OUR INSIGHTS

Pioneer Consulting Asia-Pacific has conducted in-depth primary and secondary research into four emerging and fast growing industries - Gaming and eSports, HealthTech, ePayments, and Edutech. In our Industry Insider series, we have distilled our findings and insights in each industry into short, easily-digestible infographics:

Gaming and eSports

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HealthTech

EduTech

ePayments

Are short form video platforms providing new lean back experiences in the home?

Even though videos on mobile video apps may only last 15 seconds, hours can easily slip by. Recent primary research from PCA showed that...

A New Horizon for Video: Hear our insights at AVIA's Asia Video Summit 2020!

Pioneer Consulting Asia-Pacific (PCA) has been invited to speak at the AVIA Asia Video Summit 2020. Join our MD, Virat Patel...

Total Telecoms Congress: Bringing Asian Insights to Europe

Virat hosted a panel discussing the evolution of the content space, bringing his experience and insights in video and telecoms from APAC...

5G in View - Useful Leap Forward, or Gimmicky?

5G is a polarising topic – consumers, vendors, and telcos each have different views and concerns over its usefulness and relevance...

Catch us in action at Akamai's Media Summit APAC!

Pioneer Consulting Asia-Pacific (PCA) has been invited to open Akamai's Media Summit APAC. Join our team of experts...

Established insurance companies can learn how to respond to digital disruption from other industries

Like banking and finance, insurance has been perceived to be an impenetrable bulwark...

Driving user engagement and monetisation in Video, Music, and Gaming by embracing disruptive tech

Overview Competition is intensifying across almost every industry, and the primary question most organizations have is, how can we set...

Traditional TV Broadcasters are threatened by OTT - what should they do?

Consumers are rapidly moving towards online platforms for video consumption because they prefer to consume content whenever and wherever...

The case for combining blockchain technology with IoT

IoT represents the next major business opportunity across a wide range of industries, from car manufacturing to home construction to...

Sizing (uncertain) IoT opportunities in South East Asia needs a robust approach

Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to impact industries as wide ranging as farming to aeronautics. Telcos, software developers,...

IoT Opportunities for Telcos – beyond connectivity are there any revenues for telcos?

As telcos look for alternative revenue sources, (Internet of Things) IoT represents a major business opportunity for them....

How can content providers leverage AI to enhance their content hit rate?

To outsiders, it may seem as though Netflix simply chooses to create content that it thinks “subscribers might like”. The truth is more...

Cracking Peer to peer Lending in South East Asia’s emerging markets

P2P lending has become the next big thing in Fintech with the likes of Funding Circle and Zapo raising millions at unicorn valuations....

China offers many digital opportunities but what about the challenges?

China’s phenomenal growth over the last decades was underpinned by the cementing of its place as the world’s factory in the late 1990s...

Are block-chain dependent currencies the answer to providing financial services to the unbanked?

Ever since Vodafone’s mobile money initiative M-Pesa took off in Kenya in 2007, investors, conglomerates, and entrepreneurs alike have...

Will Virtual Reality go beyond gaming to be widely accepted in media and entertainment?

The introduction of Virtual Reality (VR) devices has begun to reshape the way people consume media, allowing users to be completely...

What are the key elements of a smart city deployment?

The concept of a Smart City centres on leveraging advanced technologies to facilitate efficient city management, spur economic...

Is 5G a solution looking for a problem?

Many telcos have barely started rolling out 4G networks and already there is talk of the next set of advanced services that could be...

Home working is becoming the norm – how do you get in the “mood”?

With COVID-19 coronavirus upon us globally, many office workers are having to work remotely, i.e. from home. This is an exciting time for...

Why are adoption rates of eWallets so different across Southeast Asia?

The number of players in the eWallet and ePayments industry has been steadily increasing across Southeast Asia.