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History. Tudou was founded by Gary Wang and Dutchman Marc van der Chijs, whom Wang met while at Bertelsmann Media Group in China. The name Tudou is Chinese Pinyin. History. Youku was founded by Victor Koo (Gu Yongqiang), former President of Chinese Internet portal Sohu. Initial funding for the site came from 1Verge, a fund. Tenku notshirotwapyuta Big Miracle 2012 DVDRip READNFO x264-SiC Love and Other Drugs.2010 [Eng] DivX [On Style]??!??????17 E07.111204 CATV H264.480p-SHINs Bob.

Tudou - Wikipedia. Tudou, Inc. Screenshot Screenshot of Tudou home page. Type of business. Private. VC- Funded.

Type of site. Video hosting service. Available in. Chinese. Founded. February 1. Headquarters. Shanghai, China. Key people. Gary Wang, CEOSam Lai, CFOGrace Wang, CAOSarah Jiang, CCOEvelyn Wang, CSODeng Wei, VPAnita Huang, VPYongzhu Song, VPYu Bin, VPParent. Youku Tudou. Slogan(s)"Today's TV Network, Tomorrow's Tudou"每个人都是生活的导演Websitewww.

Alexa rank 5. 94 (April 2. Registration. Optional(required to upload)Launched.

February 1. 5, 2. Current status. Active. Tudou, Inc. (simplified Chinese: 土豆网; traditional Chinese: 土豆網; pinyin: Tǔdòu Wǎng; literally: "Potato Net") is a video- sharingwebsite headquartered in Shanghai, China, where users can upload, view and share video clips. Tudou went live on April 1. September 2. 00. 7 served over 5.

Tudou states they are one of the world's largest bandwidth users, moving more than 1 Petabyte per day to 7 million users. You. Tube serves a larger number of videos per day, but since the average Tudou video is longer in duration, meaning the total amount of minutes of video being streamed daily from Tudou is significantly larger - about 1.

You. Tube.[2]The Shanghai- based service uses Adobe Flash technology to publish more than 5. TV clips, and music videos. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos, using on- line and Windows- based upload tools.[3]On March 1. Watch The Christmas Shoes Online Mic on this page. Youku reached an agreement to acquire Tudou in a stock- for- stock transaction, and the new entity will be named Youku Tudou Inc.[4]History[edit]Tudou was founded by Gary Wang and Dutchman Marc van der Chijs, whom Wang met while at Bertelsmann Media Group in China.

The name Tudou is Chinese Pinyin (Romanized Chinese) for Potato. It was previously known as Toodou.

Tudou. com in August 2. According to CEO Wang, the name comes from the English idiom "couch potato." He stated that his goal was to move couch potatoes from the television screen to the computer screen.[5]Prior to Tudou, Wang lived in the United States and returned to China to work for multi- national companies.

Tudou was originally conceptualized as a video blogging company and the site launched on April 1. You. Tube. Like many technology startups, Tudou was started on a small budget with a raw technology team. It was initially self- financed at about $1. Its first major funding round was in 2. IDG China, GGV Capital (formerly Granite Global Ventures), and JAFCO Asia. Tudou's second funding was in early 2. Boston- based General Catalyst Partners and Shanghai- based Capital Today, with other existing investors participating.[2] The fourth round of funding was on April 2.

IDG Technology Venture Investment (IDGVC), Granite Global Ventures and General Catalyst Partners, and also included a member of the Rockefeller family.[6] The most recent funding was announced on August 5, 2. Temasek Holdings and existing investors.[7]Rapid growth[edit]During the summer of 2. Nielsen/Net. Ratings reported that Tudou was one of the fastest growing websites on the Web, growing from 1. According to a July 1. Tudou, with an additional 2. Neilsen's measurements indicate the website averages nearly 4. According to Chinese tracking service i. Watch Paris Can Wait Online.

Research, as of the mid- 2. Tudou has over 5.

