With an Eye on Mobile Video Viewers, Youku and Sina Weibo Form a Partnership
With an eye to the many Sina Weibo users who access the Twitter-like service via mobile, two of China’s web giants have formed an interest...
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The Youtube of China? The Netflix of China? The Hulu of China? Youku, China’s biggest web streaming video service defies simple description as it offers features that resemble all of the aforementioned services. Once a haven of piracy, now it’s a very deep library of user-generated content, licensed movies and TV shows, and its own original content. But it faces challenges from competitors as the video market consolidates and goes mobile at the same time.
Baidu Acquires PPS for $370 Million, Claims It’s Now China’s Biggest Video Platform
Well, the rumors are true. Chinese search company Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) announced today that it has acquired PPS.tv’s streaming video se...
If the PPS Rumors are True, Could Baidu Beat Out Youku-Tudou?
China’s tech media has been talking for weeks now as though Baidu’s rumored acquisition of popular streaming video service PPS i...
Check Out the Biggest Winners and Losers among Chinese Web IPOs (CHART)
One is worth thousands of percent more today than when it IPO’d, while another is worth a mere dollar per share. Oh, the slings and ar...
Will China’s Ban on TV Ads for Luxury Goods Boost Web Ads For Baidu and Youku?
Last week, we learned of a ban on TV advertising luxury goods in China issued by SARFT that is preventing luxury goods advertisers from reac...
This is How Luxury Brands Do Awesome Social Media Marketing in China in 2012
China’s online market is vast and growing at an insane rate – Chinese e-commerce sales are projected to triple from now to 2015 ...
Youku, MapBar Apps Disappear from Apple’s China App Store
The folks over at TechWeb noticed something odd yesterday on Apple’s App Store in China: the apps for video streaming site Youku, trav...
Chinese Video Sites Turning off their Japan Channels
The Asahi Shimbun reports this evening that a number of Chinese video sites have made moves to remove the ‘Japan’ category from ...
How China’s Top Video Site Battles the Pirates
After merging into one company last year, Youku Tudou (NYSE:YOKU) further established itself as China’s top online video business with...
China’s Top Video Sites Reveal Hundreds of Millions of Mobile Users, Start Race to Monetize Them
We know that Chinese netizens watch billions of hours worth of online videos each month, but how many of them are doing so from a mobile dev...
6 Chinese Social Sites Will Turn Off the Lights Tomorrow for ‘Earth Hour’
Tomorrow, as 8:30pm rolls around the globe, lots of landmark buildings will turn off their lights to observe Earth Hour and remind the world...
Youku Tudou Sees Narrowing Losses in First-Ever Post-Merger Financials
It’s over six months since the merger between China’s top two video-streaming sites was approved by shareholders, so the newest ...
China’s Top Video Site Adds QR Codes to Help Viewers Go Mobile
China’s top video site, Youku (NYSE:YOKU), has added QR codes to every video on its desktop website so as to help users continue viewing w...
6 Reasons Video-Sharing Apps Were the Biggest Startup Letdown of 2012
This time last year I was raving, I was gushing, all over startups making video-sharing apps. I named one such venture as one of my standout...
ComScore: China Watched 4.1 Billion Hours of Web Videos in August
Chinese web users racked up over 4.1 billion hours of collective streaming of web videos in August, according to a new report from ComScore....
China’s Video King Youku Tudou: “Mobile is Key For Growth”
In a teleconference with international media which I called into earlier, the recently merged Youku Tudou’s (NYSE:YOKU) company presid...
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