Baidu takes aim at ByteDance and Tencent with internal video merger

Haokan and Quanmin brands to target different parts of booming short-clip market

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As of June, China had 818 million short-video platform users, more than half of the nation’s entire population. © Reuters

LIU PEILIN, ANNIEK BAO and FLYNN MURPHY, Caixin

Search giant Baidu has combined its two short-video units into one business, as it eyes a larger slice of a $19.3 billion market dominated by Tencent and ByteDance.

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