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As the Middle East news scene heats up, Sky News Arabia is adopting a data-driven approach to enhance its content and reach a broader audience. In an exclusive interview with ...
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As the Middle East news scene heats up, Sky News Arabia is adopting a data-driven approach to enhance its content and reach a broader audience. In an exclusive interview with ...
The broadcast industry is undergoing a massive transformation marked by a shift from traditional television and radio to digital media and online streaming platforms. Amidst the continuous influx of new ...
How do broadcasters offset the stratospheric ticket cost of sporting rights? Can sports subscribers be converted into entertainment consumers? And how can value leaks be plugged? A panel of MENA ...
Olebe will report to Tara Walpert Levy, YouTube’s VP of Americas, who oversees content partnerships.
Meta has also launched a training and business resource centres and a MetaBoost programme to help businesses grow.
The social network has also introduced new ways for video-makers to create and earn money with Reels.
Akkad previously served as Director of Media Partnerships for News in Growth Markets at Meta.
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has been selected to deploy the new branches.
By the end of this month, anyone running ads on Facebook or Instagram about politics in Iraq will have to go through an authorisation process.
The company attributed the ad revenue growth to a 47% increase in the average price per ad.
The move brings an end to Facebooks efforts to deliver internet connectivity to remote areas via its own satellites.
The Digital Journalism Course aims to support journalists across English-speaking countries to build a strong foundation in digital reporting and editing.
Eutelsat and Facebook have previously conducted pilots in rural and underserved areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo to offer affordable internet access to customers on a pre-paid basis.
Facebook is introducing Live Audio Rooms as part of a series of new audio experiences on their platform.
UTURN and Facebook will collaborate and study user behaviour closely to deliver more tailored content throughout the year.
With dynamic ads for streaming, advertisers can automatically generate ads for every title, without having to configure individual ads.
The digital series, which will feature talks and live performances from emerging artists, musicians and poets, will start airing from October 2.
Newly adapted digital strategy in light of Covid-19 led to more followers on Fatafeat’s digital platforms.
Dubbed as 2Africa, the 37,000km-long-cable around the continent is expected to bring better connectivity to 1.3bn Africans.
The fund now has managed to secure a portfolio of nearly $10bn in US-listed stocks.
Senior market executives and analysts from various facets of the media industry share their insights with BroadcastPro ME.
The first phase of the project includes the installation of 50 new WiFi satellite hotspots in Brazil, powered by Facebook Connectivitys Express WiFi platform.
Videos have been made from the first day of Ramadan on each partner’s Facebook pages, and are discoverable under the handle #RamadanTogether.
Both companies hope to accelerate India’s digital transformation with this new collaboration.
SNA has partnered with social media giant Facebook to launch a fact-checking show ‘Corona Question and Answer’, which will air daily at 7 pm local time.
Athena satellite will be sent to space for testing purposes so that future satellites can be launched more easily.
Derya Matras has spent most of her career in emerging markets and was previously the Facebook Country Director for Turkey.
The AR platform works with creators to develop different types of filters to enhance their profiles or action on social media.
Working together to find a common, shared approach to data could have amazing benefits.
Blackbird is available to anyone with a browser, anywhere in the world, even with very low bandwidth.
According to Ampere, Netflix overtook Facebook as the second most viewed online video service in the US and Europe in Q3 2017 and has extended its lead since.
Videon, a streaming product developer, has introduced its VersaStreamer product line. VersaStreamer eliminates a key workflow barrier by enabling simultaneous output of three RTMP streams. With this capability, plus support ...
LaLiga has announced that all matches from its second division, LaLiga 1|2|3, will now be available for free via YouTube to millions of consumers worldwide.Starting today, the LaLiga YouTube channel ...
With per capita consumption of social media across the MENA among the highest in the globe, the second panel discussion on OTT and social media made for compelling listening at ...
Ramez T Shehadi.Facebook has appointed Ramez Shehadi as its new managing director in the MENA region. In his new position, Shehadi will lead the commercial growth ...
Fox Networks Group in Africa has announced an agreement with Facebook that will see Fox Sports Africa Boxing series events livestreamed globally via Facebook Watch.The stream will be available via ...
Facebook is partnering with MTV Studios to re-launch The Real World on its Watch tab. The news was announced at the trade show MIPCOM in Cannes. The show will span ...
Facebook will be the official home for all LaLiga Santander matches in the Indian subcontinent according to a new deal between the two entities. This is LaLigas first broadcast agreement ...
Qualcomm Incorporated through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Facebook have announced they are working together to deliver high-speed internet connectivity with Facebooks Terragraph technology through the development of a ...
From left: Pulse 95 Radio Presenter Sara Al Madani with Brittany Kaiser, former Director at Cambridge AnalyticaIn a recent interview on Sharjahs first English language radio ...
Fares Akkad, Head of Media Partnerships for Facebook and Instagram, Middle East, Africa and Turkey.As traditional broadcasters scramble to reinvent themselves to a younger audience, Facebook ...
Arab Advisors Groups new research has revealed high levels of adoption of social media platforms by 34 free-to-air satellite channels that were studied, in line with the increasing levels of ...
Facebook Inc and Universal Music Group have announced a global agreement that will enable users to upload videos featuring music from Universals library across the social media network as well as ...
Marking a five-year milestone in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Facebook has opened the doors to its brand new regional headquarters in Dubai.The 20,000-sq-ft space features an open ...
The Kick Off with Coral launched recently on YouTube Live to more than 500K views, with digitally enhanced football match analysis powered by Reality Check Systems (RCS) LaunchPad touchscreen sports ...
Mandatory Credit: Photo by GIAN EHRENZELLER/EPA/REX/Shutterstock (7916860az)The facebook logo inside the facebook Chalet on the sideline of the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, ...
The social network headed by Mark Zuckerberg says that it plans to launch shows specifically for Facebook's mobile-first video environment.Facebook is preparing to monetise its video ...
Stockholm-based media-tech company Newstag has announced plans to launch a new experience specially designed for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) later this year. Newstag Arabic will be available ...
The social network headed by Mark Zuckerberg says that it plans to launch shows specifically for Facebook's mobile-first video environment.In its quest to create a robust ...
Facebook is focusing more on developing video inventory and content this year. As part of its video strategy the company has unveiled a new video app for TV.With the upgraded ...
Verizon is buying Yahoo's core internet business for $4.83bn in cash.The US telecoms giant bought AOL last year. Now it will add Yahoos consumer services search, news, finance, sports, video, email ...
Each year during the holy month of Ramadan a huge surge in TV viewership, particularly, for Arabic dramas, is observed. However, according to Meltwater, a global media intelligence firm, an ...
YouTube is launching live streaming for 360-degree videos. The service will kick off with California's Coachella music and arts festival being broadcast in the new format.The Google-owned company will expand its 360 video ...
New research from the Arab Advisors Group has revealed that by June 2014, National Geographic Abu Dhabi took the lead in the number of Facebook likes, while MBC Group had ...
Facebook has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the ad technology firm LiveRail. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.California-based LiveRail helps media companies sell video ads programmatically. ...
TECOM Media Cluster hosted a panel discussion in Dubai, as part of the Thought Incubator Series, a debate centred on the rapid shift in new platforms and creative approaches. The ...
