Tudou
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Screenshot of Tudou home page
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| Type of business |
Private VC-Funded |
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Type of site
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Video hosting service |
| Available in | Chinese |
| Founded | February 15, 2005 |
| Headquarters | Shanghai, China |
| Key people |
Gary Wang, CEO Sam Lai, CFO Grace Wang, CAO Sarah Jiang, CCO Evelyn Wang, CSO Deng Wei, VP Anita Huang, VP Yongzhu Song, VP Yu Bin, VP |
| Parent | Youku Tudou |
| Slogan(s) | "Today's TV Network, Tomorrow's Tudou" 每个人都是生活的导演 |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 594 (April 2014[update]) |
| Registration | Optional (required to upload) |
| Launched | February 15, 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
Tudou, Inc. (simplified Chinese: 土豆网; traditional Chinese: 土豆網; pinyin: Tǔdòu Wǎng; literally: "Potato Net") is a video-sharing website headquartered in Shanghai, China, where users can upload, view and share video clips. Tudou went live on April 15, 2005 and by September 2007 served over 55 million videos each day.
Tudou states they are one of the world's largest bandwidth users, moving more than 1 Petabyte per day to 7 million users. YouTube serves a larger number of videos per day, but since the average Tudou video is longer in duration, meaning the total amount of minutes of video being streamed daily from Tudou is significantly larger - about 15 billion minutes vs. 3 billion for YouTube.
The Shanghai-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to publish more than 50,000 new videos each day, including amateur content such as videoblogging and original videos, movie and TV clips, and music videos. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos, using on-line and Windows-based upload tools.
On March 12, 2012, it was announced that Youku reached an agreement to acquire Tudou in a stock-for-stock transaction, and the new entity will be named Youku Tudou Inc.
Tudou was founded by Gary Wang and Dutchman Marc van der Chijs, whom Wang met while at Bertelsmann Media Group in China. The name Tudou is Chinese Pinyin (Romanized Chinese) for Potato. It was previously known as Toodou.com, and changed its domain name to Tudou.com in August 2006 when that domain became available. According to CEO Wang, the name comes from the English idiom "couch potato." He stated that his goal was to move couch potatoes from the television screen to the computer screen.
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