Viu Hits 25,000 Hours of Viewing, Climbs to #2 Ranking in Play Store within 30 days of Launch

(Jakarta – 27 July, 2016) – After launching in Indonesia on 26th of
May 2016, Vuclip, a PCCW Media Company and the leading
premium video-on-demand service provider for emerging markets, exceeds 25,000
hours of viewing on Viu in Indonesia. Individual users are
spending dozens of hours “Viuing” per month. This momentum has been fueled by
the best of Asian content which has proven to be extremely popular with
“Viuers” in the country. Viu has quickly climbed to be in the
top two free entertainment apps in the Google Play Store in the country and is
now one of the top five trending searches in the Play Store.

Top shows on both iOS and Android in July include Doctors, Uncontrollably
Fond and Descendants of the Sun. Additionally,Viu has
also added more Korean drama simulcast titles to the library, such as: W, The
Good Wife, Pretty Ugly, Running Man,Beautiful
Mind, Lucky Romance, The Return of Superman, Secrets of Women, as well
as Japanese drama simulcast titles, such as: A Girl and Three
Sweethearts, and Natsuko Kira. Popular Bollywood movie titles
include: Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, Gabbar is Back and Jazbaa, and
popular Hong Kong titles include The Banquet, Gen Y Cops, Yesterday
Once More, A World without Thieves, and Taiwanese drama Happiness
Fujiya.

Thanks to the addition of top titles such as these, coupled with
an unparalleled user experience, Viu has gained tremendous
adoption in the nine main trendsetter cities in Indonesia, including: Jakarta,
Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Solo, Surabaya, Medan, Manado, Makassar and is
gaining popularity in other cities in the country.

“Our commitment is to entertain millions of Indonesians with the
very best of Asian content and high quality user experience. We are very
excited to see Indonesians’ overwhelmingly positive adoption of Viu in
the first 30 days of launch and are inspired to continue to strive hard to
bring high quality service to them,” said Arun Prakash, President & COO,
Vuclip.

Viu, built on Vuclip’s
patented Dynamic Adaptive Transcoding technology™, leverages Vuclip’s
eight-year history of providing streaming video on demand entertainment
experiences to emerging markets. These eight years have provided a wealth of
consumer insights, technology leadership, as well as a best in class approach
to content editorial and curation for ease of discovery and consumption.

In May, Viu launched in Indonesia as a freemium
service, with consumers having access to thousands of hours of content for
free. Consumers can also subscribe to the premium service, which is an ad-free
experience, for just IDR 30,000 per month after a 30-day free trial. That’s
just 1000 Rupiah/day for the best and freshest Asian content.

Viu is accessible via
mobile phones and tablets as well as desktop browsers. Download Viu on
Google Play or in the Apple Store or by typing in www.viu.com on
a desktop browser.