmorandini reste le 1er blog media de France |publisher=Jean-Marc Morandini |date=9 January 2009 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420085029/http://jeanmarcmorandini.tele7.fr/article-22475-jeanmarcmorandini-reste-le-1er-blog-media-de-france.html |archive-date=20 April 2009 }}</ref> Médiamétrie specified that Morandini "mixed [...] figures that can't be compared",<ref name="Détrôné par le site Ozap"/> using in his favour two numbers calculated by different methods.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lepost.fr/article/2009/01/22/1395929_morandini-est-dechu.html |title=Morandini est déchu |publisher=Le Post |date=22 January 2008 |language=fr |access-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130030409/http://www.lepost.fr/article/2009/01/22/1395929_morandini-est-dechu.html |archive-date=30 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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