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This year's Singapore Media Festival (SMF), which includes the Asian Academy Creative Awards, Asia TV Forum & Market and ScreenSingapore, Singapore International Film Festival and SMF Ignite, will see the addition of Singapore Comic Con.

Singapore's Mediacorp announced three content partnerships on the eve of APOS's official opening, aligning with VICE Media, Wattpad and Korea's Spackman Entertainment Group, the producer of the 2018 film Default.

Bhak, the winner of the inaugural HOOQ Filmmakers Guild initiative, is now available on the Asian VOD service.

Revenues from online video subscriptions and advertising across the Asia Pacific will hit $52 billion in 2024, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA), double the $26 billion forecast for this year.

Subtitling, dubbing and post-production outfit IYUNO Media Group has picked up a significant stake in the Korean content-distribution company LYD.

On the heels of securing carriage on Indonesia’s leading pay-TV player, MNC Vision, for the recently launched HITS Movies service, Rewind Networks CEO Avi Himatsinghani talks about the opportunities that still exist for linear TV channels in Asia.

The tenth edition of Media Partners Asia’s (MPA) APOS Summit begins Tuesday, April 23, at the Ayana Resort in Bali, with executives from global, regional and local companies operating across the media, telco and sports sectors set to discuss the key factors driving the $425 billion consumer broadband and video ecosystem in the Asia Pacific.

Throughout 2018, TV5MONDE Asia-Pacific increased the distribution of its channels in the AsiaPac region by an additional 12 million subscribers on traditional pay-TV platforms.

The Astro pay-TV offering delivers to its customers “premium and differentiated content” in HD and on-demand, says Astro CEO Henry Tan.

With its HITS Movies channel, Rewind Networks has “put together 40 years of the best movies on a single service to see how powerful that would become in terms of viewer stickiness and consumer love,” says CEO Avi Himatsinghani.