A total of 13,815 individual screenings were carried out by programme buyers, a 15 per cent increase compared with 12,052 last year. Previously, the highest number of screenings took place at Mipcom Junior 2000 with 12,572 viewings.

Sellers presented 738 programmes this year (695 last year, +6 per cent) including 339 titles presented for the first time ever (319 last year, +6 per cent).

383 companies registered at the screenings (364 last year, +5.22 per cent), including 180 seller companies (166 last year, +8 per cent) and 193 buyer companies (184 last year, +5 per cent) from 53 countries (same last year). US attendance grew by 41.3 per cent with 65 companies (46
last year), Canada by 31 per cent with 38 companies (29) and Germany by 25 per cent with 30 companies (24). All in all, 704 participants attended the event (685 last year, +2.77 per cent).

Mipcom Junior 2003’s most screened titles included: Creepschool, presented by Alphanim (France), EM. TV & Merchandising (Germany) and Happy Life Animation (Sweden) with 108 screenings; Tutenstein, brought by Buena Vista International Television (UK) and Porchlight Entertainment (USA) – 96 screenings; and My Goldfish is Evil from Sardine Productions (Canada) – 83 screenings. The additional numbers for the top 30 most screened programmes are listed below, all of which were animation.