08/27/2026
🌐IQSTEL Inc. (NASDAQ: IQST) today announced that its subsidiary IQSTEL Digital (iqsteldigital.com) has entered into a strategic distribution partnership with Idilio tv Micronovelas (idilio.tv/en), a Colombian mobile entertainment platform specializing in short-form vertical microdramas.
The partnership pairs IDILIO TV’s content library, audience traction, and mobile technology with IQSTEL’s telecommunications infrastructure and mobile-operator relationships, with the objective of building a recurring-revenue digital entertainment business serving Spanish-speaking audiences worldwide.
📌Why This Partnership, and Why Now
🔹Short-form vertical drama is among the fastest-growing categories in digital entertainment, generating approximately $11 billion in global revenue in 2024, growing 35% that year. Chinese-language platforms account for 83% of that revenue, leaving Spanish-language content — addressing 630 million speakers worldwide — underserved.
🔹IDILIO TV serves that gap with original Latin American content. IQSTEL brings the distribution layer: commercial relationships with more than 600 telecom operators across 24 countries, and the billing and integration infrastructure required to place a consumer digital service inside a mobile operator’s subscriber offering.
📌How the Distribution Model Works
🔹Direct-carrier billing, under which a subscriber’s charges appear on a mobile bill, removing the payment-card friction that limits digital subscription adoption in Latin American and emerging markets.
🔹Standalone and bundled subscriptions, in which operators package the service with existing data or entertainment plans as a differentiator.
This model is designed to generate revenue monthly for as long as subscribers remain active. Each new mobile-operator agreement provides access to an additional subscriber base, supporting ongoing content and geographic expansion.
📌An Operating Platform with Institutional Backing
IDILIO TV has scaled rapidly, achieving:
🔹More than 2 million downloads.
🔹Distribution across more than 120 countries and 400,000 social-media followers.
🔹A catalog of 49+ original series and 2,450+ short-form episodes.
🔹Production of two to four new series per month.
In June 2026, IDILIO TV announced the close of a $5 million seed financing led by a16z Speedrun, the Andreessen Horowitz accelerator focused on media and entertainment, with participation from Goodwater Capital, WndrCo — the investment firm co-founded by media executive Jeffrey Katzenberg — and David Vélez, founder of Nubank, investing individually.
📌IDILIO TV was co-founded by CEO Gabriela Tafur and CTO Esteban Ramírez.
🔗Read the full press release at: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iqst---iqstel-partners-with-idilio-tv-to-reach-a-potential-global-audience-of-630-million-spanish-speakers-and-build-a-multimillion-dollar-digital-entertainment-business-302861374.html