Industry

As Reed Midem cancelled the 2020 MIPTV edition including MIPdoc and MipFormats everybody is getting organized with new alternative and digital offers. ArmozaFest was presented yesterday by Avi Armoza and Red Arrow is following with on-screen meetings.

Dom Serafini editor-in-chief of VideoAge announced that he is publishing its March/April Issue as scheduled.
"It will be distributed at SeriesMania and the NAB Show, as well as online, where it will enjoy a vast digital distribution. VideoAge will work closely with its advertisers over the next few weeks to ensure continued editorial coverage and promotional visibility, as well as to help foster a sense of normalcy in these trying times"- he confirmed.

K7Media ceo Keri Lewis announced that :"with the unfortunate cancellation of MIPTV, we would like to let you know that we will be producing our MIP Catalogue listings, clip showreel and trends documents as usual. The first draft of the catalogue will be circulated on Monday 23 March. Also K7 Media said that : "we are particularly disappointed to miss Cannes as several of us were lined up to give presentations and moderate panels. We are now planning to share our research with you online on Monday 30 March so please stay tuned for updates". The service will be available for subscribers only.

Also, CEETV and TVBIZZ are extendending the second edition of PITCH & PLAY FORMATCASE due to the MIPTV cancellation in order to help content creators and distributor to showcase their latest formats.

Formatbiz is online as usual and ready to help the industry with focus and specials on distributors and creators.
Next week, a special focus about Japanese TBS will be published.