ABEMA

ABEMA is one of Japan's most important digital broadcast platforms because it behaves like a streaming service and a live TV network at the same time. Operated by AbemaTV, Inc., the platform mixes always-on channels with on-demand viewing across news, anime, sport, drama, and music, giving it a stronger appointment-viewing identity than a standard catch-up app.

That structure is exactly why it matters to Korean entertainment. For HYBE x Geffen Records, ABEMA offered a Japan-facing launchpad that could package World Scout: The Final Piece as weekly event viewing instead of delayed fandom recap content. It let the joint venture turn the finale into a real-time pop culture moment while keeping acts like KATSEYE inside a broader youth-entertainment ecosystem.

The official company profile describes ABEMA as a new future of television, and that framing tracks. The service runs about 25 channels around the clock without mandatory registration, a model that still feels unusually well suited to music competition shows, sports, and fandom-driven live moments that need scale, speed, and habit-forming repeat traffic.