"At year-end 2017, iQiyi had 50.8 million subscribers who spent on average 1.7 hours per day on the platform. Before that, it had just 30.2 million subs at year-end 2016 and only 10.7 million in 2015.
After the first quarter of 2018, IQ's subscriber count jumped to 60.1 million, a gain of 18% in just a few months. It's important for investors to note how much larger of a nation China is, population wise, versus the United States. That gives the company so much more potential.
As of 2017, China had 731 million internet users , more than double the entire U.S. population for those keeping tabs. Of these users, 30%, or 219 million, watch online videos every month. Admittedly, that data is a year old, but it helps show just how large of a market China is...."
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