Mansha Daswani

Autentic’s Patrick Hörl, Blue Ant International’s Solange Attwood and Albatross World Sales’ Lisa Schelhas weighed in on the new opportunities the AVOD sector is presenting to factual content distributors at the FAST Festival.

Endeavor has made a minority investment in Velvet Hammer Media (VHM), the non-scripted production company co-founded by former HBO Max execs Jennifer O’Connell and Rebecca Quinn.

All3Media International has sealed a deal to take on the distribution rights to Searching for Satoshi: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bitcoin Creator from Paul Kemp Productions.

From exploring the burgeoning FAST landscape to managing the complexities of financing increasingly ambitious premium docs, leading distributors weigh in on trends shaping the factual business today.

A+E Networks EMEA has rolled out three curated FAST channels on Samsung TV Plus: Inside Crime, Mystery TV and World War TV.

Roo Powell, a child advocate and founder of Safe from Online Sex Abuse (SOSA), talks about the second season of her ID series Undercover Underage.

FAST has emerged as a buzzword across all sectors of the business, but factual distributors appear to be benefiting the most from the quickly growing segment, which was clear from many of the headlines out of MIPTV last week.

ZDF Studios has taken on the global distribution rights, excluding India, to the award-winning biodiversity documentary Colonies in Conflict.

Bakori Davis, global head of partnerships and distribution at Curiosity, on how the company has been building its brand with partnerships in local markets across SVOD, FAST and pay-TV channels.

The AVOD business is booming, leading to a wealth of new opportunities for distributors with sizable factual content slates.