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Douyu is China's most-watched game streaming platform with highly competitive esport players. Active Users: 170 million monthly users updated in 2019. Target Demographic: Young professional or amatuer gamers. Suitable For: Content marketers, or influencer marketers. Available Language (s): Chinese. Learn More. Homepage. GETTING STARTED.
Jul 9, 2019 · Amidst this expanding goldmine is Douyu, one of the top two streaming unicorns in China, who is eyeing a US IPO with an expected market cap of over $4 billion. It’s been a few months since Douyu International Holdings, the company behind arguably China’s largest live-streaming platform, announced its IPO plans.
Jul 19, 2019 · Douyu is one of China’s two largest live-streaming sites with a focus on game-related content. By out-fundraising rivals and poaching top streamers, it survived China’s live streaming...
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Douyu, also known as 斗鱼, is one of the largest Chinese videos live streaming service platforms, focusing on esports and online gaming. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Wuhan, China, the live-stream platform provides live content such as games, sports, variety shows, entertainment, and more.
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Like many Chinese tech entrepreneurs, David Xueling Li (李学凌) started his career as a journalist and editor. A philosophy graduate, Li had worked at news portal Sohu as an IT editor in 2003, before joining then-up-and-coming internet company NetEase as editor-in-chief of its news section. Li was not only interested in journalism, but also clearly pa...
Compared to YY and Huya, Douyu arrived to the game much later. Its history dates back to the Chinese anime site AcFun,which was nicknamed “A-site” (A站). AcFun predated streaming site Bilibili (B站 or “B-site”) and actually helped introduce danmaku, or “bullet comments” — user-generated comments floating over a video — to the Chinese internet in 2008...
Tencent, now a hegemon in China’s online gaming industry, clearly does not think so — sources have revealedthat a Tencent-propelled merger of Huya and Douyu is already underway. Tencent currently owns 37.2% of Douyu and 50.1% of Huya, making it the largest shareholder in both companies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the rivalry between Huya and Douyu has...
Dec 9, 2022 · Most of the popular streaming platforms in China that broadcast games and esports events (such as Huya and Douyu) do not show the number of viewers, but rather a quite abstract metric named The Heat (also known as "popularity index", "hot index", etc.) during broadcasts.
Nov 12, 2020 · On Oct. 12, the two platforms that make up about 80 percent of China's game live-streaming market said that they have agreed to merge. That would mean that Douyu becomes a unit of Huya. Tencent Holding would have almost 68 percent of the new behemoth's voting power via its affiliates.
