Mansha Daswani

In partnership with Singapore's Perfect World Pictures, Asia TV Forum is launching a new pitching platform at this year's event for Chinese-language content.

Weidong Yang, president of China’s Youku and Alibaba Digital Media & Entertainment Group, talked about how original series are driving the Chinese online video platform’s paid subscriber base in his MIPTV Media Mastermind keynote, which was followed by a Q&A with World Screen’s Anna Carugati.

Star India has landed the lucrative global television and digital rights to BCCI India cricket matches for a five-year period beginning this year.

Digital TV Research projects that the number of pay-TV subscribers in the Asia Pacific will grow by 78 million between 2017 and 2023.

Alan Hodges is exiting his post as managing director of the Asia Pacific at A+E Networks, with Saugato Banerjee tapped to run North Asia and Leena Singarajah joining the company to oversee Southeast Asia and Australia.

Advertising revenues across the Asia Pacific are set to rise 6.2 percent this year, following a 6.1-percent increase last year, to reach about $184 billion, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA).

Viacom's Bob Bakish, 21st Century Fox's Uday Shankar and Discovery's JB Perrette are among the executives slated to speak at Media Partners Asia's APOS summit this April, which will spotlight how the production, distribution and monetization of content are being transformed across the Asia-Pacific region.

Asia-Pacific pay-TV networks owned by global media groups saw revenue and profit gains in 2017, largely driven by growth in India, according to new research from Media Partners Asia (MPA).

The Malaysian SVOD platform dimsum has licensed content from four Asian distributors as it marks its one-year anniversary.

Now TV and ViuTV have scored the rights to exclusively broadcast the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Hong Kong.