Manner (company)

Manner Culture Enterprises Limited
Native name
微辣文化集團有限公司
Company typePrivate company
IndustryFilm production
FoundedJune 2013; 11 years ago (2013-06)
Headquarters
ProductsInternet video
Snacks
Websitehttps://weilamanner.com/
微辣 Manner
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Subscribers669,000[1]
Total views681 million[1]

Last updated: 8 October 2023
Manner
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese微辣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWēi là
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingMei4 lat6

Manner Culture Enterprises Limited (simplified Chinese: 微辣文化集团有限公司; traditional Chinese: 微辣文化集團有限公司) is a Macau entertainment company. The company produces comedic videos in Cantonese that can be between a few seconds to a few minutes. It has a dozen performing artists under management.

Manner was founded in June 2013 by Sixtycents, Jacky Lei, and Nathan Lam in Macau. It became popular after it published a nine-second viral video set in a Macau McDonald's titled "When buying ice cream, don't be distracted", in which a woman who is distracted by her cell phone grabs the ice cream part of an ice cream cone from the cashier. The company expanded to Hong Kong in 2018 through a seven-figure investment from an undisclosed investor. Its revenue is primarily from advertising. It has made sponsored videos for Alipay, the Hong Kong Police Force, and Royal Dansk. Roughly 80% of its advertising revenue is from Hong Kong companies or organisations. Manner created a physical store called Laji in Sé, Macau, that sells Manner-branded snacks and souvenirs. Its revenue was over HKD$10 million (US$1,287,001.29) in 2017.

Manner posts videos on social networking services and online video platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Sina Weibo, Meipai, Miaopai, Sohu, and iQIYI. It had accumulated three billion video views and over 3.5 million followers on these sites by 2018. The Macau Post Daily called Manner "one of the biggest YouTube channels in South East Asia".[2] Former employee Jane Lao committed suicide on July 26, 2023. Her suicide note said Manner's management had intimidated her, while netizens and Manner employees had cyberbullied her. After criticism from netizens and brands cut ties with the company, Manner announced on August 10, 2023, that it would temporarily suspend its operations.

  1. ^ a b "About 微辣 Manner". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Influencers depict another side of Macau via social media". Macau Post Daily. 2020-08-10. Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2020-11-28.