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DICM 2024 facilitated more than 2,500 B2B meetings, showcasing the latest trends, opportunities, and innovations in the media and entertainment sector.
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DICM 2024 facilitated more than 2,500 B2B meetings, showcasing the latest trends, opportunities, and innovations in the media and entertainment sector.
In conversation with BroadcastProME, StarzPlay CEO Maaz Sheikh on the platform's first Original and Executive Producer Kate Harwood on the making of Baghdad Central.
The report outlines consumer promotions delivered by the video-on-demand service which has reportedly helped attract new customers and retain market share.
Hans Massart, Market Director Broadcast, Newtec. The rise of OTT services in MENA brings with it numerous challenges but efficient satellite distribution can guarantee quality transmission ...
The report stated that Starz Play remains the main competitor for Netflix in the Middle East with its one million subscribers.
The AWS Summit in Dubai saw many panels with discussions around creating successful purpose-driven businesses journeys and how these businesses are preparing for their next phase of growth and scaling ...
Starz Play and VOX Cinemas are screening the Japanese anime movie based on a Manga comic, which is also available on Starz Play for regional subscribers.
Starz Play has signed and partnered with Zain as its first launch partner. Zain has over 15 million customers and is the largest operator today in Iraq.
Besides reaching a million subscribers, Starz Play also registered a 300% year-on-year growth for the subscription-based VOD service.
Vijaya Cherian, Editorial Director, BroadcastPro ME.Content rating is a tricky subject and most of us may have varying opinions on whom ratings should rest with. Should ...
The MENA region's subscription VOD (SVOD) revenues will increase from US$1.51bn in 2018 to $2.13bn by 2024, according to the latest OTT TV and Video forecasts for the MENA region ...
Maaz Sheikh, CEO of Starz Play and Khaled Benchouche, SVP Programming and Acquisitions at the premiere of Vikings Season 5B at Vox Cinemas, Dubai.Streaming service Starz ...
From lack of regulations on foreign content to the decline in advertising revenues, CEOs at the 2018 ASBU BroadcastPro Summit offered candid insights on steering their organisations through turbulent times.The ...
TV series Vikings returns to MENA-based SVOD platform Starz Play. The release stated that the latest season of Vikings will be available exclusively across the MENA region on Starz Play, with ...
Maaz Sheikh, CEO and Co-founder of Starz Play.The Saudi Arabian telecommunications services company, Mobily and the video on-demand service Starz Play have signed a new method-of-payment ...
Middle East-based SVOD platform, Starz Play, has announced that it will air Season 12 of The Big Bang Theory starting on Tuesday 25 September with new episodes airing weekly. The ...
Starz, a Lionsgate company has announced that the Starz Original crime-drama series Power created by Courtney A. Kemp will feature Rapper, Songwriter and Producer, Kendrick Lamar in a guest role ...
The MENA region, including Turkey, will have 20.8m SVOD subscribers by 2023, up from 5.22m at the end of last year, according to Digital TV Research, in a report titled: ...
Power is a drama that straddles the glamorous Manhattan lifestyles of the rich and infamous and the underworld of the international drug trade.Middle East based SVOD ...
From left: Hamoud Al Rumayan, CEO of Intigral with Maaz Sheikh, CEO of Starz Play at the signing of the three-year deal.SVOD service provider Starz Play has ...
More than 120 professionals gathered together for the inaugural edition of the MENA Anti-Piracy conference, hosted by BroadcastPro ME.The inaugural Anti-Piracy Conference held on May 2, ...
Maaz Sheikh, CEO of Starz Play.OTT service provider Starz Play is the leading service provider in the region, holding 26% of the market share compared to ...
From left: Mohammed Jalal, CEO of the United Electronics Company eXtra and Maaz Sheikh, CEO and co-founder of Starz Play.Starz Play and United Electronics Company (eXtra) ...
Starz Play will air Billions Season 3 on Sunday March 25th at the same time as the show premieres in the US.The series centres around the rivalry between federal prosecutor ...
(l to r) Maaz Sheikh, CEO of Starz Play with Humaid Sahoo, CEO of E-Vision.Content aggregator and subsidiary of Etisalat, E-Vision, and OTT platform Starz Play, have ...
Mackenzie Crook (as Veran) & David Morrissey (as Aulus) in Britannia.British historical drama, Britannia, will premiere on Starz Play on Friday, January 19th 2018 , one week before ...
The panel discussion on internet video at the annual ASBU BroadcastPro ME Selevision Summit 2017 focused on profitability, partnerships, premium content and the scourge of piracy.Since the pre-YouTube era of ...
