Recently, Sohu founder, chairman and CEO Zhang Chaoyang revealed at the 2025 Sohu Finance Annual Forum that Sohu Video is preparing to restart American dramas and increase the purchase of American dramas and American movies. He expressed"Nowadays, no one makes American TV series because piracy is too serious. Sohu Video wants to take advantage of this opportunity to give users who don't want to look for pirated movies a better experience."
In Zhang Chaoyang's view, the current investment and output ratio of American dramas is disproportionate, and it is difficult for Sohu Video to recover costs through membership payments. However, American dramas can bring attraction to the product attention flow, so Sohu Video is still willing to do this.
In fact, according to past media reports, Zhang Chaoyang has expressed similar views in the past few years, believing that most domestic American and Korean dramas are pirated, and Sohu has been committed to anti-piracy.
