#GreatJobs page 9 ! s r a ye 2 0 C 016 g 1 NTENT - Celebratin www.contentasia.tv l www.contentasiasummit.com 28 NOVEMber-11 deceMber 2016 ATF Dailies Alert! 2015 Tokyo International Film Festival Nominee MAIN COLOR PALETTEWe will be publishing market dailies10 GonRADIENT BG GRADIENT R: 190 G: 214 B: 48 R: 0 G: 0 B: 0 Take the green and the blue Take the green and the blue C: 30 M: 0 Y: 100 K: 0 C: 75 M: 68 Y: 67 K: 90 from the main palette. from the main palette. Wednesday (7 Dec), Thursday (8 Dec)Opaci ty: 100% Opacity: 50% R: 0 G: 80 B: 255 R: 138 G: 140 B: 143 Blending Mode: Normal Blending Mode: Hue C: 84 M: 68 Y: 0 K: 0 & FridayC: 49 M: 39 (9 Y: 38Dec). K: 3 All news welcome! Send tips, quips and announcements to Aqilah at [email protected] 1,000 companies gather in Singapore for FRIDAY DEC 2 9PM ATF 2016 10PM PHIL. MAL Biggest presence from Singapore, Korea & China Almost 1,000 companies from about 49 countries gather in Singapore this month for the annual programming mart, the Asia TV Forum and Market (ATF). A week ahead of the three-day market opening on Wednesday, 7 December, ATF listed 978 participating companies. About 749 – or 77% – of companies coming into Singapore are from 19 LION STANDING AGAINST THE WIND Red by HBO is a service mark of Home Box Office, Inc. Used with permission © 2016 HBO Asia. All rights reserved. © 2015 "T.L.S.I.T.W" Film Partners "T.L.S.I.T.W" © 2015 HBO Asia. All rights reserved. © 2016 Inc. Used with permission Office, mark of Home Box HBO is a service by Red countries and territories in the Asia-Pa- cific region, including Australia. The other 229 companies include 126 participants from Europe and 55 from SUNDAY DEC 4 9PM North America. 10PM PHIL. MAL The biggest single country presence this year is from Singapore – unsurprisingly giv- en the location and strong support from REDBYHBO.COM the domestic media regulator – with 122 companies registered as of 29 Nov. The total presence from companies in ASIAN STORIES Southeast Asia is just above 300. North YOU LOVE Asia has a strong presence this year, with a total of 375 companies. This For more information on channel distribution, please contact includes 117 companies from Korea, Yasmin Zahid ([email protected]) 80 from China, 68 from Japan, 58 from at (65) 6288 6303. Hong Kong and 52 from Taiwan. C NTENTASIA 28 NOVEMber-11 deceMber 2016 Page 2. CJ E&M music Malaysia’s Escape pivots to kids/families game show hits New RM10/US$2 plan targets 3 kids age groups paydirt in Bulgaria Malaysian OTT platform Escape has refo- Watch One movie options starting from cused its entertainment service to target RM5/US$2.30 for the Awesome pack kids and families. (two movie titles). The pivot, introduced in November, in- Escape has not yet said what drove volves a RM10/US$2.30-a-month plan for the shift in strategy. unlimited movies and kids TV series “spe- From launch in 2013 until the end of Oc- cially chosen for kids”. tober this year, Escape was offering more I Can See Your Voice Bulgaria Content focuses on three demograph- than 1,000 TV shows, movies and live TV/ ic groups within the kids space: pre- events, bundled into three monthly pack- The local version of CJ E&M’s I Can See school 3-6 years old, kids 7-10 years old ages: Black Magic horror movie, Cinema- Your Voice music game show format and tweens 11-14 years old. World and Watch All plans, priced from premiered on Bulgaria’s Nova TV in Titles are a mix of local and interna- RM10.30/US$2.60 a month. November with a 36% rating share. Data tional kids shows, such as Dora Explorer, Escape, which has over one million provided by CJ E&M put the show in top ABC Monsters, Hi-5, Bola Kampung, Astro registered subs in April 2016, is owned by spot for the slot with a rating of 13.3% Boy and Power Rangers Mega Force. Escape Axiata, the entertainment arm among 18 to 49 year olds. The format The new platform also has a la carte of telco Celcom Axiata. has been licenced to seven countries. The advertising industry is undergoing unprecedented change. Platforms are expanding, feedback is instant, and the consumer has taken control. Maneuver through the complicated but crucial arena of brand building seen through the eyes of the world’s most powerful marketers. EVERY MONTH FRI 5PM (SIN/HK) www.cnbc.com/marketingmediamoney Visit asiaschedule.cnbc.com for a full program guide listing. For distribution enquiries, please email [email protected] The Gordon Ramsay Collection THE WORD Light up your format schedule