Turner Asia Pacific has appointed former Sony Pictures exec Voo Chih Yeong as Southeast Asia vice president. Robi Stanton and Vishal Dembla have also been given new positions as Asia boss Ricky Ow ramps up Turner’s business in Southeast Asia and Australia/Pacific.

Korean media companies are pushing a regional and global agenda. And they appear to be on muchstronger ground than international channel brands trying for a foothold in the newly liberalised Korean market.

South Korea’s EnterMedia Pictures Co has picked up format rights for NBCUniversal’s scripted drama Suits. This is NBCUniversal’s first scripted format deal in Asia.

Star India has gone over the top with a new direct-to-consumer platform, offering ad-supported on-demand on-the-go access to some of India’s hottest content. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar looks at hotstar and its chances.

Regional talent show Asia’s Got Talent begins June with 100 million YouTube views in sight and with more than 260,000 YouTube subscribers.

Asia is awash in online video. 108 organised platforms (that we could find) and counting. A million hours, probably more, of professionally produced local and international short- and long-form video on offer – largely legitimately – on the OTT platforms and online services we counted.