'Potato Net') is a Chinese video-sharing website headquartered in Shanghai, China, where users can upload, view and share video clips.

[4] Prior to Tudou, Wang lived in the United States and returned to China to work for multi-national companies.

Tudou was originally conceptualized as a video blogging company and the site launched on April 15, 2005, in its current format, several months after YouTube.

Its first major funding round was in 2006 for $8.5 million from IDG China, GGV Capital (formerly Granite Global Ventures), and JAFCO Asia.

Tudou's second funding was in early 2007 for $19 million and was led by Boston-based General Catalyst Partners and Shanghai-based Capital Today, with other existing investors participating.

[5] The most recent funding was announced on August 5, 2010 for $50 million from the Temasek Holdings and existing investors.

Tudou also agreed to increase its use of Intel CPUs in its rapidly growing video encoder server farms.

[11] In the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake on May 12, the service of the website was suspended until May 21 due to the period of national mourning.

Because of the copyright and licensing issues, some Tudou videos are blocked to international IP addresses.

Tudou reports that it's one of the world's largest bandwidth users, sending over 1PB (Petabyte) of video files per day, which is nearly 100 Gbit/s of sustained traffic.