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Astro has signed a deal with China’s Tencent to begin offering WeTV on Ultra Box, providing its customers with a wide array of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Southeast Asian and Malaysian series and movies.

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.

SPI International and THEMA Asia Pacific, both CANAL+ companies, have come together to bring SPI’s channels Gametoon and FightBox to Mongolia.

Warner Bros. Discovery has expanded its alliance with AIS in Thailand, clinching a deal that includes the rollout of a new HBO channel pack and the HBO GO streaming service.

Eight companies are presenting the latest big hits from Korea as part of the K-Broadcasting Virtual Showcase.

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.

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.

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.

Vision New Media has elevated Min Lim to the newly created role of group CEO.

The Asian Academy of Creative Arts (AACA) has established an exclusive new membership program that acknowledges outstanding career achievements.