WarnerMedia has opened a new regional hub for Asia – excluding China and Japan – in Singapore. The facility, which was opened today by Singapore’s minister for communications and information Josephine Teo, marks the integration of WarnerMedia’s business in the region that includes Warner Bros., HBO and Turner brands, the company said. It also houses […]
Singapore service provider StarHub has chosen content delivery network (CDN) and streaming video tech specialist Broadpeak to provide technology to deliver StarHub TV+, its new converged IPTV and OTT TV service. Using a CDN, content packaging, storage, and origination solution from Broadpeak, StarHub is delivering OTT live TV and VOD content on multiple screens with, […]
Informa Tech, along with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Singapore Tourism Board (STB), has signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) to launch a new flagship event for Asia in 2021. Taking place in H2 2021, the first edition will be a hybrid event bringing together Government, businesses in the infocomm, media and tech […]
Singapore-based cable and pay TV operator has completed the migration of its services from HFC cable to a full fibre network. The company has advised coustomers that their cable TV set-top boxes are now redundant and has set up e-waste collection bins at 450 sites across the island state to collect them. The operator is […]
Asian pan-regional OTT service Viu has linked with Discovery for a content collaboration around the format No Sleep No FOMO. The Viu-produced travelogue format, which was named a TBI MIPTV Hot Pick earlier this yearby our sister publication, will air on Discovery Channel and Discovery Asia across 14 markets, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South […]
Nielsen has expanded its advertising measurement to YouTube’s mobile app. Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings for YouTube Mobile will be available in 26 new markets: Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and […]
Singapore-based pay TV provider Mediacorp has added HBO Go to its Toggle digital entertainment platform. From tomorrow, HBO will be available on the platform, bringing conent including Game of Thrones to Toggle users. Toggle is offering the service for SG$13.98 (€9.11) a month, or an annual package that equates for SG$119.98.. HBO Go will give […]
Singapore-based streaming outfit Vidfish has officially launched a new subscription video-on-demand service with 12,000 hours of premium Chinese content, aimed at the global market. Vidfish’s content library is already available in more than 190 countries. Building from a soft launch, the Vidfish app now has 150,000 registered users, with the average user spending about 36 […]
Singaporean telco StarHub has unveiled plans for a “strategic transformation” that will result in the loss of around 300 jobs. Justifying the cuts, CEO Peter Kaliaropoulos said: “The intense competitive ferocity across the market, new entrants, lower voice revenues, thinning margins for fixed broadband services, high content costs for pay TV operations and high market […]
Singapore-based pay TV operator Mediacorp has named Angeline Poh as chief corporate development officer. Poh, who will take up her post on September 1, joins Mediacorp Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), where she was assistant chief executive. At IMDA she launched the Future of Media plan, aimed at developing a future-ready media industry in Singapore. […]
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