In August 2021, Digital TV Research predicted 15.1 million paying subscribers to SVOD services in Africa by 2026. This forecast figure represents a threefold increase on the 5.1 million expected by the end of 2021. Half of the additional 10 million will come from South Africa and Nigeria, which will...
Official launch of the 28th edition of FESPACO
The leading African film festival, FESPACO, will be held from February 25 to March 4, 2023. Every two years, the country of honest men honors African cinema by organizing FESPACO, well known for its supreme award, the Etalon d'Or. FESPACO awards official prizes and special prizes in two categories to...
Netflix invests in co-production in South Africa
Netflix is pursuing its ambition to invest in local content production to attract new subscribers on the African continent. The VOD giant recently announced plans to accelerate its strategy of creating original content with a $62 million investment in co-production. To begin with, South Africa will benefit from this investment...
"EKI" and "The Future Is Ours": two new original creations from CANAL+
CANAL+ will soon broadcast two new original creations: "EKI" and "Le Futur est à nous" (The Future is Ours). As we highlighted in our recent report , the audiovisual production sector in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa continues to grow, driven in particular by a new generation of talent and increasingly significant...
Launch of the first AFRO VFX training course dedicated to special effects
With around 3,500 films produced each year, West Africa is the most prolific region on the continent. However, professional training remains a strategic issue for the development and structuring of the audiovisual industry. To address this challenge, Éric M'Boua and Mbépongo Bilamba have decided to launch a new special effects...
ORTB+: a new channel coming soon to Benin?
Several articles questioning the quality of ORTB's programming and announcing the creation of a new television channel, ORTB+, prompted a response from Jean-Philippe Erick Abraham, acting director general of the Benin Broadcasting and Television Office, who explained in an interview with Jeune Afrique that "For the past five years, ORTB...
Cameroon: Startimes partners with the CINAF platform
Startimes has partnered with the CINAF TV platform to offer its subscribers 100% Cameroonian content. To do so, the Chinese digital television operator has formed a partnership with the Cameroonian streaming platform CINAF TV. CINAF TV is a company that produces, broadcasts, and distributes Cameroonian film content. The platform now...
Results of the first committee meeting of the "TV5MONDEplus Francophonie Fund"
On March 23, 2021, TV5MONDE and the International Organization of La Francophonie launched the "Fonds francophonie TV5MONDEplus" (TV5MONDEplus Francophonie Fund). This fund, created on the initiative of the Canadian government, aims to support, promote, and distribute audiovisual works—films, documentaries, fiction, or animated films—in French and co-produced with countries in the...
The musical series "La dernière voix" (The Last Voice) is coming to A+ channels.
"La dernière voix" (The Last Voice), the new music series created by renowned producer Alex Ogou's production company, PLAN A, is coming to A+ and A+ Ivoire. The project, produced by Roland Gogo & Andy Melo in association with Universal Music and A+, aims to showcase the most beautiful voices...
The second season of the Basketball Africa League on CANAL+ Sport channels
The countdown has begun for Season 2 of the Basketball Africa League! On the schedule: 12 teams will compete in Senegal, Egypt, and Rwanda for a total of 38 games. In February 2020, just a few months after the creation of the first NBA Academy Africa in Dakar, aimed at...