WooMe Partners With IG to Bring Live Video Introductions to Brazil

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 – WooMe (www.woome.com), the world’s largest live video introductions platform, today announced a partnership with IG, one of Brazil’s largest online portals, to extend the WooMe service to the Brazilian market. This partnership extends the rapidly growing WooMe service into a region where broadband adoption is accelerating and will serve as a strong indicator of the potential for video applications across all of Latin America.

Millions of Americans, Canadians, Britons and Australians already enjoy WooMe, and the WooMe-IG partnership extends the fast-growing service into the fastest growing internet population in the world and paves the way for future international expansion. “We’re doing tens of millions of introductions across the English-speaking world and it will be great to have Brazilians using the platform,” said Stephen Stokols, CEO of WooMe. “We needed a strong Brazilian partner with local reach, expertise and recognition to hit the ground running and IG gives us all three,” added John Thomas, WooMe’s Business Development Director.

The service is expected to launch later this year. IG will provide local support, reach and marketing support in exchange for a percentage of revenues in the region. “WooMe is an innovative and exciting service and Brazil is a ripe market for live video. We’re excited to be Brazil’s first mover in this space,” said IG’s Content Director Caique Severo.

About WooMe

WooMe is the world’s largest live introductions platform. WooMe users meet live in timed sessions via webcam. Users can simply find a speed session that interests them, join and meet five people in five minutes. WooMe is easy, fast and free, allowing users to meet new people around any shared interest for fun, to hook up, or for pure entertainment. With WooMe, meeting people online is transformed into a face-to-face experience that makes sifting through static profiles a thing of the past.

Founded in 2006, WooMe is an international company with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and London. Investors of the company include: Index Ventures, Atomico Ventures (founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, founders of Skype) and Mangrove Capital Partners. For more information, please visit: www.woome.com.

About IG

Internet Group (iG), Brasil Telecom’s internet branch, has more than 1.7 million active subscribers to its free internet services, making it one of Brazil’s largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs).