After three years of declining commissions, Netflix, Amazon, Disney and Paramount are offering fresh signs of recovery in Mexico’s streaming market.

Netflix has acquired the global rights to the next three editions of La Velada del Año (The Event of the Year), the boxing event featuring content creators organised by the popular Spanish internet celebrity Ibai Llanos.

Brazil’s Globo has picked up entertainment format The Perfect Line from Paramount Global Content Distribution, while TelevisaUnivision has acquired Hollywood Squares for Mexico and the US Hispanic market.

Brazilian broadcaster Globo and Netflix have reached a content licensing agreement that calls for the addition of 18 Brazilian productions from the São Paulo-based group to the streaming platform starting in December.

MIPCOM: Netflix has acquired the rights to the 2030 Fifa World Cup in Spain and Andorra, in an unprecedented deal for the streaming platform that will allow it to carry all 104 matches of the tournament.

Silvia Cotino at Mediterráneo Mediaset España has been appointed director of fiction at Mediaset Spain, from where she will lead the group's fiction content.

LA-based Alcon Media Group will unveil Alcon International Studios, a new division dedicated to the development, production and financing of television content for global audiences, at Mipcom next week.

IBERSERIES & PLATINO INDUSTRIA: Spanish group WAP Media Group has launched a fiction label called Ultramar together with Mexico’s Alonso Aguilar.

YouTube’s Pedro Pina told an industry conference in Madrid this week that the traditional TV business still misunderstands the platform – and that the blame lies with YouTube itself.

IBERSERIES & PLATINO INDUSTRIA: Spanish creator and producer Amaya Muruzábal says Spanish-language creators should adopt a more strategic approach from a creative standpoint to promote more ambitious projects with an international focus.