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Sohu
Sohu is a new media, communications and mobile value-added service company in China. It is an Internet brand. Sohu is a news center, linkage entertainment market, cross-border entertainment center, sports center, and fashion culture center. Sohu is the Internet content service sponsor of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Sohu announced the unaudited financial reports for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2016. The total revenue for the year was US$1.65 billion, and the development of major business lines such as news, video, search, and games enjoyed good momentum. Among them, brand advertising revenue was 448 million U.S. dollars; Sogou revenue was 660 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 12% from 2015; online game revenue was 396 million U.S. dollars. [1]
On August 3, 2017, the "Top 100 Chinese Internet Companies" list was
released in 2017, and Sohu ranked seventh. [2]
Company Name Sohu Foreign Name SOHU Headquarters Location China Beijing Established in February 1998 Business Scope Internet Company Nature Private Enterprise Company's slogan Sohu, Zhizhi's annual turnover of US$1.65 billion (2016) Founder Zhang Chaoyang, formerly known as AIT Information Technology Co., Ltd. Listed on the company's website on July 12, 2000 http://www.sohu.com/
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Management staff
Development history
In 1995, the founder of Sohu, Zhang Chaoyang, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and returned to China. He used venture capital to establish AIT Information Technology Co., Ltd., and formally established Sohu.com in 1998.
Sohu was listed on the Nasdaq stock market in the United States in 2000.
On April 22, 2011, Sohu won the 2010-2011 China's Most Influential Internet Business Award.
On September 13, 2011, "Fortune" magazine announced the world's "100 fastest-growing companies" in 2011. Sohu ranked 89th.
As the leader of China’s Internet portals, Sohu will continue to lead and explore the path of Chinese Internet media with a view to enriching information for hundreds of millions of Internet users.
On February 1, 2016, Sohu announced its 2015 transcript. In 2015, Sohu’s total revenue reached US$1.9 billion, a 16% increase over 2014. Among them, in 2015, Sohu brand advertising revenue was US$577 million, an increase of 7% over 2014. The Sohu media platform, which includes other video services, earned revenue of US$198 million from other Sohu media businesses. Sohu video advertising revenue was US$213 million, a 21% increase over 2014; Sogou revenue was US$592 million, an increase of 53% over 2014; online game revenue was US$637 million, a decrease of 2% from 2014. [1]
News event editor
Yellow penalties
On August 20th, 2014, the Beijing Municipal Cultural Market Administrative Law Enforcement Team conducted a law enforcement inspection of Sohu.com, which is operated by Beijing Sohu Internet Information Services Co., Ltd., and found that the company provided “artificial girls’ Raiders "Online reading services such as Internet works, Beijing Municipal Cultural Market Administrative Law Enforcement Corps imposed a fine of 50,000 yuan on the company's administrative punishment. [3]
Sue today headlines
On June 24, 2014, Sohu held a media anti-piracy action conference. At the meeting, Sohu announced that it would file a lawsuit against today’s headline infringement of copyright and unfair competition, demanding that the other party stop the infringement immediately, publish an apology statement, and compensate economic losses of 11 million yuan. The Haidian District Court in Beijing has officially accepted the lawsuit. [4]
External reaction
Shortly after the Sohu Media Anti-Piracy Operation Conference ended, netizens who claimed to be headline workers today broke the news in the WeChat circle of friends. “Sohu has repeatedly asked for cooperation with today’s headlines and is now jumping out and bullying startup companies. "The employee also posted an email photo of the cooperation between the headline and Sohu.
