TURNER ASIA PACIFIC MAKES INVESTMENT IN LEADING VIETNAMESE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, POPS WORLDWIDE Thursday, June 22, 2017
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HONG KONG (June 22, 2017) - Turner Asia Pacific has announced an investment in POPS Worldwide (POPS) which sees Turner take a significant minority stake in the leading Vietnamese digital media and creator network.
This investment represents an opportunity for Turner to participate in the rapid growth of one of Asia's most successful digital entertainment companies, reaching new audiences and further extending its existing partnership with POPS. Turner's Boomerang brand launched in Vietnam in April 2016 on POPS Kids non-linear platforms - offering kids some of the best-loved international animations dubbed in Vietnamese.
With its unique proposition, POPS has shown to be very adept at attracting and engaging audiences with its local content and creator network, and this agreement allows Turner to venture into this growing side of the business, commented Ricky Ow, President of Turner Asia Pacific.
He added: Our investment is part of Turner's desire to place fans and consumers at the very core - to reach and engage them with branded content and playlists - as well as target diverse demographics in new ways. With a surge of video-on-demand viewing in both Vietnam and Southeast Asia, these are exciting times for two companies that share a very similar culture of innovation.
Since launching its digital video network business in late 2011, POPS has doubled its annual views each year and recently surpassed 40 billion lifetime views. Other key performance highlights include:
Monthly views: more than 2 billion
YouTube network subscribers: 32 million
Channels under management: 1,210
Lifetime watch-hours: 4 billion
Social media fans across Facebook, Instagram and Zalo: 4 million
(accurate as of June 14, 2017)
Esther Nguyen, Founder and CEO of POPS Worldwide, added: We are excited to have Turner come on board. Using this investment, we can supercharge our ambitious vision to lead digital entertainment in Southeast Asia. We plan to expand our network onto more mobile and non-traditional platforms, invest heavily in content production and open new markets. Over the past year, we have been working closely with Turner on their Kids content.
Through this journey, we realised that we share the same vision of the future of entertainment. Our work with Turner led to the successful YouTube launch of Boomerang Vietnam and popular Boomerang programming on POPS Kids. For the first time in Vietnam, full episodes of classic properties like Tom and Jerry, Ben 10, The Powerpuff Girls and Scooby-Doo were available for our audiences online. Though we started working together in the Kids business, we now look forward to broadening our content partnership even wider.
In addition to actively managing a strong partner channel network, POPS operates a slate of branded premium channels. The POPS team created and manages Vietnam's top YouTube channel, POPS Music, (3.3m subscribers, 3.6b lifetime views) and Vietnam's top edutainment channel, POPS Kids, (1.4m subscribers, 1.7b lifetime views). Most recently, POPS expanded its video network reach to include Daily Motion and Facebook, as well as launching a new POPS Kids app for mobile users.
Working with over 1,700 content partners on over 1,200 network channels, POPS has successfully partnered with domestic, regional and international content partners. With a proven expertise in launching content locally in Vietnam, POPS has content partners that include digitally-savvy musicians, entertainers and comedians as well as traditional TV studios, local and regional production houses and media companies including Discovery Networks, UUUM, Digital Hollywood and Collab.
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Media contacts:
TURNER ASIA PACIFIC
Gregory Ho
Vice President, Corporate Communications and Marketing
+852 3128 3536 / Gregory.Ho@turner.com
James Moore
Director, Corporate Communications and Kids & Entertainment
+852 3128 3720 / James.Moore@turner.com
POPS WORLDWIDE
Kevin Yee, Chief Marketing Officer / kevin@popsww.com
Sally Truong, Corporate Communications Manager / ngan.truong@popsww.com
About Turner Asia Pacific
Turner Asia Pacific creates and distributes award-winning brands throughout the region, running 61 channels in 14 languages in 42 countries. These include CNN International, CNNj, CNN, HLN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, POGO, Toonami, Warner TV, Oh!K, TNT, TCM Turner Classic Movies, truTV, MondoTV, TABI Channel, and HBO, HBO HD and WB in South Asia. Turner manages the business of Pay- and Free-TV-channels, as well as Internet-based services, and oversees commercial partnerships with various third-party media ventures; it teams with Warner Bros. and HBO to leverage Time Warner's global reach. Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc. ( Turner Asia Pacific ) is a Time Warner company.
About POPS Worldwide
Founded in 2007, POPS Worldwide is a leading multi-platform, multi-channel digital entertainment producer and distributor fully positioned to capture the attention of today and tomorrow's viewers in Southeast Asia. Based in Ho Chi Minh City with offices in Bangkok and Hanoi, POPS is building the most robust video network in the region and reaches a global audience of over 2.2B monthly views, 4B watch-hours and 32M network subscribers. To learn more visit: www.popsww.com
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TURNER ASIA PACIFIC MAKES INVESTMENT IN LEADING VIETNAMESE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, POPS WORLDWIDE Thursday, June 22, 2017 
