Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027
by icebraining on Monday August 20, 2018 @06:19PM
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You are comparing 2016 China numbers with 2018 Netflix numbers
Yes, but it's all Chinese services combined, not just their top 1st. Unless every of those Chinese subscribers pay for the same service, Netflix is still probably the 1st worldwide paying video service.
But talking about active users, iQiyi now have more than 500 million active users.
Which is small compared to YouTube's 1.8 billion.
But fair enough, maybe YouTube and iQiyi are the biggest players; foepys was still at least half-right.
It does seem that iQiyi is using HEVC for high-res content as well, so the point still stands :)
Talking about paying users only, maybe Netflix is still on the top - not for long, of course.
> According to research firm IHS Markit, video streaming in China will more than quadruple from $3.5 billion in 2015, to $17.6 billion in 2020. Membership payment will take up a bigger share of the pie, increasing over 500% to $2.6 billion, with the rest coming from advertising revenue.
But talking about active users, iQiyi now have more than 500 million active users.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2018/03/07/the-billion-do...