Moonbug Entertainment, a part of Candle Media, has announced the appointment of Yasmin Zahid as the company’s new head of distribution and brand partnerships, APAC. Reporting to Nicolas Eglau, managing director of EMEA and APAC, Zahid will be responsible for strategising Moonbug’s long-term growth in APAC to build out global franchises. Zahid replaces Kelly Cooke […]
A report published by Media Partners Asia (MPA), titled Netflix in the Asia Pacific, predicts that Netflix will grow revenues in the region this year by 12 per cent Y/Y to top $4 billion (€3.7bn), compared with 9 per cent growth in 2022, while local content investment will reach $1.9 billion. According to MPA, Netflix’s […]
Nokia and Singtel have announced the successful implementation of IP transport slicing across an end-to-end 5G network. The Proof of Concept took place in Singtel’s 5G Garage, a live test facility, training centre and ideation lab, involving 5G radio, 5G core, and Nokia’s IP transport network slicing solution. It focused on evaluating the solution’s capabilities […]
MEASAT has renewed its partnership with Rock Entertainment Holdings, which will see general entertainment channel Rock Entertainment, movie channel Rock Action and children’s channel ZooMoo continue broadcasting via the MEASAT-3a satellite. All of the channels will reach audiences across Asia Pacific. “MEASAT warmly welcomes this renewal by Rock Entertainment Holdings whom we have been supporting […]
Pankaj Gupta has joined Quickplay as Head of Solutions Engineering, APAC and MVPD. Gupta, who joins Quickplay after three years with Synamedia, will leverage his expertise in helping content distributors shape and build video delivery systems as he spearheads go-to-market strategies in the APAC and India markets for Quickplay’s industry-first, cloud-native OTT platform. “The success […]
Intelsat, the satellite and terrestrial network operator, has announced the appointment of Gaurav Kharod as the regional Vice President for its Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Kharod comes from Intelsat’s India office, where he served as the managing sales director of South Asia and India. Kharod will assume the responsibilities from Terry Bleakley, who previously led […]
Witbe, a specialist in test automation and proactive monitoring for video service providers, has announced that the company is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with new headquarters in Singapore and powerful Witbe Cloud network monitoring capabilities. The Singapore office will officially open on February 2nd with a grand ceremony attended by Witbe […]
MIDiA Research, a market research and insight firm, has released its latest report, MIDiA Research video subscription forecasts 2023-2030. The report predicts that the global SVoD market will reach $321.9 billion (€296.3bn) in 2030, with growth driven primarily by an influx of Asia-Pacific subscribers. According to the report, the global SVoD market was valued at […]
APAC is set to overtake the rest of the world in IoT adoption according to an Asian IoT Megatrends report from the global research firm OMDIA and global connectivity provider Telenor IoT. APAC digital transformation of enterprise has been slower than the rest of the world. However, with investments on the rise APAC is expected […]
A report published by Media Partners Asia (MPA) indicates that ex-China, Asia Pacific pay-TV subscriber growth will be relatively flat in 2022 with an estimated 106,000 subscribers cutting the cord. Cord cutting peaked between 2019 and 2021 with an aggregate 9.1 million subs cancelling subscriptions, according to MPA analysis, driven by erosion in key markets […]