Asia

• Creator-Focused Crypto Startup Rally Raises $50 Million, Names Former Patreon Exec Bremner Morris CEO
• TikTok Reportedly Piloting New Ad Product, An Audience Network, In Asia

  TikTok is reportedly piloting a native audience network for advertisers in Asia -- a new advertising product that enables advertisers to buy ads from TikTok that would air off the platform on third-party apps while harnessing TikTok's targeting technology.

  
• VidCon To Host Inaugural Asian Summit In Singapore, Will Return To London In February

  Under the tutelage of owner Viacom, VidCon is continuing its global expansion -- with its first-ever Asian event slated for Singapore in December. At the same time, VidCon announced that it will return to London in February for its second outing in the U.K.

  
• YouTube Terminated Yeah1’s MCN Status, But Now It Looks Like They’re Working Out A Deal

  Yeah1 Group, the first publicly-traded Vietnamese media company, made headlines stateside last month after acquiring Los Angeles-based multi-channel network (MCN) Scalelab (which reps Jake Paul and MrBeast) -- and then selling it back to its original owners for $12 million mere months after Yeah1's own MCN status was unceremoniously terminated by YouTube.

  
• Asia’s Online Video Business To Be Valued At $46 Billion In 5 Years (Report)
• Psy Becomes First Asian Artist To Receive YouTube Diamond Play Button
• Mobile Video Viewership Has Doubled In Africa Year-Over-Year, Driven By YouTube (Study)
• An 11-Month-Old Snapchat Copycat App Called ‘Snow’ Is Exploding Across Asia
• Michelle Phan, Endemol Shine Beyond Launch ‘ICON Asia’ With Local Lifestyle Influencers
• ON Networks' 'City by City' Jets Off to Asia for Season 2