Viu’ers break 40 million mark, patching over cracks

More scintillating numbers from APAC video streamer Viu arrived this week. The PCCW-owned firm blasted past 41.4 million monthly active users (MAUs) at the end of 2019, growing by 35% from the previous year – driving video views up 69% to 5.7 billion. Viu is no stranger to pulling off trumpet-blowing PR stunts and Faultline is no stranger to lapping them up, yet this time around we feel like Viu is compensating for something. Perhaps sugarcoating over a recent and rare sign of weakness? It comes only a couple of months after Viu was forced into a dramatic about turn as a result of India being well and truly annexed by Netflix, which saw Viu exit the country around the…