Tag Archives: audiovisual industry

ICAB and Netflix open new applications to their found to support professionals in the Brazilian audiovisual industry affected by the pandemic

June 17, 2021
Netflix (Brazil) SVOD and streaming service ARPU

The Instituto de Contenidos Audiovisuales Brasileños (ICAB) and Netflix officially announced this last Tuesday, June 15th, the renewal of the partnership that they started last year to financially help audiovisual industry professionals in the country. According to the information reported by the entity, the new donation will be valued at R$ 3 million (around USD [...]

Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Studios grant almost USD 1 million to support audiovisual industry in Brazil

March 8, 2021
Amazon Prime Video (Brazil) SVOD and streaming service revenues

Brazilian Audiovisual Content Institute (Instituto de Contenidos Audiovisuales Brasileños – ICAB), has announced this last Friday that Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Studios will allocate around R$ 5.3 million (about USD 1), to support the Brazilian audiovisual community during the pandemic period. The donation will be made for the Aid Fund created by ICAB and [...]

Grupo Salinas launches Azteca Estudios to boost resources for original productions in Mexico

February 18, 2021
TV Azteca (Mexico) Free-to-air net TV advertising revenues

Mexican group Grupo Salinas has officially announced last Tuesday, February 16th, the birth of a new business unit, which it called ‘Azteca Estudios’. The studios were opened in 2012, and provide comprehensive production services for the audiovisual industry, with the aim of serving activities involving filming, TV, advertising, entertainment or live events productions. The new [...]

Netflix and Amacc expand aid fund for audiovisual industry workers in Mexico

July 17, 2020
Netflix Mexico SVOD and streaming service ARPU

Netflix and the Mexican Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy (AMACC) announced the expansion of the MX$ 25 million (USD 1 million) aid fund, called ‘Fondo de Apoyo Covid-19 para la Industria Cinematográfica y Audiovisual’. The entities agreed to add MX$ 4.5 million (USD 20.7 thousand) to the fund, raising the total amount to MX$ [...]

Netflix expands its relief fund to the audiovisual industry to Argentina with USD 590 thousand

OTT / VOD | | May 20, 2020

Netflix, in partnership with the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Argentina, announced the creation of the ‘Relief Fund COVID-19 for the film and audiovisual industry’, aimed at providing financial aid in support of more than a thousand workers in the area. The platform announced the launch of the fund at the beginning of [...]

Netflix extends relief fund for audiovisual industry workers to Colombia

OTT / VOD | | May 5, 2020

Netflix and the Colombian Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy (ACACC) announced the launch of a relief fund in support of the Colombian audiovisual industry, valued at USD 500 thousand. The figure belongs to the international USD 150 million fund that the OTT launched, with which, in addition to Colombia, it provided financial aid to [...]

Netflix expands relief fund to audiovisual industry workers to USD 150 million

OTT / VOD | | April 20, 2020

Netflix announced it is expanding the industry workers relief fund it has announced in March, from USD 100 million to USD 150 million, as reported by the specialized website Variety.  Of the USD 100 million initially announced by Netflix, USD 85 million would go to workers from its own productions, which are cancelled by the [...]

Netflix grants USD 1 million in support of Brazilian audiovisual industry

OTT / VOD | | April 15, 2020

After creating a USD 100 million fund to help audiovisual industry workers due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, of which USD 1 million were granted to support the Mexican industry, Netflix now announced that it will award R$ 5 million (almost USD 1 million) to an emergency fund in support of the sector in Brazil. [...]

Netflix and AMACC create fund to support Mexican audiovisual industry

OTT / VOD | | April 13, 2020

Netflix and the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMACC) announced the creation of a MX $ 25 million (USD 1 million) fund called ‘Covid-19 Support Fund for the Film and Audiovisual Industry’, in order to help more than thousand workers in the sector,whose productions had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. [...]

Ancine could stop promoting audiovisual industry in Brazil

TV channels / Content | | July 25, 2019

A few months after the Union Court of Auditors (TCU) -responsible for the financial supervision of Brazilian State agencies- decided to stop the National Films Agency’s (Ancine) activities, aimed to promote Brazilian audiovisual industry, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s President, said that the agency could disappear or be privatized. ‘It will have a filter, since it is [...]