Youku

Youku (优 酷Chinese, Pinyin Youku, excellent and cool ') is a video portal based in the People's Republic of China.

History

Youku was created by Victor Koo, former president of Sohu, the beta version was officially launched in June 2006 to life and released in December 2006. In 2007, the company received $ 25 million venture capital financing. Youku.com is ranked 1 in the Chinese video portal sector. 2008, Youku teamed up in China with Myspace.

Early 2010 had the Portal to CNIC details 384 million users.

Mid-2012 merged Youku Tudou and Youku Tudou Inc. Joint Undertaking According to Alexa Internet ranked Youku before the merger Place 11 of the most visited sites in China. Tudou was before the merger in 14th place

Properties

Youku allows users to upload videos, regardless of their length. Youku has a number of television, film and TV production companies in China who regularly upload media content on the website, a partnership. Apart from the "Investor Relations" the website is built entirely in Chinese. Youku Tudou is accessible by mobile devices.

Copyright infringement

Due to the lax enforcement of copyright in China unlicensed copyrighted material such as movies and music videos will be shown in full length; copies of videos from other video sharing sites are abundant.

Recently, however, a number of copyrighted materials in certain regions of the world will be blocked.