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Global/regional players available in Asia* ALTBalaji
Streaming tech: Amazon FireTV, AppleTV, Roku, YuppTV. Telcos: Jio, Airtel, Vodafone, Dialog Axiata (Sri Lanka), XL Axiata (Indonesia), Celcom (Malaysia). Others: India’s online travel company MakeMyTrip, e-commerce service GrabOn
Amazon Prime Video
Singapore from S$3.50/US$2.55 for single rentals Who’s in charge Daphne Yang, CEO Content partners NBCUniversal Int’l TV Distribution, Warner Bros, Paramount, Disney, int’l/local independent studios
Crunchyroll
Apharan
About Direct-to-consumer subscription platform offering Indian content. Core audience: 18-34 year olds Owned by Balaji Telefilms Launched April 2017 No. of subs 20+ million (Mar 2019) What’s on Original, Indian content in multiple local languages Originals Produced 38 series (as of Mar 2019), including thriller Apharan (premiered Dec 2018), erotic drama Gandii Baat S2: Urban Stories (Jan 2019), teen drama Puncch Beat (Feb 2019), romantic drama Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain 2 (Feb 2019), college romance Medically Yourrs (May 2019) and psycho stalker thriller Bekaaboo (May 2019) Pricing Free/paid content; rates range from US$4.99 for three months to US$12.99 for 12 months Who’s in charge Ekta Kapoor, joint MD, Balaji Telefilms (left); Nachiket Pantvaidya, group COO and CEO, ALT Digital Media (right) Partnerships include Payment partners: PayPal, PayTM, Google Pay, EKO. focus is on regional/global * Our services with an Asian angle. 6
Baahubali: The Lost Legends
About Online video streaming service rolled out globally end 2016. Asia video focus continues to be on Japan and India (as of June 2019) What’s on Movies, TV episodes. Strong focus on original content How much Free seven-day trial, then US$2.99 a month for the first six months, then US$5.99 a month in most markets. Singapore is S$2.99/US$2.20 a month. In some countries, the video service is packaged with a Prime membership (e-shopping and deliveries) at no additional cost. Prime membership in India is Rs129/US$1.85 a month or Rs999/ US$14.30 a year and in Japan, ¥500/US$4.60 a month or ¥4,900/ US$45 a year. Distribution in Asia Available in most markets in Asia.
CATCHPLAY on DEMAND About Streaming VOD service offering blockbusters/movies Owned by Catchplay, headquartered in Taiwan Launched in Taiwan (Mar 2016), Indonesia (June 2016), Singapore (Aug 2016) No. of subs Not disclosed What’s on Local, regional, international, Hollywood movies How much Country-specific pricing: Taiwan from NT60/US$1.90 a title, Indonesia from Rp15,000/ US$1 a title,
Dragon Ball Super
About Video streaming platform offering Japanese anime. Originally started as a community video platform Owned by Crunchyroll. Majority investor is Otter Media Launched 2009 No. of paying subs Over two million worldwide, 45 million registered users (as of Nov 2018) Who’s in charge Kun Gao, cofounder/ CEO What’s on 25,000+ eps and 15,000+ hours of licensed content (mostly anime, some Korean drama & live action) from Asian media producers, translated in multiple languages. Select content is geo-blocked in certain territories due to licensing restrictions How much Global pricing. Free/ premium starts from US$6.95 a month Content partners Aniplex, MBC, KBS, Nippon TV, Kadokawa Pictures
CuriosityStream Launch March 2015 Owned by CuriosityStream LLC About A global non-fiction subscription video-on-demand service. Access to the streaming subscription service is currently available directly from cusiositystream.com, but will eventually be exclusive to subscription-platform partners in Asia in a partner-
ship with Monty Ghai’s brandwith. Migration dates have not been confirmed. Who’s in charge in Asia Monty Ghai, founder and chief executive of Singaporebased regional media company brandwith What’s on 2,400 docu features and series, including originals, across science, nature, history, tech, society and lifestyle. New releases in June 2019 include original series Spies of War (2019) about people who have changed the course of history, and The Daunting Fortress of Richard The Lionhearted (2019) about the English king and his efforts to build an impregnable castle. Pricing International pricing plans are US$2.99 a month (standard) or US$9.99 a month (premium/4K) or US$19.99 a year (standard) or US$69.99 (premium), after a seven-day free trial
Dimsum Thong Ek – The Herbal Master, BEC World/ Channel 3 Thailand
About Streaming platform operated by Star Media Group’s SMG Entertainment Launched Nov 2016 (Malaysia, Brunei), April 2018 (Singapore) What’s on 10,000+ hours of multigenre content from across Asia. Boosted Thai content in Q1 2019 with 350 hours of drama from BEC World/Channel 3; the deal was brokered by Bangkok-based distributor JKN Global and includes period romcom Thong Ek – The Herbal Master, The Cupids and fantasy drama Nakee. How much RM13.90/US$3.30 a month in Malaysia; S$6.90/US$5 a month direct in Singapore or S$9.90/US$7.25 a month via StarHub Go in Singapore
contentasia issue three, june 2019
