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History Asia clears 4-nights for Roots Day & date Asia premiere set for 31 May

History premieres mega-drama Roots in Asia at the end of May, scheduling the epic four two-hour episodes across four nights from 31 May. The Asia release fol- lows a red carpet world premiere screen- ing at Mip TV in Cannes on 4 April.

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Vietnam, China, top Asia’s formats charts

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Vietnam was Asia’s most active formats Markets40 with the most formats: Q1 2016 market in the first quarter of this year, with

46 titles on air, in production or signed and 35 in waiting. 30 ContentAsia’s updated Formats Outlook 28 puts China second in volume rankings, with No. of formats 26 25 28 formats, although China is by far the big- gest market in dollar terms, with production 20 20 budgets that dwarf anything being spent 15 in the region (excluding Australia). The 15 13 13 Voice of China season four, for instance, had a production budget north of more 10 77 than RMB100 million/US$16 million. 5 4 In third place is Thailand, with 26 for- 3 22 mats. These are primarily game/compe- 1 0 tition shows, topped by big-brand titles MasterChef Thailand and Thailand’s Got Source: ContentAsia’s Formats Outlook @ Mip TV 2016 Talent season six. The single drama on the list is Gossip Girl Thailand. format – Asia’s Next Top Model season C o u n t rof y Family Feud, including two seasons – 13 Vietnam’s position at the top of the vol- four – premiered in March on Fox Net- and 14 – in Vietnam. ume list is not a surprise. The country has works Group’s female-focused StarWorld. Endemol Shine has five MasterChef been a formats driver for years, and 2016 FremantleMedia Asia was the production series, including seasons one and two in kicked off with everything from the 10th house for season four; the series was pre- ; two versions of season of Deal or No Deal Vietnam to sea- viously produced by IceTV, ActiveTV Asia (China, ); and three versions of son seven of Vietnam’s Next Top Model. and Beach House Pictures. Your Face Sounds Familiar (Cambodia, FremantleMedia Asia and Endemol Excluding , FremantleMedia Asia Thailand, Vietnam). Shine Group Asia are the clear leaders in and Endemol Shine Asia run neck and In China, FremantleMedia has three the region, separated by more than 20 neck with 39 formats each. NBCUniversal, format deals – Date With Fate, The Eureka titles from their closest rival. Both are also in third place, has 14, including two ver- Moment and To Tell The Truth. Endemol in the cross hairs on returns of two of the sions of Top Chef (, Vietnam). Shine has four – Big Brother China, The three biggest regional formats last year FremantleMedia Asia’s slate includes Brain season three, Don’t Stop Me Now – Asia’s Got Talent (FremantleMedia for six versions of Got Talent (Cambodia, and Singer Takes It All. Sony Pictures Networks Asia’s AXN) and , , Philippines, Thai- MasterChef Asia (Endemol Shine for A+E land, Vietnam); three versions of X Factor From ContentAsia’s Formats Outlook Networks Asia’s Lifetime). The third big (Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam); six series @ Mip TV 2016, published on 24 March.

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Top ten contributors to adspend growth 2015‐2018 (US$m)

