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Asia braces for leadership changes Rozhan, Cox going, Tan takes top job, speculation rife about iflix’s Carey

June opened with whiplash activity on the jobs front, led by the announcement that Rohana Rozhan had resigned as group chief executive of Malaysian media company Astro, and that Astro veteran, Henry Tan, had been appointed to replace her from February 2019. At the same time, a LinkedIn job post for a global chief content officer for an unidentified emerging markets streaming platform started to go viral, sparking off speculation that iflix was hunting for a replacement for existing content boss, the L.A.-based Sean Carey. The lengthy job description described the Southeast Asia-based company as a rapidly growing international SVOD service targetting consumers in emerging markets. The post was taken down over the weekend, iflix has not confirmed (or denied) Carey’s departure and said only that “we are actively hiring senior content people in Asia as we focus more on local”. Carey hasn’t commented. Another significant exit looms, this time in Japan where Disney is about to lose 14-year veteran Eddie Cox. Cox is retiring from his role as VP/GM television and mobile for The Walt Disney Company Japan, and exits by the end of August. Disney has confirmed the move and said a replacement hadn’t yet been chosen. Cox has been with Disney Japan since September 2003 and before that worked for Turner in Japan for six years. Lower key exits are known to be hap- pening at Viacom International Media Networks in Singapore, where president/ MD Asia Pacific Mark Whitehead is paring down his team. Five people are said to have been made redundant in the latest cuts. The company is not commenting. C NTENTASIA 11-24 june 2018 Page 2.

Hi-stakes week US$835m World Cup ad boost for China for Singapore’s Global ad market to gain US$2.4 billion extra Mediacorp Host broadcaster “pulls The FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia bile consumers who are more likely to is predicted to add a net US$2.4 billion to spend their time outside the home and out all the stops” to the global advertising market, according adopt the latest media technologies,” service global media to new research by Zenith. Zenith says, adding that social media The biggest boost in dollar terms will be will play a greater role in viewing the frenzy, CEO Tham says in China, where Zenith expects the World World Cup than ever before. This will, Cup to generate US$835 million in extra however, be in “moments rather than The stakes have never been as high for adspend, or 1% of the entire ad market. full matches”. Singapore’s sole free-TV broadcaster, This is all driven by brands racing to Zenith says it expects social media to Mediacorp. Thrust onto the global establish their association with football. “play a vital role as fans discuss matches stage in a big way as host broadcaster Zenith says there are “few established in real time and share their favourite mo- for Tuesday’s DPRK-USA Summit, the brand relationships with the World Cup ments later. We expect heavy paid social government-supported media company in China and this year advertisers have activity around the matches as brands has dug deep to provide broadcast been aggressively bidding to establish seek to join the conversation”. services and facilities to support global their association with football”. “The World Cup provides a reliable media covering the event. “Some advertisers that had been plan- boost to the global ad market every four In the words of CEO Tham Loke Kheng, ning to cut back their expenditure on years, and will be responsible for 10% of Mediacorp has pulled out all stops to television decided to increase it instead all the growth in ad dollars this year,” provide the best possible service to the specifically to take advantages of the said Jonathan Barnard, Zenith’s head international media community. She did opportunities offered by the World Cup. of forecasting and director of global not talk about the costs of Mediacorp’s So for brands in China this will be the most intelligence. day in the sun. important World Cup yet, despite the The World Cup forecasts followed the The Broadcast Centre services and absence of the Chinese national team,” publication at end-May of Zenith’s me- facilities at the Ministry of Communica- Zenith says. dia consumption forecasts for this year, tions and Information’s International Russia will benefit from a US$64-million which says 24% of all media consumption Media Centre include the live feed dis- adspend boost, representing 2.1% of all across the world will be mobile this year, tribution and monitoring system, indoor Russian advertising expenditure in 2018. up from just 5% in 2011. and outdoor live presentation services The U.S. will receive a US$400 million “By 2020 we expect this proportion to and media booth space with editing boost to adspend this year. A downer is reach 28% as the mobile internet takes facilities. the U.S. team’s failure to qualify for this share from almost all other media. The More than 250 Mediacorp staff will Cup for the first time in more than three rise of mobile is also forcing brands to power the facility including engineering, decades. Zenith says this is “likely to re- transform the way they plan their commu- production services and news personnel, duce audiences, particularly given the nications across media, focusing less on to make sure the quality of broadcast large time differences with Russia. So we channels and more on consumer mind-set services and facilities is world class. think the event will boost the U.S. market as the distinctions between channels are At last count, the Ministry of Communi- by just 0.2% of total annual expenditure eroded,” Zenith says. cations and Information (MCI) had ap- this year”. Since 2011, television channels and proved 2,500 accreditation applications About 3.5 billion people across 200 radio stations have gained audiences for the event, which kicked off at the countries are expected to watch the online, although they face “stiff competi- weekend with the arrival of Kim Jong Un. event. tion” from native digital platforms. At the same time, the broadcaster is “As well as producing large audiences Zenith estimates that the average elbow-deep in servicing its own outlets – in some countries, the largest of the person will spend 479 minutes a day con- for events unfurling on its doorstep. year – the World Cup disproportionately suming media this year. This is 12% more Like every other news outlet in the attracts people who are hard to reach than in 2011, and is forecast to rise to 492 world, Mediacorp has been running on television: young, upmarket and mo- minutes a day in 2020. specials and other specials, focusing on everything from bulletins and geo-political analysis across multiple @contentasia /contentasia contentasia.tv /company/contentasia platforms. 11-24 JUNE 2018 page 3. C NTENTASIA 11-24 june 2018 Page 4.

