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Yang Xianghua, the president of the membership and overseas business group at Chinese video streaming giant iQiyi, discussed the platform's international aspirations during his APOS 2020 Virtual Series keynote and the need to align with local content creators across AsiaPac.

WarnerMedia’s streaming service HBO GO has expanded its Asian reach, landing new agreements with Taiwanese MSO Taiwan Optical Platform (TOP) and Cignal TV in the Philippines.

Uday Shankar, the president of The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman of Star and Disney India, discussed the early success of Disney+ Hotstar and weighed in on the impact of COVID-19 on the media business in his session at the APOS 2020 Virtual Series.

Delivering the opening address at the APOS 2020 Virtual Series, Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia (MPA), outlined the key trends at play in the AsiaPac video business, including gains in online video subscriptions, a challenged ad market amid the COVID-19 pandemic and rising investments in local content.

OTT service Viu, which saw a 42 percent gain in streaming usage in Q2, has extended its partnerships with a range of Korean content providers.

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.

Mediacorp has secured a distribution deal with Huawei Video that will see more than 1,500 hours of drama series and lifestyle content being offered to Huawei Video App users in multiple markets across the world outside Mainland China.

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.