The News Lens, TVBS join forces to innovate Taiwan and international news experience with diverse perspectives

TNL Mediagene, the parent group of The News Lens, has morphed into a media network with 21 outlets covering news, technology, finance, sports, and lifestyle, and offering content in Mandarin Chinese, English, and Japanese. following the merger with Mediagene, Japan’s largest digital native media group. To further enrich and enhance the reading experience, The News Lens has clinched a collaboration with TVBS, Taiwan’s first satellite TV station, providing audiences with more diverse and innovative perspectives.

The News Lens will provide elaborate international news content on the TVBS website. “WorldView,” the video explainer offering in-depth analysis of international affairs will also be collaborating with TVBS. Meanwhile, The News Lens will also republish society coverage from TVBS on its website. This collaboration marks The News Lens’ first attempt to cooperate with traditional media in Taiwan.

TNL Mediagene is actively integrating its internal resources. As the integration continues, readers will have access to content such as technology reporting from Gizmodo and business and financial news from Business Insider Japan on The News Lens or other outlets. These outlets provide unique perspectives from Japan, which will help Taiwanese readers to be more globally connected. To promote cultural exchange between Taiwan and Japan, The News Lens is also exploring opportunities to collaborate with other Japanese outlets within the group to offer unique Taiwanese perspectives to Japanese readers.

Mario Yang, co-founder and content director of TNL Mediagene, expressed high expectations for this collaboration. “Through our in-depth cooperation with TVBS, we hope to provide all audiences with a more diverse, comprehensive and innovative news and information platform, further expanding and deepening the news vision of Taiwan and the international community.”

The News Lens is affiliated with TNL Mediagene. Its other brands include INSIDE, Sports Vision, Cool3c, everylittled, Agent Movie, Ohsowow, Business Yee, and iCook. From 2019 to 2021, TNL Media Group has successively acquired big data market research company TNL Research, digital advertising company Ad2iction, S.C. Communications Integrated Marketing, and launched DaEX Intelligent. In 2023, TNL Media Group also merged with Mediagene, Japan’s largest digital native media group.With 55 million domestic and foreign monthly users and 200 million page views, TNL Mediagene has become the most trusted corporate marketing and digital transformation partner for readers in the Asian market.

*Information contained in this press release is current as of the announcement date and may change over time or various subsequent events.

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About TNL Mediagene

TNL Mediagene is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising, data analytics, and media platforms for the pan Asian market. TNL Mediagene was launched in Mandarin, English, and Japanese editions to provide inclusive, in-depth, diverse, and highly influential content for digital readers. It has since expanded and acquired a mobile ad network, big data research company, and launched a data analytics platform. As a result, the group can effectively grasp user information through zero-party, first-party, third-party databases, AI analysis, Martech, and other cross-domain core products. TNL Mediagene serves the public with news and informed commentary, empowers brands with data, and connects with technology, becoming an essential partner for the digital transformation needs of enterprises. TNL Mediagene consists of twenty-one content brands and thirteen subsidiaries, with over 560 staff members in Taipei, Hong Kong, and Japan. TNL Mediagene’s existing high-profile investors include North Base Media, an original seed investor in The News Lens, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, and famed Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper.

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