Chinese Video sites Youku and Tudou set to take over?

We all know that China is getting bigger and buying up all the Western Companies, buying up all our resources, oil and minerals. But even worse it looks like it will take over internet TV.

Latest figures show that the Chinese are now the biggest user of the internet in the world and they supply all the best P2P software too..

Latest data from the China Internet TV Network Information Center showed that China’s internet useage reached 220 million at the beginning of 2008, The American internet useage was 216 million during the same period.

Interestingly in this enormous market, a battle is raging between the two biggest Chinese YouTube copycat websites. Both Youku and Tudou are after the massive Chinese viewing public and it has encouraged Western Companies to get involved namely Myspace.

Youku has joined forces with MySpace China to try and target the market. Youku CEO Victor Koo: “The partnership is aimed at driving Internet traffic to both Web sites and sharing online products”.

Both video sites are growing at an awesome speed. Youku has seen a 20 plus fold video views growth to more than 100 million daily video views and Tudou has grown from 131 to over 360 million video clips viewed per week during a 3 month period.

Of course you still have the problems that they are both sooo S-L-O-W and it would be nice to see them in English but hey ho..Im just nitpicking here.

At this rate and if they find a way to monetize and monopolise on there enormous audience then Youtube will soon be the little baby of worldwide video sharing sites.

Watch China Internet TV here

Look out for our guide to watching and downloading movies and tv from China soon.

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