Fox Networks Group pulls Thailand’s BEC pushes global agenda three on-demand services Deal with JKN puts 70 titles on the international market

Three of Fox Networks Group’s (FNG) on-demand “play” services are going dark on Singapore platform Singtel on 30 June. The three are Fox Sports Play, Star Chinese Movies Play and Fox Mov- ies play. The platform said the decision was FNG’s.

Global news base shifts to Singapore for North Korea/U.S. Summit

Global news services have shifted their hearts, minds and teams to Singapore this week for tomorrow’s meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. president Donald Trump. CNN’s live programming on the ground is led by Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour and John Berman, joined by correspondents from the network’s White House and national security teams and from the region. BBC World News said it would be co- presenting every programme globally Nakee from Singapore during the summit, with coverage led by Babita Sharma, Chris- Thai media company Bangkok Latin America,” Jakrajutatip said. tian Fraser, Rico Hizon and Sharanjit Leyl. Entertainment Company (BEC) World, All 70 series involved in the new deal Out of South Korea, government- has sealed its first content distribution are local dramas produced between backed global English-language chan- deal with listed Thai content manage- 2014-2017 and aired on BEC-owned nel Arirang TV has cleared its schedule ment and distribution company JKN channels, terrestrial analogue TV station to feature the historic meeting. Shows Global Media. Channel 3 and three digital terrestrial include Foreign Correspondents, The The three-year partnership, which gives channels – 33HD (general entertainment Diplomat and A Road to Peace, which JKN rights to distribute 70 Thai drama HD), 28SD (general entertainment SD) explores denuclearisation, along with series globally, is expected to at least and 13Family (kids/family). The Negotiators, which analyses the dip- generate THB100 million/US$3 million in Titles include romantic/action Rising lomatic performance of three leaders – revenue, says Anne Jakrajutatip, JKN Sun part 1 (27 eps, 27.5 hours) about South Korea’s Moon Jae-in, Kim Jong-un Global Media’s CEO. Takeshi Onitsuka, the youngest son of the and Donald Trump. Revenue arrangements with BEC World biggest yakuza family in Yokohama who have not been disclosed. falls in love with a Thai student Praewdao; Kid’s Got Talent in China The deal comes as platforms – and par- Rising Sun part 2 (30 eps, 30 hours), about Chinese streaming service Tencent Vid- ticularly streaming services – expand their Ryo Onitsuka a young yakuza and his eo has premiered talent show Extraor- slates and experiment with new content quest to win over Mayumi, the girl he dinary Kid’s Got Talent in partnership genres and sources, and as local produc- secretly likes; and Nakee (27 eps, 27.5 with FremantleMedia China. The series is ers seek more diverse markets. hours), about the love between a Naga/ sponsored by Wyeth. “Our target markets are Indonesia and snake princess and a human being. SMALL TOWN. BIG MYSTERY.

