Tom Mohler, CEO at Olympusat
During the panel “Exploring Options For Incremental Linear and Digital Distribution” in the Hispanic TV Summit in New York, Tom Mohler, president & CEO of Olympusat, announced that during 2017 the company will produce around 120 films and 10 fiction series (each series has 26 episodes).
He recalled that Vemox, Olympusat´s OTT solution, has 30 thousand hours of VOD contents available and will soon announce new distribution agreements for the platform, in the style of the one they have with Amazon and their Fire TV devices.
Javier Nuche, general director of Atresmedia Internacional; Anna Gordon, executive vice-president and managing director for Latin America and US Hispanic of BBC; Jorge Fiterre, partner in Condista; Luis Torres-Bohl, founder and president of Mexicanal; Michael Tribolet, Chairman, co-founder and CEO of YipTV and Eric Turpin, general manager of HITN, shared the panel with Mohler.
Gordon from BBC highlighted that, regarding their application for VOD, they are making sure that all the development for CBeebies in this topic are made jointly with the pay TV operator, as part of the distribution agreement.
For his part, Tribolet said they have agreements with more than 1,600 shops to sell the YipTV app to consumers, because they are convinced that apps are what will boost future growth of OTT.
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