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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - On a muddy side-street in Abidjan, Alex Ogou directs his cast of young locals in a TV drama about gangsters in Ivory Coast that French media giant Vivendi hopes will help revive its fortunes. “Invisibles” is the first original series produced in Africa by Vivendi’s (VIV.PA) pay-TV company Canal+ and is part of a drive to attract viewers on the continent in the face of growing Chinese competition and as subscribers at home cancel contracts. Canal+ has lost 1.3 million individual subscribers in mainland France since 2013 due to stiff competition for rights to sports events, series from upstart rivals and the rise of streaming services such as Netflix (NFLX.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O).
At the same time, Canal+ has added twice as many subscribers in Africa, now its second-largest market, Rights to European and African soccer have long been a draw in Africa and Canal+ has also invested heavily in locally produced content, But unlike the tried and tested telenovelas and tales of witchcraft that account for an outsized portion of African TV consumption, “Invisibles” tells the story of a violent gang of youngsters in 10 3d stormtrooper e-11 blaster cufflinks episodes of 52 minutes, Shot mainly in a bustling sprawl of open-air markets and run-down auto body shops in the working-class Yopougon district, the series will debut in Africa on Oct, 29..
“Africans want us to address them directly and not offer them programs that reference things they don’t know, just because that’s what’s shown in Paris,” said Fabrice Faux, Canal+ International’s chief content officer. “The African public wants things made by them, for them and, if possible, on site,” he said. Vivendi said in February that Canal+ aimed to add 1.5 million African subscribers by 2020 to bring the total to about 5 million, up from some 1 million five years ago.
With more Africans buying TVs - and streaming services not widely accessible due to relatively high data costs - the continent is fertile ground for satellite pay-TV companies to provide original content and generate customer loyalty, “It is a market that is very important for us, It is the market with the fastest growth,” said Faux, Besides “Invisibles”, at least two more African-produced series are in the works, a Senegalese police drama called “Sakho & Mangane” and an action series called “African Special Forces” which 3d stormtrooper e-11 blaster cufflinks Canal+ is co-producing with a Moroccan station..
Series are also cheaper to produce in Africa than Europe or the United States, sometimes by a factor of 40. Karamoko Toure, the “Invisibles” producer, said it cost about $1 million. And it is already attracting plaudits. Last month, it became the first francophone African series to win an award outside the continent at the TV Fiction Festival here in the French city of La Rochelle. Canal+’s success in Africa, where it has nearly 4 million subscribers across more than 25 countries contrasts with its struggles in France and largely stable business in its other main markets, Poland and Vietnam.
Canal+ is Vivendi’s second-highest grossing company behind Universal Music so its welfare is key, In 2015, the hemorrhaging of French subscribers from Canal+ became so alarming Vivendi said it could not finance the company’s losses in the long run, Last year, it 3d stormtrooper e-11 blaster cufflinks said a turnaround plan emphasizing themed packages had staunched the bleeding: sales were growing again, cancellations were declining and partnerships with mobile operators such as Orange (ORAN.PA) and Bouygues Telecom (BOUY.PA) were profitable..
Even so, Canal+ has shed nearly 200,000 subscribers in France over the past year. In May, it lost out on broadcast rights in France for the national soccer league for 2020-24, which sent Vivendi’s shares tumbling 5.5 percent. One advantage Canal+ has over new entrants is strong brand recognition built up over three decades in francophone Africa, where a white Canal+ dish is a status symbol. 'Here, prestige can be seen. Canal+ and its satellite dish are prestigious,' said Ndeye Diagne, a managing director at marketing research firm Kantar TNS www.tnsglobal.com in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan. 'They must not lose that.'.
Originally-produced comedy and news programs, as well as A+, an all-Africa channel Canal+ launched in 2014, have enjoyed success, It also carries a range of African telenovelas, which are heavily advertised on billboards around Abidjan, The move to feature-length dramas such as “Invisibles” is something of a leap into 3d stormtrooper e-11 blaster cufflinks the unknown but French-Ivorian director Ogou thinks it will resonate widely, “People are looking for things to watch that concern them ., Talking about stories in which people can recognize themselves.”..