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Exchange-rate basis
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THE CHINA EDITION 2026
China’s media & entertainment industry, in focus.
The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in China. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
6 August 2026
Hiring participation0.2%
9 of 3,774 tracked companies have open roles.
Funding participation14.6%
551 of 3,774 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Top 3 funding share39.9%
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Median disclosed round$11.58M
Midpoint of 335 rounds with a disclosed amount.
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Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 39.9% of disclosed capital, while 85.4% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
The measured China identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: the scoped identities lack an authoritative Chinese registrar mapping; bare ticker overlaps produced no complete annual revenue and net-income statement groups.
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
Web traffic, app reach and release cadence
How the China companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
Busiest websites
127 of the 3,776 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (3.4%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 584,227 visits.
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
App reach by segment
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).
Segment
Apps
Installs
Leading app
Release trend
Online Photos
78
2B
BeautyPlus - Retouch, Filters 503.5M
Music Tech
37
1.2B
Lark Player:Music Player & MP3 579.7M
Mobile Utility Tools
30
1.2B
Sweet Selfie: AI Camera Editor 378.4M
Social Platforms
36
1.1B
XClub 751.4M
Ott Video
34
580.2M
Viu: Dramas, TV Shows & Movies 198.2M
Artificial Intelligence
29
577.3M
Fotor–AI Photo Editor&Enhancer 43.7M
Vernacular Platforms
8
279.3M
Viu : Korean & Asian content 55.2M
Book Tech
88
250.2M
MangaToon: Comic & Manga 47.3M
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
Release cadence by quarter
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 378 of 419 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
INSIDE THE INDUSTRY
The China media & entertainment market map
Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.
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Where companies are building
Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Consumer digital2,019
Enterprise tech649
Saas319
B2c e-commerce288
Loneliness economy247
Enterprise software148
Media & entertainment saas126
Real money gaming122
Marketplaces116
Video sharing platforms116
Internet first news publishers108
Passion economy92
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
SEGMENT TO EXPLORE
Consumer digital
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
We will invest a total of P12 billion to purchase the convertible notes from IEC—the owner and operator of New Coast Hotel and Lobby Casinos, DigiPlus president Andy Tsui said.
including the mobile assets acquisition of China Telecom, the IPOs of Sinopec, Chalco, China Telecom, China Netcom, China Life Insurance, PICC, Air China, China Shenhua Energy, China Construction Bank, Dongfeng Automobile, China Merchants Bank, ICBC, China Citic Bank, China Coal Energy, COSCO, CPIC, CSCEC, ABC, Everbright Bank, PSBC, CGN, CHAMC, China Re, Legend Holdings, CZ Bank, CEEC, CNR, CR Pharma, HR Bank, CICC, HZ Bank, HEC, Xinhua Net, SFC, as well as a number of restructuring and M&A deals for major industries.
nine $500 million-plus deals including Chinese ride-sharing company Didi Chuxing's $5.5 billion round and Chinese content recommendation company Toutiao's $1 billion round.
Scripps will get Gray’s Colorado Springs, Colorado CBS affiliate KKTV (DMA 86), where Scripps owns KOAA (NBC); KKCO (NBC) and low power station KJCT-LP (ABC) in Grand Junction, Colorado (DMA 187); and KMVT (CBS) and low power station KSVT-LD (Fox) in Twin Falls, Idaho (DMA 189), where Scripps owns low power station KSAW-LD (ABC).
Tencent Music Entertainment Group agreed to buy Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3 billion in cash, plus a stock issue, an agreement that boosts your ambition to become the Chinese response to Spotify.
Amsterdam-based Skytree, a climate tech company specialising in carbon utilisation and removal solutions, has acquired ReCarbn, a Dutch startup specialising in direct air capture (DAC) technology.
Global Mofy AI Limited (the "Company" or "Global Mofy") (NASDAQ:GMM) ... today announced the successful closing of its previously announced private placement financing (the "Offering") on October 31, 2024.
Full recorded event mix
Top 10 categories among 185 recorded events in the 24-month window.
inflation reports fx, currency intervention policies, trade deficits fx
15,5412021
17,8342022
22,9912023
22,6842024
30,5402025
50.2% critical · 39.4% positiveRising
Growth
388,667 classified articles
gdp growth rate, gdp acceleration, economic output growth
39,3662021
53,7962022
90,2432023
80,6842024
92,1372025
44.3% critical · 39.7% positive
Media & Entertainment coverage across China. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
DEMAND, SUPPLY & PLACE
Where demand signals run ahead of mapped supply — China
Compare demand signals in China’s newsflow with the media & entertainment categories mapped to each signal.
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HOW TO READ THE GAP
Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.
The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.
COMPARISON PERIOD2025-05-01 to 2026-05-01Against 2024-05-01 to 2025-05-01Explore the signals ↓
The opportunity, in one view
Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.
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4 China demand signals compared with mapped media & entertainment supply
Company ecosystem snapshot: 6 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