The new China IT channel called the headline of today’s headline media, Lin Wei, who affirmed the authenticity of the photos and the circle of friends’ information. At the same time, he said that the headline today was also responding to the emergency preparation conference. [4]
Major Events Editor
Year 2014
On August 7, 2014, Sohu Corporation became a shareholder of South Korean artist Jin Xiuxian’s broker company Key East, becoming the second largest shareholder of the company. [5]
On September 18th, 2014, the National Public Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security against the Yellow River cracked down on the use of Weibo, WeChat and other platforms to disseminate pornographic information, and provided Internet sites such as "Artificial Girls' Raiders" on the Sohu blog. On-line reading services for works, the Beijing Cultural Market Administrative Law Enforcement Corps imposed a fine of RMB 50,000 on administrative fines for Sohu. [6]
On September 18, 2014, with the iOS 8 official version, the Sogou input method iPhone version officially entered the App Store, becoming the first third-party Chinese input method application since the advent of the iOS system. [7-9]
year 2013
In January 2013, Sohu continued to forge media influence and launched the new slogan, “Sohu News first known”. [10]
2012
On November 22, 2012, Sohu's channel, Sohu Promotions, was suddenly closed due to a breach of contract by advertising agencies (national agents), and agency companies in nearly one hundred cities across the country suffered heavy losses. [6]
In June 2012, Sohu focused on the city's most popular forum for owners and voices, covering more than a hundred cities and regions, with over 16.4 million registered user resources, and daily gatherings of more than 500,000 high-income, high-quality, high-purchasing users. After browsing, the total number of posts exceeded 55.8 million. [11]
year 2011
On December 14, 2011, Sohu Weibo announced today that it will donate RMB 2 million to cooperate with Professor Yu Jianrong of the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to launch and launch “Sohu Weibo Public Service Platform” with Sohu Weibo as a platform. This is also the first Weibo public service platform in China. At the same time, Sohu Weibo announced the establishment of the "Sohu Handy Charity Fund" project to promote the rapid development of public welfare. [12]
In November 2011, Sohu announced that it will begin to unify Sohu's own Sohu, Weibo, video, blog, two sentences, community and other six interactive product user names (nicknames) from December.
On March 28, 2011, Sogou officially launched Sogou High-Speed ??Browser 3.0 Preview. Based on the experience of high-speed dual-core Internet access, Sogou High-Speed ??Browser Preview 3.0 was the first to offer “web page update reminder” services and continues to lead the innovation and upgrade of domestic browsers. [13]
On February 14th, 2011, Sohu Video launched the portal drama "More Than Money Is Married". [14]
On February 25, 2011, Sogou Map launched a 73-city 3D city map. [15]
On January 11, 2011, the Sohu WORLD Marketing Conference with the theme of "Refresh" was opened in Beijing. Sohu will continue to lead the development and innovation of new media in China with the concepts of "big communication, new fashion," "great industry, new life," and "big product and new interaction." [16]
On January 31, 2011, Sohu Group released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2010 and 2010. Sohu’s revenue in 2010 broke a record high of US$600 million, and the “Re-create Sohu” business was fully developed. [17]
year 2010
On December 3, 2010, Sohu Video hosted the "Sohu Video 3D Drive Speeding up China Video 2011" conference in Beijing. [18]
In December 2010, Sohu and Unilever reached a strategic cooperation agreement. [19]
In December 2010, Nokia teamed up with Sohu to create an upsurge of "creation" in China, with a total of 60 million creative video plays. [20]
On November 12, 2010, Sohu Second-hand Housing Group established by Sohu Focus Network Investment was formally established, and online platform Sohu second-hand housing network was also released in the same period. [twenty one]
On October 25, 2010, Sohu Group released its financial report for the third quarter of 2010. The financial report showed that Sohu's business was full of red lines, with total revenue and multiple revenues hitting a record. [twenty two]
In September 2010, Sohu Video's stand-alone drama "Marriage Defence" played over 200 million in 15 days, becoming the first TV drama to enter "200 million" broadcast volume in the history of China's online video. Sohu became the country's leading broadcast platform for hits. [twenty three]
On September 10, 2010, Sohu Corporation held a grand report conference on the Guangzhou Asian Games 2010 in Guangzhou. [twenty four]
In August 2010, according to statistics from comScore, a well-known Internet traffic monitoring and analysis agency, Sohu Video ranked first in the portal site and ranked third in the domestic video site's video streaming volume (VV) statistics for two consecutive months. [25]
On August 9, 2010, Sohu made a strategic reorganization of Sogou and introduced Alibaba as a strategic investment. [26]
