Crunchyroll expands in Taiwan and Korea; "Asia not just a growth strategy, it is part of our core...
Anime platform Crunchyroll is expanding its service in Taiwan and South Korea, president Rahul Purini said this morning at APOS. The Taiwan play rolls out this summer, with Korea to follow later this year. Purini said the expansion into the two...
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APAC’s Growth Story is Misleading, MPA’s Vivek Couto tells APOS opening; “The Pie is Bigger...
The APAC screen economy is, on the surface, a calm healthy growth story over the next five years, rising from US$179 billion this year to US$200 billion in 2031. “But the surface is misleading,” Media Partners Asia (MPA) executive director Vivek...
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Disney+ Asia Streaming Re-org; Changes in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia; No Official...
Disney+ arrives in Bali for Media Partners Asia’s annual APOS event this week against industry chatter of changes to the streaming business in Singapore and Malaysia. Both territories will now be managed by Mark Chan from Hong Kong, according to...
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Japan’s WOWOW acquired the four-season box set of crime drama “Vienna Blood”, set in 1900s Vienna, from Seven.One Studios International. Vietnam commissioned a 13th season of gameshow “You Deserve”…
NBCUniversal’s “Saturday Night Live” adaptation for Korean streaming platform Coupang Play returns with its “one and only mission: comedy at its finest”, says Seoul-based production company CP…
Prime Video’s “The Boys” is in a league of its own in the Philippines, racking up 54.41x the market average in digital original demand for the week of 25–31 May — more than double any other title on…
A father waited for more than a year for his son – Thai agricultural worker Pongsak Thenna – to return. Like many others, he had gone to Israel in search of work and higher pay. Instead of a better…