all3mediainternational.com @all3media_int 28 NOVEMBer-11 decemBer 2016 page 3. C NTENTASIA 28 NOVEMber-11 deceMber 2016 28 NOV-11 dec 2016 Page 4. Page 4. Jan 2017 debut for new AFC original Martin Yan show wrapped into Love to Cook campaign Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI) &--" 4"3" Asia Food Channel (AFC) premieres #"--&/5*/& #054'03% new Asian original, Martin Yan Asian ."35*/ Favourites, on 5 January. "/% 4)&&/ The eight-episode celebrity chef series is the second of three original shows involved in SNI’s wide-ranging Love to Cook umbrella campaign with Panasonic. The year-long campaign launched in August this year with original series Cooking for Love, and runs to July 2017. Nielsen viewership data from SNI shows Cooking for Love on Malay- sia’s top five list of regional channels’ original productions for this year. Martin Yan Asian Favourites Comparisons with the first two epi- sodes of originals puts Cooking for Love fourth after Sony Pictures Televi- The series soared to second in its sion Networks Asia/AXN’s The Amaz- slot/s (Saturday 2pm-2.30pm/7pm- ing Race Asia, which topped the list; 7.30pm, 25-54 Adults) behind only Family Kitchen with Sherson, another KIX HD among all English-language Scripps Networks Interactive series; channels in Malaysia two weeks after and How Do I Look? Asia from NBCU- its premiere. niversal for Diva. Vietnam had the highest Facebook Measured across the first three epi- engagement rate across all AFC sodes of 13 original productions and markets at 35%. Engagement in Sin- ad-funding original shows, Cooking gapore, Malaysia and Thailand was for Love tops the list. 28%, SNI said. Viu hits 4m users across Asia Philippines added to regional footprint 2 NEW FILMS! Hong Kong telco PCCW’s Viu OTT/ Announcing the Philippines launch streaming platform has hit four million on 29 Nov, PCCW Media Group man- unique users a year after its launch. aging director, Janice Lee, said Viu re- The platform has also announced its corded over 218 million video views in Come visit us at: expansion into the Philippines, giving it Q3 2016, doubling that of the preced- a presence in six markets in the region. ing three months. Viu’s users consume BOOTH #J28 Viu has not confirmed its Thai launch, on average 1.2 hours per day. On av- rumoured to be on the cards for early erage, 12 videos are viewed by each BREAKTHROUGHENTERTAINMENT.COM 2017. user every week. LEADERS IN PREMIUM CONTENT 6 x 60’ HD 6 x 60’ HD 6 x 60’ HD 26 x 60’ HD 50 x 30’ HD 12 x 30’ HD FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT • NATURE & WILDLIFE • DOCUMENTARIES • DIGITAL www.blueantinternational.com 28 NOVEMBer-11 decemBer 2016 page 5. C NTENTASIA 28 NOVEMber-11 deceMber 2016 28 NOV-11 dec 2016 Page 6. Page 6. 9 Story sells 800 kids hours pre-ATF Asia buyers on Nature Cat, Hare spree Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare Canada’s 9 Story Media Group ar- Discovery Kids India, True Visions rives at the ATF with about 800 hours in Thailand and Mediacorp in Singa- of recent sales to free-TV and pay- pore acquired the first season of the TV broadcasters in India, Singapore, animated series Nature Cat, which Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan. debuted last year on PBS Kids. Titles include new shows such as In Thailand, True Visions also li- Nature Cat and Guess How Much I censed two seasons of Guess How Love You – The Adventures of Little Much I Love You – The Adventures of Nutbrown Hare along with library pro- Little Nutbrown Hare. The series was grammes such as Barney and Ange- also picked up by TVB for Hong Kong lina Ballerina. and HiNET in Taiwan. Singapore’s YuuZoo closes Relativity Deal wider/deeper than original, Zilliacus says Singapore-listed YuuZoo Corp has YuuZoo unveiled plans in October closed a “significant” investment in to buy 33.3% of Relativity immediately Ryan Kavanaugh’s troubled U.S. indie for US$50 million (US$27.5 million by Relativity Media. end November and the balance in Thomas Zilliacus, YuuZoo executive cash or YuuZoo shares), with an option chairman, said on closing that the final to increase its investment to a major- multi-screen partnership was “signifi- ity stake over the next 12 months for cantly wider and deeper” than origi- an additional US$100 million, accord- nally discussed. No new value was put ing to a filing with the Singapore Ex- on the deal. change. 28 NOVEMBer-11 decemBer 2016 page 7. C NTENTASIA 28 NOVEMber-11 deceMber 2016 28 NOV-11 dec 2016 Page 8.