China 18,313 USA 17,989 UK 5,029 c ntentasia Indonesia 4,073 21 March-3 april 2016 India 3,018 Page 4. 2,342 Germany 2,010 Argentina 1,744 Spain 1,475 Global adspend acceleratesRussia to 4.6%1,338 Source: ZenithOptimedia 2016 growth “despite economic headwinds” The ranking of the world’s largest ad markets is currently very stable. The only change we expect between 2015 and 2018 is for Indonesia to displace Canada as the tenth‐largest ad market. The global ad market is on course for 4.6% Top 10 ad markets growth this year, up from 3.9% growth last Top ten ad markets year, according to ZenithOptimedia’s US$m, current prices. Currency conversion at 2014 average rates. new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, 2015 Adspend 2018 Adspend published Monday (21 March). Global 1 USA 182,615 1 USA 200,603 advertising expenditure will total US$579 billion in 2016, and will exceed US$600 2 China 74,406 2 China 92,719 billion in 2017, reaching US$603 billion by 3 Japan 41,805 3 Japan 44,147 the end of the year. 4 UK 26,020 4 UK 31,049 The new forecasts show that despite 5 Germany 25,791 5 Germany 27,802 “clear challenges” facing the global 6 Brazil 14,364 6 Brazil 14,612 economy – including the ongoing slow- 7 France 13,349 7 France 13,662 down in China – “advertisers’ confi- 8 12,208 8 South Korea 13,038 dence has remained largely unshaken”. 9 Australia 11,855 9 Australia 12,816 ZenithOptimedia gave three main rea- sons for its optimism – special events this 10 Canada 10,172 10 Indonesia 10,955 Source: ZenithOptimedia year (U.S. election, Summer Olympics, Source: ZenithOptimedia/IMF UEFA Football championships, which are forecast to add a combined net US$1.6 Global advertising expenditure by medium billion to the global ad market in 2016), pore continuing to suffer from a weak downgrades to television in Brazil and rapid recovery from the markets most Theproperty internet market is still the and fastest slowdown growing in medium China by somein China, distance. has We led estimate us to forecastthat internet internet affected by the eurozone crisis, and the adspendand other grew emerging 19% year onmarkets year in 2015,has hit and ex we- forecastadvertising an average to overtakegrowth rate television of 13% a yearadver - emergence of rapidly growing markets betweenports from 2015 all and markets. 2018. We ZenithOptimedia estimate that internet advertisingtising globally accounted in 2017, for a29.5% year of earlier global than ad that are now opening up to international expenditureexpects growth in 2015, in upAdvanced from 25.8% Asia in 2014. to av By- 2018we we expect forecast internet back advertising in December,” to attract the advertising. 37.6%erage of 2.2% all global a year advertising, through after to 2018. overtaking televisioncompany to become added. the world’s largest Six of the 30 rapidly growing markets advertisingFast-track medium Asia – inChina, 2017. India, Indonesia, Mobile is a major growth driver. “The are in Asia – Bangladesh, Cambodia, , Pakistan, Philippines, , great majority of new internet advertis- , Mongolia, Myanmar, . Thailand and Vietnam – is forecast to ing is targeted at mobile devices, thanks The report forecasts adex in these grow at 8.9% in 2016, and at an average to their widespread adoption and their

30 to grow at an average rate ofZenith 15% Optimedia Grouprate Limited of 8.5% a year between 2015 and ever-tighter integration24 into Percy Street consumers’ London W1T 2BS Registered in England number 4244479 T +44 (0)20 7961 1000 a year between 2015 and 2018 – Registeredmore office Pembroke2018, Building down Kensington fromVillage Avonmore 11.9% Road London a year W14 8DG between daily lives,” ZenithOptimediaF +44(0)20 7961said. 1113 VAT number GB 707283633 www.zenithoptimedia.com than three times faster than the global 2010 and 2015. China is the main engine “We forecast that mobile advertising average – and to increase by US$3.9 bil- of growth in fast-track Asia, and accounts expenditure will increase by US$64 bil- lion to US$11.6 billion. for 74% of adspend in the category. lion between 2015 and 2018, growing ZenithOptimedia divides Asia into Online advertising is a major driver of by 128% and accounting for 92% of new three in its forecasts – Japan, advanced global adspend growth. advertising dollars added to the global Asia and Fast-track Asia. Japan, the Internet advertising as a whole is ex- market over these years,” the company report says, “remains stuck in its rut of pected to grow at 15.7% this year – more added. persistent low growth. We forecast av- than three times the global average “Rapid growth from countries that erage adspend growth of 1.8% a year rate – driven by social media (31.9%), are relatively new to the international between 2015 and 2018, the same rate online video (22.4%) and paid search advertising market, combined with a that Japan has achieved over the last (15.7%). “Internet advertising’s growth resurgence of established markets that five years”. rate is slowing as it matures (it was 21.1% were damaged by the financial crisis, Growth in advanced Asia – Australia, in 2014), but we expect it to remain in will keep the global ad market on track New Zealand, , double digits for the rest of our forecast for healthy growth for at least the next and South Korea – is expected to be a period,” ZenithOptimedia said. few years,” said Jonathan Barnard, Ze- “disappointing” 2.8% in 2015, with Singa- “This sustained growth, combined with nithOptimedia’s head of forecasting. 一伀 匀䄀䘀䔀 䠀䄀刀䈀伀唀刀

