Coronavirus: Millions in China Banish Blues With Online Games, Video Apps

Online games and short video apps are among the few beneficiaries of China's virus outbreak, raking in millions of views and downloads as people trapped in self-quarantine at home seek entertainment and ways to spend their time.

During the week, the company has attracted even more to do business in showrooms like Tesla and Mercedes-Benz to promote products more online.

Chinese traditional lunar travel and gather with family and friends during the New Year holiday, but many people postponed or cancelled their plans in mid-January about concerns about a new virus outbreak that left the 420 Has killed. "I only use my mobile phone three hours a day at work, but at least eight hours every day during the Spring Festival because it's so boring," Lu Zhang, a junior high school teacher in eastern Shandong province Said about the applicable holiday.

Investors have captured the trend, with shares of Chinese game publishers such as Tencent rising 2 per cent in Hong Kong on Tuesday, with a 1 per cent rise in the benchmark, while in New York, NetEase rose nearly 3 per cent. US-listed shares rose nearly 7 per cent in Chinese video platform Bilibili, while shares of search engine Baidu and e-commerce giant Alibaba also gained momentum. Five mobile game developers, including Ourpalm, allowed a maximum of 10 per cent on Tuesday. Weekly Downloads jumped 77 per cent on ByteDance's Zigua video app from January 20 to January 26, followed by a plan to announce the premiere of the film "Lost in Russia" for free, with data from performance tracker app Annie got to know. "My screen time tomorrow. More than 10 hours," a Shanghai resident, identified only as Wang, said in a social media post, "What do you all suggest to me other than looking at my cellphone? "There are also popular health and fitness apps, such as Keep, which live stream fitness classes.

Its revenue grew 15 per cent during the week, while healthcare app Pingan Good Doctor jumped 1,186 per cent in downloads.

"We believe that China's Internet and logistics companies have been sheltered to some extent," Bernstein Research analysts wrote in a note on Monday.

Tencent's blockbuster mobile game, Honors of Kings, paid 2 billion yuan ($ 286 million) on January 24, the eve of the holiday, estimated Pei Pay, an analyst with Sinolink Securities Co., all Chinese during Apple's App Store Has surpassed mobile games. Full week-long break in 2018. Tencent declined to comment. Plague, the strategy simulation app that jumped to the top of the charts in Apple's App Store, retained its popularity. The game, which allows users to create and develop a pathogen to destroy the world, generated 16,000 to 78,000 downloads in December, according to Sensor Tower. "Many students play games during the Spring Festival," the junior high teacher said. , Lu, saying that she spends more than five hours every day playing poker, among other games

"Sometimes they invite me to join me when I see them online." American electric vehicle maker Tesla, which began delivery in December of cars manufactured at its $ 2 billion Shanghai plant, stepped up daily live-streamed sales events on the video app Doyin to highlight features. Of his vehicles.

Several Mercedes Benz sales dealers also carried the WeChat app with a link to the 360-degree interior view of their GLB compact SUV, simulating the passenger experience and offering leather stitching details of the seats and closer to the dashboard.