It has undoubtedly been a year where Hollywood’s major players spent good money bringing content to our screens. Streaming content spend alone for 2021 sits at around $250 billion with companies like WarnerMedia, Disney and Netflix spending an estimated $20 billion, $24.5 billion and $17 billion respectively.

MIPAD attributes this huge spending to the growing influx of new players in the streaming space saying, “Competition is definitely a significant factor in the rising spend across direct-to-consumer entertainment and there are currently no limits in sight on just how much the key players are willing to spend to get the majority share of the market”.

As the 2021 UN International Year of the Creative Economy comes to an end, MIPAD recognizes the excellence of the top 21 People of African Descent who have contributed to the production, acquisition and distribution of premium content. Here they are;-

Congratulations to each of them!!