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Internet video in China: who are the players?Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Monday, November 20, 2006 at 8:12 PM
This list is now being updated here: Updated China video website list.
Below is a list of Chinese video websites, with brief annotations. Please correct any errors or omissions in the comments if you are interested in this subject. Video hosting and sharing websites Tudou Rox 6 Rooms Pomoho 56.com Yoqoo OmyTVs Wangyou Mofile Qing Yule Mop.com Uume.com Yijian Mojiti has launched Chinese and English versions of its site which does not host video, but allows users to make collections of videos on other video sites, and to search other user collections and video sites. After seeing this post, Mojiti founder Eric Feng wrote to Danwei and explained: "Our mission at Mojiti is to help users tell their own stories with any online video. We're not a video search engine - instead, we want to help users personalize video to create a more engaging viewing experience." Biku OuOu 5 Show Mantou TV
Vvlogger.com Video search Mojiti and Uume.com let users search other video websites for content. Neither of them is as slick and easy to use as the new U.S. based site Blinkx.
UiTV.com UUsee v.china.com In other non broadcast video news: Forbes has published an AFP report titled China IPTV movie deal signals growing viability of download model - Macquarie. Excerpt: An IPTV movie licensing deal between major studios and Shanghai Media Group unit Best TV marks a shift to a download model, with the economics and encryption protections of this distribution channel apparently becoming more acceptable to Hollywood, a Macquarie Research Equities analyst said. And then there's this, from Interfax: China Mobile to focus on trans-media platform. |
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Comments on Internet video in China: who are the players?
There's also Yijian (www.yijian.com), which has some pretty strong backers and a founder with a good pedigree (Baidu, Tengxun, Xunlei). UUme, by the way, is owned by Oak Pacific Interactive, which also owns Mop. Oak's capo di tutti capi, Joseph Chen, is said to have gutted the size of the team working on UUme after learning that there are some 400 video sharing sites in China.
There's a newbie called Mojiti.com on the scene too. Mofile seems to draw the most traffic and they have claimed to me to be "10 times bigger". Its audience is certainly different to Tudou, which has greater youth appeal. Tudou tells me they're the biggest, etc, etc.
Jeremy, the URL for UUme should be www.uume.com, not uumee.com (that's why there doesn't seem to be a lot going on there, as you said). UUme.com actually streams pretty darned fast and there's a lot of pretty risque stuff going on in some of these videos. (Pass me a Kleenex, would you?)
also vVlogger and mysee
Thanks for the posting on Mojiti.com. My name is Eric Feng and I'm the founder of the company. I just wanted to make one quick clarification: we're actually NOT a video sharing site but rather a new Internet service that allows users to easily annotate scenes and highlights objects in video. Our mission is to help people tell tell their own stories with any video, which you can do using our video annotation features. To see us in action, check out this brief introductory video at http://mojiti.com/kan/941/1204 (Chinese version is at http://mojiti.com/kan/941/1259). Thanks again for the mention and I hope you'll all check out the site.
Do any of these sites have uploading/editing/file management instructions in English? YouTube loads awfully slow here in Xinjiang, and I'd like to put my Uyghur music videos on a Chinese site for local viewers.
Vvlogger.com == Maidee
Should also check out pplive.com
Some insight into the background of Tudou's success can be found on http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/success-stories/tai_chi_communication/
here's another one in copycat mode: www.lvyou.tv
no english instructions
Is there in China anything like www.revver.com?
This is a website in which they share (50/50) commercials revenue in video with videomakers and sharers.
I ask you this question because I'd like to realize chine subtitles for my first web-serial ("Mad About Soccer").
Thank you for reply!
pierpaolo
dotSUB's not in China, but it's still pretty handy if you were to approach YeeYan or others.