Pocket Aces first Indian digital media firm to enter China
Pocket
Aces,
which creates long- and short-format content for digital consumption, will be
the first Indiandigital media company to have a presence in China.
The
company — co-founded by Aditi Srivastava, Ashwin Suresh and Anirudh Pandita —
has entered into a partnership with WebTV Asia, a multi-platform digital
media entertainment company. Its content will be available on one of China’s biggest
websites, Youku Tudou, which is owned by e-commerce giant Alibaba.
Pocket
Aces creates content across 3 channels — Dice Media (premium web series),
FilterCopy (snackable and sharable content) and Gobble (all things food) — and
reaches over 40 million people weekly on its own properties. This partnership
will be kicked off withFilterCopy and Gobble, each having a dedicated section
on the Youku Tudou platform. The content will have subtitles in English and
Mandarin, and in some instances, will be dubbed as well to localise it to the Chinese
market.
The
Chinese market is a tough one to crack for foreign content creators. While
digital is a new medium, even traditional media like films struggle to get over
the Great Wall. The country allows only 34 foreign films to be released each
year, and that too after some significant gatekeeping on the content front.
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