2006
On June 1, 2006, Ku6.com Company was established in a small white building at the foot of Xishan Mountain in Beijing. Here, Li Shanyou started his new journey with 2 million yuan and the ideal of "how far the dream can go, how high you can fly".
On July 17, 2006, Ku6.com went into online trial operation, which was the last one to get online among more than 200 video sites founded at that year. But no one would know that Ku6.com would be the first one to be listed in the stock market.
On September 10, 2006, China Original Union was established. Ku6.com created the leading video marketing idea – UGA, and put forward the slogan of “Make Money Together, Make Ideas Together”, which was a completely fresh idea in the industry.
2007
In March, 2007, Ku6.com established strategic cooperation with Baidu and provided Baidu with video service support to realize a win-win situation. At the same time, Baidu provided Ku6 with strategic investment to help Ku6 become the hottest video site in the year.
In May, 2007, Ku6.com obtained the first round financing capital and gained more than 10 million U.S. dollars from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DT Capital Partners, which created a 13-day financing myth. Ms. Zhang Xi from DFJ was really an important person to provide timely help when Ku6 was in difficulty.
2008
On June 5, 2008, Ku6.com became the first video sharing website to gain license issued by SARFT and began to lead the industry of “privately owned” video sites. At the same time, Ku6.com earned the second investment with several newly added funders such as UMC and SBI.
In August, 2008, Ku6.com, together with cctv.com, became the exclusive VOD partner of 2008 Olympic Games and then took advantage of this event, Ku6.com greatly improved its flow and influence to become the top video site in China.
2009
On November 27, 2009, Ku6.com joined Shanda Group officially and merged with Hurray to be listed, becoming the first listed video site worldwide and also the first listed site since the domestic 2.0 pioneering wave in China. Preliminarily speaking, it realized its entrepreneurship ideal.
In December, 2009, Ku6.com held news release conference in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou with the theme of “New Pattern, Big Dream” and declared to invest 300 million yuan for overall copyright protection so as to become the flagship of copyright video sites among its counterparts.
2010
On January 22, 2010, Ku6.com held press conference to announce that it occupied 70% market share solely in home-made hottest plays, leading the domestic video site industry and its copyright promotion also received favorable comments.
In February, 2010, Ku6.com exclusively broadcasted live the Spring Festival Galas of seven TV stations, providing netizens with wonderful Spring Festival Galas through the new media for the first time in China. It was welcomed by many netizens and also created a new mode of live broadcast.
In March, 2010, Ku6.com reported the National People's Congress(NPC) and National Committee of the Political Consultative Conference and its rich and comprehensive reports showed its authority as mainstream video site media and reflected the power of new media.
On March 31, 2010, “Ku6 Theater” went online officially, which marked the separation of long and short videos of Ku6.com and the official birth of China’s hulu mode. Meanwhile, Ku6.com won the right to exclusively broadcast the new edition of the “Four Classic Novels” online through the video sharing platform, which attracted wide attentions in the industry.
On April 23, 2010, Ku6.com reached FIFA World Cup cooperation with CNTV and became the first video site to cooperate with 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Meanwhile, Ku6.com’s exclusive nested videos broadcasted real-time World Cup games.
On May 5, 2010, Ku6.com moved to Zhengtong Times Creating Park and Ku6.com would stand on a new higher starting point to take off and realize bigger dreams.
On June 1, 2010, Hurray gave up wireless and music business and Ku6.com was independently listed in the stock market ahead of time.
On July 18, 2010, data from several third party authoritative companies showed that during the period of FIFA World Cup South Africa, Ku6.com ran first in the aspect of flow, contents and income and became the biggest winner of video sites.
