bilibili
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- Current Company Name: bilibili [2010-01-24] ビリビリ, 哔哩哔哩 嗶哩嗶哩Former Company Name: Mikufans [2009-05-26 - 2010-01-24]Type: FirmHeadquarters: ChinaFoundation date: 26.06.2009Subsidiary: Children’s Playground Entertainment Inc. (2010-04-10 - ?), Bilibili Comics Pte. Ltd. (2021-02-08 - 2024-02-29), Shanghai Haoliners Cultures Media Co., Ltd.
Description
bilibili is a Chinese web video portal. It is comparable to Youtube, but is primarily limited to Chinese content revolving around anime, manga and video games.
The portal was founded in 2009 by Xu Yi, who was previously a user of the video portal AcFun and was bothered by various things. Within a few days, he created a prototype under the domain Mikufans.cn, which was initially intended as a fan site for fans of Hatsune Miku. Due to the popularity of the site, he revised it and launched the new portal under the name bilibili in mid-January 2010. The name is also the nickname of Mikoto Misaka from “A Certain Scientific Railgun”. In general, one finds several allusions to both the character and the anime on the portal. For example, you can’t give likes, but you can give coins.
The site was based under the top-level domain .us until 2011, but had to give it up because only US citizens living in the USA are allowed to use this domain. The portal then switched to the extension .tv.
Due to its increasing popularity, Xu Yi founded his own company called Hangzhou Huandian Technology at the end of 2011, which primarily takes care of the operation and development of the company.
In April 2012, a partnership with the Japanese web video portal Nico Nico Douga took place. The aim of this was to broadcast Chinese episodes of the popular anime “Fate/Zero”. The episodes were censored and after less than three episodes the broadcast had to be stopped. According to various sources, there was a lack of state permission for such a broadcast. Hangzhou Huandian Technology had to pay a penalty of 10,000 yuan.
In August 2012, the logo on the website was changed to show that the site now belonged to the state-owned Shanghai Media Group. This cooperation is intended to prevent problems like those with “Fate/Zero”.
With the announcement of the broadcast of the Japanese TV series “Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku” in July 2014, the first licence was acquired with which it was only possible to watch the series with a Chinese IP, even if the newly introduced website currency B-Coins was explicitly spent on it in the newly launched crowdfunding offers.
Contrary to the management’s promise, 15-second commercial clips were shown beforehand for some licensed anime productions from May 2016 onwards. The corresponding demand came from the licensors, according to current managing director Chen Rui. Copyright issues followed in the same year, after which single purchase options had to be introduced for some releases. In 2017, further contracts with e.g. TV Tokyo also led to advertising blocks of up to one minute for users of the site who did not spend any money on them.
Since March 2018, the web portal has been traded on the American stock exchange NASDAQ.
In March 2019, the company announced that they had partnered with FUNimation to share licences for the American and Chinese markets. Sony Corporation of America eventually acquired 4.98% of the shares in bilibili in April 2020. Agreements were also signed to bring more anime and mobile games to the Chinese market.
On the 3rd February 2021, the company announced that they had acquired Shanghai Haoliners Cultures Media Co., Ltd. and were converting it into a subsidiary. The company is known for its brand Haoliners Animation League. Since March of the same year, the shares have also been traded on the HKEX stock exchange in Hong Kong.
Source: www.anisearch.com/company/2674
The portal was founded in 2009 by Xu Yi, who was previously a user of the video portal AcFun and was bothered by various things. Within a few days, he created a prototype under the domain Mikufans.cn, which was initially intended as a fan site for fans of Hatsune Miku. Due to the popularity of the site, he revised it and launched the new portal under the name bilibili in mid-January 2010. The name is also the nickname of Mikoto Misaka from “A Certain Scientific Railgun”. In general, one finds several allusions to both the character and the anime on the portal. For example, you can’t give likes, but you can give coins.
The site was based under the top-level domain .us until 2011, but had to give it up because only US citizens living in the USA are allowed to use this domain. The portal then switched to the extension .tv.
Due to its increasing popularity, Xu Yi founded his own company called Hangzhou Huandian Technology at the end of 2011, which primarily takes care of the operation and development of the company.
In April 2012, a partnership with the Japanese web video portal Nico Nico Douga took place. The aim of this was to broadcast Chinese episodes of the popular anime “Fate/Zero”. The episodes were censored and after less than three episodes the broadcast had to be stopped. According to various sources, there was a lack of state permission for such a broadcast. Hangzhou Huandian Technology had to pay a penalty of 10,000 yuan.
In August 2012, the logo on the website was changed to show that the site now belonged to the state-owned Shanghai Media Group. This cooperation is intended to prevent problems like those with “Fate/Zero”.
With the announcement of the broadcast of the Japanese TV series “Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku” in July 2014, the first licence was acquired with which it was only possible to watch the series with a Chinese IP, even if the newly introduced website currency B-Coins was explicitly spent on it in the newly launched crowdfunding offers.
Contrary to the management’s promise, 15-second commercial clips were shown beforehand for some licensed anime productions from May 2016 onwards. The corresponding demand came from the licensors, according to current managing director Chen Rui. Copyright issues followed in the same year, after which single purchase options had to be introduced for some releases. In 2017, further contracts with e.g. TV Tokyo also led to advertising blocks of up to one minute for users of the site who did not spend any money on them.
Since March 2018, the web portal has been traded on the American stock exchange NASDAQ.
In March 2019, the company announced that they had partnered with FUNimation to share licences for the American and Chinese markets. Sony Corporation of America eventually acquired 4.98% of the shares in bilibili in April 2020. Agreements were also signed to bring more anime and mobile games to the Chinese market.
On the 3rd February 2021, the company announced that they had acquired Shanghai Haoliners Cultures Media Co., Ltd. and were converting it into a subsidiary. The company is known for its brand Haoliners Animation League. Since March of the same year, the shares have also been traded on the HKEX stock exchange in Hong Kong.
Source: www.anisearch.com/company/2674





































