Yesterday’s total solar eclipse — the longest of the century blah blah — might have been a big disappointment for those who traveled halfway ’round the world to Shanghai to see it, but the lousy weather that ruined things for Shanghai wasn’t to be found everywhere in the eclipse’s path through China. By 2:30 pm [...]
As we previously announced in our press release, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Interactive Online Concert was broadcast on live on Youku on Sunday night.
As you can see in the screenshot, users could choose their favorite angle from 4 different live streams in one window, and vote for their favorite performer at the same time. The [...]
We thought we’d share with you some recent stats from Youku.com. The data below is from Saturday, April 4 — not any special day, and one which, if you buy traditional Chinese numerological superstition, should have been particularly inauspicious: it was “4-4,” after all. I freely confess that, as you expect, we tend to have [...]
Youku recently commissioned Nielsen to do a user survey, the results of which were handed over to us earlier this month. I thought I’d share some of the top-level findings, to give readers a better idea of who’s using Youku.
Geography
Somewhat surprisingly (to me at least), 14% of Youku users are in Guangdong province, and another [...]
Great news for the Mac community: after developing, debugging, and testing for a long period, Youku.com today annouced its new uploading interface, which finally fully supports most browsers for Mac OS X - Safari, Firefox, Camino, and so on. Phew… what a breakthrough!!!
On the top of every page on Youku.com, you can find this upload [...]
Great news for Youku Buzz subscribers: finally, you can watch Youku videos in Google Reader, which means, bloggers can share embedded video content from Youku.com via RSS/Atom feeds in the world’s most popular online information aggregator.
In the past few months, my blogger friends asked me again and again, “How can I configure my Wordpress/MovableType systems [...]
Steven and Kaiser from Youku Buzz (daily) wish everyone a Happy Year of the Ox.
We’d like to express our thanks by sending one of these lovely coffee mugs to the first 9 readers in China to leave a comment with the name of (or better yet a link to) their favorite Youku video of 2008. [...]
As a new media partner of Jet Li One Foundation, Youku was invited to the China Global Philanthropy Forum 2008 last weekend. Here at Youku we’re really pushing charity this month. You can see what we’re doing here on our charity channel!
In our online video gallery especially made for the forum, you can find Jet [...]
