Netflix, Chinese smartphone brand Vivo, and world’s worst video game, among top digital hits of 2018
- This year saw Apple release three new iPhones, Huawei launch its triple-lens P20 Pro and streaming services reach new heights
- We round-up the best articles of the last 12 months in the digital world
The numbers have spoken.
In a year that saw Apple releasing three new iPhones, Huawei launching its triple-lens P20 Pro, and digital entertainment/streaming becoming more prevalent, statistics suggests that online readers are more interested in stories about Netflix, Chinese smartphone brand Vivo and … whether kaki is a Singaporean or Malay word.
1. Marvel’s Iron Fist
Will Colleen Wing, played by British actress Jessica Henwick, be the first Asian leading lady in Iron Fist, one of the Marvel comic book adaptations showing on Netflix? More than 24,000 clicked onto this story to find out.
2. Viral video
The video of Ben Sin’s first impressions of the Vivo V9 is the most viewed in 2018.
3. Bragging rights
4. Netflix in Asia
Crime thriller Sacred Games, the first original Netflix series from India, also garnered much interest.
Why cheating in online games is so widespread in China
5. So bad it’s good
Do people want to read about the world’s worst video game – one that is set in Hong Kong to boot? Yes, they do.
