KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 — Kenanga Research is positive on Media Prima Bhd’s outlook on the back of the media and entertainment group recent partnership with over-the-top (OTT) media service WeTV and iQiYi that will positively impact digital ad sales and content distribution across Asia.

Media Prima had also rebranded ntv7 to Didik TV to spur higher viewership, and the performance of its home-shopping segment has been stable thus far.

Kenanga Research said Media Prima’s partnership with WeTV and iQiYi entailed the group licensing out its programmes to the OTTs, enabling them to stream contents on their respective platforms, and allowing the group to sell advertising slots in the digital space solely on their licensed contents.

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“This opens up another avenue for the group to sell ad slots as more titles are licensed out to these OTTs result in more ad slots available for the group to sell,” the brokerage firm said in a research note today.

Media Prima will be distributing its content to WeTV and iQiYi, and as for the latter, 1,000 hours of premium content is expected to be licensed out by year-end.

“We believe the growth in content distribution may give an edge to its loss-making content creation segment to hit break-even as 80 per cent of the segment’s revenue comes from content distribution,” said Kenanga Research.

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Kenanga Research believes Media Prima’s lowest viewing channel ntv7, which had been rebranded to education channel Didik TV, may gain traction, thus bumping up its viewership.

Didik TV is a collaboration between Media Prima and the Ministry of Education.

On Media Prima’s home-shopping segment, Kenanga Research said Media Prima’s e-commerce and mobile commerce (ECMC) multi-platform strategy was showing positive results with sales contribution from the segment stood at 54 per cent compared to 46 per cent from television in the fourth quarter of 2020.

“Thus, we expect Wowshop to remain sustainable post-pandemic as consumers are adapting and becoming more dependent on digital shopping,” said Kenanga Research.

The brokerage firm upgraded Media Prima to outperform call from underperform with a higher target price of RM0.755 from RM0.365. — Bernama