The Africa Channel has launched a tech-driven content facilities arm called TAC Labs, offering a suite of low-cost AI-powered post-production and content management tools to help content creators launch in new markets and expand their reach.

Lighter, more escapist international scripted projects are on the agenda at CBS Studios International, alongside the broadcaster's perennial crime hot properties.

Sony-backed anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is looking to tap a global market of 1.5 billion anime enthusiasts as it expands its own growing anime universe into a 360-degree experience for subscribers, according to president Rahul Purini.

Keshet 12’s head of drama and comedy Karni Ziv discusses the broadcaster’s increased investment in scripted, why its productions remain resolutely local and how it is producing one of its most diverse scripted line-ups in recent years.

Israel’s Keshet 12 is dominating the domestic free-to-air landscape with an appetite for risk-taking and a rich diversity of ‘campfire’ content.

France’s M6 is seeking accelerated digital growth backed by increased investment in streamable, bingeworthy content and is courting new partnerships.

Disney+ France is prioritising original stories with strong voices for its scripted originals slate, supported by a growing range of partnerships and windowing agreements to combat market fragmentation.

Pubcaster S4C is expanding its support for the Welsh indie production sector along with its international unscripted coproduction ambitions.

AMC Networks International UK’s Sam Rowden discusses evolving viewer consumption habits around true crime and how the group is responding to the current funding climate with new partnership models.

WaterBear Studios’ recent pivot to an entertainment-led originals strategy is underpinned by an entrepreneurial approach to funding, tapping brands, NGOs, distribution companies and platforms as co-financing partners.