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Video: Oprah of China offers insight into the next generation of young Chinese citizens

Yang Lan, a journalist and entrepreneur who’s been called “the Oprah of China,” offers insight into the next generation of young Chinese citizens — urban, connected (via microblogs) and alert to injustice.

China to Have over 700 Million Online Video Users by 2015

The average Chinese user spends four hours a week watching online video content, such as movies, TV, and live sports—double the time spent by US users. A new McKinsey research shows there will be more than 700 million people in China watching online video content in four years.

Charts: China Online Video Market Update Q2 2011

China online video market total revenue reached 1.48 billion yuan (about USD $230 million) in the second quarter this year.

Viral Video: Chinese “House Husband” Dances To Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean

A video featuring a “house-husband” in his pajamas showing off his Michael Jackson dance moves in his living room has been reposted on Sina Weibo for over 2000 times. Most of the links “retweeted” are the one on YouKu; but, it’s strange YouKu removed the video at the time of writing this post. On Tudou, [...]

Top10 Chinese Websites for Chinese New Year Period 2011

Watching CCTV’s Gala Show on Chinese New Year Eve is a tradition. Since I was a kid, the whole family gathered together in front of the television on CNY Eve waiting for CCTV Gala Show while making dumplings. Is it changing? According to the latest Chinese New Year (CNY) Gala Show cross-platform study from Nielsen, [...]

Qiyi launched in-video links for users to find out more about the role and actors

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Qiyi.com, China’s Hulu clone,  recently launched in-video links. It was reported in several Chinese media including Sina and DoNews. Several news media reported it as an advanced facial recognition technology while it looks to me more like an embedded links.

Viral video ad for Peugeot 207CC

Close to 300K views within the first 12 hours. Over 1.6 millions views so far since it was posted on YouKu two days ago. Peugeot 207CC Viral Video

Top Online Video Providers in China

Analysys International, a Chinese research company, released a report about China Q3 2009 online video; this is the market share of different online video providers: YouKu.com: 12.6% PPStream: 11.5% Ku6.com / UUSee: 10.7% PPLive: 10.4% Tudou: 9.7% QQlive (from Tencent): 9.1% 56.com 6.cn pomoho.com Others: 16.5% PPStream, PPLive, and QQlive are p2p online video streaming [...]

adtech Beijing 2009 videos

I didn’t visit this year’s ad:tech Beijing but I found some interesting videos from this year’s ad:tech Beijing. Burson Marsteller China on Digital PR BPA Worldwide

Video – Kaiser Guo Brings you Closer to Chinese Netizens

Tang Dynasty is one of my favorite Chinese rock band. Kaiser Kuo is co-founder of Tang Dynasty who recently gave a speech at University of Nebraska—Lincoln on Chinese netizens. Born in the U. S. to Chinese parents, Kuo lives in China and identifies equally as American and Chinese. Formerly director of digital strategy for the [...]

Video: Opportunities and Challenges of Chinese Online Travel Companies

William Bao Bean gives his views on what opportunities and challenges the Chinese online travel companies are facing. via Traveldaily

Top Video Sites in China & Market Statistics

There are dozens of video websites, portal sites like Sina has set up their own video business. These are five very popular video portals: Youku Tudou Ku6 56.com Joy.cn Let’s not forget new comers like Xunlei, ppstream, pplive, and a lot more others. Xunlei could be a serious threat. Xunlei is a p2p search and [...]

Song of the Grass-Mud Horse: An Icon of Resistance to Censorship

According to the New York Times, “The Grass-Mud Horse” is a mythical creature whose name in Chinese sounds like “fuck your mother”. These horses face a problem: invading river crabs that are devouring their grassland. In spoken Chinese, river crab sounds very much like harmony, which in Chinas cyberspace has become a synonym for censorship. [...]