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In numbers Population...... 23.5 million Households...... 8.5 million Cable TV subscribers...... 5.2 million IPTV pay TV subs ...... 1.33 million Fixed bb internet subs...... 5.8 million Mobile operators...... 6 Mobile phone users...... 28.9 million Mobile broadband subs...... 21.8 million 4G subs...... 18.1 million

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China Television Company (CTV) Terrestrial broadcaster China Television Company (CTV) was established in 1968 The Teenage Psychic, HBO Asia’s first Chinese-language original drama series, jointly developed with Taiwanese broadcaster, Public Television Service (PTS) and Singapore production company, InFocus Asia. and started broadcasting in 1969. CTV owns and operates – CTV/HD, CTV News/HD, CTV Bravo SD and CTV Classic SD. CTV became a subsidiary of the Want Want group in eral, FTV News and Follow me TV (FMTV). cial TV broadcaster. TTV operates four TV 2008. The company is also involved in pro- FTV broadcasts in various languages and channels – Taiwan Television HD, TTV News duction and content distribution via subsid- dialects, including English. The station SD, TTV Finance SD, TTV Variety SD. iary China TV Cultural (CTV) Enterprises. claims 100% coverage via six broadcast stations in Taipei, Ilan, Hualien, Taitung, Chinese Television System (CTS) Nantou and Kaohsiung. FTV also has in- MSO (Cable TV) Chinese Television System (CTS) was terests in mobile TV, offering 4GTV since founded in 1971 in a joint venture be- 2011, and content production. China Network Systems (CNS) tween Taiwan’s Ministry of National De- China Network Systems (CNS) was estab- fence and the Ministry of Education. In PTS lished in 2001 and offers about 130 ana- 2006, the channel (along with Public Founded in 1998 as a non-profit founda- logue/digital TV channels and broad- Television Service, PTS) was incorporated tion, Public Television Service (PTS) is Tai- band/fibre/telephony services to one+ into Taiwan Broadcasting System (TBS), wan’s first public service broadcaster. million subscribers in Keelung, Taipei, the state consortium of public TV stations. PTS offers three channels: PTS (culture/ Northern Taoyuan, Tainan and Kaohsi- CTS’ channels include CTS-HD, CTS Edu- education/news/current affairs), digital ung, via 10 system operators. cation Channel, CTS News, CTS Variety mobile TV platform PTS2 (info/entertain- channel and CTS MOD News CHannel. ment/sports) and PTS HD. PTS became Kbro CTS-HD’s schedule is generally 60% en- part of Taiwan’s state consortium of pub- Established in 1995, Kbro provides cable tertainment (primarily local drama) and lic TV stations, Taiwan Broadcasting Sys- TV, broadband internet, VOD/OTT, inter- 40% news. CTS also co-produces/pro- tem (TBS), in 2006. PTS is also involved in active TV and home security services. The duces and distributes content worldwide content production/distribution. company carries 12 cable TV networks via subsidiary Chinese Television System serving more than one million households Culture Enterprise (CTSE). Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) across eight cities via 12 cable system Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) was es- operators and has about two million Formosa Television (FTV) tablished in 1962 as a government-affiliat- broadband subscribers. Established in June 1997 as the first pri- ed TV station. In 2007, TTV was privatised vately owned terrestrial TV station in Tai- and acquired by CATV channel operator TBC wan, Formosa TV (FTV) owns and oper- Unique Satellite TV (USTV), which trans- Established in 1999, Taiwan Broadband ates three television channels – FTV Gen- formed TTV into Taiwan’s first commer- Communications (TBC) offers 120 HD

