A working tracker of who owns e-commerce GMV across fifteen Asian markets. Shopee, Coupang, Rakuten, Taobao, Flipkart — every leader is Asian-headquartered.
A working tracker of who owns mobile payments across fifteen Asian markets. Alipay and WeChat Pay in China, UPI in India, GCash in the Philippines, and a region-specific stack everywhere else.
How Asian gamers actually spend their time and money — by market. Mobile MOBAs in SEA, mobile gacha in Japan, premium PC and console in Korea, and a regulated mainland Chinese market that still sets the pace globally.
A tour through the benchmarks that actually measure LLM performance in Asian languages — Nejumi, KMMLU, BnMMLU, SEA-HELM — and what they tell us about the frontier vs domestic gap.
A working tracker of where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and the major Chinese LLMs are accessible across fifteen Asian markets. Last updated April 2026.
Japan is the world’s third-largest economy with 107 million internet users and a digital advertising market that crossed $45.6 billion in 2025 — yet it remains one of the most … Read more
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Digital in Asia asked Jason Fairchild, Co-Founder of OpenX, one of the largest global sell-side platforms, to tell us about the state of programmatic advertising in Japan. Digital in Asia: … Read more