Zodiak Entertainment is a diverse constellation of over 30 content production companies in 18 countries, predominantly spread across Europe, but also extending to India, Latin America and the United States.
In 2008, Zodiak Entertainment produced over 200 shows, totaling 5,225 hours of broadcasting. It had 311 broadcaster clients and boasted revenues of over €400 million.
Zodiak’s philosophy is to allow all its units to retain their individuality, yet simultaneously share ideas, best practices and benefit from the strength of being part of a network that includes a global distribution mechanism and a strong creative centre.
Zodiak Entertainment Distribution is the group’s distribution company. Based in London and Paris, it is responsible for the group's international sales of formats and finished programmes. Apart from that, Zodiak Entertainment Distribution represents a vast number of third party formats and finished programmes. Thanks to its solid worldwide distribution network, Zodiak Entertainment Distribution proves to be a reliable distributor for production companies and content owners throughout the planet.
Grand Zentral is Zodiak’s main R&D and creative business support centre. It provides consultancy and support to all of Zodiak’s production companies, helps in transforming new ideas into 360 solutions and provides central financing for new format development.
Zodiak Distillery is the group’s central format development unit. Based in London and supervised by a creative elite of experienced and talented producers, it supplies our companies with innovative home-grown programme formats, some of which have become a huge success in numerous countries worldwide.
OUR PRODUCTION BRANDS
The production side of Zodiak is divided into three main areas:
Zodiak Entertainment is intent on consolidating and expanding its services and programmes to become one of the leading players in content production and distribution. We aim to utilise the global nature of our business and diversity and size of our product range to develop and improve our relationships with leading broadcasters across the industry, including IPTV and mobile operators.
Zodiak consistently adopts a proactive attitude towards new media and new platforms and is dedicated to ensuring the highest levels of content creation by encouraging internal creativity and investing in new talent and new ideas.