Chinese online video market.[1. Research reported Tudou reached 9. June 2. 00. 9, and 1. June 2. 01. 0. Funding[edit]Tudou completed its financial fund series A to E between year 2. November 2. 00. 5, April 2.

April 2. 00. 7, April 2. August 2. 01. 0 respectively. A total of US$1. 35 million was raised from a roster of venture capital organizations including IDG Ventures China, Jafco Asia, GGV Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Capital Today, KTB, JAIC, Cyber Agent, Venrock, Crescent Point, and Temasek Holdings. Recent events[edit]In July 2. Tudou introduced one of the world's first large- scale video advertising systems for video sites, several months ahead of You. Tube.[1. 0] In late September 2. Intel and Tudou announced a partnership to explore wireless video sharing technologies and video applications for mobile devices.

Tudou also agreed to increase its use of Intel CPUs in its rapidly growing video encoder server farms. Intel will also promote its products through the Tudou advertising system.[1. In December 2. 00. Tudou introduced videos in the H.

In the aftermath of the 2. Sichuan earthquake on May 1. May 2. 1 due to the period of national mourning. On September 1. 0, 2. Tudou received its license[1.

SARFT. Copyright and video review[edit]Copyright[edit]A portion of Tudou's content comes from commercial sources and is not user- generated. The company says that the Chinese often go to Tudou for TV- like saq- media, instead of using their televisions.

Starting 2. 00. 8 Tudou launched licensed content acquisition and partnership programs aggregating selective premium professional contents. Nevertheless, Tudou still comes under criticism for its disregard of some copyright policies. Video review[edit]Tudou's in- house reviewers watch, approve, and categorize all uploaded videos. The reviewers screen for inappropriate content such as pornography and categorize / tag each video.[1.

Technical notes[edit]Video format[edit]Tudou's video playback technology is based on Macromedia's Flash Player. This technology allows the site to display videos with quality comparable to more established video playback technologies (such as Windows Media Player, Quick. Time and Real. Player) that generally require the user to download and install a web browserplugin in order to view video. Flash also requires a plug- in, but the Flash 7 plug- in is generally considered to be present on approximately 9.

The video can also be played back with gnash(cannot) or VLC. It has pixel dimensions of 3. Videos run at 2. 5 frames per second with a maximum data rate of 3. Tudou accepts uploaded videos in a variety of formats, including . WMV, . AVI, . MOV, MPEG and .

MP4.[3]Video can be seen in windowed mode or full screen mode; it is possible to switch the mode during the viewing of any video without reloading it because of the full- screen function of Adobe Systems. Flash Player 9. Because of the copyright and licensing issues, some Tudou videos are blocked to international IP addresses. Bandwidth[edit]Tudou reports that it's one of the world's largest bandwidth users, sending over 1. PB (Petabyte) of video files per day, which is nearly 1. Gbit/s of sustained traffic. The company uses a variety of proprietary and commercial content distribution networks (CDNs), such as China. Cache to distribute videos around China.[1.

The domain tudou. Compete. com survey.[1. See also[edit]References[edit]^"Tudou. Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2. 01. 4- 0. Tudou now bigger than Youtube?" Shanghaiist, October 1. Tudou Website". Tudou.

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Chinese Video Site Tudou Receives Another Big Round of $5. Million". Washingtonpost. Retrieved 2. 01. 4- 0. Tudou raises $5. 0M more for mobile video explosion". Venturebeat. com.

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From 1. 31 Million to 3. Million - Tudou. com Triples Weekly Clip View in just Three Months". Nielsen Net. Ratings Press Release. July 8, 2. 00. 7^ ab"Original Video Content Site Tudou. Launches Video Advertising Platform"American Venture Magazine. July 1. 6, 2. 00.

Intel Sets Out to Work with Tudou to Further Video Tech"Xin. Hua News. September 2. Tudou Site h. 2. 64 Announcement"Tudou Site. December 2. 00. 7.^"Marc van der Chijs' Shanghaied Weblog: Tudou gets SARFT license".

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