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Discovery picks up 4 docs the space from Spark partner Autentic JC NbTENTASIA the place to look for the jobs that matter No word on would-be Asia doc channel, Spark, announced in November 2014

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History Asia sets day-&-date premiere for Roots Epic mini-series pushes A+E Networks’ global rights agenda

History premieres mega-drama Roots in Asia in May, scheduling the epic four two-hour episodes across four nights from Tuesday, 31 May. The Asia release follows a red carpet world premiere screening at Mip TV in Cannes on 4 April. The eight-hour event series from A+E Studios for History tells the story of one family and their will to survive against harsh odds. Laurence Fishburne stars as author Alex Haley, whose book Roots: The Saga of an American Family about race and slavery was the source of this year’s mini series as well as the 1970s version that aired on ABC in the U.S. Forest Whitaker plays Fid- dler and Anna Paquin stars Roots as Nancy Holt. The event series is part of two continents and four months “There are dynamics playing out all A+E Networks’ bid to own its of photography. over the world every day. We felt con- content future. “Roots is one Sean Cohan A+E Studio’s reason for being fident that if there was ever a time to of our biggest undertakings,” says Sean also hinges on DeBitetto pulling it undertake this, it’s now,” he adds. Cohan, A+E Networks’ president interna- off. A+E’s plan to own rights outright will Roots, he says, “is not just a remake” tional and digital media. allow the company to sidestep traditional of the original, which premiered on ABC “We launched Studios to better control acquisition/licensing models for its chan- in the U.S. almost 40 years ago and was our destiny – to produce and own our nels, and avoid “not so great situations seen live by 60% of the American pop- premium content,” Cohan says, adding where we don’t own, distribute or have ulation. The new Roots has been “rei- that the mini series “embodies the type control over where the show ends up,” magined for a new generation in a new of ambitious storytelling that A+E Studios DeBitetto says. That includes no control world”, DeBitetto says. is bringing to the global marketplace”. over digital and SVOD, which are “very Original source material was mined for Owning its own IP is a big deal for A+E important today”. the mini-series’ four parts, each of which Networks, which has seen much of the If Roots’ appeal seems highest in the is presented as a two-hour feature film halo effect of productions such as Vikings U.S. and Africa, DeBitetto says the theme with a narrative connection but a differ- slip through its fingers. – race relations – is timely globally. ent director and “its own personality... Two years into his role as A+E Networks’ “We asked ourselves whether this story Each night is a satisfying experience in president, brand strategy, business devel- has global relevance. All our research is and of itself”. opment and A+E Studios, Bob DeBitetto, that while Roots certainly is an African DeBitetto says the decision to sched- talks about the benefits of developing and American story, the themes it ad- ule the series for four nights running was global stories that make the investment in dresses are global – the themes of iden- on some level shaped by binge-viewing premium drama worthwhile. tity, who am I?, where do I come from? trends. But more so by creating a ground- DeBitetto says A+E is “getting better at and does that matter?... it says some- swell for a “rare, must-see event”. the big events and the big stories that thing profound about family and survival have applications around the world”. – instincts that people can relate to and Edited from ContentAsia’s print/online Roots, he adds, was an “enormous un- be moved by regardless of where they issue, distributed at Mip Doc (2-3 April), dertaking”, involving 1,000 people on are from,” DeBitetto says. Mip TV (4-7 April), APOS (26-28 April) & Busan Contents Market (11-13 May) ASIA PACIFIC VIDEO OPERATORS SUMMIT APRIL 26-28, 2016 BALI, INDONESIA

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Philippines’ GMA sells 1st drama format rights to Mexico Worldwide unit celebrates 20th anniversary ahead of Mip TV