On July 10, 2010, Sohu Company held a "unique" World Cup Salon - "Hugging a Brand World Cup" with Sohu.com, more than 30 partners, including advertisers, academic institutions and media organizations, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sports Marketing and Brand Communication Salon. [27]
In June 2010, Sohu launched Sohu Aijia Group and became the first portal to enter the group buying business. [28]
On June 30, 2010, Sohu Video reached strategic cooperation with the three major TV stations in South Korea, signing South Korean Seoul TV (SBS), Korean National Television (KBS), and Korean Broadcasting and Television (MBC) all hitting Korean dramas in the next three years. In the past 10 years, the classic repertoire included 486 7,360 hours of more than 9,800 sets of Korean drama resources, becoming the largest Korean video play platform in China. [29]
On June 11th, 2010, the “World Cup Audience Media Habit Survey Survey” released by CCTV Market Research (CTR) showed that Sohu is a website for Internet users to follow the World Cup. [30]
On June 20, 2010, the "Telecom Market Competitiveness Evaluation Center" jointly operated by Sohu and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications was officially opened. [31]
In May 2010, Sohu partnered with China Network Television (CNTV) to obtain rights to Internet video on demand in 64 games, opening and closing ceremonies, event collections, and related CCTV programs. [32]
On April 29th, 2010, Nokia joined hands with Sohu and Tudou to jointly create the “Internet Application for China to Create” consumer Internet Application Creative Contest. The activity of Sohu media inspires the original passion of netizens, and 150,000 works compete for the “most Chinese creation”. Awards". [33]
On April 12, 2010, Sohu officially announced Sohu Weibo’s open beta, which heralded Sohu’s entry into the Chinese Internet microblog market. [34]
On April 8, 2010, the official release of Sogou High-Speed ??Browser Version 2.0 officially brought the browser to the age of speed. [35]
On March 25th, 2010, Sogou input method released the official version 5.0, and for the first time applied "cloud computing" technology to the Sogou input method client. [36]
On February 3, 2010, Sohu Summit 2010 - New Perspective was held in Beijing. More than a hundred well-known economists, entrepreneurs, sociologists and media elites gathered to explain the common challenges facing China and the world today. [37]
On January 29, 2010, “2010 Sohu WORLD” was launched in Beijing to promote Sohu’s HD video, World Cup, World Expo and other marketing platforms. Sohu IT teamed up with Baidu Post Bar to build China’s largest digital consumer community. [38]
Year 2009
December 22, 2009, Sohu joint cool 6 to build millions of international copyright procurement funds. [39]
December 7, 2009, Sohu and the United States Warner Bros., the world's first free online on demand. [40]
On November 3, 2009, Sogou's global devaluation of cloud input led the new direction. [41]
On September 7, 2009, Sohu Video launched the Sohu HD Documentary Channel and the French Film Zone. [42]
On September 15, 2009, the "China Network Video Anti-Piracy Alliance" was launched in Beijing. It was jointly initiated by representatives from three domestic new media copyright owners and distributors, including Excitement Network, Youppo, and Sohu Video. Copyright co-founded by each party.
On August 19th, 2009, Sohu's SNS website launched a public charity event entitled "White Society Lives in a Green Forest in Other Places - Our Contribution" to promote a low-carbon, environmentally friendly lifestyle and jointly "plant". Full of green future. [43]
On July 2nd, 2009, Sohu Golf Channel was newly launched - creating the most influential golf communication platform. [44]
On July 27, 2009, the "Sohu Entrepreneur Forum" was launched in Beijing to create a platform for the dissemination of new media portals with the largest voice of entrepreneurs. [45]
On June 5, 2009, Sogou pinyin input method was three years old. Sohu Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Zhang Chaoyang sent a message to all Internet users and hoped that the Sogou input method would bring more convenience and happiness to Internet users. [46]
On June 12, 2009, Sohu 3G channel was formally launched to create a network marketing era of IT marketing. [47]
On January 8th, 2009, the “Sohu 2009 New Perspectives Summit Forum” took the theme of “returning to the age of innocence”, bringing together experts, scholars, and industry leaders to discuss and look forward to the opportunities that China’s social development, cultural revival, and the rise of the nation will face in 2009. And change. [48]
March 21, 2009 "2008, we walked together" The Sohu community netizen ceremony was held in Beijing. [49]
On February 12, 2009, Sohu’s “High-Definition TV Series” channel launched an exclusive premiere of more than 1,000 TV dramas. [50-51]
Year 2008
In 2008, through the most authoritative, fast, comprehensive, and professional coverage of the Beijing Olympics, Sohu earned the highest user-first-rate and highest user satisfaction on the portal. [52]
On August 15, 2008, during the first week of the Olympic Games, Sohu created a number of records including a five-minute visit with 3 million visits and a one-hour visit to Chinese websites such as billions of websites, and even the global Internet. [53]
August 13, 2008, "Sohu Liang
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