Bilibili Website Information

Date launched (Founded): June 26, 2009
Category: Online video platform
Founded: June 2009; 13 years ago
Headquarters: Shanghai, China
Owner: Bilibili Inc. Shanghai Hode Information Technology Co., Ltd. Sony Group Corporation (4.98%)
Traded as: Nasdaq: BILI; SEHK: 9626

Website: bilibili.com

Bilibili Website

Bilibili, nicknamed B Site, is a video sharing website based in Shanghai where users can submit, view, and add overlaid commentary on videos. Wikipedia

History:

Inspired by similar video sharing websites, Nico Nico Douga and AcFun, Xu Yi (Chinese: 徐逸; pinyin: Xú Yì, known as “⑨bishi” on the internet) founded Bilibili in 2009. At the time, Xu Yi was an AcFun user and wanted to create a better website than AcFun.

He spent three days creating a prototype website named Mikufans.cn as a fandom community of Hatsune Miku. As it grew, he reshaped the website to specialise in video sharing and launched it on 14 January 2010 with the name Bilibili, which is the nickname of the protagonist Mikoto Misaka in the anime A Certain Scientific Railgun. Bilibili also names many of its features after the anime. Bilibili celebrates Mikoto Misaka’s birthday on its homepage every year on 2 May.

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