Earlier this month, as buyers and sellers celona says. “We hope around the world put the finishing touches that with the sale of Munt- to their Mip TV plans, GMA Worldwide Inc ing Heredera to Mexico, (GWI) announced a local version of Phil- that perhaps our canned ippines’ drama, Munting Heredera (Little dramas find their way Heiress), was being made in Mexico. into that market as well or The drama, about a grandmother’s to other Latin American search for her heiress, will be produced countries,” she adds. by Mexican company Telefilm Atlantico, She also sees opportuni- and carries with it high hopes of being a ties in the next three years trailblazer for GMA stories in that part of in Thailand, Myanmar and the world. Cambodia, all of which Munting Heredera is GMA’s first drama are emerging markets in format licensing sale in Latin America, Asia for GMA’s finished and the deal runs alongside Canada’s dramas. Rogers Media acquisition of a package GMA Worldwide’s big- of HD titles, including My Destiny, Second gest achievement in the Chances (Another Chance) and Beauti- past 20 years has been ful Strangers for its free-TV channel. building up a distribution GWI vice president, Roxanne Barce- network on the licensing/ lona, GMA’s most familiar face on the syndication side and, on international content stage, couldn’t the acquisitions side, its have thought of a better 20th anniver- contribution to GMA sary present. Networks ratings “Our presence in various territories success, Bar- proves that our content is relevant and celona says. favoured not just among Filipino view- The unit was, ers but more importantly, among foreign until the viewers as well,” she says. middle of Mona Louise Rey as Jennifer Montereal It’s been a long haul – and there’s a last year, re- in Munting Heredera long way to go. sponsible for GMA Worldwide opened its doors for p r o g r a m m e languages to increase appeal among business in February 1996 as the acquisi- acquisitions for domestical audiences. tion and distribution arm of broadcaster the domestic net- Roxanne Barcelona “Our target audience are not Filipino GMA Network, kicking off two decades work. expats but rather, we want to reach the of taking GMA’s Filipino content story to One of the biggest challenges in the local audience of the countries we sell the region and the world. early days was introducing Filipino drama to,” she says. Over-the-top services are a The new deals top steady growth in to Southeast Asia and to the rest of the different story; those, she says, will appeal Asia and Africa, Barcelona says, hoping world, and building a client base, Barce- to Filipino expats. to add Turkey and Papua New Guinea to lona says. Looking back, would she have done her list of partners for both finished con- Today, Barcelona says top-selling title anything different? “That’s a hard ques- tent and drama formats. Eastern Europe The Impostor (39 episodes x 45 minutes) tion to answer,” she says, adding: “We is also on GMA’s radar. has been sold to more than 14 coun- are a small company and yet we dream “For GMA drama to succeed, it is nec- tries. And it’s not just for services target- big. I cannot think of anything we would essary that our stories can relate to our ting Filipino expats. Barcelona says GMA have done differently to get to where we domestic and overseas audience,” Bar- dramas are dubbed or subtitled in local are today”. Out on 23 March!

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BCM countdown to 10th edition in May New doc, co-production awards and initiatives to celebrate, says Busan market boss

How will you mark the occasion? We are What has been the biggest challenge 230 companies from 18 countries. This celebrating in various ways. First of all, for BCM? We have supported market increased every year. Last year, at the we are premiering Asia Documentary attendees with, among other benefits, Busan Exhibition and Conventionl Cen- Awards in the categories of ocean docu- complimentary booths until 2014 in order tre (Bexco), there were more than 550 mentary and co-production. We are also to enhance and help grow the market. companies from over 45 countries par- planning to give special recognition to We were concerned about charging for ticipating. Every year we have tried hard a past attendee or company who has booths at a time when the worldwide to increase value and convenience, and contributed most to BCM for the past 10 economy was on a downturn along with to support small media companies. We years. BCM Global Pitching will provide government expenditure budget cuts, also concentrate on creating a place for an opportunity for producers and invest- changes to China’s regulations about meetings between producers and inves- ment companies to meet; this year, we foreign drama acquisitions, and political tors and, in addition, offer various semi- are expanding pitching to overseas pro- tensions between Japan and Korea. De- nars and forums for the development of ducers and investors. spite this, BCM 2015 Asian content. We will not stop in making every single effort to be a remarkable We continue to endeavour market for all the world. to be the hub of the media industry... to be a global How would you like the market to de- market with the character- velop in the next three years? The Asia istics of both Busan and Korea.” Documentary Awards is being intro- duced for the first time this year, with Jong Sang Koo a focus on Busan’s marine city life. We Chairman, Organising Committee, aim to be a global market with the char- Busan Contents Market (BCM) acteristics of both Busan and Korea. To further activate both offline and online turned out to be a success. The total markets, we will continue to invite ex- What do you think is BCM’s biggest deals resulted for year 2015 showed the perts to participate in high-quality pro- achievement? We have had remarkable best figure growth of 23% compared to grammes, such as the Mip Academy growth in terms of export of Korean con- transactions in 2014. with Reed Midem. We are also develop- tent as well as sales deal concluded at ing strategic marketing plans to drive our market. BCM 2015 had record atten- How much bigger is the show this year content participation from Southeast dance in total of 1,325 buyers and sellers than in the first year? The first Busan Con- Asia, and will strive to be at the centre participating from 554 companies from tents Market was held in 2007. We started of the content markets in Japan, China 45 countries. We continue to endeavor out holding the market at the Haeun- and Asia as well as around the world. to be the hub of the media industry. dae Grand Hotel with participation from