Maaz Sheikh (l), CEO of Starz Play, inks the deal with Orange Egypt.Starz Play has announced a partnership with Orange Egypt that gives the telcos customers ...
(From left) Khaled Benchouche and Saleem Bhatti, Starz Play.In the last two years, the Starz Play team has been working towards shedding its software fat and ...
Maaz Sheikh, CEO of Starz Play.Starz Play has revealed that it has raised additional funding in 2017 although it hasnt divulged the amount it has secured recently. ...
Starz Play has unveiled its new summer season viewing schedule with a number of old-favourites and new shows, exclusive to the SVOD service.A number of shows will debut this summer at ...
Starz Play has announced its partnership with Ooredoo Algeria. The agreement, which will see the SVOD service being provided to Ooredoo Algeria customers for the first time, launched during the holy ...
The BroadcastPro ME roundtable with Verimatrix was held on the first day of CABSAT 2017.BroadcastPro ME recently hosted a roundtable discussion in association with video security ...
Starz Play will now offer content from NBCUniversal. Following a recent deal signed between the streaming company and the Hollywood studio, MENA subscribers to Starz Play will have a range of ...
Ooredoo has teamed up with Starz Play to provide on-demand access to more than 6,000 hours of the latest series and blockbuster movies on its app Ooredoo TV Go for ...
Saleem Bhatti.User experience is critical for VOD services. To ensure a smooth video experience for our subscribers, we use a load balancer that directs traffic to ...
Starz Play Arabia has signed a multi-year agreement with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution. The deal with one of the worlds largest distributors of feature films, television programmes and animation ...
Starz Play has entered an exclusive deal with Sonar Entertainment to stream Taboo, the forthcoming British drama television series.The eight-episode drama was created by Steven Knight, the Oscar-nominated writer of ...
OTT players discuss the disruption brought about by online platforms and how to monetise them. They also look at the challenges faced by digital media in the MENA regionThe second ...
Starz Play has announced that its catalogue of 4K content now includes Starz original series, Power and The Girlfriend Experience. The full seasons of the two TV series which are licensed on ...
Starz Play has secured a new multi-million dollar funding investment from existing investors SEQ Capital Partners and new investors Delta Partners Capital. The latter is an emerging market centric advisory ...
Starz Play has teamed up with mobile operator STC to offer digital film and television content to its customers across Saudi Arabia.STC subscribers can use pre-paid credit, or charge their ...
Top Gear films segments in the UAE.STARZ Play has entered into a partnership with BBC Worldwide. As part of this agreement, STARZ Play has acquired the exclusive ...
By Maaz Sheikh, CEO of STARZ Play.Watching TV has traditionally been a family experience whereby everyone sits in front of the television waiting for their favourite movie or show to broadcast ...
Early this year, streaming service Netflix was made available in 130 new territories around the world, including the UAE and the MENA countries. BroadcastPro ME asks industry experts what this means ...
Starz Play Arabia will now be available in Tunisia through Ooredoo.The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service offers a range of high definition (HD) premium Western content, with many TV series aired ...
A still from the series Outlander.STARZ PLAY Arabia has announced its latest content offering for December 2015. The new content includes a host of blockbuster Hollywood ...
Starz Play Arabia uses thePlatform's cloud-based mpx video publishing system to offer direct-to-consumer multi-platform subscription video service for the MENA.thePlatform mpx provides workflow management of video ingest; metadata management; subscriber management ...
Bahraini telco VIVA has introduced Starz Play Arabia to its value added services offering HD quality entertainment. Starz Play Arabia gives VIVA subscribers access to blockbuster Hollywood movies, series and ...
Maaz Sheikh.Streaming service Starz Play has rolled out prepaid subscription cards in the UAE with plans to gradually introduce them in Saudi Arabia and other MENA ...
Ooredoo has announced an exclusive multi-year deal with OTT video streaming service STARZ Play.STARZ Play is a multi-screen video on-demand service which offers premium Hollywood TV series, movies and kids ...
Maaz Sheikh.Starz Play has agreed a multi-year licensing agreement with American television studio CBS Studios International for exclusive digital rights to bring premium content from Showtime ...
A new report from Arab Advisors Group has revealed that IPTV is in its initial stage of penetration in the Arab World, and is still developing. Fourteen service providers in ...
Maaz Sheikh.American streaming service Starz Play launched in the Middle East last month, offering a raft of Hollywood premium content to regional customers. BroadcastPro ME speaks ...
Maaz Sheikh.STARZ Play announced today the launch of its new STARZ Play service, a premium online video offering that provides the best and latest US blockbuster ...
