If I thought last year was a strange time in Asia’s television/video entertainment/channels/platforms industry, this year has to be even stranger.

Singapore’s largest pay-TV platform, StarHub, unveiled its OTT platform in the middle of August, becoming, for a few minutes, the newest player in Asia to embrace the future of video everywhere. And that’s just among the established pay-TV platforms.

For Viacom International Media Networks-owned MTV Asia, like MTV everywhere else in the world, there was no question that a brand reinvention had to follow millennials wherever they’re going... and spending.

DreamWorks Animation’s channel boss, Eric Ellenbogen, talks about the power of pandas, dragons, gronckles and going beyond the borders of Berk, binge viewing, changing everything, putting all his eggs into one basket and the pros/cons of launching a linear channel as part of a multi-screen strate

National Geographic is taking docs into high-drama and even higher production values. Kavita Daswani talks to some of the people driving a new age of adventure, exploration and investigation.

Southeast Asian consumers remain the most optimistic in the world, even though levels in some markets have dipped from previous highs, Nielsen’s Consumer Confidence Index for the second quarter of 2015 shows.