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10 Years Ago This Week... ContentAsia celebrated its 10th anniversary in March 2016. Among other things, we’re marking the occasion by looking back (and maybe marvelling a bit at everything that’s happened since) at what happened this week in 2006....

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Buzz over Korea’s content mega-budgets Marturano exits HBO Wireless platforms expected to spend big at MIPTV 2006 in April end-March, internal replacement tipped By Janine Stein

Korea’s content industry has high content from SkyLife, although One of Asia’s best-known and hopes for coming-soon wireless local programmers expect a longest-serving distribution platforms, with talk of a US$1 billion rash of new channels specifically execs, HBO Asia’s Jim Martur- purse from one of the country’s for the Wibro platform. “Most ano, exits the Singapore-based leading telcos to fund acquisi- channels have been found. They movie network at the end of tions that will differentiate its new will probably create their own,” March after 20 years with HBO mobile offerings. The excitement one content supplier said of the and almost 15 in Asia. is expected to spill over into the latest turbo-charged program- Marturano’s replacement international programming com- ming efforts. has not been officially an- munity at MIPTV in April. The telco, which has 6.3 million nounced, but Local television executives broadband subs, declined to an internal say Korean programmers have comment on programme budg- appointment already started trawling global ets for the Wibro service, which from his exist- libraries for content that will drive is currently being trialed with 22 ing sales and take up of the new platforms in an channels. A commercial launch, marketing increasingly crowded and fiercely with up to 120 channels and team is widely expected to competitive entertainment envi- digital video recording capabili- Jim Marturano ronment. ties, is expected mid-2006. be finalised in Industry insiders say leading KT is the biggest single investor early April. telco, Korea Telecom (KT), has in SkyLife, with a 21.5% stake. Marturano’s farewell to Asia set aside up to US$1 billion to Killer content: Jewel in the Palace SkyLife launched in 2002 and has will, if the deals go through fund content for its new Wibro by direct-broadcast satellite 1.9 million subscribers. The plat- as planned, be marked with (wireless broadband) platform, platform, SkyLife. The new pack- form, which offers more than 170 new carriage contracts for two which is being programmed age is likely to carry substantial Continued on page 8 HBO channels with Singapore’s StarHub. Details of the StarHub deals for HBO Family and HBO Sig- Discovery’s local production up 20% in 2006, Taiwan leads nature were being finalised as Marturano’s surprise retirement Discovery Networks Asia of the total, Discovery demand for local content in that party was held in Singapore on will up original local Network Asia’s sen- market,” Gibbons says. Friday (March 17). HBO Signa- production in Asia ior vice president The network has appointed ture launched last year. by more than for programming Boon Ang as director of program- Hong Kong’s Now Broadband 20% this year to 80 and creative serv- ming in Taiwan. His brief includes TV has also taken another two hours across seven ices, James Gib- Taiwan-based production. of HBO’s commercial-free 24- networks. bons, says. “Our major centre of produc- hour channels – Family and Hits. Most of the new About half the tion is Singapore, but we also Both launched on March 1. shows will be aired output – 40 hours produce out of China, Hong Marturano, who was also on the flagship Dis- – will come out Kong, Japan and Australia,” managing director of HBO’s covery Channel, of Taiwan, which Gibbons adds. Indian joint venture and is cred- Travel & Living and has become the This year’s slate includes the ited with getting a movie block Animal Planet. Singapore-based biggest budget show ever for into China, is returning to the A major focus is network’s biggest Discovery Travel and Living in Asia US. He will continue to consult high-definition pro- local production – VIP Weekend (6 x 60mins). for HBO. duction. HD content centre. “This is VIP Weekend – the new Ian will make up about 10% because of the Continued on page 8

