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The leading system for the broadcast, production, content shipment, electronic media and also satellite industries across the Middle East, Africa and also South Asia (MEASA) - will certainly continuously drive turbulent development as well as monetisation chances throughout the MENA shot & audio enjoyment media market.

Running March 8-10 at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), CABAT 2016 will certainly invite greater than 15,000 local as well as global site visitors involved in the creation, management, distribution as well as monetisation of material to check out pioneering items, technologies and regional financial investment opportunities. The tailored event provides a chance for industry experts to examine, utilize and experience the current equipment in the broadcast, satellite communication, material distribution as well as electronic media sectors.

With the Middle East and Africa filmed and also audio enjoyment media market undergoing an interesting change, projections by the global expert department of Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Strategy &, anticipate home entertainment and media invest will certainly reach US$ 66 billion by 2018. In this profitable environment, CABSAT shows a tailored encounter for market specialists to connecting, strategise and also debate future market patterns.
Leading the CABSAT 2016 program are the surge of time-shifted, or 'binge' viewing, on Video on Demand (VOD) systems, and also the mass local adoption of internet-driven content delivery systems consisting of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), TV provided over broadband, as well as Over The Top (OTT) approaches - material streamed directly to portable tools, video game consoles and also SMART TVs connected to broadband.

In an area where more than 900 cost-free to air TELEVISION channels serve the Arab globe, satellite circulation still makes up over 80 percent of the local market. Regardless of being fairly brand-new alternatives, IPTV and OTT currently contribute virtually 20 percent of local content shipment systems, thereby showing new possibilities for broadcasters and PAY-TV drivers to monetise content using an emerging post-TV market.

"The sped up adoption of mobile modern technology across the region has developed tremendous and transformative possibilities throughout a number of media platforms," stated Trixie LohMirmand, Senior Vice President, Exhibitions & Events Manager, DWTC. "As global media companies as well as capitalists consider their international development techniques, MENA warrants brand-new factor to consider and also CABSAT provides a critical entry-point.".
With greater than 950 neighborhood, local and also international exhibitors at CABSAT 2016, the event will additionally flaunt the brand new Content Marketplace-- a dedicated material market for TELEVISION as well as film content creators, manufacturing houses and studios, suppliers of material, manufacturers, editors and advertising and marketing homes. The Content Marketplace will concentrate on buying, selling and also co-production possibilities for Arabic and also International material. Partners include Dubai Studio City TELEVISION as well as Film Commission, Dubai Film, VIACOM, Zee TELEVISION, Fox, MBC Group, NBC Universal and also many regional broadcast pavilion organisers consisting of the Nigerian Broadcast Commission.
"The Content Marketplace is the region's first event focused purely on the selling and exchange of filmed amusement material," included LohMirmand. "International players from eastern as well as west will fulfill to discuss accessing and purchasing material, co-production and format chances for scripted & non-scripted material, along with monetising viewing systems that are thriving across the Middle East as well as beyond-- from the need for enhanced manufacturing of neighborhood, Arabic material, to the highly-lucrative, emerging post-TV market for multi-language content.".

The CABSAT Content Marketplace is being assisted by Selevsion, a leading Saudi-based technology and also company for the worldwide program industry, and also multi-platform enjoyment business which supplies premium content to MENA consumers through Video On Demand serives.

"Just as Selevision has actually advanced, so have audiences in the region," claimed Dr. Raed Khusheim, CEO, Selevision. "We are dedicated to bringing a new and customised viewing encounter to customers through Selevision's home entertainment services as well as, for this, we are proud to partner with CABSAT and the new Content Marketplace. Our company believe that this one-of-a-kind mixture of the world's leading material proprietors and buyers is critical in order to deliver the most recent and also broadest array of entertainment to an unique variety of consumers, anytime and also anywhere, and to attend to local clients' expanding cravings for enjoyment.".

CABSAT 2016 will certainly also flaunt a rebranded conference called the Content Congress - held under the theme 'The Future of Television in a Connected World' - and also meetings programme dubbed the 'Red Carpet Lounge'.

The program will likewise feature increased licensed Post-Production trainings, CxO Roundtables, an Aerial Robotics & Drone zone, the Content Delivery Hub, a live Hackathon competition to create apps for the next-generation watching experience and CABSAT Connect-- a devoted C-level night network event.

The Satellite Hub - kept in collaboration with the GVF - will certainly concentrate on key technical patterns and major satellite issues and also difficulties throughout the Satellite Communications market.
See www.cabsat.com or www.cabsat.com/markletplace to figure out a lot more.

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