Asian content consumption on streaming platforms in Asia has risen dramatically, pushing Hollywood content from 80% of viewing to about 50%.

Crime drama is killing it in Asia, topping the list of the region’s most in-demand categories for the first quarter of this year. ContentAsia looks at what else is on Parrot Analytics’ radar across the region.

The good news for many at this year’s Busan Contents Market (BCM) in Korea’s southern port city was the election of liberal politician Moon Jae-in as the country’s new president.

This year’s APOS (Asia Pacific Video Operators Summit) by Media Partners Asia (MPA) wrapped last night with a few clear messages.

FOX Networks Group (FNG) Asia president, Zubin Gandevia, is in plus mode, adding angles to an ecosystem built up over the past two and a half decades and subtracting nothing except, perhaps, the fear that has wracked a traditional subscription video industry in decline.

A new version of the pay-TV environment is emerging – and, in the kinds of deals programmers will sign for their content, it looks pretty much the same as it used to, in the old days.