Wedding videos don’t always turn out the way their makers intended (all that shaky camerawork). Youku and Tudou, China’s two biggest online video websites, may have higher hopes for their own marriage. Their merger agreement yesterday will see the two companies combine in a $4.5bn, all-share transaction to compete better in the world’s biggest internet market. It is a defensive move: growth in China’s online video market may well have peaked.
婚礼录像并不总能达到新人们的预期,想想那些晃动的画面吧。但中国两家最大的在线视频网站——优酷(Youku)和土豆(Tudou)——对它们的联姻寄予了厚望。这两家公司于3月11日以100%换股的方式达成合并协议,合并后的公司市值45亿美元,此举旨在加强它们在世界上最大互联网市场上的竞争地位。这也是一种防御性的举措:中国在线视频市场的增长或许已经过了巅峰期。
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