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honor belongs to Hong Kong’s iTV back in the late ‘90s – but it was the first successful service becoming a $100B company in just 20 years. On any given day, any given week it trades credit for the largest number of subscribers with Amazon Prime with viewers in 192 and 191 countries respectively. The UK’s MUBI ties with Amazon’s reach specializing in film production and distribution followed by YouTube (112), iTunes/Apple TV (102 and Disney+ 58. Rounding out the global penetration services are France’s Canal+ (17 countries) and Arabic Shahid (16 of the 22 members of the Arab League). In addition to a growing streaming video market, the Arab world also saw theater attendance more than double over the past few years, placing it as a rapidly expanding video entertainment market. China’s theatrical and video streaming primarily remain exclusionary, tightly controlled by the government with box office receipts expected to reach 15B yuan ($2.2B US) and SVOD approaching nearly $19.5B this year. Most of the movies/shows are produced in-country under strict contract creation policies. The remainder are from US and international studios that are accepted only after meeting censors’ requirements. However, the country’s leading streaming video services (iQIU, TenCent, Youku) have experienced subscription growth throughout SEA with total