Orange at Mipcom 2009

October 5, 2009 -  Mipcom, the international audiovisual content market, will be taking place in Cannes, bringing together key players from all areas within the entertainment industry: creation, production (and co-production), purchasing, sales, financing and distribution, across all platforms: TV cinema and internet. This event will also showcase the new prospects offered by the development of cable, satellite and video.
Mipcom enables professional participants to negotiate rights on a truly international scale, setting up co-production initiatives, sealing co-financing deals, establishing new contacts, initiating and developing partnerships and finding out about new trends.
Orange is there on a stand, a place to meet and work for industry professionals, and propose a space demos of its products and services (Internet, TV, Mobile) existing internationally.
Xavier Couture, Orange’s VP for content, will be presenting the new opportunities opened up to the public and the world of creation thanks to the development of digital, putting the content market’s current upheavals into perspective.

Mipcom is a unique forum enabling professional participants to negotiate rights on a truly international scale, setting up co-production initiatives, sealing co-financing deals, establishing new contacts, initiating and developing partnerships, finding out about new trends and keeping up-to-date on the latest audiovisual developments.

For this occasion, Xavier Couture, Orange's VP for content, will be presenting the new opportunities opened up to the public and the world of creation thanks to the development of digital, putting the content market's current upheavals into perspective.

content reinvented by Orange
Present on the TV content market since 2003, Orange has developed a comprehensive and innovative multiscreen catch-up TV, video on demand and television offering (TV, web and mobile). The Group has also become a publisher of various channels, with the launch of interactive TV services like Orange sport info, Orange sport and the Orange cinéma séries package.

Outside of France, where Orange cinéma series and Orange sport - embodied by their presenters and consultants: Sophie Soulignac for Orange cinéma séries, Céline Géraud, Christian Karembeu, Youri Djorkaeff, Luis Fernandes, Frank Sauzée, and others for Orange sport - are now essential viewing on the French audiovisual scene, the Content Everywhere strategy is standing out in particular through the deployment of Orange TV internationally: Spain, UK, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Belgium, Romania, Senegal, Mauritius.

key figures for the 2008/2009 event
13,000 professional visitors: broadcasters, producers, distributors, players from the internet, mobile and interactive television worlds, advertising and licensing.
4,500 companies present, with around 100 countries represented.
1,700 companies exhibiting from 64 countries - 22,000 sq.m of dedicated exhibition space.

find out more
Mipcom website
Orange and contents