Branded Content: Online Content/Comedy: Spoof

Netflix Scores Deal With Malaysia’s Godfather of Comedy Harith Iskander

January 8, 2018

Popular Malaysian comedian Harith Iskander has become the first Asean personality to score a Netflix original comedy deal.

Total Oil India Engages Millennial Males With First Branded Content Deal

December 1, 2017

Total Oil India is collaborating with The Viral Fever’s (TVF) subsidiary Screen Patti on a branded content series called Bonnet Pe Charcha, as part of the former’s ‘Younger…

Youku Poised To Produce A Tame Local SNL For China

April 28, 2017

Alibaba-owned video streaming platform Youku has secured a partnership with NBC Universal to produce the Chinese version of iconic sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Homegrown YouTube Content Creation Generating 80% More Watchtime Year-on-Year: India

March 18, 2016

YouTube India has recently announced that local content creators Culture Machine, Only Much Louder (OML), Qyuki, and The Viral Fever (TVF) are set to launch new original properties…

ASN Interview: Asean YouTubers Get Real On The State Of Branded Content

December 23, 2015

With the emergence of online video content as a legitimate form of entertainment across the Asean region, homegrown YouTube creators are becoming celebrities in their own right as their…

MGM Macau Partners Skiptrace

November 26, 2014

Gaming resort MGM Macau is sponsoring Skiptrace, an English action-comedy movie starring Jackie Chan, Fan Bingbing and Johnny Knoxville, according to a company press release.

Funny or Die Gets An Asian Spinoff

November 18, 2014

Be Funny Studios, a partnership with the Will Ferrell co-founded comedy website "Funny or Die", Creative Artists Agency and Korean public relations firm Prain, was recently launched in…