連年虧損的愛奇藝擬赴美上市

Chinese video streaming service iQiyi - often called China's Netflix - has filed to be listed on the US stock market.

中國視頻流媒體服務平臺愛奇藝--通常被稱爲中國的Netflix--已經申請在美國股票市場上市。

Owned by online giant Baidu, it plans to raise 1.5bn USD through an initial public offering on the Nasdaq.

爲網絡巨頭百度所擁有的愛奇藝，計劃通過納斯達克首次公開募股籌集15億美元。

iQiYi had more than 50 million subscribers by the end of 2017 and an average of more than 420 million mobile users per month, according to Reuters.

據路透社報道，愛奇藝在2017年底前擁有超過5000萬的用戶，平均每月有超過4.2億的移動用戶。

But while revenues have risen in recent years, iQiyi has never posted a profit since it launched in 2010.

雖然近年來收入有所增加，但是愛奇藝從2010年推出以來卻從未發佈過盈利。

In China, it competes with fellow streaming platforms Youku Tudou, which is owned by Alibaba, and Tencent Video.

在中國，它要與騰訊視頻、阿里巴巴旗下的優酷土豆這些流媒體平臺競爭。

In April 2017, iQiyi signed a licensing agreement with Netflix to steam some of the US provider's original content including Stranger Things and Black Mirror.

2017年4月，愛奇藝與Netflix簽署了一項授權協議，以播出美國提供商的部分原創內容，包括《怪奇物語》和《黑鏡》。

iQiyi posted a net loss of 3.7bn yuan for 2017 compared with 3.1bn yuan the previous year, though revenue jumped by 55% to 17.4bn yuan.

儘管收入增加了55％達174億元，但愛奇藝還是在2017年淨虧損37億元人民幣，之前一年則爲31億元人民幣。

Baidu, which founded the business as Qiyi before later changing its name to iQiyi, is itself listed in the US.

之前創立奇藝業務，而後改其名爲愛奇藝的百度本身已在美國上市。