Indian media group targets UAE investors to raise $67m
The fund will invest in content creators, OTT platforms, gaming and entertainment start-ups.
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The fund will invest in content creators, OTT platforms, gaming and entertainment start-ups.
Livestreamed June 14 -15, the virtual BroadcastPro Tech Summit is set to be the critical forum for understanding the technologies and trends transforming the industry’s commercial future.
The upgrade benefits operators by enabling more flexibility when managing their interconnections while delivering cost-effective solutions.
He was only eight when he first took apart a phone and put it back together again. A passionate engineer equally comfortable in both IT and broadcast ecosystems, regional veteran ...
Ateme's Titan headend will provide Du’s DTH platform with 28 bouquets based on 220 main channels and 220 backup channels to better serve its IPTV platform and affiliates.
Covid-19 brought the world to a standstill and forced people to stay at home, resulting in an accelerated demand for online entertainment. The OTT Leaders’ Panel brought together panellists who ...
Post release of the report, Netflix shares marked a 12.4% jump in value in after-hours trading.
Season one of the show is now available exclusively on the Viu platform.
There will be around 2bn active subscriptions to on-demand video services in 2025, according to a recent report by Juniper Research, an analyst house for the global communications sector. This corresponds to ...
As the streaming market becomes more crowded and audiences flit between services, we will likely see combinations of both subscription and ad-supported models, says Ariff Sidi of Verizon Media.
OTT and pay-TV companies are reported to have lost around $9.1bn in revenue due to piracy and account sharing in 2019 alone. Experts convened for a virtual meet last month ...
With a plethora of streaming services vying for eyeballs, panellists at the MENA OTT Conference debated on some core issues that could potentially make or break a streaming service.
The MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Virtual Week, hosted by BroadcastPro ME last month, rounded up some of the stakeholders to explore how the narrative for OTT has evolved in recent ...
The film stars British-Kenyan actor, Charles Mmene and Hollywood star Hakeem Kae-Kazim.
CABSAT.Virtual to showcase complete content journey and satellite transformation from November 9-10
The presentations and panel discussions of the MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference, which took place from November 3-5, 2020, will soon be available to watch on our website.
The ongoing MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference will take place virtually until November 5, 2020.
The MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference will be streamed live as a webinar from November 3-5, 2020.
Senior executives from StarzPlay, OSN, Viu, ItWorksMe, Bitmovin, Castlabs, ATEME, Nagra, Brightcove, Shure, Synamedia, FACT and MUSO among others will speak at the conference.
The service will stop working on December 1, 2020.
The series stars 'Game of Thrones' English actress Charlotte Hope and Irish actor Ruairi O’Connor.
The OTT platform is set to launch in 2021 and will be available in French, English and Portuguese.
Executive produced by Noah Hawley and starring Chris Rock, the first two episodes of the series will be available to watch on September 28.
Orange Fiber 1000Mbps Extreme subscribers can get an OSN Streaming subscription for no extra cost.
Designed to offer a similar service to IMDB in the MENA region, Shashah aims to become a comprehensive entertainment guide in both Arabic and English.
Sky News Arabia claims to be the first TV broadcaster in the region to have a live 24/7 channel output in mobile-friendly vertical mode.
The new platform aims to provide FOX News Channel and FOX Business programming to 20 countries by early 2021.
From the $16bn additional OTT revenues in 2019, SVOD contributed $12bn.
Aquila On-Demand enables the encode, transformation, processing, packaging and delivery of file-based video content, addressing VOD applications.
The channel was made available from July 24 and will continue to stream until the end of August.
The show, which was filmed in Syria and directed by Mohamad Abdulaziz, is set to premiere exclusively on OSN.
The Imagen findings, which polled 1,000 consumers, also highlighted that 24% of people believe that traditional TV will eventually cease to exist.
The Disney film will be streamed both in English and Arabic on OSN Movies First and OSN’s streaming app.
With Synamedia’s cloud DVR solution, viewers can record programmes on the cloud and watch them on any of their devices.
It is reported to be the first time Netflix has praised a competitor in a letter to shareholders, which makes it quite significant.
The company’s revenue grew 25% year-on-year while quarterly operating income exceeded $1bn.
The new service bundles the existing Showmax entertainment service with music channels, news, and live sport streaming from SuperSport.
The partnership has been developed to provide premium and exclusive entertainment to travellers on their journey through Dubai airports.
M2A Connect will acquire, route and distribute Formula 1’s premium live video feeds to OTT and broadcast partners globally.
OSN will stream the production exclusively in the region as part of the Disney+ Originals partnership agreement.
The Indian version will be the eighth international remake following versions in Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, the Middle East, Mexico, Scandinavia and the Czech Republic.
The new service, which is available in five languages, offers an array of both international and regional content.
The new service will be available worldwide via the club website and app, for all devices in Catalan, Spanish and English.
The Netflix original will start streaming from June 11.
OurTV is a hybrid platform that offers free-to-view channels with no monthly subscription apart from a one-time payment for the decoder.
“To successfully own a share of the OTT pie today, companies need to deliver consumers the content they want, on their preferred device,” says Rick Cordeiro.
Users can find the Shahid app either via the launcher bar (home screen) or download it through Google Play.
The new platform will include four channels which will stream various shows and films throughout the day.
Just 15 months after taking the helm at OSN, CEO Patrick Tillieux has not just steered the media company into a more positive direction, he has also helped renew market ...
Synamedia will leverage Google Kubernetes Engine to enable customers to scale as they grow with an end-to-end automation pipeline that can ramp up media processing workflows in minutes.
Verizon Media will be discussing these new platform capabilities in more depth during its OTT Innovation Showcase on May 7.
“By leveraging AI, algorithms can be trained to learn what matters and how changes in these fingerprint timelines are connected to the content individual viewers enjoy,” says Marcus Bergström.
The short-form series titled ‘Balcony Stories’ will premiere on April 22 on Paramount Channel and Comedy Central across the Middle East.
NetUP will demonstrate the NetUP Stream Processor, the company’s third generation of streaming content processing solutions.
According to data shared by the OTT service, the platform’s pan-Asian offering has helped achieve unprecedented growth in 2019.
Under the partnership, Vianeos has revamped the Batelco TV (IPTV and OTT) services by creating and developing new user experience and interface.
The new service would include live match coverage and presumably ‘classic matches’ from the League’s 30-year history.
The ongoing shift to OTT is creating value for companies throughout the video value chain, including pay-TV operators, the report said.
"Hakkunde" is a drama-comedy that tells the tale of a graduate who has been job-hunting for over four years.
The rise in OTT platforms and IP delivery has diminished the relevance of legacy CAS technology, which was optimised for one-way broadcast networks. The future lies in solutions that secure ...
