BRANCHEZ-VOUS! celebrates its fifth anniversary with a new Home Page and a major contest
Montréal, September 22, 2000 -- Celebrating its fifth anniversary, BRANCHEZ-VOUS!, the leading French-language Internet network in North America, as of today, features a new Home Page at: www.branchez-vous.com This Home Page - which also serves as the access page to the free Internet service offered by BRANCHEZ-VOUS! - separates news items, which will be found in its centre columns, from BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Network content and services, which are placed respectively on the left and right hand sides of the screen.BRANCHEZ-VOUS!'s Home Page really does offer the best of Internet to our users, explained François Boulet, the new Vice-President, Content and Services of BRANCHEZ-VOUS! ``It is no longer simply a site home page; it is the preferential entry point to a wide range of content and services provided by our fifteen sites. This confirms BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Network's position as the premier portal for all francophones in North America.'' On top of its own original content, BRANCHEZ-VOUS! offers a full range of contents and services in partnership with the French-language editions of The Canadian Press, Ulysses Travel Guides, The Weather Network, and Lotto-Quebec, and with the Quebec Department of Transport, La Girafe Timbrée, Parc Internet, Visicom, CommTouch, 1stUp and Odigo. To underline this event, the BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Contest, which begins today, will enable two netters to each win a BRANCHEZ-VOUS! PC - a computer specially designed for getting the most from the Internet. There are two ways of winning this contest, which can be accessed immediately from the BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Home Page. One is for you to simply register yourself on-site. The second way is to send a friend a virtual card encouraging him or her to take part in the contest. If a winner entered the contest AFTER receiving this card, then the person who sent the card also wins! The contest, which is organized in collaboration with MicroSon.com, the premier Quebec Internet retailer of computer and electronics products, and with La Girafe Timbrée, one of the major Quebec virtual card providers, will end on October 30, 2000. About BRANCHEZ-VOUS!
BRANCHEZ-VOUS! is the leading French-language Internet network in America. Currently, it includes 15 specialized sites generating in excess of 12 million page views per month. The BRANCHEZ-VOUS! site, which provides the major entry point to the network, was awarded the Prix Boomerang for the Best General Portal, in December 1999. Invention Media, the BRANCHEZ-VOUS! publishing company, also operates the advertising network Cible.Net, bringing together ten or so independent Web site publishers.
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For further information: Benoît S. Pilon, PR Communic@tions inc.,
Direct Line : (514) 457-1126, BPilon@PRCommunications.com;
Source: François Boulet, Vice-President, Content and Services, Branchez-vous!
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