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Launched in 2009, DISCOP AFRICA is an audiovisual content distribution, programming, and coproduction market, which targets free and pay television services operators from 47 Sub-Saharan African countries.

With almost 400 TV channels, 50 pay-TV platforms, 300 million mobile and 70 million Internet users, serving a population of 700 million people, with 40 million television equipped homes to be expected in the near future, content business in Sub-Saharan Africa has grown at a particularly rapid pace over the last few months.

Though the majority of the Sub-Saharan African households continue to receive analog broadcasts, increasing availability of digital services and equipment contributes to the fast development of this region where many nations have set analog terrestrial switchoff dates by the end of year 2015.

This is why DISCOP AFRICA was launched two years ago, to facilitate business between Sub-Saharan audiovisual content buyers and international distributors and producers of film, finished programs, formats and packaged TV channels.

Held twice a year alternatively in Senegal (February) and then in Kenya (September) and limited to an average of 350 highly qualified participants, DISCOP AFRICA is a sales-centric, compact, hotel-based platform powered by our multilingual research and matchmaking teams in Paris and Dakar, who are dedicated to:

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1. Year-round monitoring of the Sub-Saharan African marketplace
2. The preliminary planning of online and personalized meetings between DISCOP AFRICA participants during the 3-day event
3. The last-minute organization of meetings with late registrants during the course of the 3-day event
4. Post-DISCOP AFRICA follow-up procedures on behalf of participants experiencing communications problems because of language, cultural and time-zone differences

• CONTENT SELLER : suppliers of film, finished programs, format and packaged TV channels, TV solutions providers
• CONTENT BUYER : qualified buyers representing public and private TV stations, television services operators, home video distributors, agents, closed circuit networks and territorial format brokers
• CONTENT PRODUCER : producers with partially funded projects looking for coproduction partnerships
• ADVERTISER : television advertisers and their agencies looking for branding and product placement opportunities
• VISITOR : experts, speakers and international governmental and non-governmental organizations

Outside of market hours, social functions and a program of informative sessions, case-studies and workshops, provide intelligence-gathering and spontaneous networking opportunities. MARKET BADGES run from 300 to 500 Euros, and limited premium and budget exhibits ranging from 500 to 6500 Euros are also available. This additional information is available upon request :

On Monday July 5th, 2010 we will begin planning meetings for the 4th edition of DISCOP AFRICA, to be held from Wednesday 1 to Friday 3 September at the Hilton Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.

• EARLY REGISTRATION IS THEREFORE RECOMMENDED
  

• Tatjana PAVLOVIC / Head of Sales and Marketing 
• Cherise BARSELL / Head of TV Stations Relations Africa