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Bank: Turbulent times for China’s video game sector

The enthusiasm for video games and gaming shows no signs of fading. Industry data shows that global stock market growth for the games sector was up 3.6 per cent last week. Even the more modest indicator from Morgan Stanley (the MSCI World) Index showed growth for the week of 1 per cent. But there could […]

September 7, 2021By Chris Forrester

Beyond Rights takes Turbozaurs to China

Beyond Rights has announced that one of its newest kids’ shows, Turbozaurs, is heading to China in a two season deal with Youku, the streaming platform of Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group. The two 26 x 7 series will launch on Youku in November, and will be available to stream, both online and through […]

August 24, 2021

Collision damages Chinese satellite?

On August 14th, astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, who’s based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tweeted that a small piece of a Russian rocket (officially Object 48078, 1996051Q) had hit a Chinese satellite (Yunhai 1-02) which was damaged on impact. The Russian Zenit-2 rocket launched back in September 1996 and […]

August 18, 2021By Chris Forrester

Tencent shares slump 23%

China’s tough crackdown on certain technology sectors, including Jack Ma’s Alibaba and Tencent, has resulted in Tencent being the world’s worst stock-market performer. Tencent lost 23 per cent of its value in July, wiping out some Rand 2.5 trillion (€143bn) of market value. Nine of the top ten losers in market value during July were […]

August 2, 2021By Chris Forrester

Forecast: IPTV leading pay-TV service in China over next 5 years

The total pay-TV services revenue in China is set to decline at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.5 per cent from $32.9 billion (€27.8bn) in 2020 to $32.1 billion in 2025, due to the growing preference for OTT video streaming services and falling pay-TV average revenue per user (ARPU), according to GlobalData, a […]

July 28, 2021

Chinese internet rules hurt Tencent, Alibaba

China’s State Council has made some substantial interventions on internet businesses, and in particular the education sector. The rules for private education companies including a ban on profits, a ban on raising capital or going public with tutoring at weekends and vacation banned for the sector. The fresh rules have severely impacted China-based internet businesses […]

July 27, 2021

Forecast: Fibre to drive China fixed broadband

China’s fixed broadband service revenue is poised to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.6 per cent between 2021 and 2026 driven by continuous rise in high fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) subscriptions and FTTH average revenue per user (ARPU), according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. An analysis of GlobalData’s China Fixed Communication […]

July 27, 2021

China: iQiyi scores Premier League rights

iQiyi Sports, the Chinese video platform, has signed a deal to be the exclusive digital broadcast partner of the Premier League in China until the end of the 2024/25 season. The joint sports media venture between marketing firm Super Sports Media and Baidu-owned iQiyi have acquired the rights to all 380 matches per season, with […]

July 23, 2021

Forecast: Satellite comms sector worth $46bn by 2028

Fortune Business Insights, in a report on the satellite communications (SATCOM) market potential says that the sector will be worth $46.5 billion (€39.4bn) by 2028. The industry is set to gain

July 23, 2021By Chris Forrester

China blocks Huya, DouYu merger

A mooted merger between two videogame streamers, Huya and DouYu, has been blocked by Chinese authorities on antitrust grounds. The planned merger, announced by Tencent which wanted to bring together the two businesses in which it held stakes, could have resulted in Tencent controlling some 80 per cent of the Chinese market already worth an […]

July 12, 2021By Chris Forrester