Local repertoire is taking ASEAN charts — but 2026 IFPI and Luminate data show catalogue ownership and measurement moving the other way. What the share numbers miss.

Local repertoire is taking ASEAN charts — but 2026 IFPI and Luminate data show catalogue ownership and measurement moving the other way. What the share numbers miss.

A close reading of the EU-ASEAN Business Council's report on ASEAN's responsible AI — its "AI Stack" framework, the proposed AI trust mark, and what it leaves out.

From Indonesia's animation boom to Vietnam's game exports and the AI backlash — 6 trends reshaping Southeast Asia's film, animation, gaming and streaming markets.

BTS declined the 2027 Grammys over a new "Asian Pop" category. Here's the debate — and what one "Asian" label means for Southeast Asia's rising music scenes.

From Indonesia to Thailand, each ASEAN nation builds AI its own way. What does this mean for creators? Three questions on data, dependence, and access.

Across Southeast Asia, urban regeneration policy has fundamentally shifted. Rather than focusing solely on physical infrastructure, governments are increasingly adopting a model in which urban heritage, local narrative, and spatial design are converted into commercializable cultural-content IP.

UNESCO designation impact, four practical urban-IP models, global benchmarks, Gen Z literary circuits, and Indonesia's measurement infrastructure.

This report tracks the trajectory of China's largest state-backed cultural-industry fair, the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (Wénbóhuì, hereafter ICIF), examines what a contemporary industry fair actually does beyond matchmaking, and situates the IP business it incubates within an Asian context that is distinct from Western models.

In October 2025, the British Council released the first-ever Regional Perception Poll on the ASEAN Creative Economy — a survey of 4,117 respondents across all ten ASEAN member states and Timor-Leste, covering both the general public and active creative economy participants ("Creative Players").

The creative economy is the region's chosen answer — and notably, an agenda ASEAN set rather than received. Indonesia was the main sponsor of the 2019 UN resolution declaring 2021 the International Year of Creative Economy, having convened the first World Conference on Creative Economy in Bali in 2018, and ASEAN culture ministers enshrined their own definition of the "ASEAN Creative Economy" in the 2022 Siem Reap Declaration.