Posts Tagged: youku

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.


Youku Sina Weibo

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 Chin...

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  • June 7, 2013
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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 ac...

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  • May 7, 2013
  • at 9:09 am
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Baidu PPS acquisition

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 ...

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  • May 2, 2013
  • at 8:30 am
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Chinese IPO losers

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...

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  • March 19, 2013
  • at 4:27 pm
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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 preve...

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  • February 14, 2013
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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 a...

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  • December 19, 2012
  • at 2:45 pm
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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 a...

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  • December 6, 2012
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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 remov...

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  • October 4, 2012
  • at 7:30 pm
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Youku Tudou web piracy

How China’s Top Video Site Battles the Pirates

After merging into one company last year, Youku Tudou (NYSE:YOKU) further established itself as Chin...

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  • May 16, 2013
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Youku Tudou, iQiyi mobile viewers

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 man...

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  • May 2, 2013
  • at 11:34 pm
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Chinese social sites go dark for Earth Hour 2013

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...

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  • March 22, 2013
  • at 8:35 pm
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Youku Tudou financials

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 ...

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  • March 1, 2013
  • at 10:20 pm
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Youku battles video pirates

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 websit...

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  • February 6, 2013
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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 name...

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  • December 7, 2012
  • at 4:15 pm
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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, ...

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  • October 8, 2012
  • at 2:32 pm
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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 ...

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  • September 26, 2012
  • at 4:22 pm
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