Citoyens !
C’est une énorme news révélée sur Techcrunch Europe :
“Paris-based HelloCotton (HelloCoton en Français), a French social platform for discovering and sharing women’s blog content, is launching in the US today.
Initially launch in France in April 2008, the platform counts roughly 3 million monthly unique visitors who use HelloCotton to discover and share lady-oriented blog content – about fashion, health, beauty, you-name-it. And oddly enough, despite being oriented towards women, this start-up was founded by two men – Hubert Michaux and Victor Cerutti - who were formerly part of the Netvibes team; the founding duo decided to launch the platform hoping to capitalize on the hyperactivity of the female blogosphere that seemed to be contrained by traditional and fragmented online distribution channel. Thus, with a bit of Netvibes sauce, the team developed a platform ressembling a mashup of women’s magazine content with web 2.0 social features: think Elle Magazine à la Twitter and Facebook.”
Pourquoi Hellocoton pourrait réussir aux Etats-unis ?
- parce que le business est basé sur les conversations américaines, pas sur des contenus importés
- parce que la plateforme est basée sur un travail éditorial colossal, de sélection des meilleurs contenus, des meilleurs articles
- parce qu’Hellocoton s’adresse à des blogueurs de niche, qui essaient d’atteindre une couverture plus large, qui cherchent pas forcément l’argent mais la réputation dans leur centre d’intérêt
A suivre!