VIKI - On the Rakuten Acquisition

[Mariko]

Hi Everyone, I’m going to close this topic as we have two going on the Rakuten acquisition. Please check out this reply from Tammy, the GM of Viki North America.

Sale of Viki to Rakuten

Hi, everyone. This is Tammy, GM for Viki North America. Hopefully this news will mean only good things for volunteers: We’ll be able to license more content; we can now hire more engineers to build community features faster than we’ve been able to before; we can also launch more volunteer-only perks like giving QCs ad-free access to the site, etc. It’s very expensive to run a video content business and we’ve never had the financial backing to truly go big on all fronts, including …