A look at Sony-owned Crunchyroll, which has 100M+ registered members, including 11M paid subscribers, as the anime streaming service looks to India for growth
Exciting news for Crunchyroll! The Japanese anime industry has become a staggering $20 billion market … Brian Eley : Two months to get this across the finish line! — https://www.bloomberg.com/... Twitter: David Merkel / @alephblog : World's Top Anime Site Crunchyroll Is Sony's New Money Maker https://www.bloomberg.com/... $SONY will find a way to mess this up. It looks like they are trying to do too much, and in marginal markets. @omdiahq : #Anime site @Crunchyroll is setting its sights on #India as a major growth market as its ongoing global expansion is set to help owner @Sony boost #entertainment #content. Senior Analyst James McWhirter shares more of Omdia's #research with @Bloomberg here https://www.bloomberg.com/... Ritsuko Ando / @ritsukoandos : Once a made-in-Japan subculture, anime is now a $20 billion global industry. A profile of Crunchyroll, the world's biggest anime streaming site, by @soheefication https://www.bloomberg.com/... @moonkittynet : Anime continues to grow in popularity around the world https://www.bloomberg.com/... #anime [image] Sidhartha Shukla / @sidcoins : Crunchyroll, now owned by Sony Group Corp., is setting its sights on India as a major growth market — one that could help the industry further expand from a made-in-Japan subculture into a mainstream and global phenomenon. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology Sohee Kim / @soheefication : Crunchyroll used to be a pirated-video site for anime fans in mid 2000s but it has grown to the largest anime streaming platform in the world. Sony acquired the company in 2021 through Funimation and it is becoming a global money maker for Sony. https://www.bloomberg.com/... See also Mediagazer