Sherman | August 18, 2009 in China, Darwin Marketing, Internet, Tudou, Web 2.0, online game, search engine, social network, video sharing site | Comments (1)
For people interested in founding their own ventures in the China, this week’s article in Global Times might be an inspiration to them. Many foreigners worked in the country’s first Internet ventures. And many have arrived since. We look at several stories of westerners who founded their own companies in China – people who had only a smattering of Mandarin at the start and ended up running companies where everyone else is Chinese.
Dutchman Marc van der Chijs found China’s leading video sharing site, Tudou, with his Chinese partner Gary Wang, a colleague of his wife, before setting up the Asian division of a Dutch online game company, Spil Game Asia. American T.R. Harrington found his own search engine marketing firm, Darwin marketing, after struggling for a few years.
Read complete article in Global Times.
Sherman | July 17, 2009 in Google, Internet, Tudou, Web 2.0, Youku, Youtube, social network | Comments (3)
Its Chinese counterparts, Youku and Tudou, have yet to break even. But, at least, they seems to be on the right track. The majority of their revenue have been banner ads and “pre-rolls” ads when they formally introduced advertising program last year.
Sherman | July 13, 2009 in China, Internet, Tudou, Web 2.0, Youku, social network | Comments (0)
This is another of our articles at Global Times. It was the Editor’s Choice on the publishing date.
While US-based Youtube is derived from homemade videos, Chinese video-sharing sites, such as Youku and Tudou decided to focus on professional content such as TV shows and movies. They were able to do so because the TV and film industry in China is highly fragmented. With close to 300 TV stations and over 1,000 production houses, finding partners is not difficult. The person in the picture is Youku’s founder, Victor Koo.
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