Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Danwei TV outperforms Budweiser TV

Posted on 2007-04-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

In an article titled Traffic Plummets at Struggling Bud.TV, Advertising Age gives some figures for American beer giant Budweiser’s online video channel Bud.tv. Bud.tv’s statistics are indeed underwhelming: Bud.TV drew 152,000 unique visitors last month, 40% fewer than February’s 253,000 … Continue reading →

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Baidu Japan blocked in China

Posted on 2007-04-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The delicious ironies of 21st century China: Baidu.com — China’s premier search engine — has a Japanese site at baidu.jp which has just been blocked by China’s Net Nanny. Welcome to the big wide world Baidu! It’s a scary place, … Continue reading →

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Fast-paced lives of film subtitlers

Posted on 2007-04-13 by Joel Martinsen

YWeekend (北京青年周末) has a story about online subtitle groups that translate American TV into Chinese.

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Entertainment terrorism given free rein in print

Posted on 2007-04-12 by Joel Martinsen

Southern Weekly (南方周末, aka Southern Weekend) has a feature on Yang Lijuan (杨丽娟) and her mother. The authorities have banned other media coverage, but newspapers have been left alone.

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Gay Internet talk show

Posted on 2007-04-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A new video podcast claiming to be China’s first gay online talk show launched last night. Called Tongzhi Yi Fanren 同志亦凡人 which is the common translation for TV series Queer As folk, the show is hosted by Steven and Xiaogang, … Continue reading →

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Danwei on Hunan TV

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

湖南卫视观众你们好，欢迎访问我们的单位。这里都是英文博客。如果要看中文的东西，请看看我们的视频。 Regular readers of Danwei may have noticed a marked increase in irrelevant comments written in Chinese. This is the result of Danwei being featured for 20 minutes on Hunan Satellite TV’s tabloid news magazine, Wan Jian (晚间). The show … Continue reading →

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Online forums report about a bank shooting in Shenyang

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Joel Martinsen

The net reports on a guard shooting a bank customer in Sujiatun, Shenyang (沈阳市苏家屯).

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‘Shanghai Bride’ screening in Beijing

Posted on 2007-04-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A new film by documentary director Sam Voutas called Shanghai Bride premieres in Beijing this weekend, with screenings on Friday April 13 and Saturday 14. This is from the promotional blurb: How can an average guy land himself a wife … Continue reading →

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Junk phone calls from The Epoch Times

Posted on 2007-04-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Comrade N is an occasional contributor to Danwei. She works at the offices of a major Western media organization. She wrote this last week: This morning at 10:00, the telephone in our office rang. i picked it up, and a … Continue reading →

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Pirates are not insulting, say netizens and academics

Posted on 2007-04-08 by Joel Martinsen

Chow Yun-fat is a pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean. This insults the Chinese people, say some. Will SARFT block the film’s release?

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