MIPTV Media Market

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MIPTV Media Market is an event which takes place annually in Cannes, using the facilities and infrastructure which the town has developed over the years to host other important events such as the Cannes Film Festival amongst other events.

It is essentially a content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content. It provides the people involved in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry a market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.

MIPTV is the world's biggest entertainment market and trade event for professionals from the entertainment industry with over $10 billion in transactional business done between MIPTV in April and MIPCOM in October.^{[citation needed]}

The next MIPTV will take place from April 7th - 11th, 2008. Over 13,000 entertainment professionals attend annually from over 100 countries. It holds the only Emmy Awards outside the United States: - The International Interactive Emmy Awards at MIPTV on Tuesday April 8th 2008.

Their Content 360 media festival celebrates the very best in creative innovative productions for cross platform (TV, Film, Mobile, Internet) distribution.

Conference panelists and keynotes include CEO's from all the major global media companies like: - Leslie Moonves, CBS (US), Jana Bennett BBC (UK), Gerhard Zeiler RTL Group (Luxembourg), Harry Sloan MGM (US), Subhash Chandra ZEE Networks (India), Dr. Hyun-Oh Yoo SK Communications/ Cyworld (Korea), Paula Wagner - Tom Cruise's partner - at United Artists (US), Ronnie Screwvala UTV (India), Philip Rosedale Second Life (US), Ben Silverman NBC (US), Emilio Azcarraga Televisa (Mexico), Mike Volpi JOOST (US).

MIPWORLD their online matchmaking community (Facebook, MySpace.com) is the only B2B 24/7 network facility for the entertainment industry that can be used before, during and after the market in Cannes.

This event is very closely related to the MIPCOM event, but retains its distinct focus. The MIPCOM event takes place in the same venue in October each year.