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and 64 SD local/international TV chan- independent film distributor and digital FOX+ nels to more than 700,000 cable/digital content provider in Taiwan. In Jan 2013, Video streaming FOX+ launched in Tai- TV subscribers in South Taoyuan, Hsinchu the group launched linear TV service, wan in September 2017, offering 10,000+ County, North Miaoli, South Miaoli and CatchPlay HD Movie Channel, in Taiwan hours of programming across multiple Taichung City (September 2017). partnering with Chunghua Telecom and genres, including U.S. series, first-run Hol- Kbro. In May 2015, CatchPlay ventured lywood movies, Chinese and Asian con- Taiwan Optical Platform (TOP) into OTT by launching AsiaPlay Inc and tent, National Geographic titles as well as Founded in March 2001, Taiwan Optical AsiaPlay Taiwan to develop and operate three live sports channels. Monthly sub- Platform (TOP) is made up of five cable international OTT entertainment content scriptions start at NT$199/US$6.60 a month. TV operators – Da-Tun Cable TV, Top Light services in Taiwan (launched in March Communications, Best Light Telecom, 2016 via FarEastone) and across Asia. friDay Chong Tou CATV and Chia-Lien Cable CATCHPLAY On DEMAND offers local, re- Telco Far EasTone launched online video TV. TOP also offers internet broadband gional, international/Hollywood movies. platform friDay in November 2015 offer- and video-on-demand services. In Taiwan, a la carte costs from NT$60/ ing mainly local, Korean, Japanese and US$2 to NT$80/US$2.70 a title. Hollywood films, as well as documentary TWM Broadband and sports content. friDay had one million TWM Broadband offers quadruple-play Choco TV registered subscribers, of which about services – cable/digital TV, fibre-optic/ Choco TV offers in-house drama series 250,000 are paying subscribers. Monthly ADSL internet, fixed line and mobile. A (since 2016) as well as acquired local, subscription costs NT$199/US$6. Partners subsidiary of Taiwan Mobile, TWM Broad- Chinese, Japanese and Korean dramas include OTT/content provider CatchPlay. band was launched in 2007, and also dis- from content partners including ETTV, PTS, tributes local and international TV chan- LTV, ELTA TV, UDN, KBS, and MBC. Original GagaOOLala nels to other cable TV system operators series include OBA, The Unknown Lovers, GagaOOLala is a LGBTQ-focused on- and video platforms in Taiwan. Pubby and Me and HIStory. line streaming service by Portico Media, content aggregator and founder of the IPTV/Broadband/OTT Chunghwa MOD Taiwan International Queer Film Festival Taiwan’s largest telco Chunghwa Tele- (TIQFF) and Queermosa Awards. Gaga- Consumers in Taiwan are able to access com’s IPTV service, Chunghwa MOD, OOLala offers movies, docus, drama series a plethora of regional/global streaming carries 180+ live TV channels (including and original content, among other shows. services such as ALTBalaji (Indian content), 130 HD) and 10,000+ hours of VOD titles, Gt TV Amazon Prime Video, Netflix (NT$270/ including movies, kids, sports and (free) Gt TV is an OTT service of Taiwan’s mobile US$8.40 a month for one SD screen; NT$390/ English-language tutoring to about 1.5 mil- operator Asia Pacific Telecom. Offerings US$12 for four HD/UHD screens), Spuul (Indi- lion subscribers in Taiwan (October 2017). include local/international TV channels an, US$4.99 a month) and YuppTV (Indian). Monthly subscriptions start from NT$100/ US$3.30 for 20+ channels to NT$270/US$9 priced at NT$299/US$10 a month for 150+ 4gTV for the Luxury pack with 120+ channels. channels and 10,000+ movie titles. 4gTV was established in 2015 Hami TV offering 80+ live TV channels and VOD Elta OTT Chunghwa Telecom’s Hami TV is a mobile of TV content and movies. Monthly sub- Elta TV, which started out as a technolo- TV service that displays four simultaneous scriptions start from NT$99/US$3 for 31 gy company, launched Elta OTT in Janu- HD picture frames. Offerings include dra- channels to NT168/US$5 for 80 channels. ary 2016 offering live streaming TV channels and VOD. Monthly subscriptions start ma series (from mainland China, Taiwan and Korea), movies and animation series bbMOD from NT$129/US$4.30. from NT$149/US$5 a month. Multiple system operator CNS launched bbMOD in September 2017, in coopera- FainTV Taiwanese content provider, Chinese Sat- iTunes tion with CatchPlay, offering Hollywood Apple launched its VOD service in 2012 as ellite TV Communications Group (CSTV), and Chinese content. The basic monthly part of its global rollout. No TV program- launched mobile TV app FainTV in 2014, plan costs NT$99/US$3.30. ming is offered in Asia. in corporation with mobile company Samsung and cloud service provider Oc- CATCHPLAY On DEMAND iQIYI toshape. FainTV offers 50+ TV channels to Movie streaming VOD service CATCH- Taiwan is mainland Chinese platform Samsung mobile phone users in Taiwan. PLAY On DEMAND launched in 2007 as an iQIYI’s sole venture outside its domes-

