Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) and Viu, PCCW’s pan-regional OTT video streaming service, have announced a new streaming bundle, offering the HBO Max and Viu services in a single subscription. Set to launch in Q4 across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, the bundle marks the first of its kind across multiple markets in Asia […]

Southeast Asia’s premium VoD market continued its robust growth trajectory in 2024, with total viewership reaching 440 billion minutes, a 7 per cent year-on-year increase, according to research from Media Partners Asia (MPA), using its ampd VoD measurement platform covering five markets in Southeast Asia. The growth was fuelled by Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, […]

Over 100 industry delegates from across Asia gathered at the Asia Video Industry Association’s (AVIA) Vietnam in View conference, opened by the Deputy Director General of the Authority for Broadcast and Electronic Information (ABEI), Nguyen Ha Yen, on October 9th in Ho Chi Minh City. Despite the challenges of 2023 in the post-Covid landscape, the […]

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), in partnership with the Korean Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), held Korea in View @BCWW on August 29th, hosting over 300 delegates at COEX, as part of the 3-day broadcasting content convention. The conference opened with a special welcome address by Eun Young Kang, Director of the Broadcast & Advertisement […]

The household penetration of SVoD services in Malaysia is predicted to increase from 26 per cent in 2023 to 43 per cent in 2028, driven by the increasing consumer preference towards OTT platforms as broadband services continue to improve in the country, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Malaysia Subscription Video on Demand […]

Canal+ Group, a subsidiary of Vivendi, has increased its stake in Viu – the Hong Kong-based OTT service, in accordance with the terms of the strategic partnership with PCCW Group announced on June 21st 2023. After satisfaction of key business milestones, Canal+ has released the last instalment of its $300 million (€279.79m) staggered investment and […]

Canal+ Group has increased its stake in Viu, the Asian OTT platform, to 30 per cent, in accordance with the terms of the transaction announced on June 21st 2023. For the French media group, owned by Vivendi, this increase marks a further step in its plan to make Asia its next growth driver, through its […]

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has released a study to understand the usage of different video services in Indonesia and consumer attitudes towards them. The study looked at video across social media, user-generated content (UGC), linear TV, messaging services and premium OTT. Amongst Indonesian consumers, premium OTT is viewed as having the highest quality […]

The household penetration of SVoD services in Malaysia is expected to increase from 22 per cent in 2022 to 41 per cent in 2027, driven by the increasing consumer preference towards SVoD platforms as broadband services continue to improve in the country, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Malaysia Subscription Video on Demand […]