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New research from Media Partners Asia (MPA) explores the key drivers of the streaming market in Southeast Asia, with total minutes viewed on mobile up 30 percent in Q1 and 19 percent in Q2 in Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

Opening the second part of the APOS Virtual Series, MPA’s Vivek Couto outlined key trends at play in the AsiaPac media sector, noting that content creators should brace for budgets to be impacted as the industry recalibrates amid the disruption accelerated by COVID-19.

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.

Weekly consumption of online video rose by 60 percent in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore amid COVID-19-related stay-at-home measures this month, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA).

Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia (MPA), offers World Screen Newsflash exclusive insights into a new report that projects the online video market in AsiaPac will generate revenues of $50 billion by 2024.

An "explosion of screens," led by increased mobile connectivity, will drive gains in AsiaPac video revenues over the next five years, Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia (MPA), said in his opening remarks at APOS in Bali this morning.

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.

A new report from Media Partners Asia (MPA) sees Asia-Pacific pay-TV revenues rising by 5 percent to top $56 billion this year.

Media Partners Asia (MPA) projects that online video operators in the Asia Pacific will spend some $31.5 billion on content by 2023, up from $16.6 billion this year. 

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.