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Viu’s paid subs soar 19% in first half 2025; streaming revenue up 27%, free-TV biz revenue...
Regional streaming platform Viu’s paid subs were up 19% in the first half of this year, ending June at 13.8 million (excluding Myanmar), with “notable growth” in Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia, parent company PCCW said today. ...
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💀 FIBRE BUST: StarHub pulls the plug on legacy fibre on-demand channels
In Singapore, StarHub is pushing subs to ditch its legacy fibre service in favour of its much shinier StarHub TV+ platform and experience. The incentive? All on-demand channels are coming off the old fibre service from between 1 September and the end...
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Southeast Asia adds 1.5 million net new subs in Q2; 3.1 billion hours viewed in five SEA markets,...
More than 1.5 million net new paying subscribers signed onto premium video-on-demand (VOD) in Southeast Asia in Q2 – almost double the growth recorded in Q1 this year, new insights released today from MPA’s measurement platform, ampd, show. ...
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