Vietnam is among YouTube’s top 10 foreign markets.
It has become a major test area in Asia.
YouTube announced the ranking at a Ho Minh City event celebrating the one-year anniversary of Vietnam’s YouTube channel.
Vietnam was not close to the top 10 two years ago. Since then, young people thrilled by technology make YouTube popular in Vietnam. The website reports that 400 hours worth of video are uploaded per minute.
Vietnam’s YouTube channel has debuted with "120 percent year-on-year growth in terms of watch time,” according to Phuong Anh Nguyen, a YouTube official.
Vietnamese are watching YouTube at a big rate. Females are watching British singer Adele’s “Hello.” Foreign situation comedies, like Australia's “Thank God You're Here,” get 3 million to 4 million views per episode in Vietnam, according to the country’s newspaper, Tuoi Tre.
The southeast Asia country is also a YouTube test site.