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tic market. Launched in March 2016, Monthly Vee TV packages cost from NT$99/ News, Much TV (entertainment, variety, the platform offers drama series, variety US$3 for 21 channels to NT$585/US$18 for talk shows) and JET TV (variety shows, talk shows, animation, entertainment, kids, 110+ channels. Add-on pack is NT$150/ shows). In addition, ERA is the commercial travel, documentary, movies, live stream- US$4.70 a month for 21 premium channels. agency and distributor for, among others, ing sports events and in-house content. Asia Plus, Pili and Disney Channel. ERA is iQiyi costs NT$239/US$7.40 a month or Vidol also involved in content production. NT$1,999/US$62 a year. Vidol is a video streaming app by major Taiwanese programmer, Sanlih E-Television Gala Television (GTV) KKTV (SET). Vidol carries Sanlih-branded live TV Established in June 1997, Gala Television KKTV trialed services in July 2016 and channels and in-house drama and variety operates four commercial TV stations launched commercially a month later. shows, among other programmes. (GTV First, GTV Entertainment, GTV Drama, KKTV is managed by KKBOX, major- Channel K), which offer a mix of in-house ity owned by Japan’s telco KDDI. 20 TV Satellite DTH produced, commissioned and acquired channels are offered for free. Access to content. Gala Television became a sub- unlimited content costs NT$149/US$5. C-Sky-Net sidiary of Yung-tsai Investement in 2014 after it was sold by former owner EQT Great- Chinese Satellite Television Communica- er China, which acquired Gala TV in 2011. LiTV tions’ (CSTV) Hsin-Chi Broadcast operates LiTV started operations in March 2015 and direct-to-home (DTH) service C-Sky-Net, now offers up to 100 local/international TV Liann Yee Production/TVBS Media Inc offering about 50 local and international channels (news, sports, finance, politics, Liann Yee operates cable television channels. C-Sky-Net launched in 1998. drama, film, variety, animation, travel and channels – TVBS, TVBS News and TVBS kids) and 25,000+ hours of on-demand Entertainment – in Taiwan. A former sub- video/audio services to more than 600 Cable/Programmers sidiary of Hong Kong’s Television Broad- monthly unique users. Subscription costs casts Ltd (TVB), Liann Yee has since the NT$199/US$6 a month for the Value Pack. Asia Digital Media beginning of 2016 been wholly owned The VOD pack costs NT$99/US$3 a month. Taiwan’s Asia Digital Media, a subsidiary of by Taiwanese entities. The company was Chinese Satellite Television Communica- established in 1993 and operates a multi- Super MOD tions group (CSTV), owns and operates nine million dollar production centre. Kbro commercially launched multi-media channels with genres ranging from news to on-demand service, Super MOD, in Sep- entertainment, food and travelogue. Long Turn TV (LTV) tember 2012 offering a range of online ap- Long Turn TV (LTV) is the international plications, including VOD and interactive CTI Television media business unit of Chinese Satellite services for home users. The VOD line-up CTI Television was established in 1994 by Television. LTV develops/produces/dis- consists of both acquired and in-house- Chinese Television Network (CTN) and tributes in-house channels and distributes produced content. Monthly subscriptions acquired by China Times in 2002. The foreign pay-TV channels including DW, range from NT$199/US$6 to NT$300/US$9. network became a member of the Want Nickelodeon and Outdoor Channel. The Kbro has about one million subscribers. Want Group in late 2008. CTI owns and company also offers satellite broadcast- operates five TV channels. ing and content distribution services. Taiwan Interactive Television (TITV) Taiwan Interactive Television (TITV) is an Eastern Broadcasting Corporation Portico Media Founded in 2005, Portico Media specialis- IPTV content aggregator providing more Founded in 1991, Eastern Broadcasting es in production, aggregation and chan- than 60 digital TV channels and nearly Corporation (EBC) operates eight local nel distribution. The company distributes 10,000 hours of VOD content. TV channels for Taiwan and more than 10 international channels. EBC’s distribution about 18 channels, including Universal Vee Time Corporation subsidiary for Asia, EBC Asia, manages Channel HD, Syfy HD, Diva HD, Comedy Vee Time Corporation specialises in and distributes four TV channels in 48 Central Asia, MTV Live HD and History in fibre-optic broadband (up to 100 Mbps countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Taiwan. Portico Media also owns online symmetrical) for consumers and businesses, comedy platform, Hahatai. dedicated Ethernet connections for enter- ERA Communications prises and cloud-based TV/multimedia plat- Cable TV operator and channel distribu- Sanlih E-Television Established in 1983 as a video cassette form, Vee TV, which offers more than 150 tor ERA Communications was established supplier and cable TV satellite broad- local/international channels and VOD titles. in 1981. ERA owns and operates three commercial cable TV channels: ERA cast service provider, Sanlih E-Television

