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Tallying up the views from Youku, Tudou. com and other online video Web sites, it has been viewed at least several million times.

The fingerprinting technology is also being used to help Youku employees filter out content banned by the Chinese government.

The big winner seems to be Youku.

More are expected in the coming months. Youku's biggest rival, Tudou, filed plans last month to go public in the United States.

Youku's debut show that investors are willing to put profitability on hold -- but at some point the companies will need to perform.

Reflecting that, and a recognition of the competitive pressures in the sector, Youku's share price is 74% off its April peak.

China has 420 million internet users and about 75 percent of the total already watch videos online at a preferred site, Youku's Koo said.

Youku says it also takes measures to protect users by verifying all removal requests from parties who claim to be rights owners.

The video appeared on video-sharing website youku. com and quickly spread through a microblogging service run by sina. com.

Youku will also invest more in mobile video, he said.

But Victor Koo, Youku. com's CEO, says that advertising fees for Chinese video sites are a tenth of a TV ad's price and more cost-effective.

Tudou, Youku's largest rival, has also filed for a US IPO, but there is no date for the offering yet.

Online video site Youku. com Inc. is testing a service in which users would pay to watch high-definition movies and educational videos.

Youku was founded in 2006 by a former chief operating officer of Sohu. It has already attracted more visitors than Sohu.

Youku has started partnering with China's state-owned telecom operators to offer subscription-based channels with original video content.

Tudou and Youku are not television stations; Hulu's backers, like Newscorp and ABC, can simply broadcast their television content online.

Youku is also in discussions to raise as much as $40 million in additional funds, the company said.

Investors seem not to care that Youku makes no money or that management will not say when it will.

"Renren priced in its range because bankers already had Youku as a guide. "

Youku says it will distribute copies of the software to the Motion Picture Association and approved rights owners.

Approval for other foreign content on Youku is processed by the distribution agents or the studios themselves, the Youku spokeswoman said.

Since most Chinese are just discovering digital video, says Mr Koo, users generate only about a quarter of Youku's content.

Tudou, Youku's Shanghai-based competitor, said this year that it expects to break even by 2010.

A Youku spokeswoman said Warner, a unit of Time Warner Inc. (TWX), obtained approval for streaming 'Inception. '

Youku employees will review any videos in question and remove them if they are verified to be illegal copies.

Youku raised $203m in an IPO last December and another $670m in a secondary offering this year.

On Chinese video-sharing site Youku. com, her performance has also garnered many positive reviews from viewers.

But with the Internet giants muscling in it's too early for market leader Youku. com to declare victory.

In Mr. Menlow's view, Chinese companies like Youku should be categorized as high risk, high reward.

China Mobile and video share portal Youku formed a platform called M-Zone, designed for "cheering for Olympics" .

"Accident videos are almost guaranteed to get millions of views, " said Jean Shao, a Youku spokeswoman.

What's more, some people even shot the whole process and uploaded it to the youku. com.

Tudou saw its loss widen in the first half over rising operating costs and has lost market share relative to Youku and Sohu.

Youku also illustrates the fourth feature of China's internet: the role of the state.

Today, Youku estimates that 70% of the content on its site is professionally produced and licensed from more than 1, 500 content partners.

Rumors circulated last month that Tudou was in talks with companies like Youku to seek a buyer.

Investor interest in Youku has already cooled significantly.

Youku lost Rmb167m ($25m) in the first nine months of this year, according to its listing prospectus.

A competing site, Youku, priced last December and saw its shares nearly double in price in the first day of trading.

Early this month, Sohu won a copyright infringement lawsuit against Youku.

While Tudou and Youku started as YouTube copycats, with the passage of time, they have introduced more local features for their audiences.

Youku said revenue from the new platform remains small but declined to give details.

The alliance's first suit involves material used by Youku that belongs only to other Chinese companies.

Youku soon might see off its smaller rivals. But the big dogs of China's Internet won't be shaken off so easily.

The television-like feel of Youku and Tudou reflects the usage pattern of young Chinese.

Run to the Japanese sub, anti-aging skin care products ranked first in 2010. Youku has a to the power of video, you can look at.

The rest is made professionally, for instance by television stations or Youku itself.

A merger of Youku and Tudou promises market dominance. What about profits?

The research house's statistics show Youku as the market leader with about 17 per cent and Tudou as number two with about 13 per cent.

Soon two Chinese online video companies, Tudou and Youku, will be going public.

That delay allowed Youku, Tudou's larger rival, to pull ahead quickly.

The top two video sites, Youku and Tudou, have 21% and 17%, respectively, according to research firm Analysys International.

Much like Youku, Tudou, the second-largest online video site, is also expanding its exclusive content.

Youku is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Tudou on Nasdaq .

Video-sharing site Youku. com says its auto revenue in the first quarter was up 17% from the fourth quarter.

Youku raised $30 million equity financing led by Maverick Capital and $10 million equity loan.

Youku was founded in 2006 by a former chief operating officer of Sohu.

"Youku and Tudou share a similar strategic layout and operation mode, " according to the Sept. 9 Analysys report.

More than 9 per cent of shares of video streaming site Youku are being shorted.

In addition, we know, Youku and cool effects and 6 the impact on the industry, listed market potatoes are not too different?

When I ask who has watched a video on Youku or Tudou in the last 24 hours, every hand in the room goes up, accompanied by amused laughter.

Tudou and Youku. com are the top online-video websites in China.

Last week, shares of Youku, called the YouTube of China, rose 161 percent in the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

He learned to upload videos to sites like Youku. com and 56. com.

Investment banking profits are soaring as Chinese companies like Youku skip the HKSE to list in America.

The footage has been watched more than 1. 5m times on the popular Youku video sharing site.

How did you decide on the merger with Youku?

Are you concerned that the valuations of Chinese Internet companies like Renren or Youku are too high?

Like Youku, Qihoo's business focuses on the fast-growing Internet market in China.

Last year, shares in Youku, a streaming video service, surged 147 per cent, the most of any US listing since 2007.

Youku, which made 200 million yuan ($29. 3 million) in revenue last year, gets the bulk of its revenue from advertisements.

Never mind that Youku's net loss actually widened last year.

Because the costs of content and bandwidth are rising, both Youku and Tudou are losing money;