It is the merger of Youku and Tudou.

Tudou account is not a software, but an account on Tudou.com; Tudou is a short video platform under Alibaba Culture and Entertainment Group. With the slogan "As long as it is interesting all the time", Tudou calls for interesting short videos from all over the world; In March 2012, Youku and Tudou merged; the website supports multiple login methods, including QQ login, WeChat login, and Alipay login.

On October 16, 2015, Alibaba Group announced that it had issued an offer to the board of directors of Youku Tudou to acquire all remaining outstanding shares of Youku Tudou. Calculated at US$26.60 per ADS, the total amount is expected to exceed 4.5 billion. US dollars; at the same time, Alibaba proposed that Youku founder Gu Yongqiang continue to serve as chairman and CEO of Youku Tudou; this tender offer has been supported by Youku’s founding shareholders, including Gu Yongqiang, becoming the fund and its related parties; after the transformation More resources will be bundled behind Tudou. The entire Alibaba Entertainment is leading the industry from products to data, and from business to technology. It can form a geometric effect on the traffic matrix, content matrix, and data matrix; at the same time, it will launch "Big Fish" Plan", as an important incentive for platform creators, aims to encourage platform creators to produce valuable, meaningful, interesting and in-depth works.