The first week of 2018 closed with good, bad & sad(ish) news in Asia’s video industry, laced with an even stronger sense of linear channel upheaval, the dawn of an age of fewer/better services, a rocking Originals space, another ratings triumph for Japanese commercial TV broadcaster Nippon TV

Trust and money.

POPS Worldwide founder and CEO, Esther Nguyen, talks about taking POPS Worldwide from zero to the top digital network in Vietnam, with 2.5 billion views a month and growing, 200% growth year-on-year for the past five years, a range of content relationships with big-brand programmers fro

HBO Asia celebrated its 25th anniversary with a party in Singapore only hours after unveiling its biggest original production slate ever. CEO Jonathan Spink talks about the opportunities, the challenges, and the things he would do differently.

By mid-November, we had 135 active streaming services in 17 countries in Asia on our radar.

Home-grown Singapore streaming platform, Toggle, is looking at 30+ originals next year, trebling the 11 titles it commissioned last year, and upping the count significantly from this year’s 22.