ABOUT US
 
Spanish, one of the richest languages in the world that has produced magnificent masterpieces of literature and poetry, is nowadays one of the most important languages in the world and is spoken in a variety of countries in the Americas and Europe. As a romantic language, Spanish shares its roots with European and Brazilian Portuguese, thus create the Ibero-American market, which includes such interesting segments as the Hispanic market of the United States.

This market, which gathers more than 500 million people, is characterized for its rapid consolidation of its mediums of communication, for its common cultural-idiomatic roots, and its distinct presence in the entertainment industry. Venevision International is an entertainment company, part of the Cisneros Group, with a mission to satisfy the content needs of this growing market in the business of:

• Distribution

• Production

• Film

• Music

• Audio books

• Mobile Entertainment

Based in Miami, Florida (USA), Venevision International was founded more than 30 years ago as a participant in the business of distributing television programming, which is a core business unit of the company today. Our mission is to offer the market’s most complete, up-to-date and diverse product catalog in the industry, complimented by excellence in customer service. The distribution of television programming is the heart of Venevision International, a constant presence in all markets of the industry, extending its global reach with products airing in 20 languages, 104 countries, and five continents.

In the area of production, Venevision International operates studios in the United States and Latin America with state-of-the-art post-production facilities that employ culturally diverse production teams with experience in co-producing with the most prestigious international companies in the business. In the past year alone, we introduced more than 1400 hours of our programming to the market. Our production unit, Venevision International Production, has the capacity of offering the most innovative means of product integration in our programming, being a pioneer, a leading force in ‘Advertainment’ (the incorporation of advertisements in entertainment) in the Ibero-American market.

Venevision International is a leader in the production and distribution of entertainment content in U.S. Hispanic market and Puerto Rico. A pioneer in the distribution of top-quality films originally produced in Spanish with presence in movie theaters, home video, pay-per-view, cable and free television, establishing in 2001 the first distributor of Spanish-language movies in the United States: Venevision International Films. Our catalog, with product originating from Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, among other countries, is distributed to all venues, supported by strong promotional and publicity campaigns. Venevision International Films has established itself as the premier partner of choice for film producers interested in entering and exploiting the U.S. Hispanic market and Puerto Rico.

Our record labels, VeneMusic and Siente Music (a joint venture with Universal Music Latino), have become major players in the Latin music industry. With the support of major advertising campaigns and strategic alliances with the best multi-national sales forces in the industry (Sony/BMG, Warner and Universal), our product is a constant presence in market indicators, such as BDS and SoundScan.

Providing the widest range of Spanish-language entertainment, Venevision International, through its company FonoLibro, produces and commercializes audio books in Spanish, a new way to "read listening" to bestsellers and classics of the universal literature world. The audio books produced by FonoLibro are of the highest quality, with the clearest voices and captivating dramatizations, offering the audience such distinguished titles as "The Da Vinci Code," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Gustavo Cisneros, a Global Entrepreneur," as well as many other outstanding books.

Venevision International is at the forefront of the digital world with its two companies Venemobile and LatCel, which offer a wide range of mobile products and services. Venemobile and LatCel provide a new generation of entertainment content, reaching millions of mobile phone subscribers in the Americas. Venemobile, which has at its disposal the enormous inventory made readily available by Venevision International and other companies of the Cisneros Group, and LatCel, the only pan-regional company in the new dimension of entertainment, offer diversity in mobile entertainment content, from ringtones to games, from information to audiovisual content.