Amazon Prime Video is hatching plans to expand its streaming service within Southeast Asia, the company said on Thursday.
The company unveiled a plan to open a regional office in Singapore and said that it will add Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines and Singapore to its Asian production footprint, which currently spans only three countries.
“We are thrilled to announce that we will now add Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore to the canon of Japan, Australia, and India in the APAC region,” said Erika North, director of Amazon Originals at Prime Video.
She was speaking at the Asia TV Forum and Market in Singapore. Her fireside chat was styled largely as an appeal to local creators about production and partnerships.
She offered few clues about the timeline to launch productions. “We are at ‘day one’ when we think of South East Asia,” she said. “We…
