Tag: APOS 2018

Strategies for winning the battle for screen time and wallet share dominated the sessions at APOS in Bali last week, as 700-plus executives from across the Asian and global media landscapes convened to talk about what businesses need to do to remain relevant, and profitable, amid seismic shifts in consumption habits and revenue models.

Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia, discussed key trends in AsiaPac’s video industry at the official APOS opening this morning and weighed in on factors that will impact the future of the business.

Over the next five years in Asia—excluding China—Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (FANG) will retain more than 60 percent of online video revenues, Media Partners Asia (MPA) reports, with local players making incremental gains in markets such as India, Japan and Korea.

Mansha Daswani explores the key trends at play in Asia’s fast-moving pay-TV space.

Delegates at APOS in Indonesia next week will hear from executives from local, regional and global content, distribution and tech companies about scale, partnerships, driving consumer engagement and increasing revenues amid a rapidly transforming media ecosystem in Asia.

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.