Comparative Chapter: the unstoppable march of streaming
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2024
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One more year, the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction (Obitel) monitors the television systems of Ibero-American countries to report mainly on two key issues: on the one hand, the television offering and consumption levels, and on the other, the production of fiction and its main trends. This first chapter of the 2024 yearbook, without intending to replace the reading of the 10 national chapters, aims to offer an integrative synthesis of all of them. Therefore, it presents the main common points and the singularities of the television phenomenon in the different analyzed countries, as well as other aspects that may not stand out when reading an individual chapter. T he 2023 data presented in this yearbook show the consolidation of a new television model, in which streaming platforms have been displacing free-to-air television and have reached a privileged position as the main distribution technology for fiction television content. Unlike the telenovela, which remains primarily anchored to free-to-air television, the series is the dominant format in VoD, where it has grown, driven by streaming platforms. This has transformed production dynamics, increasing both production and co-production, while significantly reducing the number of episodes.