{"id":7542,"date":"2014-04-30T04:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T04:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ft-agency.com\/wordpress\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2014-04-30T04:43:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T04:43:31","slug":"mixed-messages-chinas-online-video-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ft-agency.com\/wordpress\/mixed-messages-chinas-online-video-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Messages in China\u2019s Online Video Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regulators move against U.S. shows, but as Alibaba is proving, investment is likely to continue<\/h2>\n
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Patrick Frater<\/a><\/h3>\n

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HONG KONG \u2013 Beijing media regulators last week sent out notices to\u00a0China<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0online video<\/a>\u00a0platforms to remove a quartet of U.S.-made TV shows. In recent days it has also stripped\u00a0Sina<\/a>.com of a couple of video broadcast licenses.<\/p>\n

The moves may appear to suggest a central-government crackdown against Western content on China\u2019s only partially open Internet. That would be a damaging blow for the online video services, which have quit their pirate roots, and flourished by showing content which is not subject to all of the restrictions of theatrically released movies.<\/p>\n

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But it is not clear that the moves by State Administration of Press Publication Radio Film & Television represent a new cold front. And new initiatives in China\u2019s online space are being pushed ahead.<\/p>\n

These include\u00a0Alibaba<\/a>\u2019s $1.2 billion investment in\u00a0Youku Tudou<\/a>; a likely shortening of release windows at Hollywood VIP, a video streaming service run by\u00a0Tencent<\/a>, the world\u2019s fourth largest internet company; and the commercial launch this week (April 28) of You On Demand\u2019s subscription service using Xiaomi\u2019s over the top set top box.<\/p>\n

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SAPPRFT issued take-down notices for \u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d \u201cThe Good Wife,\u201d \u201cNCIS\u201d and \u201cThe Practise\u201d requiring their immediate removal from sites.<\/p>\n

But the politically-sensitive \u201cHouse of Cards,\u201d season 2 remains online in China, and the SAPPRFT move may have more to do with punishing Sina.com than a redrawing of the lines of censorship.<\/p>\n

Sina had two licenses revoked for screening \u201clewd and pornographic content.\u201d The company has made multiple public apologies since.<\/p>\n

The problem of understanding SAPPRFT\u2019s may be deliberate. The authority offered no explanation of why the four shows should be removed. But by saying nothing it is encouraging the video networks to err on the side of caution and to effectively self-censor.<\/p>\n

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The booming online video scene remains in something of a regulatory limbo since 2009, which means more films and shows with a greater variety of genres can be shown online than get into China\u2019s cinemas. Theatrical films are subject to import quotas. And locally made Chinese films are subject to script approval before production, as well as final censorship before a release is approved.<\/p>\n

But nor is the online sector is not a free-for-all as it is sometime portrayed.<\/p>\n

Regulators have regularly acted against some sexy content and has urged the platforms to do more to monitor user-generated-content. It seems most likely that Sina has tripped up in this area.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLast year [SAPPRFT] made appoint by removing \u2018Django Unchained\u2019 from the cinemas, before allowing it back on release. This year, by hitting these shows, seemingly at random, they are flexing their muscles and keeping everyone on their toes,\u201d one platform operator told Variety. \u201cWe welcome oversight of the industry and think that keeping it free of the worst UGC will help us all to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The online video sector is certainly what is currently attracting the big money in China. With access into hundreds of millions of digitally-connected cable homes and hundreds of millions more mobile devices, online has far wider reach than even the fast-expanding multiplex sector. For Hollywood the online sites are potentially larger buyers of their shows. While for local creators, the platforms\u2019 new production initiatives offer far wider audience reach.<\/p>\n

The business models of the Chinese online video sites are still evolving \u2013 most are still dependent on advertising support \u2013 but transactional models are emerging. These are being helped by the ability to make micro-payments through mobile devices.<\/p>\n

They will also likely be accelerated by Alibaba, which already includes Amazon-like services and whose portfolio of assets also includes Alipay, China\u2019s equivalent of PayPal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Regulators move against U.S. shows, but as Alibaba is proving, investment is likely to continue Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief HONG KONG \u2013 Beijing media regulators last week sent out notices to\u00a0China\u2019s\u00a0online video\u00a0platforms to remove a quartet of U.S.-made TV shows. In recent days it has also stripped\u00a0Sina.com of a couple of video broadcast licenses. 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