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A Close-Up Look At China’s Boom Of Blind Dating On Live Streams

Tired of being set up on blind dates by family and friends, some young people in China are turning to live stream blind dating chats on the social media platform Xiaohongshu to look for potential partners — with an online audience.

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Ideas Society

Netflix And Chills: “Dear Child” Has A German Formula That May Explain Its Success

The Germany-made thriller has made it to the “top 10” list of the streaming platform in more than 90 countries by breaking away from conventional tropes and mixing in German narrative techniques.

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Will COVID-19 Make China’s Movie Theaters Vanish Forever?

The pandemic has taken a huge toll on the Chinese film industry. But it’s the movie houses themselves that have suffered most.

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Society

Breaking Bad To Deutschland 83, Why Some TV Series Do So Well Abroad

Audiences have an insatiable desire for new series, with Netflix alone planning to release more than 30 new ones in 2016. But why are more and more going international?

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Economy

Untuned With Global Realities, China’s Rival-Free TV Market Stagnates

Without competition in the television industry, as there is for telecommunications and banking, Chinese broadcasters have little to offer viewers and a limited revenue model for themselves.

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Killing MP3 – A Quality Streaming Alternative To iTunes, Spotify “Compressed” Sound

CANNES – “The MP3 is dead.” As the Midem yearly music industry event opened in France last week, Yves Riesel, president of music streaming service Qobuz, declared the end of the top online music format. “From Feb. 1, we won’t be selling MP3s anymore. All of our downloadable content will be in CD quality sound, […]

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