Asia Pacific Media Landscape

Overview Media Consumption Inflated during the Pandemic The COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia has spurred media companies to pivot their business strategies to meet the new needs and concerns of consumers in the new normal. In 2020, media consumption habits saw a major shift. The Malaysian Digital Association (MDA) analysed the viewership of key media publishing outlets to evaluate the media consumption patterns of Malaysians during the nationwide lockdown and Movement Control Order (MCO) that started last March. With many forced to spend most of their time at home, mainstream media…

Overview Singapore’s media scene was a hive of activity during the circuit breaker period in the first half of 2020. From April to June, the government enforced movement restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19. Acting as a main source of information, the media was heavily relied upon for news on the outbreak and public service announcements on safe distancing and hygiene measures. News websites and channels saw a spike in viewership during this period when more people wanted to be kept updated on the developing situation. According to a…

In 2020, the Hong Kong media landscape was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking a re-organization of the industry’s operations and resources. We track the key developments and trends in the territory’s media sector, major changes in editorial operations and chart out the industry’s outlook for 2021. Overview of Hong Kong’s Media Landscape in 2020 With business disruption sparked by the pandemic, the advertising revenue of media companies saw a sharp decline. As a result, media companies had to cut costs through layoffs. To supplement their revenue, media outlets such as…

Despite Singapore’s relatively small population of around 5.8 million, it is a multilingual global city that hosts the regional headquarters of Reuters, CNBC Asia and the Dow Jones Group. Singapore media is also being disrupted digitally with the average daily circulation of print publications in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil (the four official languages of Singapore) falling a stunning 52.9 percent from 2011 to 2018. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="635"] Source: Statista[/caption]   Digital news readership [1] grew 3.1 percent year-on-year (YoY), but not all of these newsreaders visit the digital pages of…

Indonesia’s media landscape has become increasingly digital and mobile but traditional media still plays an important role. The Nielsen Consumer & Media View survey 2018 indicates that Indonesians who read news daily on print media stand at 42 percent of this segment. As fake news proliferates, readers are shifting to print media as trusted news sources. Print media focusing on business news, such as Kontan and Bisnis Indonesia, have reported a growth in their subscriber base. Therefore, it is important for communications campaigns to cater to both digital and traditional media.…