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Youku Tudou
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Netflix brings in Chinese & Korean series
Netflix has acquired its first online Chinese drama, Day and Night, and will bring in original…
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Youku buys giant screen BBC Earth films
China’s Youku has bought five giant screen BBC Earth films that will be made available…
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INTV: ‘SVOD players driving China drama boom’
China is now the most important market in the world outside the US for sales…
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Alibaba OTT nets bag exclusive DreamWorks deal
Alibaba’s over-the-top services in China will get exclusive access to content from Oriental DreamWorks after…
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IPCN’s live stream dreams
Live streaming have become big business in China, with hundreds of new apps allowing connected…
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Youku Tudou CEO to oversee $1.5bn fund
The CEO of Youku Tudou has been named chairman of a US$1.5 billion digital media…
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New deals for The Night Manager
The Night Manager will be on free TV in France and on a Chinese streaming…
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Alibaba’s Youku Tudou deal approved
Youku Tudou shareholders have approved a deal that will see it acquired by Chinese e-commerce…
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Disney, Alibaba launch SVOD service
The Walt Disney Company and Alibaba Group are today launching a subscription OTT service in…
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Alibaba to pay $3.7bn for ‘China’s YouTube’
Alibaba Group has entered into an agreement to buy ‘China’s YouTube’, Youku Tudou, for around…
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Alibaba offers $4.6bn to buy streaming platform
Chinese e-commerce conglom Alibaba Group is to buy out video streaming site Youku Tudou for…
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Alibaba plans ‘Netflix-style’ service
E-commerce giant Alibaba is to launch a streaming service that will “redefine home entertainment” in…
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Content costs up as Youku Tudou preps originals
Programming costs at Chinese on-demand platform Youku Tudou have risen 11% as the firm gears…
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Chinese video platform takes Voice Kids rights
Chinese online video platform Youku Tudou has acquired rights to remake John de Mol’s format…
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Chinese Big Brother for VOD platform
Online video platform Youku Tudou has commissioned China’s first ever version of Endemol’s flagship format…
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FremantleMedia, Sony plan pan-Asian Got Talent
FremantleMedia and Sony Pictures Television Networks have partnered to create a pan-Asian version of singing…
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Lionsgate, e-commerce giant create China streaming service
US media group Lionsgate has linked with Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group to launch a…
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Youku Tudou unveils major original series push
Chinese on-demand service Youku Tudou is to launch more than 20 original series, including dramas,…
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China takes US series off streaming sites
Chinese authorities have ordered The Big Bang Theory, The Good Wife (pictured), NCIS and The…
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Youku Tudou content boss to open ATF
Sunny Xiangyang Zhu, chief content officer at China’s equivalent of YouTube, will give the opening…
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Chinese web service Baidu buys video platform
China’s largest internet provider Baidu has acquired a local video on-demand platform for US$370 million,…
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Merger savings narrow Youku Tudou losses
Chinese online video site Youku Tudou narrowed its consolidated fourth quarter net losses by 43%…