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Rutube is a web video streaming service targeted to Russian speakers. The web site includes both videos created by private individuals and licensed programming from entertainment companies. As of April 2012, just under 14.5 million unique users per month viewed video clips hosted on Rutube (from a subset of Russian users aged 12-54). . Rutube's overall monthly global traffic, as reported by representatives from Rutube, consists of 30 million unique visitors who viewed over 168 million video clips.

Unregistered users on Rutube, can view, share, and search for videos. Registered users can perform additional functions such as uploading videos, creating video albums, subscribing to content channels, friend other users, and creating a list of favorite videos.

History
Rutube was founded in 2006 by Oleg Volobuevym and Mixail Paukinym, both from the Russian city of Oryol. In November of 2008, the video portal was acquired by Gazprom Media Holdings. The aquisition price was not revealed, however in March of 2009 experts valued the video portal at $15 million. After the purchase, Rutube’s management was replaced, and a new CEO, Mixail Il’ivech was appointed. Previously Il’ivech was the director of the management department for television stations owned and operated by the Russian television network TNT. The Rutube office was relocated to Moscow.

Owner
Media holding "Gazprom Media".