Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to license 250 films. The movies will be shown on Youku’s Premium on-demand platform which launched last year. The company’s vice president of movie operations and corporate development, Huilong Zhu, explained: We have been working closely with Hollywood studios in providing quality content to millions of Chinese Internet users while effectively protecting intellectual properties… We are encouraged by the growth of the Youku Premium platform, ...
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VeryCD Gets an iPhone App, For All Your Video Streaming Needs
VeryCD has launched an iPhone app over the weekend, completing the site’s turnaround from a notorious pirate’s BBS, to one of China’s biggest music and movie aggregator sites. There’s an Android version in the works as well. The app, like the website, catalogs licensed TV shows, cartoons, documentaries and movies - including hits from the US, Korea, and China - that are linked from China’s chief video-streaming sites, such as Youku (NYSE:YOKU), Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO), PPTV, and Baidu’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) recently-renamed iQiyi. So although the VeryCD app doesn’t have the polish of some of ...
Sep 30 2011
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WangPiao to Use Funding to Make Buying Cinema Tickets More Social
Wang Piao - meaning “web tickets” - is a Chinese net company that sells cinema ticket deals in 23 cities. It will soon complete a second round of funding - at an as yet undisclosed amount - that will enable it to integrate new location-based services (LBS) into its mobile apps for iPhone and Android. Last year the site raised 30 million RMB (US$47 mil). As well as being a specialist e-commerce platform, Wang Piao also allows users to post movie reviews. Talking to DoNews, Wang Piao CEO Jiang Chun-yang ...
Sep 20 2011
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YouTube BoxOffice Gets 11.5 Million Views in 3 Months
It looks like YouTube Box Office is working pretty well for Google India. In a blogpost in its official blog, Google India today announced that it will start showing two full-length movies on its Boxoffice YouTube channel every month. Explaining that the channel has received an overwhelming response since its launch three months back, Google said that Boxoffice has already received over 11.5 million views in India. Also it is the 20th most subscribed channel of all time with 23,069 subscribers at the time of writing. The company has previously showcased blockbuster movies like Band Baaja Baarat, 3 Idiots, Bheja Fry 2, and ...
Sep 15 2011
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Sohu, Spending Big on Video Content, Licenses 400 More Hollywood Titles
Chinese web portal Sohu (NASDAQ:SOHU) is splashing the cash this week, licensing 400 movie titles from Hollywood studio, 20th Century Fox. The agreement stretches over the next three years. In the nearer term, it’ll bring brand-new films such as Rio (pictured above) - the Angry Birds themed animation - to its TV/movie portal very soon. Whilst some of Sohu’s licensed film and TV series content is free and ad-supported, many require a small fee - generally just 3 to 5RMB (just 50 to 75 US cents). Monthly streaming subscriptions are available ...
Aug 25 2011
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A Discussion With Senh Duong, Founder of Rotten Tomatoes [INTERVIEW]
Today, we bring you Senh Duong, co-founder of the famous movie review site, RottenTomatoes. Not too long ago he started another site called MoviesWithButter.com. We got in touch with him to learn more about it, and to ask his thoughts on Asia as well. 1. With RottenTomatoes in your past, you’ve now moved on to MoviesWithButter. Tell us about it. Rotten Tomatoes was first acquired by IGN Entertainment in 2004. Shortly afterward, News Corp (owners of Fox) acquired IGN. I stayed for about three years and finally decided to leave in 2007. ...
Jul 21 2011
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Chinese Brands Invade Transformers 3, Including Tainted Milk Company
Product placement has become a big business for the movie industry over the years, and that’s been especially true for the Transformers franchise. But what’s notable about the third film in the ‘splody series is that there are four Chinese brands in the movie. The Metersbonwe clothing brand appeared in the last film, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but is back for an encore appearance in Dark of the Moon. TCL televisions are also featured in the movie, as well as Lenovo computers with reportedly five close-up shots of its ...
Jun 28 2011
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Tudou Shifts Strategy, Will Move Away from Licensed TV Shows, Movies
Tudou.com is set to change its content strategy, and will stop trying to compete on increasingly pricey licensed/copyrighted movies and TV shows, in a strategic shift signaled over the weekend by its CEO, Gary Wang. Marking a divergence from the TV-like - or Hulu-like - aspirations of Youku.com, and Baidu-owned Qiyi.com, Tudou will instead focus on two kinds of 'self-produced' content: high-budget animations, drama, comedy series, and lower-budget user-generated content (UGC) that somewhat resembles video podcasts - a content approach that Tudou has been trying for a little while, and likes ...
Jun 23 2011
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Bollywood Movie, Delhi Belly, Runs Creative Promotion on YouTube
YouTube has been a great marketing channel for movies like Expendables, Fast Five and many others. Now an upcoming Bollywood movie, Delhi Belly, has created an interactive video channel on YouTube in an effort to attract some attention. The marketers behind the movie have leveraged the popular video platform to create an interactive Karoake Jukebox containing songs from its edgy soundtrack. The songs of the movie are twisty and addictive, and they're creating buzz both online and offline. The jukebox looks like a typical YouTube video at first glance, but a closer look ...
Jun 20 2011
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MoSo: A Fun and Cool Video Editing App for Mac OS X
MoSo stands for movie for social communication. The service is an easy-to-use movie creator/editor for Mac, developed by Shinji Murakoshi from Japan. So far, the app has attracted over 100,000 downloads on the Mac App store. A pretty cool achievement for an app that is just a couple months old. Murakoshi recently visited Singapore and demonstrated his app live at PennUp and at Hackerspace.sg. MoSo essentially helps users to create fun looking videos within a few clicks. Unlike other video creator software, the Japanese video editing Mac app isn’t restricted by a time ...
Jun 6 2011
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Movreak: An App for Indonesian Movie Lovers
Young people in Indonesia love to watch movies. They are also avid users of social networks and mobile devices. Attempting to capitalize on all three interests is Movreak, a social network mobile app about Indonesian cinema. The name Movreak comes from combining the words 'movie' and 'freak.' It is all about viewing information about movies, writing reviews, or planning to watch movies with friends. Movreak can be freely downloaded for iOS and Symbian-based smart phones. Using Movreak, users can view information about movies now playing in cinemas, check their show times, as well as ...
Jun 4 2011
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MPAA Applauds Alibaba for Banning Pirated Discs
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has applauded Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba.com for putting a ban on the sale of pirated media. Alibaba posted the following message on its website summarizing its decision: Effective immediately, Alibaba.com and AliExpress.com have instituted a prohibition on the posting of optical discs with audio-visual content. We take this decision recognizing that the vast majority of distributors of this type of material have their own international distribution channels or authorized resellers, and that our experience is that many listings in the past have proven ...
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