YouTube’s growth in Vietnam reaches 120%
(VOV) - In terms of total downloads of videos, the biggest country for YouTube is still far and away the US, however it has seen big gains in viewer and subscriber growth in Vietnam over the past year.
This is according to officials at a recent event in Ho Minh City celebrating the one-year anniversary of Vietnam’s YouTube channel at which the top 10 viewership countries for Asia were unveiled.
“Vietnam was not close to the top 10 two years ago,” said Phuong Anh Nguyen, a YouTube official but now more than 400 hours of video are uploaded on average per minute.
Nguyen said Vietnam’s YouTube channel has witnessed a 120% year-on-year growth in terms of viewing time.
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Other speakers disclosed that women are watching British singer Adele’s ‘Hello’ while foreign situation comedies like Australia's ‘Thank God You're Here’ got 3-4 million views per episode.
The Southeast Asian country is also a YouTube test site. The company tries out services for emerging markets in Vietnam such as an offline option of saving clips that began last April.
Viewership benefits in Vietnam as a result of WiFi being readily accessible everywhere and the fact that Vietnamese tend to save videos, they said adding that residents favour YouTube over other video services like Vimeo, Hulu or Netflix.