DISCOP ACCRA

With over 400 TV channels, 50 pay-TV platforms, 300 million mobile and 70 million Internet users, delivering video content to 700 million people and 45 million homes equipped with television sets, audiovisual content business in Sub-Saharan Africa has recently grown at a particularly rapid pace.

Though the majority of 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 switch off dates by the end of year 2015.

 Since 2009, DISCOP markets targeting Sub-Saharan African television marketplaces have brought together over 400 companies selling and buying television content in this part of the world.

Held once a year in February, our compact, meetings-centric and hotel-based DISCOP markets focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa are held alternatively in Eastern and Western Africa. Participants mostly include programming and acquisitions executives representing free and pay television content distributors from Sub-Saharan Africa (the BUYERS) and international and African suppliers of movies, finished programs, formats, live events and packaged TV channels (the SELLERS).

Participants are regrouped into five distinct categories that also include advertisers and their media-buying agencies, independent producers, financiers and media experts who represent 15% of the overall attendees.

• SELLLERS: Suppliers of movies, finished programs, formats, live events, packaged TV channels, and technological solutions.
• BUYERS: General Managers, programming and acquisitions executives representing public and private TV stations, Pay-TV operators, home video distributors, agents, closed circuit networks and territorial formats brokers.
• PRODUCERS: Producers with partially funded projects looking for coproduction
  partnerships.
• ADVERTISERS: Television advertisers and their agencies looking for branding, cross platforms and product placement opportunities.
• VISITORS: Last minute participants, experts, speakers and international governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Meetings

In addition and during the course of the event, our MEETINGS ORGANIZATION CENTER is open from 9 AM to 6 PM, in order to help BUYERS and SELLERS average around 40 pre-arranged and last-minute meetings over the 3-day market. 

Outside of market hours, numerous social functions and informative sessions are scheduled to provide all participants with additional intelligence-gathering and networking opportunities.

MARKET BADGES range from 300 Euros (BUYERS / VISITORS / ADVERTISERS / PRODUCERS) to 500 Euros (SELLERS) per individual participant.

In order to facilitate the preliminary organization of the meetings companies registering as SELLERS must also book an all-inclusive exhibiting package:

• MEETING TABLES (1000 Euros);
• VIEWING BOXES (2000 Euros);
• SCREENING SUITES (4500 Euros);
• ACADEMY SUITES (6500 Euros).

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