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25.07.2022 / 10:25
Asia Pacific Market Critical to Growth of Global Online Video Industry – Study
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Asia-Pacific region is now the largest contributor to growth of the global online video industry, a major new study published Monday finds.With the U.S. and Europe fast maturing and China inaccessible, APAC’s large markets – India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Thailand – will be increasingly important to global platforms, said consultancy and research firm Media Partners Asia in its report “Asia Pacific Online Video & Broadband Distribution 2022.”The report, which covers the AVOD and SVOD sectors and spans China, India, Australasia, Southeast Asia as well as South Korea and Japan, shows the overall industry on course to grow by 16% in the current year to $49.2 billion.