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The 2022 edition of the L.A. Screenings is going back to where it began as the May Screenings in 1963, the Century Plaza, at least for the indie portion of (…)

In October 2021, Barcelona, Spain-based Rakuten announced its new CEO, Cédric Dufour, who took the reins from Jacinto Roca. Roca helmed the company for 10 years, seeing it through much (…)

The month of May will soon be upon us, and, according to ancient calendars, promises to be a good one. In the Hindu calendar, May is the Jyeshtha month (or (…)

By Dom Serafini

Patrick Zuchowicki-Jucaud is known in TV trade show circles as a pioneer of emerging TV territories — first Eastern Europe, then the Middle East, and later Africa. Some (…)

Making predictions is a risky business. For example, VideoAge staffers bet a Corona beer that NATPE Miami would surely happen since virologists were predicting that Omicron would abate by opening (…)

First, the pandemic came and devastated the lives of so many in the Latin American region. Then came an economic downturn that is only now abating.

COVID-19 couldn’t have been much (…)

Lately, New York City-based director Alexandra Haggiag Dean (pictured above) has been all over the news for her latest docuseries, Secrets of Playboy. The 43-year-old Dean received some recognition for (…)

Eight LATAM TV leaders joined VideoAge editor Dom Serafini at a breakfast meeting to discuss the future of NATPE Miami and the development of the upcoming L.A. Screenings. Shortly before (…)

The underlying message from both the data measurement company Antenna and the media research group Kagan is that the current business model of streaming operations as SVoD services is not (…)

Imagine an executive working for the same U.S. distribution company for 32 years, and in the process going through seven different parent companies, nine management changes, and two attempted takeovers.

Then (…)