Singapore has its doors wide open for international content and creative partnerships, not exactly keeping up with Japanese and Korean investment in U.S. production houses but still amping up funding and focus to drive the country’s engagement with filmmakers around the world. Singapore clearly can’t – and is not trying to – out-produce its neighbours; what it can do is out-enable them — positioning itself as the region’s most reliable base for international content partnerships. On the purely domestic front, a new era of cooperation is dawning in the distribution/advertising alliance between media giant Mediacorp and cable-platform-turned-telco StarHub; it’s too early for results, but the signalling is clear. At rival Singtel, all eyes are on speed and capacity; the telco has just announced its 50Gbps fibre broadband trial, promoted as a move “to prepare homes and businesses for AI”. Meanwhile, this week dawned with promises that Singtel TV’s weekend outages, which set social media alight, had been fixed, and that the TV subs the telco still has can safely return. Elsewhere in Singapore, we’re looking at the roll-out of Mediacorp’s biggest and most ambitious slate of co-productions and co-developments over the coming months; and the launch of Samsung TV’s super-sized FAST channels bouquet this year. And then there are the moves against pirate sites; Singapore’s High Court opened 2026 by blocking 53 illegal streaming domains, which is obviously good news for rights holders.

And with that, welcome to the latest release of ContentAsia’s The Big List directory, which focuses on Singapore. Our Singapore directory maps the broadcasters, platforms, telcos, producers, distributors and regulators shaping this next phase — and the companies best positioned to partner, sell and scale in the market.