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began offering in-house cable channels tertainment produces and distributes TV development and production services, in- in 1993. Sanlih operates Sanlih Taiwan series and feature films (theatrical, home cluding story planning, character designs, Channel, Sanlih City Channel, Sanlih video, VOD, TV). and multi-media animation production. News Channel, Sanlih Financial Channel and Sanlih International Channel. Dnaxcat Dnaxcat was established in 1998 as an Telcos Videoland Television Network original creator of cat characters and A subsidiary of the Koos Group, Videoland merchandiser of related products. Asia Pacific Telecom Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) was founded Television Network was founded in 1982 as in 2000 offering fixed line/wireless broad- a production house, providing more than Dot-Shine Digimedia Communication band services. APT has 1.936 million total 1,000 hours of content annually. Videoland Dot-Shine Digimedia Communication, es- mobile subscribers (April 2018). Television Network now owns and man- tablished in 2001, produces feature films, TV programmes, TV commercials and mu- ages seven in-house channels: Videoland Chunghwa Telecom Sports, Videoland Japanese, Videoland sic videos. The company produced its first Established in 1996, Chunghwa Telecom Movie, Videoland On-TV, Videoland Dra- HD drama series, Fifi, in 2003. 2017 titles in- provides fixed-line, mobile, IPTV, broad- ma, Videoland Max-TV and Videoland HD. cluded movie Drive Me Crazy (90 minutes) band and internet services. Chunghwa and drama series Killer Online (10x48 mins). Win TV Broadcasting has 10.6 million fixed-line subscribers, 8.21 million mobile 4G subscribers, 3.6 million Win TV Broadcasting, owned by Taiwan Next Animation Studio FTTx broadband subs, 1.7 million IPTV Mobile, operates family channel Mo- Next Animation Studio (NAS) focuses on (MOD) subs and 3.73 million HiNet inter- moKids and owns distribution rights to news animation, primarily for its YouTube net subs (March 2018). a large slate of domestic and foreign channel TOMONEWS and animation servicing. In 2018, NAS pivoted away from TV content. MomoKids, targeting pre- Far EasTone Telecommunications school, first and second graders and par- its two-year foray into premium original Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) ents, carries cartoons and self-produced animation IP development for global dis- began commercial operations in Jan programmes on parenting, music, natu- tribution across multiple platforms. 1998, and today offes 3G/4G services to ral science and daily life. Studio Ilya Animation 7.143 million mobile subs (April 2018). Studio Ilya Animation specialises in 3D animation offering development, pre- Taiwan Mobile Production/Post Production Taiwan Mobile, incorporated in 1997, of- production and production services of fers a quadruple-play service covering Beach House Pictures Taiwan animated TV programmes and feature mobile, fixed-line, cable TV and broad- Set up in 2011, Beach House Pictures Tai- films. Credits includeMy Favourite Towels, band. The company offers three brands wan has produced more than 30 hours of an adventure series starring five animals – Taiwan Mobile, TWM Broadband and original content, including Rebuilding Tai- created from household towels. wan (for National Geographic Channel), TWM Solution. Chineseness (for Discovery Channel) and Studio2 Animation Lab Taiwan Star Grand Aces (for Public Television Service). Tainan-based Studio2 Animation Lab Taiwan Star was formed after the merger specialises in the creation, development of 4G operator Taiwan Star and 3G mo- Chimestone Digital Production and production of animation content. bile network service provider VIBO in No- Founded in Nov 1999 as a post-produc- Original titles include Weather Boy!, Bar- vember 2013. tion film/TV company, Chimestone Digital kley The Cat and The Little Sun. Production began digital film production TBC services using 2K and 4K-3D standards in WaWoo Communications Multi-system cable operator Taiwan 2008 and supported production of The WaWoo Communications was estab- Broadband Communications (TBC) of- Ghost Tales, Clownfish 3D, Ending Cut lished in 1985, specialising in the produc- fers 5Mbps-120Mbps broadband services and The Mother Earth, among others. tion of TV docus and drama series in HD. via its hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network Creative Century Entertainment Xanthus Animation to subscribers in South Taoyuan, Hsinchu Established in 2007, Creative Century En- Xanthus Animation provides 3D product County, North Miaoli, South Miaoli and Taichung.

