Hong Kong’s entertainment and media digital segments – including streaming video, games, music, radio, podcasts – are thriving through Covid-19. That’s PwC’s most optimistic observation, laid out in its new Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2020-2024. 

Taiwanese streaming platform Catchplay has unveiled a new production subsidiary, Screenworks Asia, with six projects already in development by end August and plans to produce 100 hours a year of mini-series, movies and factual entertainment for audiences across Asia and the rest of the wo

Taiwan's Studio76 launched just ahead of the pandemic with an ambitious three-year slate, a horror debut targetting audiences that mass market TV broadcasters aren't accommodating, tapping online communities and fanbases for stories, and trying to expand Taiwan's footprint overseas.

Japanese content creators are riding unprecedented demand driven by global streaming platforms, a voracious appetite for new ideas, and seemingly boundless energy for cross-border cooperation. 

Thai broadcaster BEC World is in the vanguard of an emerging breed of domestic media companies with an eye on regional opportunities. Surin Krittayaphongphun, BEC Multimedia Co’s TV business president, speaks about life on the frontlines of change.   

Thailand’s True Corp is making a play for digital streaming audiences in Indonesia and the Philippines with a duo of AVOD platforms that offer everything from news and short-form content to recent/library Korean, Thai and other Asian premium drama series.