
Later in 2011, he founded a startup, Hangzhou Huandian Technology, to manage the development and operation of Bilibili. He relaunched the website in Januwith the name Bilibili. Inspired by similar video sharing websites Nico Nico Douga and AcFun, the founder of Bilibili, Xu Yi ( Chinese: 徐逸 pinyin: xúyì, known as "⑨bishi" on the internet ), created a prototype website named Mikufans.cn after college graduation in three days. Other than videos, Bilibili also offers games, mostly ACG ( animation, comic and game) themed mobile games, such as the Chinese version of Fate/Grand Order. Usually the topic is about anime, content creating, game strategy and so on. Also Bilibili provides a live streaming service where audiences can interact with streamers. Besides the dominant themes, now Bilibili offers videos of various fields, including music, dancing, science and technology, entertainment, movie, drama, fashion, daily life and even advertisement films. With the fast growing number of visitors on Bilibili, it decided to expand their functions.

Bilibili uses an Adobe Flash or HTML5 player, which can be manually switched, to play user submitted videos hosted by either itself or third- party sources, while featuring a real- time overlaying subtitle system for interactive playback experience.


Bilibili (stylized as bilibili, Chinese: 哔哩哔哩 pinyin: bīlībīlī nicknamed B站, literally "the B site", NASDAQ : BILI) is a video sharing website themed around animation, comic, and game (ACG) based in China, where users can submit, view, and add commentary subtitles on videos.
