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PPLive

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PPLive is a leading online TV company in China. Founded in 2004, as the first China online video media, PPLive offers the most influential and high sticky online TV services, PPTV.

PPTV provides both live streaming and video–on-demand services throughout China. It is the largest aggregator of China TV programs with over 120 TV stations, several hundred live channels and 20,000 VOD channels.

PPTV has more than 200 million user installations and 105 million active monthly user base (as of Dec 2010), and 43% penetration of Chinese internet users. With its innovative user experiences, such as live chatting, and SNS, average viewing time per person per day has reach over 2 hours and 30 minutes, the highest stickiness among all China websites.

PPLive has developed a world-class and extremly scalable video distribution platform that delivers better quality videos faster, smoother and more cost efficient than competitors. PPLive has established an extremely large, super-performance and cost-effective video delivery platform - PPCloud(TM). PPCloud(TM) is composed of thousands of servers and over 50 hosting data center presence across China. PPLive owns over 50 patents in video distribution platform technologies.

PPLive is expanding its online TV business from PC to an ecosystem of any Internet enabled devices. PPLive is positioned to be the best online TV platform providing the highest quality videos anytime anywhere on any devices.

Recent Milestones

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  PPLive received $250M in Series D funding. (2/4/11)
  Posted 2/4/11 at 6:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  PPLive received $15M in Series C funding. (12/2/09)
  Posted 1/18/10 at 2:38am via p2pon.com
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  PPLive received $21M in Series B funding. (9/27/07)
  Posted 9/5/08 at 12:15pm via thealarmclock.com
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  PPLive received $500k in Seed funding. (1/1/05)
  Posted 10/21/10 at 10:38am
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  PPLive added Jui Tan as board of directors.
  Posted 8/22/08 at 3:14pm
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  PPLive added Vincent Tao as CEO.
  Posted 11/20/10 at 7:36pm
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  PPLive added Bill Yao as Founder and President.
  Posted 11/20/10 at 7:36pm

Videos

Screenshots

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Products

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PP.TV - An Online TV Search Site

PPBox - Connected TV Solution

PPTV - An Online TV Portal

PPVA - universal video acceleration software

Sources

1. EDGAR [edit]
2. Chinese Video Biz PPLive Raises $21M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
3. PPLive Gets New Funding (p2pon.com) [edit]
4. Chinese Online Video Company PPLive Raises A Whopping $250 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]

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