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June 2018 11-13 DW Global Media Forum Bonn, Germany

Shanghai International Film & TV 12-14 Shanghai, China Festival TV Market

25 CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum Singapore

26-28 BroadcastAsia Singapore

26-28 CommunicAsia Singapore

August 2018 28-29 ContentAsia Summit Singapore

September 2018 5-7 BCWW Seoul, South Korea

13-16 Gwangju ACE Fair Gwangju, South Korea

October 2018 2-4 APSCC Jakarta, Indonesia

13-14 MIP Junior Cannes, France

15-18 MIPCOM Cannes, France

23-25 TIFFCOM 2018 Tokyo, Japan

30 Oct-1 Nov CASBAA Convention Hong Kong

31 Oct-7 Nov American Film Market (AFM) Santa Monica, U.S.

November 2018 28-30 Asian Animation Summit Seoul, South Korea

December 2018 3-4 PromaxBDA Asia Singapore

5-7 Asia TV Forum & Market, ATF Singapore

March 2019 18-21 Hong Kong FILMART Hong Kong

April 2019 8-11 MIP TV Cannes, France

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Indonesia Spongebob Drama, animation, variety pop in eclectic top three C NTENT

Editorial Director Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants rated Spongebob and Running Man. The Janine Stein bounded onto Asia’s charts in the top drama/animation/variety triumvirate were [email protected] three for the first time during the week of the only titles that beat the 14 million de- Assistant Editor 24-30 May, placing second only to U.S. mand expressions mark for the week. The Malena Amzah zombie drama The Walking Dead. other two that broke the 10 million barrier [email protected] In what is probably the most eclectic were Westworld and 13 Reasons Why. Research Manager top three we’ve seen on data science Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why slayed every CJ Yong company Parrot Analytics info for Asia, other title made under the banner of [email protected] Indonesians also gathered around South “digital originals”, with more than double Editorial Research Aqilah Yunus Korean variety show Running Man, which the demand of Amazon’s The Grand Tour, [email protected] placed a close third to Spongebob. Less which placed second, and three times Design than 100,000 demand expressions sepa- the interest around Stranger Things. Rae Yong

Associate Publisher Indonesia: Top 10 Overall TV Shows (Americas, Europe) and VP, Rank Title Average Demand International Business Development Expressions™ Leah Gordon 1 The Walking Dead 16,683,580 [email protected] 2 Spongebob Squarepants 14,810,270 Sales and Marketing (Asia) 3 Running Man (런닝맨) 14,718,765 Masliana Masron 4 Westworld 13,049,154 [email protected] 5 13 Reasons Why 11,487,894 6 The Flash 9,027,438 To receive your regular free copy 7 Game of Thrones 8,255,049 of ContentAsia, please email 8 The Voice 7,629,391 [email protected] 9 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7,354,498 10 One Piece (ワンピース) 7,052,264 Published fortnightly by: Pencil Media Pte Ltd Indonesia: Top 10 Digital Originals 730A Geylang Road Rank Title Platform Average Demand Singapore 389641 Expressions™ Tel: +65 6846-5987 1 13 Reasons Why Netflix 11,487,894 www.contentasia.tv 2 The Grand Tour Amazon Video 5,402,088 3 Stranger Things Netflix 3,821,369 MCI (P) 091/11/2015 4 Black Mirror Netflix 3,748,042 5 The Good Fight CBS All Access 2,844,522 Copyright 2018 Pencil Media Pte Ltd. 6 Altered Carbon Netflix 2,699,821 All Rights Reserved. 7 Marvel’s The Punisher Netflix 2,660,954 8 Star Trek: Discovery CBS All Access 2,566,877 9 Marvel’s The Defenders Netflix 2,564,730 10 Narcos Netflix 2,180,834 C NTENT Date range: 24-30 May 2018 Market: Indonesia Daily news with Demand Expressions®: A global metric standard developed by Parrot ContentAsia Insider Analytics which represents the total audience demand being expressed email [email protected] for a title, within a market. Audience demand reflects the desire, engage- for subscription details ment and viewership, weighted by importance; so a stream/download is a higher expression of demand than a ‘like’/comment. Note: Local/regional content in this country is still being onboarded by Parrot Analytics