Orange will launch a new online video sharing website

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

French operator Orange will launch its online video sharing website based on Hulu’s model. The platform will provide more than 500.000 professionnal videos.

The project, code-named Welles, aims at offering a legal alternative to youtube in France. “It will be an ad-supported website open to everybody”, announced Jean-Louis Constanza, President of Orange Vallée, the unit developing internet-related projects.

The platform will be a mix of Youtube, Dailymotion and Hulu, and will offer professionnal content as well as user-generated videos.
Though the economic model of ad-supported websites remains uncertain, online videos platform witness an increasing popularity among internet users. In the US for instance, total online video views reached 10 billion streams for the month of May, recording an increase of 35% according to Nielsen.

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