Vidfish
Chinese video streaming platform
Vidfish is a Chinese-language video streaming platform. The brand name Vidfish is a portmanteau of the words "Video" and "Fish", of which the latter is a Chinese homonym of entertainment ("yu"). Vidfish was launched in April 2018 to 190 countries.
Business
In September 2018, Vidfish debuted its subscription video on demand (SVOD) service through its Android and iPhone app, allowing users to stream videos on-the-go. The company works with a list of content partners to provide Chinese TV series and movies programming on its platform, including Tencent Video. The company also signed licensing deals with other Chinese content players, such as Hua Ce Film & TV, Mango TV, 1905, New Classics Media and Kukan Culture.
Service
Popular Chinese drama and variety shows can be found on Vidfish. The content is translated into two languages, English and Bahasa Indonesian.
Vidfish primarily serves the audience in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65091086. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 1905.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vidfish” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.