Chinese clone YouTube

James Seng points out 6rooms, a Chinese clone of YouTube.  Surfing further on the subject, the best information I could find was this post from Brian Curtis, especially his further discussion in the comments area.

Actually, www.yoqoo.com was recently brought to my attention, as was www.56.com. According to Alexa, they rank:

1) 56.com
2) 6rooms.com
3) yoqoo.com
4) toodou.com (dead last)

Drives home the point that being first to market and well funded is not good enough…

Each time I’ve checked, YouTube was accesible in China. However, the censors can run hot and cold on certain sites. I am not in China at the moment to verify current status.

So a Chinese video market is emerging.  6rooms appears to have a bit over 100K videos up as of today - clearly a tiny fraction of YouTube's inventory.  On the other hand, the Chinese market is large and they are actually ahead on some video applications, like peer-to-peer TV.  So it will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next 12-18 months.

Comments

[Gang Lu]

There are quite a few YouTube clones in China, and Toodou.com actually is the NO1 in chinese video-sharing market. It has secured $8.5million funding from GGV, JAFCO and IDG.

[youtube clone]

well they all look good youtube clones are they really do what all youtube use to do ?

[chu lee]

This list keeps on increasing, I found another youtube clone which has lots of content and seems very popular. Its called layfile, I dont know why they called layfile, may be they copied putfile. :)