News has splintered in every direction everywhere – and it’s not going to stop. The appetite for news is bigger than ever. Mobile and online consumption has soared. Twitter makes it personal and fast. Out of the Philippines, ABS-CBN’s ANC cable news channel has gone global in a big way.

"The arrival of new digital players across Asia Pacific has created new avenues to reach consumers and built demand for great content... The trend, which developed in China and Korea, is extending across Southeast Asia, Japan, India and Australia as digital players emerge in these markets.”

Has the importance of the in-depth half-hour interview show format ​diminished? “It has become more important. Fewer and fewer people do it and one of the reasons fewer people do it is that politicians agree to it less and less.

“Winning on Twitter is all about personality. Mobile phones are places of personality. They’re not places where people want to consume press releases, they want to feel like they’re a part of the story – they want to be touched by characters and shows and more...

2015 will go down in Asia’s production history as the biggest, shiniest and most expensive formats year ever. And that’s just the regional versions of international franchises. What’s most likely to happen in 2016?

As Singapore’s year-long 50th anniversary celebrations draw to a close, ContentAsia looks at some of the energy that went into marking the milestone.