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Association calls for support for content creators
By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
Taiwanese content creators need to join forces or face “cultural annihilation,” the New Media Entertainment Association said yesterday after it launched a project to align small media companies vertically and horizontally.
Association chairman Homme Tsai (蔡嘉駿) said in a statement that the arrival of “the streaming age” threatens to sweep Taiwanese content creators away.
“We are like 10,000 little fishing boats going up against a naval carrier,” Tsai said, describing the predicament of content creators competing with international giants such as Netflix Inc and South Korea-based Naver Corp.
New Media Entertainment Association member Wang Shih, left, chairman Homme Tsai, second left, and other members pose for a photograph in Taipei.