Major Trends in the World of Mobile Fiction

The French group Canal+ signs a historic $3 billion deal with the South African company MultiChoice

Between France and sub-Saharan Africa, the landscape of platforms, fiction, entertainment and streaming is changing. Canal+ is a French subscription group (pay television and app-based services), present in more than 70 countries. It is headed by Maxime Saada and operates within the media ecosystem associated with Vincent Bolloré. The deal, valued at around $3 billion, allows Canal+ to take control of MultiChoice, a South African player that dominates pay television across mu

Jan 31

Holywater: Duanju raises a record $22 million in the West

Holywater has just announced a $22 million funding round to accelerate the development of its applications, such as MyDrama, and its content dedicated to the short vertical format: Duanju. A fundraising round is a process where investors buy a stake in a company to finance a growth phase. In practice, there is almost always a lead investor, the one who provides the largest share of the capital and leads the round. They manage the analysis of the business plan, negotiate the t

Jan 27

StoryShort: the first duanju app focused on French-language series

We had already followed this project when it was called StoryTV, at the time when Alexandre Perrin and Adrien Cottinaud presented it as a French initiative dedicated to vertical micro-series. The name has since evolved to StoryShort, an English title for a French application featuring series in French. This reflects a desire to position itself in a global market while avoiding confusion with similar names, particularly in India with the “Story TV” application. During the scre

Jan 25