ADV and the NA Anime Industry

[Mr March]

ANN (AnimeNewsNetwork) posted a link to an article on the Forbes website. The article is about ADV Films and features some very interesting numbers about the anime industry in North America. Naturally it focuses on ADV, but I know lots of members here are always wondering how much business anime does here in the west and how much it's growing.

http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2004/0906/178.html

Enjoy.

[Myriad]

Great find!

[Nightbat]

feeding a 24-hour network could be challenging for ADV. "It's going to be hard for them to find that critical density of shows," he says. "That's a lot of hours, even if they've got every anime movie out there."

That's why ADV has begun making its own content

...sometimes I wonder...