Because it's distributed by a Thai company so they usually give credit to the one who take the costs but yes should…
You're right! iQIYI and Rakuten Viki listed this series in China Mainland. Only GagaOOLala listed it in Thailand. They should have at least said the series is Thai Chinese and not just Thai.
What I can't understand why MDL and GagaOOLala say that this series is thai when all actors (except 1) are chinese, that they all speak Mandarin and it's coproduced by China and Taiwan.
All actors have a contract between their agencies and the productions (often the production companies and the agencies are the same). In Asia the particularity is that all the players have sponsors who increase their income. Some productions pay a percentage of profits from views to the actors (whether through their own sites such as GMMTV or Youku or via external paid platforms: GagaOOLala, Viki, iQIYI...)
It sometimes happens that despite the popularity of certain series, the income generated is not enough to pay the actors (creation budget too high, actors' salaries too high, etc.). This happens quite regularly to small companies. But it also happens that the actors are not paid because of embezzlement (certain companies hit the headlines for these facts 2-3 years ago)
Actors are paid even if you have to pay a subscription.. You don't know how it works. Productions sell their series/movies only for distribution to platforms like Viki, GagaOOLala or iQIYI. These platform can broadcast the series/movies for a certain time but they have to pay the productions if they want to broadcast them for longer.
Can someone explain to me ?
https://x.com/blup_dates/status/1801985306897653847
https://x.com/gagaoolala/status/1800868161715044757
It sometimes happens that despite the popularity of certain series, the income generated is not enough to pay the actors (creation budget too high, actors' salaries too high, etc.). This happens quite regularly to small companies. But it also happens that the actors are not paid because of embezzlement (certain companies hit the headlines for these facts 2-3 years ago)