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April 2, 2008

Korea’s Pandora.TV Looks To International Markets

Duncan Riley

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pandora-logp.gifPandora.TV, South Korea’s largest user generated video site, is expanding into new markets with additional language support and features.

Pandora.TV launched in 2004 and has grown to become the “YouTube of Korea,” ranking as the countries 24th most popular site according to Alexa (comScore data is not available) with 20 million monthly unique visitors, 2.5 billion monthly page views with 2.5 million hosted videos. Notably the company has taken $16 million over two rounds from Altos Ventures and DCM, said to be the largest foreign investment made in a Korean internet startup.

Pandora.TV offers a mix of YouTube style videos and Live streaming. Like YouTube, videos can be embedded, voted upon and comments left on each page. A key selling point is unlimited video storage.

As of today Pandora.TV is now available in English, Chinese, Japanese as well as its native Korean. New features rolled out with the international expansion include HD quality video playback (H.264 codec support), multiple video upload (up to 5 files simultaneously), unlimited category creation and site widgets. Pandora.TV has also claimed cross-browser support as a new feature, however the Live Streaming service requires a download to view and stream that is only available to Windows users.

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  1. eBranchOffice.com

    April 2nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    I can’t wait for the convergence of the internet and our television sets so we can finally kick the monopoly cable line-ups to the curb.

  2. Jason Dolby

    April 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    Dunan.. I was giving you a 3rd chance up to the point where you said “according to Alexa”. Welcome to the shit pool of people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

  3. Jason Dolby

    April 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    Duncan’s Point:

    Pandora: Bad.
    YouTube: Good.

  4. China Chair

    April 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    http://www.watchhandbag.com
    TV is now available in English, Chinese, Japanese as well as its native Korean.

  5. Steve Lee

    April 2nd, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    At least their HD video seems to be much better quality than Dailymotion’s. Heard the news from Korean media that they’re using their own P2P streaming tech. Perhaps any guru out-there can do some comparison with others? (I’m not really a tech guy. =)) Oh, you need to download a P2P software to view HD video from Pandora.tv.

  6. Duncan Riley

    April 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    Jason #2
    As I noted in the post: comScore wasn’t available for the site, given there are zero other alternatives I went with Alexa with that proviso (it’s a given Alexa is shit, but sometimes they’re the only option, particularly for Asian countries). If you cant get that I put you in the shit pool of people who a certifiably retarded ;-)

  7. China Chair

    April 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    Jason Dolby is right ,ah

  8. alan

    April 3rd, 2008 at 5:56 am

    Pandora-

    you should get your live streaming feeds indexed and searchable next to others like Ustream, yhoo.live, blogtv, and others on NowHound….we would love to get you listed.

    http://www.NowHound.com

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