Asia woke to a wonderland of uncensored content on Thursday morning, courtesy of U.S. streaming service Netflix, which flicked the switch on more than 130 new countries – excluding China and North Korea – during the CES show in Las Vegas.

Singapore is wrapping up a celebratory year during which more than 100 hours of programming was created specifically to commemorate the nation’s golden jubilee. The idea was to shine a light across screens on Singapore’s history, culture and icons.

A local version of Viacom International Media Networks’ singing game show format, Lip Sync Battle, is set to air in China in January 2016, giving Viacom’s Singapore-based regional operation its second adaptation in Asia of the original U.S. format.

In August this year, India’s two ratings bodies – Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) and TAM Media Research – merged to create a single entity with measurement meters covering roughly 136,000 of the 800 million Indians watching TV.

Asia’s biggest, shiniest and most expensive regional formats year ever is drawing to a close. Other than unprecedented, is there a word or a phrase that sums up the year in regional formats?

ContentAsia turns 10 in 2016. That’s 228 newsletters by our birthday on 6 March 2016. 55 print magazines, plus specials and supplements focusing on kids, docs and formats. 10 issues of the annual The Big List directory. Squillions of dailies. Zillions of words. Online. Mobile. In print.