Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia via original productions, free services with ads, and low-fee subscriptions
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China's mini-drama industry grew 35% YoY to ~$6.91B in 2024, surpassing the country's box office and forcing iQiyi and Tencent to embrace short-form programming
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A look at how streamers like Bytedance have prospered in China while the country has lost 20% of its theatrical release capacity and 5K+ film and TV companies
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Chinese Netflix equivalent iQiyi announces it has reached 100M subscribers; senior exec says it intends to expand into other Asian countries and North America
As iQiyi reaches 61M paying subscribers and 527M MAUs, CEO says it wants to be the Disney, rather than Netflix, of China
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Baidu says its video streaming service iQiyi saw video uploads increase 20x from 2014 to 2017, but with machine learning, censorship staff only doubled to 500
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