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PPTV, developed by PPLive, is a leading online TV service offering both live streaming and video-on-demand of TV programs/shows, movies, drama, sports, news and entertainment video contents. The service is accessible either from its website or from client software installation. It is now available for a variety of systems, including windows PC, Mac, Android mobile phones, and iPads etc. PPTV is built by its proprietary video streaming and distribution platform.

Programs

PPTV programs are targeted to Chinese audiences. Known for its live streaming capabilities, PPTV covers over 120 TV Chinese stations, 300 live channels and 20,000 VOD (video-on-demand) channels throughout China. Categories include live TV programs/shows and movies, TV drama etc. Also available are some specialties covering sports, news, game shows, entertainment programs etc. Most available programs are in Mandarin, Cantonese or Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

. There is also an increasing number of programs in English, such as Hollywood blockbuster

Blockbuster (entertainment)

Blockbuster, as applied to film or theatre, denotes a very popular or successful production. The entertainment industry use was originally theatrical slang referring to a particularly successful play but is now used primarily by the film industry...

movies and popular American or Korean TV shows. All these English-speaking shows are hard-coded with Chinese subtitles.

PPTV has recently extended its program to cover live streaming of many live events, including Hunan Super Girl show, China Talent show, Auto show. They have also started to product their own live shows such as financing, education, entertainment shows etc. PPTV has also invested in producing online drama (made specially for internet audience) in cooperation of other media groups and studios.

Technology

PPLive has developed a new generation of video streaming and distribution platform, known as PPCloud. Its platform has migrated to a hybrid CDN-P2P cloud technology, called PPCloud. The platform is considered as scalable and cost-effective as it combines cloud and p2p computing algorithms. Its platform has been applied to online TV, Internet TV, and Smart TV

Smart TV

Smart TV, which is also sometimes referred to as "Connected TV" or "Hybrid TV", , is the phrase used to describe the current trend of integration of the internet and Web 2.0 features into modern television sets and set-top boxes, as well as the technological convergence between computers and these...

. The company claimed that they have filed nearly 50 patents in this area.

User Base

The company claimed that they have more than 200 million user installations and 105 million active monthly user base (as of Dec 2010). The most impressive number is that their audience base is sticky - average viewing time per day per person is about 2 hours and 30 min, which is perhaps the highest number among Chinese Internet web properties.

Features

Both web and client access available for many platforms and devices.
Simple, intuitive and user friendly interface.
Using P2P
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...

technology, the more people watch, the more fluent the speed of PPTV will become.
The most comprehensive online Live TV programs.
Rich contents, support for personlized categories.
A lot of social funcations built-in such as SNS, twitter-like chatting, live chatting while watching the program.
Support for program searching and real-time search function.
Excellent cache
Cache
In computer engineering, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere...

technology which cannot do harm for hard disk
Hard disk
A hard disk drive is a non-volatile, random access digital magnetic data storage device. It features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platter by read/write heads that float on a film of air above the...

.
Support multi-languages, including simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, English, Spanish, France and German.
The programs you watch recently will be added into recent watching category of favorite.
Intranet users share playing function.

Channel categories

Channel contents will be updated at any time. Current channel categories are as follows:

Latest on-line
TV Live
Hot movie
Chinese film
Overseas film
Mainland theatre
Hongkong and Taiwan theatre
Overseas theatre
Hot anime
Mischievous cartoon
Game blog
Sports
Entertainments
Fashion club
Music grand ceremony
Discovery
Broadband Phoenix
Xinhua living broadcast
Star Entertainment
2007 MTV Grand Ceremony
Stock and finance
Auto show

Milestone

January 2010: "Red Herring Global 100” , the only internet video company winning this award.
January 2010: Release of new brand, PPTV, aiming to provide users with rich PPC (professional produced contents) and live programs available from both website and client software download.
December, 2009: Closed the C Round private investment and received an equity investment by a funds program managed by the Shanghai Government.
May, 2009: Dr Vincent Chuang Tao (陶闯) joined PPLive as CEO. Vincent is ex-executive from Microsoft. He is founding member and Director of Microsoft Virtual Earth. He was Founder and CEO of GeoTango, acquired by Microsoft in 2005, a developer of GlobeView, the first 3D earth mapping program online.
August 2008: broadcasted the entire Olympic Games live throughout the game, creating its historical record, 500 million co-current viewers.
May 2008: PPLive cooperated with ifeng.com (Phoenix TV joint venture) and produced the first online TV drama 《Y.E.A.H》 with a total of 52 episodes, hitting all time high in terms of audience viewing rate.
April 2007: PPLive was listed on FORTUNE magazine as 'Cool Companies 2007'.
September 2006: PPLive gained the largest market share in the online video P2P streaming market,according to iResearch Consulting Group
IResearch Consulting Group
iResearch Consulting Group is a professional market research company and is a leading supplier of online business and new economy developments service in China. The company focuses on Internet media, e-commerce, online games, wireless value-added, and various new economic fields, which relate to...

