Attendance at Discop Africa increases 50%

Major deals

A number of major deals and announcements took place:

• At the China Showcase event on 4 November, six major collaborative deals were signed between South African and Chinese production companies

• Turner Africa expands reach via a deal with Consat in Nigeria to air children's channel Boing.
• Euronews announced the launch in January 2016 of Africanews, an independent and multilingual pan-African news network
• TV4 Entertainment in the US will be licensing VOD platform Buni.tv (from Kenya) for streaming on platforms in the US and UK such as Amazon

• RTI and Mnet signed a major deal that saw Mnet securing significant amount of content from Ivory Coasts' public broadcaster

China was the country of honour, sending a delegation of more than 20 media companies promoting TV series, documentaries, cartoons and entertaining programs. Six of them signed agreement on collaboration with six African television companies, which means more Chinese television programmes are going to be dubbed and located on the African continent in the near future.

Meet Your Stars

This year the event also hosted the inaugural Meet Your Stars TV upfront presentations from SABC 1, 2 and 3 as well as from eTV and Star One. During three days of presentations that featured 68 top South African TV stars, over 25 shows were presented to media buyers, planners and industry influencers.

More events

At a press conference held at the close of Discop Africa Johannesburg, Basic Lead CEO, Patrick Zuchowicki also announced a series of events scheduled for 2016. In addition to Discop Africa Johannesburg, taking place from 2-4 Nov 2016, Abidjan will also host its second Discop Africa Abidjan from 31 May-2 June 2016.

The official guest countries for Discop Africa 2016 were also announced, with Morocco as the guest country for Discop Africa Abidjan 2016 and the US for Discop Africa Johannesburg.