The Guardian has a great interview with the head of Tudou.com , China ’s answer to Youtube . Tudou means potato in Chinese , intend to refer “ couch white potato . ” CEO Gary Wang started the video - sharing site up four age ago after discovering the vast amount of governance regulation involved if he wanted to go into television entertainment .
“ There are things you may not do in China because of sure regulations , ” say Wang . “ TV is plainly off point of accumulation . If you take away TV you did n’t have a big grocery , so I commence recall how to play entertainment to China , where there were already 10 to 20 million broadband users and I knew it would work up up . ”
Of course , the 10 to 20 million figure is from 2004 . Now , China boasts almost the same amount of internet users as the population of the United States . Tudou , which as develop threefold since just last year , now serves 100 million videos a day and garners about 75 million unique users a month . Though only about 5 per centum of the videos on the site generate ad revenue , that ’s already good than Youtube ’s 3 per centum figure . The biggest problems Tudou side is , not amazingly , the Chinese government . Wang employs about 100 people that focalize just on vetting video that are upload to the site – lest they be copyright … or , more significantly , contain ban political contentedness . After all , since his server and stave are all in China , a fellowship shut out down notice is literally always one uncensored snip away . [ Guardian UK ]
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