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Domestic OTT TVs to develop online TV channels and exclusive dramas

Confident about the great potential of the domestic OTT market, Keeng is developing Keeng TV, while Fim+ is pouring money into projects on exclusive dramas.

Vietnam OTT TV competes with foreign giants

VietNamNet Bridge - OTT TV is a playing field where Vietnamese players’ rivals are all ‘giants’, from Facebook to Google to Netflix. 


Vietnamese businesses join OTT race

VietNamNet Bridge - More Vietnamese firms have squeezed into the OTT market, where they have to compete with YouTube and Netflix.

Piracy is the biggest challenge for Vietnam’s OTT market

VietNamNet Bridge - The domestic OTT market is entering a period of stiff competition with copyright posing the biggest pressure. 

The cutthroat race of internet TV service providers

VietNamNet Bridge - OTT TV service providers are competing with each other as well as amateur and unlicensed players.

VTC declines invitation to be honored by YouTube

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC) earlier this year unexpectedly refused to attend an event honoring content creators held in HCM City. 

Pay-television companies change strategy

VietNamNet Bridge - Pay-TV companies are now cooperating with each other, rather than slashing fees in an effort to find more subscribers.

Piracy hindering Vietnam’s television industry

Television companies, complaining that they are losing big money because of copyright infringement, have urged MIC to impose heavier sanctions on violators, saying the  television industry will not be able to develop.

Millions of USD lost every month from unlicensed OTT apps

VietNamNet Bridge - About 50,000 people use unlicensed OTT apps on Android box a month, according to some estimates. Collecting fees through scratch cards, the unlicensed apps may earn billions of dong of illicit profits.

OTT-based foreign TV services booming

VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of foreign television channels from Japan, South Korea, China, India, Russia and Thailand are being provided to Vietnamese watchers via OTT (over the top) apps. 

TV viewers’ tastes change, OTT wins favor

VietNamNet Bridge - Surveys show big changes in Vietnamese TV viewers’ tastes and hobbies, indicating that OTT TVs will become more popular.

OTT TV providers plan to collect fees in 2016

 VietNamNet Bridge – OTT TV content service providers hope they can make money with their added-value services, interaction services and advertisements as well as new user fees to be collected in 2016.