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Streaming mania in Southeast Asia C NTENTASIA Battle heats up as Sky, Astro pile in Editorial Director Janine Stein U.S. studios and everyone else with a show ing month, and gives it the ability to fast- [email protected] to peddle have a new best friend for- track expansion beyond its current three Assistant Editor ever in Southeast Asia. Actually, call that markets – Malaysia, Philippines and Thai- Malena Amzah a whole lot of new BFFs as OTT platforms land – and one million members (the [email protected] prepare for battle. And that’s not even number of paying subscribers has not Research Manager counting the rash of country-specific do- been disclosed). A launch in Indonesia, CJ Yong mestic players... mentioned even before Emtek joined [email protected] Malaysia-based regional streaming the current funding round, is said to be Editorial Research SVOD platform iflix – with US$50 million of imminent. Aqilah Yunus [email protected] new investment – is but one of a seemingly More broadly, the new money – par- Design never-ending stream of fresh-and-raring- ticularly from an acknowledged market Rae Yong to-go platforms, hungry for programming, leader such as Sky – also lends legitima- and hell-bent on super-serving Asian view- cy to rampant OTT/on-demand ambi- Associate Publisher ers with every kind of content and love- tions in Asia, with hot-and-cold running (Americas, Europe) and VP, you-to-bits customer service. wannabe streaming platforms vying for International Business Development There’s also PCCW’s Viu, with a free- viewers and subs dollars. And it turbo- Leah Gordon mium model driven by to-die-for Korean charges iflix’s already ambitious content [email protected] titles from all the major Korean studios and acquisitions plans. Sales and Marketing (Asia) a commitment to enticing viewers away One of the consequences of iflix’s fast- Masliana Masron from pirate sites. track expansion is that the race for tal- [email protected] Then there’s Singtel’s Hooq. Plus Malay- ent and digital experience in the region To receive your regular free copy sia’s Astro, which launched regional plat- will get even more fierce. iflix is said to of ContentAsia, please email form Tribe this month not, as others have, www.contentasia.tv be planning to almost double its head- [email protected] with thousands of hours of on-demand count by the end of the year and other content but with five linear channels players are scrambling to fast-track their Published fortnightly by: from third-party suppliers offered as part own digital strategies. Pencil Media Pte Ltd of Indonesian mobile platform Axiata for The competition for rights will continue 730A Geylang Road about US$2 a month. The five channels to intensify, and it’s anyone’s guess what Singapore 389641 are Fox Sports 1, 2 and 3 and two Korean this does to pricing. Right now, average Tel: +65 6846-5987 channels – Turner’s Korean entertainment OTT license fees for new Korean drama www.contentasia.tvcontentasia.tv channel Oh!K and CJ E&M’s Channel M. titles – a must have on any self-respect- MCI (P) 091/11/2015 Other countries are on Tribe’s radar. ing platform in most Asian markets – start Is the streaming boom in Asia real or bat- at about US$600 and can go as high as Copyright 2016 Pencil Media Pte bleep-crazy? Some think both, and that US$10,000 an episode. Library drama is Ltd. All Rights Reserved. the current madness will settle down to a much less. Other Asian titles, with some few superstars driven in equal measure by exceptions, go for way less. content and tech savvy, underpinned by There are 1,001 other questions, includ- the big-bang ability to be bold, innovative ing: What does it mean for Fox Networks and to move fast. to have sister platform Sky back a rival What does the shiny new attention from to its own rumoured OTT ambitions in c ntentasia European juggernaut Sky really mean, for Asia? No one is saying, but it’s no secret Daily news with iflix and for the rest of the industry? For that Fox has for a year or more been on ContentAsia Insider starters, Sky’s involvement in iflix is the big- the hunt for content to drive some sort email [email protected] gest vote of confidence in the streaming of regional OTT play to add to its India for subscription details platform since its launch in Malaysia in success with Star India’s Hotstar. The an- May 2015 and the Philippines the follow- swers? Watch this space.