C21Media has announced the launch of Content Europe, a new three-day market, conference, and screenings event taking place in Lisbon from April 21–23, 2026.
Positioned as a cost-effective three-day market, conference, and screenings event, Content Europe is designed to serve as a hub for sales and acquisitions in the global television business. It will be supported by a two-track conference programme: the Future Formats Forum and The Content Acquisitions Summit. Both these tracks will be focused on uncovering content trends, buyer priorities, and sales and coproduction opportunities across channels and platforms worldwide.
C21 editor-in-chief & managing director David Jenkinson said: “Scores of companies have told us there is a need for a traditional sales and acquisitions market in April following the closure of MipTV. Content Europe will be a cost-effective response to that demand, providing affordable exhibition and screenings facilities for distributors who would like to connect with buyers from all over the world.”
“We will be bringing the world’s key buyers to the event free of charge, and will also engage with them through a series of Buyer Briefings, which put their acquisitions and coproduction requirements in perspective.”
Content Europe will lead on formats, putting this sector front and foremost in the conference agenda. The Content Europe Marketplace will, however, be designed to accommodate all genres of programming to connect buyers with sellers.
