Pablo Iacoviello, former director of monetisation of local originals at Amazon's Prime Video, is launching a new company at C21 event Content Americas in Miami next week.

Holding company Vytal Group, headed by Tomás Yankelevich, Jorge Carey and Edgar Spielmann, has completed the purchase of Chilevisión.

Telemundo has named Adrián Santucho its new senior VP of unscripted content, reporting directly to Javier Pons, chief content officer and head of Telemundo Studios at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.

Culture CAP7, the Spanish investment fund specialising in the audiovisual sector, has acquired Spanish production and distribution company Onza Entertainment.

The Walt Disney Company has unveiled a new operating model for its entertainment and sports businesses in Latin America and confirmed the appointment of Martín Iraola as the new president of The Walt Disney Company Latin America.

A clear vision for coproduction and the potential to serve as a bridge with Latin America were among the factors that led BBC Studios to acquire Brutal Media, says Jacob de Boer, the company’s exec VP of global entertainment.

MIP CANCUN: While SVoD is reaching saturation point in other regions, the number of households in Latin America with at least one subscription is set to grow by 25% over the next five years.

MIP CANCUN: Latin America is one of vertical content platform ReelShort’s fastest-growing regions and now its second most important market globally in terms of users, executives from the platform revealed on Thursday at Mip Cancun.

YouTube's reach and its discovery engine are the main advantages the Google-owned platform brings to the television industry, according to Juan Pablo Robert, its head of content partnerships for Latin America.

Spain's The Mediapro Studio has begun work on its first slate of microdramas and is exploring different strategies to expand in the fast-growing sector.