ContentAsia turns 10 in 2016. That’s 228 newsletters by our birthday on 6 March 2016. 55 print magazines, plus specials and supplements focusing on kids, docs and formats. 10 issues of the annual The Big List directory. Squillions of dailies. Zillions of words. Online. Mobile. In print. Everywhere. And, of course, seven editions of the ContentAsia Summit, which this year was more than 300% bigger in every way than in year one. Plus three editions of the annual Asia Media Woman of the Year awards.

Everything we have done and been (and will continue to do and be) is and has been 110% focused on Asia. Actually, make that 1010%. It’s a fixed and fabulous genetic sequence. The evolution has been to add depth and breadth, not to lose focus.

Have we done a good job? Hopefully, but that’s for you, rather than for me, to say.

How are we celebrating? There’s a party, of course. What else? Well, I could recap the highs and lows of the past decade, the spectacular industry successes and failures, the hopes dreams and wishes that did or didn’t come true. I could marvel at the rise of a connected environment, the muscle of China, and the crazy of India. I could do the same for Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore. Or Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong. I could pick out the best quotes from past issues. I could look at rising and fallen stars, peer into the good, the bad and the ugly of an industry that informs and entertains a third of the world’s population. And I will... over the next 12 months.

For now, though, I would prefer to give you a heads up on some of what’s coming as we move into decade two.

In addition to our on-going commitment to covering Asia’s most important stories, we’re stepping up our focus on women in the industry in Asia. It’s not different to what we’ve been doing for years. Just more and higher profile, and under the new ContentAsia Women banner.

ContentAsia Women was unveiled in September this year at the Asia Media Woman of the Year dinner co-hosted by ContentAsia Women and Fox International Channels (FIC). We’re out and about again on 3 December at the Celebrating Women in Asia Media Champagne breakfast, hosted by HBO Asia and ContentAsia Women.

And we’re moving forward into 2016 with a regular section highlighting women producers, directors, filmmakers and screenwriters in Asia. This is part of an ongoing platform that will support initiatives such as Lifetime’s Broad Focus, which is designed to provide more opportunities for women behind the camera.

We have no way of knowing whether Asia mirrors the situation in the U.S., where women have dramatically stepped up their campaign for a bigger share of everything. This is in response to an industry proven to be sexist and discriminatory on multiple levels. Supporting them is a growing body of data that proves how low women’s participation in blockbuster filmmaking really is. We don’t have anything of the kind in Asia. Yet.

Anecdotally, women play a strong role in shaping Asia’s content/creative environment. But, for instance, just look at who’s directing Korea’s top movies. All men. Who is running broadcast stations? Mostly men. The writers? Producers? We’re going to find out, and while I don’t believe for a minute we can solve the diversity problem with the information, it’s a start. Plus it’s the kind of great, useful, story I love.

And on that note, thank you for sticking with us. Happy holidays! And here’s to the next successful 10 years for all of us!

This article first appeared in ContentAsia Issue 6, 2015, published in November 2015.