8 December 2014: China's producers, programmers and platforms are making new best friends all over the place.Chinese online platforms are making new best friends around every corner, and the country's voracious content appetite is being fed in myriad ways, including an even stronger push towards ori

8 December 2014: Free-to-air channels in India are the flavour of the month. Why? Because, among other reasons, advertising on these so-called FTAs is forecast to double over the next three years.Zee Anmol is a huge hit in small-town India.

8 December 2014: Major change is on its way to Asia's formats environment in 2015, with new super heroes, turbo-charged ambition, overflowing talent and free-flowing funding to drive it all. For some, at least. The others?

8 December 2014: Rewind Networks' Hits turns 1 in December.By the time the Rewind Networks team parties with guests at its first anniversary party on 9 December, founder and chief executive Avi Himatsinghani will have released nine-month average ratings that will prove, among other things, that his

3 November 2014: At the beginning of this year, we launched a series of profiles and interviews with online/over-the-top (OTT) platforms in Asia – one in every issue of ContentAsia's pdf newsletter until they were all covered. How many were there across Asia? Seven? Eight? A dozen maybe?

3 November 2014: When new factual channel Spark Asia goes up in early 2015, Malaysia's pay-TV platform Astro takes yet another step into a future that may be Malaysia-based but has a very definite global angle.Astro is backing the new pan-Asia/global documentary channel in partnership with Singapor