Mainland Chinese entertainment platform Youku has the world in its sights.

Netflix has unveiled 17 new original productions out of Asia for 2019, including shows from Japan, Taiwan,

Amid big-time China fever at this year’s Mipcom market, a bold public cry went out reminding the 13,800 industry execs gathered in Cannes of the imbalances in China’s media trade relationships with the rest of the world.

Korean/Asian streaming platform DramaFever just became roadkill in AT&T and its newly minted WarnerMedia’s grand plan to build a SVOD platform, anchored by HBO, scheduled to debut at the end of 2019.

Of all the things that could happen in China’s online video market, the emergence of a single all-powerful uber-player that has inhaled all competition is unlikely. The reason is that content producers and advertisers don’t favour a market with only one online content distribution platform.

Indonesia’s broadcast watchdog, Indonesia Broadcasting Commission (KPI), has looked at the country’s television programming – and found at least half of it wanting.