Indonesian streaming platform Vidio moves into 2023 with at least three content superpowers, led by sports and original premium production. Managing director Monika Rudijono talks about hopes and priorities. 

12 years after it went live with a mobile app offering accurate prayer times for Muslims around the world and with 130+ million downloads in 190 markets and counting, Singapore-based Bitsmedia has upsized its Muslim Pro platform with a global SVOD service offering a wide-ranging library of lifes

No one – not even Netflix (by its own admission) nor Korean creator Hwang Dong-hyuk – predicted the wild success of "Squid Game", which is said to have cost just under US$21.5 million to make and was watched for more than 2.3 billion hours between 13 Sept 2021 and 19 June 2022.

Applause Entertainment is a key player in India’s red-hot production environment. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar snapshots another nine on our production hotlist*.   BBC Studios

Like everywhere, kids content consumption online has soared. That doesn’t mean programmers are buying less. Or that free-TV consumption in every market is equally impacted.

Digital transformation and the expansion of content value takes centre stage at this year’s Asia Content & Entertainment (ACE) Fair and content developer conference in Gwangju in September, highlighting vital top-of-mind issues driving sweeping change across all industry sectors.