Category Archives: Media business

Is there such a thing as Chinese indie music?

Blogger Wan Yi writes about the sad state of Chinese independent record labels.

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Murdoch retreats, China Mobile advances into TV

Rupert retreats Image from Sydney Morning Herald Mure Dickie of the Financial Times reports: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is to sell a 20 per cent stake in Phoenix Satellite Television, its Hong Kong-based Chinese TV joint venture, to China Mobile, … Continue reading →

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Chinese businessman buys Arab TV station

Wenzhou entrepreneurs: going global The Shanghai Daily published a story today titled: Wenzhou businessman buys Arab TV station. Wenzhou is a city in Zhejiang whose natives are famous for the business acumen. Many of them have gone abroad in search … Continue reading →

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Ming magazine and a lament from a Rolling Stone fan

Rolling Stone fails.

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China Daily: Antiwave and CCTV

Excerpt from China Daily article ‘New forms of new media are in vogue’ by Raymond Zhou and Wang Zhuoqiong

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Latest Super Girls rumors: resurrections and legal troubles

Rundown of the latest Super Girl rumors concerning Zhang Yafei, Li Na, and Li Weiwei. (超级女生, 张亚飞, 厉娜, 李薇薇)

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Wait, what’s the name of this magazine again?

How publishers manipulate publication licenses (国内统一刊号), along with an interactive gallery of Chinese magazine covers.

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Photos of Liu Xiang and flying cranes

Only 60% of ‘My Heart is Flying: A Liu Xiang Photobook’ (我心飞翔·刘翔写真集) concerns the Olympic hurdles champion. The rest talks about cranes, the emblem of the Baisha tobacco company. Is this symptomatic of problems within the Chinese celebrity endorsement system?

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The cost of marketing a young web author

Marketing figures for the print version of young author Lin Qianyu’s online novel Carefree: A Crusade Legend (林千羽, 《逍遥·圣战传说》), serialized on Sina and published by Zhaohua Press.

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Bilingual brands: Google China’s GuGe yarn continues

Google, the world’s largest media company, doesn’t seem draw much comfort from its activities in China. Earlier this year, Google copped some flak over the launch of Google.cn, a local version of its search engine that saves people the trouble of clicking through links that are inaccessible from China. A recent Keynote survey declared Google to be China’s “best search engine” as far as user experience goes, but the American giant is still trailing behind local rival Baidu, which controls roughly 50% of the local market.

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