A Peacock-branded hub is set to roll out on the Indian SVOD service JioCinema Premium via a new content deal between Viacom18 and NBCUniversal.
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While YouTube still dominates online viewing in India, premium VOD usage—across SVOD and freemium services—is on the rise, logging a 12 percent share of watch time, with 6.1 trillion minutes streamed from January 2022 to March 2023, according to Media Partners Asia.
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Growth in SVOD subscribers in Southeast Asia has slowed, according to new data from Media Partners Asia (MPA), with just 300,000 new additions in Q1 2023, as compared with the 4.6 million additions in Q4 2022, boosted by the World Cup.
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A new alliance between Warner Bros. Discovery and Viacom18 makes JioCinema the new Indian home of HBO, Max originals and Warner Bros. content, beginning next month.
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On the heels of Q1 financials showing that Asia remains a huge driver of its global streaming subscriber gains, Netflix says it will invest $2.5 billion in Korean content over the next four years.
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Amazon India is working with the country's Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) on a range of initiatives to help foster the local creative economy.
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The organizers of the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AAAs) have launched a new nonprofit industry association to oversee the management of the annual gala as well as training programs, networking events and more.
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KC Global Media has inked a deal with Indonesian telco Telkomsel to deliver its slate of channels to subscribers of the MAXstream streaming platform.
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Warner Bros. Discovery has renewed its SVOD content licensing deal with Japanese platform U-NEXT, keeping the service as the local streaming home of HBO.
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AsiaPac revenues at Netflix are expected to increase by 12 percent this year to $4 billion, with the streamer’s local content investments rising to $1.9 billion, per a new study from Media Partners Asia (MPA).
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