MIPCOM 2026 Explores How AI And Digital Platforms Are Reshaping TV

Filed 59m ago · Via Forbes · The Buffoon Desk

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MIPCOM 2026 runs October 12 to 15 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, drawing an organizer-projected 10,600 attendees, 1,500 exhibitors and 3,300 buyers from more than 100 countries to discuss financing, discovery and monetization of TV content.

Netflix's Bela Bajaria is set to receive an award and discuss global content strategy, while Banijay's Jeff Zucker and Marco Bassetti talk growth plans. YouTube is expanding sessions on distribution and partnerships, including a discussion between its EMEA vice president and RTL Deutschland's chief executive.

The event's new MIP AI Entertainment Forum will examine AI-assisted production, dubbing and workflow efficiencies alongside unresolved questions of rights ownership, training data and compensation. Short-form vertical storytelling and creator-led business, featuring filmmaker Dhar Mann, round out a program also courting nearly 50 Spanish companies and participants from Latin America and Asia.

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✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

A trade show about artificial intelligence eating the entertainment business is, at bottom, still a bunch of executives in a nice building trying to figure out who gets paid. The rights-and-compensation questions get a forum session, which is the industry's way of saying it will worry about that later. Nobody at these things ever seems to be the person whose work trained the model.

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