Viewpoints: acquisitions strategies

Fabrizio Meli
Digital TV Director
Tiscali Italia Spa
Italy
What are your acquisition strategies?
Tiscali.TV opens up new perspectives in the home entertainment, thanks to our commitment to supply our customers with vertical thematic contents for each of our editorial offers. Thanks to a proprietary IPTV platform, we can easily fulfil our target's expectations by changing the traditional horizontal TV programming in a deep vertical offer, which can respond to the most diverse and complex needs of our clients.
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What products are you looking for?
We focus on home entertainment contents: Films, TV series, Cartoons and Kids contents, Music, Factual and Lifestyle, Sport. Our Offer is further subdivided in each of these categories depending on target and age. As far as the countries of production is concerned, we are focused on Italy, UK and USA producers, but we are open to content scouting in any interesting country, thanks to a constant research and scouting activity for international opportunities. As an example, we buy part of our Cartoons in Japan.
What were your key acquisition deals in 2007?
Our plan is to enrich our whole editorial offer with a particular focus on Films, TV Series and Sport, as much as we did in 2007, thanks to important deals signed with leading players such as Rai, Sony and Disney.
What are your plans for MIPTV?
MIPTV is an opportunity to meet our present partners, to foster some ongoing deals as well as to meet new potential partners.
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