There’s an old stock market adage that says you can predict a peak in the market by noticing when your average punter starts having a flutter on some shares. It comes to mind when you look at the global content industry. Never before have so many networks of all shapes and sizes – some of which have never before ventured into content production – placed their stakes on scripted success. Yet as audience fragment, getting a direct hit is harder than ever. The surge in supply has thrown up … [Read more...] about Reaching the masses in APAC region
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Infocomm Media Footprint
Gabriel: IMDA was set up to drive this notion of convergence. By convergence we mean the amalgamation of Infocomm and Media - it’s a new and exciting way for many Infocomm companies. They now recognise how important the media or content, in general, is for branding and building more loyal customers and for differentiating themselves in a very crowded and competitive marketplace. Everybody understands the potential of going digital and for IMDA; I think having an agency dedicated to looking into … [Read more...] about Infocomm Media Footprint
Outstanding Contribution to Asian Television
KBS has successfully defended itself during several crisis since early 2002 to the most recent, ‘Music Bank’ mistake regarding the winner.’ How has KBS emerged as Korea’s choice broadcaster over and over again? Ko: We are proud to have the largest number of passionate and talented TV content creators at KBS. A considerable number of producers and local broadcasters who have gaining great popularity were initially from KBS. So much so that we served as a content hub for the … [Read more...] about Outstanding Contribution to Asian Television
Modern Time’s Jorgen
What is Modern Time’s general strategy for Asia? We are both a content producer and distributor in Asia with strong footing in Japan, India, China and a few other countries. We also operate a multi-channel network (MCN) business that we recently launched in Japan, China and India, where we work with Yahoo. Some of the videos you see on Yahoo are produced by us. There are about two thousand journalists around the globe producing more than four hundred videos a day for multiple newspapers. … [Read more...] about Modern Time’s Jorgen
Kiwi channel’s Roger Wyllie
Tell us about your exclusive channel for Asia. We are now available in Indonesia, and within the next 90 days, we’ll be launching in other territories around the region. Rialto Channel, a premium pay-TV channel in New Zealand has been in operation for 17 years on the Sky platform. The other genre including British films, foreign films, documentaries and more. As our factual genre has been very popular, we realise there is a niche for this content in Asia. That’s how Pulse Television was … [Read more...] about Kiwi channel’s Roger Wyllie
Seeking the next big thing
Tell us about your new platform. Recently, we’ve done two things with StarHub in Singapore - first, at the beginning of April we launched BBC First, our premium drama service. We decided to launch it as an on demand service rather than as a linear channel. In other parts of the world, we have a BBC First linear channel, for example - in Australia, Belgium and South Africa. We felt that BBC First was more suited as an on-demand service in Asia, as for premium drama such as Sherlock, Luther and … [Read more...] about Seeking the next big thing