Clip.vn

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~ the last words ~

Clip.vn was the first video sharing site in Vietnam. Vega Corporation, registered as Bạch Minh JSC, put a test version online in February 2007, fourteen months after YouTube's public launch. The local press called it the YouTube of Vietnam, and the label was still in use when the brand's obituaries were written nineteen years later.

A member got a page called MyTV that collected everything they had uploaded and could be restyled. There were interest groups, comments, private sharing and an embed code for pasting a clip into a blog, which in the Vietnam of 2007 very often meant a Yahoo! 360° page.

Beta 2 came out on 30 May 2007 and a wider redesign followed in November. After that, Vietnamese Wikipedia says, the site only received small upgrades.

~ the record ~

~ fifty thousand at once ~

The launch went wrong in the way founders hope for. Newspapers covered the test version and more than 200,000 people showed up on the first day. At the worst moment over 50,000 of them were on the site together, and it fell over. By March 2007 Clip.vn reported 230,000 members and 200,000 video files.

~ every language got one ~

Between 2005 and 2007 nearly every language with enough speakers got a YouTube of its own. Turkey's was İzlesene, opened in 2006, and that one I knew. Clip.vn is the same idea built for Vietnamese speakers, and what I have of it is the archive and the press coverage. İzlesene outlasted it by ten years and closed on 3 March 2025.

~ when the uploads stopped showing ~

Vietnamese Wikipedia dates the decline to 2011, when uploaders began treating YouTube and Facebook as the main place to post, and gives 2015 as the year Clip.vn closed for good. The Vietnamese press repeated 2015 when it wrote about the brand in January 2026.

The archive shows a slower fade than one year suggests. On 30 April 2015 the homepage was still titled "the largest video sharing network in Vietnam" and led with viral clips. By 15 December 2015 the front page was episodes of TV series and web comedy shows, with a VIP tab in the menu. The sharing slogan stayed in the title until at least 2 April 2016. On 1 October 2016 it read "Films, Television and Online Video".

~ the box under the television ~

What replaced it was Clip TV, a subscription internet television service that Vega sold alongside a set-top box of the same name. MobiFone, the state mobile carrier, took over the platform in 2020. On 1 January 2026 MobiFone stopped the service, the same day the satellite broadcaster K+ went off the air in Vietnam. The clip.vn address now answers with a 403 error.

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