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Youku Tudou Loss Continued Reaching Over 500M Users in Q2 2014

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Youku Tudou net revenues were RMB958.7 million (US$154.5 million), a 27% increase from the corresponding period in 2013. They derive a part of our revenues from mobile value-added services through partnership agreements with third party mobile network operators and shares the fees collected by the mobile network operators for such services. … [Read more...]

Alibaba Makes A Strategic Investment of $1.22 Bn In Youku & Tudou

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Youku and Tudou officially announced that Alibaba and Yunfeng Capital (founded by Jack Ma and Yu Feng who is board director of Huayi Brothers) purchased Youku and Tudou's A shares with $1.22 billion, Alibaba will hold 16.5% and Yufeng Capital holds 2%. Besides, Alibaba will appoint CEO Lu Zhaoxi as one of the board director of Youku and Tudou. … [Read more...]

Funshion Came on Top by Per Capita Online Video Viewing Time

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According to iReasearch, iQiyi and PPS together have more video viewing time than youku, tudou and funshion for the first time. After the merger of Baidu's iQiyi and PPS, the combined users reached 269,817,000 hours of the total viewing time, becoming the first in the industry with Youku & Tudou second and funshion third. However, on the other side, Funshion continued as … [Read more...]

China Online Video Market Scale Reached 2.42 Billion in Q1 2013

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China online video market reached 2.42 billion yuan in the first quarter of 2013, up 39.5% from 2012, but down 11.0% compared with the last quarter of 2012 which is affected by the quarterly factors of advertising market. Market Size: Stable Growth Overall; Diversified Sources of Income Advertisement is still the main income source of online video industry. Meanwhile the … [Read more...]

China’s Top 2 Video Portals YouKu and Tudou to Combine

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Youku and Tudou, the two largest online video companies in China, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Tudou to combine with Youku in a 100% stock-for-stock transaction. "When the strategic combination is complete, Tudou will retain its distinct brand identity and platform in Youku Tudou Inc., strengthening and complementing Youku's video business. … [Read more...]

Rumor: Baidu to Acquire Tudou.com

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There are rumors that Baidu is to acquire Tudou.com. According to a Securities Times reporter‘s source who's close to Baidu senior management, Baidu has approached Tudou.com with two acquisition proposals. One option is direct acquisition of Tudou.com by Baidu and Tudou will remain independent operation and focus on UGC and original production.  The other option is that … [Read more...]

China Online Video Market Update Q1 2011

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In Q1 2011, three online video portals, Youku Tudou and Qiyi, combined represent over 70% market share by effective browsing time. 86.4% of China internet users watch video online, which is close to 340 million. Total effective browsing time in total in Q1 is 3,64 billion hours, up 22.1% from the previous quarter. … [Read more...]

Top10 Chinese Websites for Chinese New Year Period 2011

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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, consumers used other media platforms much more during the … [Read more...]

Top Video Sites in China & Market Statistics

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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 download tool (for anything especially music and … [Read more...]

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