For Tudou.com, a Fourth Attempt at a US IPO Reveals Mounting Copyright Claims...
Tudou.com, which is a close second to Youku.com (NYSE:YOKU) for the title of China’s biggest video site, is pushing forward with its fourth attempt at a US IPO. Its newest US Securities and Exchange...
View ArticleYouku’s iOS App Hits 7.9 Million Downloads, Allows Users to Upload Videos In-App
Youku (NYSE:YOKU) has released a major update for its iPhone and iPad app. One of the main features within this update is a sexy radial button which is built to make the screen less cluttered and at...
View ArticleYouku Boosts Chinese Film-Makers With New Indie Projects [UPDATED]
[Update, Nov. 11: Clarified the new program in the second paragraph, and added a more relevant indie movie] Youku (NYSE: YOKU), China’s biggest video-sharing site, has just launched a new portal...
View ArticleAsia Tech Tour Episode 2: Youku.com from China [VIDEO]
Youku HQ in Beijing This is episode 2 of our Asia Tech Tour video series. If there’s any Asian service or app that you’d like to see us explore, please send us your request. Today Charlie [1] and I do...
View ArticleChinese Video Site Youku Makes Movie Deal with Twentieth Century Fox
Youku HQ in Beijing Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to license 250 films. The movies...
View ArticleSARFT Establishing Platform For Regulating Internet Video in China
Well, we all knew it was coming. Heck, I even wrote it was coming in an article three months ago. Now, it’s official: China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) plans to...
View ArticleChina’s Tmall Fuses Online Shopping with Streaming Video
Imagine this situation: An awesome coat catches your eye when you are watching a drama or TV show online. You have no idea which brand it is or where to buy it. But then a link to a shopping and...
View ArticleRival Chinese Video Sites Each Land New Content Partnerships
Amid interesting (and somewhat controversial) numbers regarding China’s online video market, both the leading video site Youku (NYSE:YOKU) as well as perpetual number two, Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) have...
View ArticleYouku and Tudou Shares Sky-Rocket After Yesterday’s $1.1 Billion Merger
Markets in the US reacted positively to the Youku Tudou merger as shares in both firms sky-rocketed. Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO), the smaller of the two Chinese video-sharing sites which is effectively being...
View ArticleYouku Makes Deal with CBS for Two Seasons of ‘Survivor’&‘America’s Next Top...
Chinese video streaming Youku.com has just announced that it has signed an exclusive content deal with CBS Studios International for the television shows Survivor and America’s Next Top Model. The...
View ArticleIn Wake of March Merger, Youku and Tudou Connect User Accounts
Chinese video website Youku (NYSE:YOKU) quietly announced late last week that it had made a move to integrate Youku and Tudou accounts, after their giant merger back on March 12. Here at Tech in Asia...
View ArticleYouku Adds Another Movie Partner in NBCUniversal
Youku HQ in Beijing Chinese online video streaming site Youku (NYSE:YOKU) has just announced a new agreement with NBCUniversal on a collection of feature films coming to Youku Premium, its paid...
View ArticleYes We Can: Tudou Urges Shareholders to Vote For Merger With Youku
Chinese video-streaming site Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) has just revealed the next steps in its proposed merger with larger rival Youku (NYSE:YOKU). That merger plan, first made public in March of this year,...
View ArticleYouku Releases Q2 Financials: Revenue Growing, Merger on Track
China’s biggest internet video company, Youku (NYSE:YOKU), released its quarter two financial report this evening, and the results are somewhat mixed. Although the company is still posting a net loss...
View ArticleShareholders Approve: Youku and Tudou Sitting in a Tree, M-E-R-G-I-N-G
Tudou’s Gary Wang (left) and Youku’s Victor Koo, pictured today after shareholders of both companies approved the proposed merger. China’s biggest-ever tech deal was revealed back in March of this year...
View ArticleVictor Koo: Youku-Tudou Merger Will Show Results in the Long-Term
Victor Koo, image via TechWeb Youku-Tudou (hereafter, we’ll just call it Youku) has kept things pretty quiet since the merger went official and former Tudou CEO Gary Wang announced his resignation....
View ArticleYouku Tudou: 310 Million Weekly Unique Viewers, 1.6 Billion Hours of Video...
Unless you have been living in the jungle, by now you should know that Youku (NYSE:YOKU) and Tudou have already merged as…eh…Youku Tudou (it’s not the most creative name ever). And that merger should...
View ArticleChina’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 president Liu Dele said that mobile is a key area for growth on the...
View ArticleChinese 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 their country listings. We did a quick survey of a few of the leading...
View ArticleComScore: 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. That time was spent watching 29.75 billion internet videos...
View ArticleYouku Tudou Strengthens Premium Video Platform with Sony Pictures Television...
Youku HQ in Beijing Chinese online streaming video company Youku Tudou (NYSE:YOKU) has just announced an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to bring over 300 titles to its paid Youku Premium...
View ArticleChina’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 while mobile, on their smartphone or tablet. It’s a small...
View ArticleWill China’s Ban on TV Ads for Luxury Goods Boost Web Ads For Baidu and Youku?
Coming soon to a Chinese website near you. Last week, we learned of a ban on TV advertising luxury goods in China issued by SARFT that is preventing luxury goods advertisers from reaching their...
View ArticleYouku Tudou Sees Narrowing Losses in First-Ever Post-Merger Financials
The company’s apps for Tudou (left) and Youku. It’s over six months since the merger between China’s top two video-streaming sites was approved by shareholders, so the newest financial report for Q4...
View ArticleChina’s Top Video Sites Reveal Hundreds of Millions of Mobile Users, Start...
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 device? Now we have the answer. China’s top two mobile sites...
View ArticleYouku Revamps Homepage for Smaller Screens In Response to “Exponential”...
As we explained last month, China’s top video site has 150 million daily mobile users. In order to cater to all those mobile viewers, Youku (NYSE:YOKU) has rolled out a revamped homepage today that...
View ArticleYouku Surges to 200 Million Daily Mobile Views This Month as Chinese...
It’s mobile, mobile, mobile with China’s video sites these days as they chase China’s middle-income web users onto tablets and smartphones. Today Youku (NYSE:YOKU) has revealed some of its usually...
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