Amid big-time China fever at this year’s Mipcom market, a bold public cry went out reminding the 13,800 industry execs gathered in Cannes of the imbalances in China’s media trade relationships with the rest of the world.

Korean/Asian streaming platform DramaFever just became roadkill in AT&T and its newly minted WarnerMedia’s grand plan to build a SVOD platform, anchored by HBO, scheduled to debut at the end of 2019.

Of all the things that could happen in China’s online video market, the emergence of a single all-powerful uber-player that has inhaled all competition is unlikely. The reason is that content producers and advertisers don’t favour a market with only one online content distribution platform.

Indonesia’s broadcast watchdog, Indonesia Broadcasting Commission (KPI), has looked at the country’s television programming – and found at least half of it wanting.

The Real World Thailand is on its way to Facebook Watch in 2019 along with Asia-Pacific game show Confetti.

PeopleTV has arrived in Asia as part of Monty Ghai’s new bouquet of brands ready and willing to fill gaps in audience demand and platform line ups.