🇨🇳Media in China

7 media providers in China, publishing 4 APIs.

7 providers 4 published APIs 4 indexed documents

Media in China — 7 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 4 indexed APIs.

3 of the 7 publish at least one machine-readable API; 4 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 4 minimal, 2 emerging, and 1 thin.

Leading by rating: Ximalaya, Toutiao, beva, Light Chaser Animation Studios, chushou, Kuwo Music, and 1 more.

Country membership is exact-tag only. A provider lands in China when one of its own top-level tags names the country — there is no headquarters signal on the country axis, unlike the region axis which reads tag, provider-name pattern, and stated HQ. So this cell is a floor, not a census, and it understates by construction — a media company headquartered in China that never tags itself is counted nowhere on this axis. The region cuts read the wider signal set and will generally hold more.

Providers (7)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Ximalaya Ximalaya (喜马拉雅) is China's largest online audio and podcast platform, distributing audiobooks, radio dramas, children's content, courses, news and live broadcast radio. Its deve... 2 thin
Toutiao Toutiao (今日头条) is ByteDance's AI-driven content recommendation platform, launched in 2012, aggregating news, articles, short video and micro-posts into a personalized feed for h... 1 emerging
beva beva (贝瓦网), operated by ProKids Technology Corp / 芝兰玉树(北京)科技股份有限公司, is a Chinese IP-and-technology driven family education and entertainment company. Its flagship original IP is... 1 emerging
Light Chaser Animation Studios Light Chaser Animation Studios (追光动画) is a Chinese computer-animation film studio founded in March 2013 by Gary Wang (王微), founder and former CEO of the video platform Tudou, an... 0 minimal
chushou Chushou (触手TV / 触手直播) was a China-based mobile game live-streaming platform, at one point among the largest mobile-focused game streaming services in China, letting players broa... 0 minimal
Kuwo Music Kuwo Music (酷我音乐) is a Chinese online music streaming service, founded in Beijing in 2005, that grew from a desktop music player into one of China's major consumer streaming app... 0 minimal
Super Sports Media Super Sports Media Group is an IDG Capital-backed Chinese sports-media company best known for holding the English Premier League broadcast rights in mainland China and operating... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (4)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 4 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 4 documents.

Ximalaya Open Platform API

The core Ximalaya Open Platform HTTP+JSON API on api.ximalaya.com: free on-demand content (albums, tracks, categories, tags), paid on-dem...

Ximalaya Paid Content & Distribution API

The paid-content and distribution HTTP+JSON API on mpay.ximalaya.com: product/price lookup (get_price_info, get_gradient_activity_price_i...

Toutiao Open API (OAuth + User Profile)

Toutiao account OAuth 2.0 and user-profile API, served from the open.snssdk.com host and documented on the Douyin Open Platform under the...

ProKids Copyright Content Open Platform

The 芝兰玉树版权内容开放平台 (ProKids / Beva Copyright Content Open Platform) exposes online-application content-access APIs (在线应用接入) that deliver be...

Other industries in China

Healthcare 77 Digital Health & Telehealth 57 Artificial Intelligence 43 Biotechnology & Drug Discovery 41 Retail 36 Education & EdTech 34 Supply Chain & Procurement 27 Semiconductors & Hardware 25 Life Sciences 23 Music, Audio & Creator Economy 22 Developer Tools & DevOps 21 Marketing & Advertising 19 All of China →

Media elsewhere

North America 57 Europe 16 Greater China 8 United Kingdom & Ireland 8 India & South Asia 6 Japan & Korea 5 Middle East 5 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 4 Australia & New Zealand 2 France & Iberia 2 Global / Multi-region 2 Latin America 2 All of Media →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: China and Media. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. China membership is matched on tag, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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