Chan: iQIYI reached 500 million MAUs and 67 million paid members
Connie Chan · When Advertising Isn't Enough · Dec 5, 2018 · at 16:00
a16z General Partner Connie Chan cites user and subscriber metrics for video streaming platform iQIYI.
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“And that's because iQiyi has five hundred million monthly active users. Sixty-seven million of them are VIP paying members.”
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