Next Digital
| Company type | Public |
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| SEHK: 282 | |
| Industry | Media |
| Founded |
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| Defunct | 15 December 2021 |
| Fate | Liquidated |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong |
Key people | Jimmy Lai, Founder Ip Yut Kin, Chairman, Cheung Kim Hung, chief executive officer Ting Ka Yu, Stephen, COO and CFO |
| Revenue | HK$146 million (as of 30 Sep 2020) |
Number of employees | 2,095 (as of 30 Sep 2020) |
| Website | nextdigital.com.tw |
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| Traditional Chinese | 壹傳媒有限公司 | ||||||||||
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Next Digital Limited (Chinese: 壹傳媒有限公司), previously known as Next Media Limited, was a listed media company in Hong Kong. It was the nation's largest before it ceased operations in 2021. Founded by Jimmy Lai, it had 2,095 employees as of 30 September 2020. It had a user base of 5 million monthly unique visitors in Hong Kong, 12.3 million in Taiwan, 1.7 million in the United States and 399,000 in Canada up till 2019. Its newspaper Apple Daily was the most read in the city. The company and its newspaper became defunct in 2021 following the 2020 Hong Kong national security law, the imprisonment of Lai by the Chinese government, and the freezing of the company's assets.