The battle for India’s OTT heart has just begun. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar looks at the players, the climate, the looming clashes, the natural advantages and the curveballs.The rush of entertainment brands into the Indian OTT market is really something.

Recent question/s to Janine: (1) Why are you being so critical of ad-sponsored programming and product placement in Asia? (2) Don’t you know we can’t make anything without sponsorship?

Bunim/Murray Productions (BMP) is credited with creating the reality genre as we know with, among many others over the past 25 years, Real World (30 seasons to date) for MTV in 1991, Keeping Up with the Kardashians (10 seasons so far) for E!

Sony Pictures Television Networks Asia and Japan’s Nippon TV enter the last quarter of the year brandishing a shiny new Gem. Emily Seibel looks at what the two broadcasters are hoping for.

Canada’s Blue Ant Media has made 4K its calling card. The company has committed to 300 hours of native 4K content a year, betting on a future that is all about ultra high definition.

Asia’s content industry moves into 2016 with a clear view of life beyond linear and of the irreversible march to multiscreen. Are the platforms, channels and programmers we’ve come to know and love over decades up to the task? Some are. Others not so much.