About FICOD

The third edition of the International Forum on Digital Content will take place on November 17th, 18th and 19th at the Juan Carlos I Convention Center in Madrid. It was established in 2007 as part of the series of measures approved by the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce under the Avanza Plan to develop the Information Society and to bring Spain in line with Europe and provide the Autonomous Regions with common direction. Its primary objective is to promote the products and services of the digital content industry, seek synergies and exchange experiences, with a special focus on the Spanish language markets. The digital content sector in Spain saw turnover of 4.982 million Euros in 2008, which is 15.8% more than in 2007. This means 82% growth for the 2003-2008 period. It is made up of companies that do business in digital audiovisual services, music, film and digital video, interactive entertainment software, websites and digital publications. Digital content is included in the Global Content Sector, which invoiced a total of 15.858 million Euros in 2008. The importance of the digital content sector is reflected in the percentage this sector occupies within the content sector; in 2003, Digital Content turnover amounted to 20% of the total turnover of the Content Sector, and this figure was 31% in 2008, meaning an increase of 11 percentage points during this period. It is an industry that includes more than 455 million Spanish speakers and around 104 million Internet users throughout the world.