China P2P Streaming Research Report 2006.
May 2005: Shanghai SynaCast Media Tech. Co.,Ltd (PPLive) was registered.
December 2004: The first version of PPLive was born at HuaZhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China.

History

February 2010: Awarded the “Annual Award of Outstanding Product Online of Zhongguancun” by ZOL.
January 2010: "Red Herring Global 100” , the only internet video company winning this award.
January 2010: “China Enterprise Award for Best Brand Communication” , Annual Meeting of China Enterprise and Media.
December 2009: “2009 Internet TV Software Product Awards” from Celestial Pole Medium.
December 2009: Bill Xin Yao, the founder and president of PPLive, honored as Shanghai Youth Entrepreneurship Pioneer Award and Innovative Contribution Award.
November 2009: Award '2009 China Outstanding Marketing Campaign” and the Award '2009 Brand Innovative Marketing Media”.
November 2009: Awarded '2009 Brand Marketing Innovative Media”, 2009 China Innovative Marketing Summit
November 2009: Awarded for 'China TOP 10 Active Video Brand Websites”, China International Brand Congress.
May, 2009: Dr Vincent Tao joined PPLive as CEO. Prior to this, Vincent is ex-executive from Microsoft USA.
May 2009: Awarded " Qing Dynasties – 2009 the TOP50 Enterprises with Best Investment Value in China”.
January 2009: honored the “Internet User’s Choice Award” in an annual awards program for common software by PConline.
December 2008: honored the “Most Popular Software Award” in a software evaluation program by skycn.com.
December 2008: honored the “Best Entertainment Company Award” by China’s Software Industry Summit.
December 2008: honored the “Best IPTV Editor’s Choice Award” in an evaluation by PChome’s download center.
December 2008: as the only online video company nominated among Asia Top 100, honored the “Most Promising Company Award” by Red Herring.
August 2008: broadcasted the entire Olympic Games live throughout the game, creating its historical record, 500 million co-current viewers.
May 2008: PPLive cooperated with ifeng.com (Phoenix TV joint veture) and produced the first online TV drama 《Y.E.A.H》 with a total of 52 episodes, hitting all time high in terms of audience viewing rate.
May 2008: PPLive reach 100 million users worldwide, which further strengthened its leading position in the online video industry.
April 2008: PPLive was among the first group that obtained the “License for Publication of Audio-Visual Programs through Information Network” from the State Administration of Radio,Film and Television (SARFT).
May 2007: PPLive formally entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with SMG’s subsidiary SMGBB,creating a broadcasting platform for both live and on-demand streaming of SMG's contents.
April 2007: PPLive was honored the “2007 iResearch New Economy Award – Potential Enterprise of Development” and “2007 iResearch New Economy Award – Person of the Year” .
April 2007: PPLive was listed as FORTUNE magazine's 'Cool Companies 2007' list.
March 2007: In the China Internet Survey CNNIC,the most reputable survey in China for the Internet market, PPLive was named as “China’s Most Leading Internet Enterprise” and the “Most Innovative Enterprise – China Top 50 Internet Brands”.
January 2007: PPLive received the Top 10 Entrepreneur Team and the Most Promising Enterprise for Investment awards at the ChinaVenture Annual Conference 2007.
January 2007: PPLive won the title of “2006 My Favorite Online Video Live Broadcasting Tool” in IT.com.cn “2006 IT Top10”.
October 2006: PPLive secured a place on the 2006 Zero2IPO-China Venture 50 list.
March 2006: PPLive received the “Internet Consumer and Enterprise Award of Internet Society of China” .
January 2006: PPLive was recognized by IT168.com as one of the 10 Most Influential Software Products in 2005.
December 2005: PPLive was named by www.pconline.com.cn as the 'Most Frequently Used Internet Software' in 2005.
September 2005: PPLive was ranked among Baidu TOP50 Search Keywords,and was included in the TOP10 software downloads.
August 2005: PPLive broadcasted live show “Super Girl Finals”, allowing 500,000 netizens to watch the live program online, setting a record in the internet industry.