I used to imagine that celeb websites were all the same—until I visited ActuPeople.fr. The difference is that while it is about celebrities, it’s also much more than that, covering a broad cross-section of what’s happening in the world of music, movies and TV.
In most celeb sites, you could easily get lost in the areas they’re trying to cover. Not so with ActuPeople.fr—the home page itself obvious that clearly marked sections for News, Flash News briefs, This Week in Cinema, a review of the latest in music, biographies of celebrities and a unique Zoom People section.
While the News column details the latest occurrences in the celebrity world, the Flash News provides interesting snippets with links to previous stories. However, both the news sections are covered in the top menu bar link if you wanted to take in all at once.
A celebrity site is never complete without photos, and ‘Zoom People’ does more than full justice to it. Matter of fact, I don’t quite recall any celeb site with such a massive database of the latest photos of the most popular and the hottest celebrities. Listed alphabetically, there are thousands of high-quality photos. To give you an idea, I found 148 latest photographs of Avril Lavigne alone.
And if you want to add any of these photos in your blog, ActuPeople.fr makes it incredibly simple to do so. No downloading, no cutting and pasting. You click and enlarge the photo you need, and conveniently beneath the photo you’ll find a script that you can simply copy and paste on your blog post and voila! You got it!
The biographies section is also alphabetically listed, and I tried the letter S which listed over 45 celebs, from Salif Keita and Sara Forestier to Sophie Marceau and Sylvester Stallone. The information is well covered, but I hope the publishers will soon add filmograhy stats, trivia or claim-to-fame categories to the profile pages.
The music area singles out and reviews some of the latest albums. The day I visited, Mutya Buena’s “Real Girl” was the featured album on the home page, followed by other top albums including Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Me And My Imagination” Maroon 5’s “Makes Me Wonder” among many, many others..
Movies of the Week featured “El Cielo dividido”, “Heroes Fragiles”, “Shinobi” and more, all of them new releases and were presented with reviews. The TV section is maintained on a daily basis with schedule of programs from top French channels like the Ce soir sur TF1, France 2, France 3, Canal+, Arte and M6.
ActuPeople.fr is a website in French, but it has a lot offer a worldwide audience. Not being able to understand French, what I really missed on the site was a facility to translate the content into other languages. However, there’s no need to despair. Here’s a tip: Do a Google for “actupeople”, and you’ll see ActuPeople.fr listed no.1 on page no.1, and you’ll also find the ‘Translate this page’ link next to it. Hit it, and ENJOY!
This is an ActuPeople.fr sponsored review.
