Snapshot · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
CCTV's World Cup streaming app was the second most downloaded app on China's Apple App Store during the tournament, reflecting massive fan engagement.
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Alice Han closes the football segment with a counterintuitive observation: while China's players are absent, Chinese technology is embedded in the very infrastructure of the World Cup [1] — Alice Han "While China's team is absent from the World Cup, Chinese technology is everywhere inside it. Tencent Cloud handles two-thirds of APAC broad…" 39:16 . Tencent Cloud is responsible for two-thirds of the official FIFA broadcasting backend in the Asia-Pacific region. CCTV's streaming app peaked at second on China's Apple App Store. The official sports betting app ranked sixth. Xiaohongshu — China's Instagram — is co-streaming games to millions. The picture is one of Chinese tech companies quietly dominating the global sports media supply chain, even as their national team watches from home.
Chinese tech giant Tencent Cloud is responsible for two-thirds of the official FIFA World Cup broadcasting infrastructure across Asia-Pacific.
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