Mansha Daswani

Singapore’s Mediacorp has signed up the online entertainment platform Viddsee as a partner on its Lights.Camera.Singapore initiative.

Alexandre Muller, the managing director for the Asia Pacific at TV5MONDE, talks about expanding the French-language broadcaster's presence in the region.

A survey commissioned by the Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) has found a 55 percent reduction in consumers using piracy websites over the last ten months.

Filipino lawmakers have overwhelmingly voted to deny ABS-CBN a 25-year renewal of its broadcasting license.

The Singapore High Court has granted an order sought by BBC Studios, Discovery, the Premier League, La Liga and TVB for local internet service providers to block access to a range of sites streaming pirated content.

Discovery’s Simon Robinson, Netflix’s Tony Zameczkowski, Viu’s Helen Sou and WarnerMedia’s Clément Schwebig weighed in on the streaming wars and the impact of COVID-19 on the media business in a panel at the AVIA OTT Virtual Summit this week.

ViacomCBS's Bob Bakish, Amazon's Mike Hopkins, TikTok's Kevin Mayer, WarnerMedia's Gerhard Zeiler, Disney's Uday Shankar and Vice Media's Nancy Dubuc are among those set to participate at APOS 2020, with the annual event in Bali going online with virtual editions this July and September.

Cathay CineHOME is planning to roll out in Singapore offering on-demand access to movies immediately after their theatrical window, with parent company mm2 Asia also looking to expand the service into other markets in the region.

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) is set to host a virtual summit next week focused on the future of streaming video with a lineup that includes executives from iQIYI, Discovery, Netflix, Viu and WarnerMedia, among others.

Singapore's mm2 Entertainment is gearing up to launch mPlay Asia, an ad-supported streaming platform for Chinese-language short-form content, in the third quarter of this year.