Best Media & Entertainment Companies in Thailand
The 112 best Media & Entertainment companies in Thailand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ookbee.
Thailand's Media & Entertainment companies, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, tell a story that's mostly about one name: Ookbee. Of the $29M in total disclosed funding tracked across 112 companies in this directory, Ookbee alone accounts for $28M. That's not a rounding error. The remaining 111 companies share roughly $1M between them, with Event Pop at $500,000 and everything else in the thousands. Globally, the sector sits around $1.96 trillion with a 7.41% CAGR forecast through the mid-2020s, so the gap between Thailand's disclosed funding pool and world-scale capital is, to put it plainly, enormous.
What you do see here is early momentum. Median install growth across 3,108 media and social apps is running at roughly +12% YoY, which tells you appetite is real even where funding is thin. Hot themes in the space right now include audio editors, playback engines, and mindfulness content, and I'd watch those categories closely given how quickly they're pulling developer attention. Investors like Beacon VC, Tencent, and AIS are the most active backers in this market, and India's SMB-driven media shifts offer a regional parallel worth studying. Zero unicorns so far. But the install curves suggest the blank space here is opportunity, not absence.
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Ranked: Best Media & Entertainment companies in Thailand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ookbee Digital platform offering newspaper and magazines | $28M | 58 mo ago | Public | Moo Pungcharoenpong Founder & CEO | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityNode.jstoastr+20 | — |
| 2 | EVENT POP Ticketing platform for events | $500K | 105 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2015 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceCodeMirror+33 | — |
| 3 | Planforfit Content platform for health & wellness | $30K | 118 mo ago | Seed | Vudhinond Prichavudhi Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — |
| 4 | Dootv Media Video content delivery solutions for live streaming | $8K | 115 mo ago | Deadpooled | Piyanant Chawalekyangkul CEO | 2011 | — | — |
| 5 | Local Alike Village Trips Connects travelers to localites | $5K | 120 mo ago | Funding Raised | Somsak Boonkam Founder And Ceo | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyPayPal+13 | 1 job opening |
| 6 | ShoutOutz Online platform offering video messages from celebrities | — | 71 mo ago | Seed | Natcha Charoenwai Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — |
| 7 | Storylog Storytelling platform in Thailand | — | 144 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Pramewith (Pippo) Sreechatthiwong Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 8 | Sanook Online news portal based in Bangkok | — | 189 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1998 | Node.jsFirebaseEmotion+37 | — |
| 9 | Asia Books Bookstore chain | — | 243 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1969 | Cart FunctionalityMagentoMySQL+25 | — |
Top 9 Media & Entertainment companies in Thailand
#1
Public · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 2012 · 111 employees$28Mraised▾
Ookbee is a digital platform which provides newspaper and magazines. It provides different products including book, fiction, newspapers, online courses, audiobooks, and magazines. Customers can buy the products from its platform. As of Feb '16, It claims to have more than 5M users and 500 magazine media titles including regional versions of Cosmopolitan, Maxim, FHM etc.
- Aug 2021Series C—
- Mar 2018Series C—
- Jan 2017Series C$19M
- Apr 2014Series B$7M
#2
Acquired · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 2015 · 30 employees$500Kraised▾
Event Pop is a Thai company which specializes in events management and ticketing of concerts, conferences etc. It provides services like ticketing, payments system to website templates etc. Apart from this, it also provides the clients with customer related data via its analytics platform. The company raised seed funding in Feb'16 from KK Fund, OPT SEA, and angel investor Hirokazu Mashita of M&S Partners.
- Sep 2017Series A—
- Feb 2016Seed$500K
#3
Seed · Bang Khun Thian district, Bangkok · founded 2015$29.8Kraised▾
PlanForFit is a content platform for fitness & wellness. The portal provides articles and videos on exercises, weight training, nutrition, supplement etc. It helps users set fitness targets and goals. The company graduated from Muru-D Singapore's second cohort.
- Aug 2016Seed$29.8K
#4
Deadpooled · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 2011$8.5Kraised▾
Dootv Media is a video content delivery solutions for live streaming. It offers various services such as Thai Livestream, Airbond store, and Live Loom. Thai Livestream provides live streaming solutions for events, brands, and agencies. Airbond store provides wireless audio and video transmission equipment, and Live Loom offers educational video streaming solutions by providing the lectures.
- Nov 2016Grant (prize money)$8.5K
#5
Funding Raised · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 2012 · 15 employees$4.9Kraised▾
Local Alike is a Thailand based booking platform for travelers. It connects travelers to locals so that they are able to book stays, local experiences etc. Users can pay directly via the platform for bookings.
- 2016Grant (prize money)$4.9K
#6
Seed · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 2019—raised▾
ShoutOutz is an online platform where users can request video messages from celebrities. Users can search for their favorite artists and pay them for a personalized message.
- Jul 2020Seed—
#7
Acqui-Hired · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 2014—raised▾
Storylog is a storytelling social platform for users to share stories with followers. Users can share, comment and follow stories published by other users. Part of DTAC Accelerate 2014 program. Claims to have over 10k stories and over 3k writers, as of Aug 2015. Launched Fictionlog, a novel publishing platform where writers can sell their work chapter by chapter as open beta in Apr 2016.
- May 2014Seed—
#8
Acquired · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 1998 · 300 employees—raised▾
Sanook is an online news portal based in Bangkok. Publishes news, gossips, information on entertainment, sports, horoscope, lottery and music. Started as a Thai-based web directory in 1998 as a subsidiary of MWEB. MWEB was acquired by MIH Group (under Nasper) in 1999 and the Thai entity was rebranded to Sanook with the domain name Sanook.com. Tencent bought 49.92% for HKD$81.7M in Aug 2010. Reportedly had about 13M monthly unique visitors and 400M page views per month, as of 2010.
#9
Acquired · Prakanong, Bangkok · founded 1969 · 94 employees—raised▾
Retailer and distributor of books and magazines in Thailand. The company is engaged in selling English-language, Thai books, magazines and children's books and publications and has exclusive domestic distribution rights for major international book publishers.
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