We've been very hard on the online video industry in China on Editechial (coverage), and that is not changing until a true revenue model starts to develop. Today the leading online video site in China, Youku, announced that they secured an additional $40 million dollars, $30 million in venture ...
In summarizing the current state of online video here is the cold hard truth: the bandwidth fees from a monopolistic CDN far exceed the advertising revenue that can be generated through the sale of in-stream and display banner ads since the online video content is completely user driven which means ...