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Sports and children’s programming dominated the YouTube TV landscape in 2024.
At IBC, Broadpeak will showcase its nanoCDN multicast ABR solution for scalable video streaming.
Similarly, within the audio industry, younger generations are set to boost the consumption of streaming music, as well as podcasts.
To help companies capitalise on the sudden growth in video, JW surveyed 221 companies including publishers, broadcasters, online learning creators, and other producers of digital video content to understand their ...
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 ...
The company will enable up to 50% bandwidth reduction for 90 days through Harmonic EyeQ.
Broadcast services provider and integrator Prolane, which has offices in Lebanon and Dubai, has developed a platform called Streamlane together with Open Broadcast Systems, based on the RIST protocol. In ...
The company has expressed interest in associated technical expertise at Xumo for its upcoming streaming service Peacock.
Ahead of launching its streaming service, Disney has banned ads from Netflix on all of its TV platforms and pulled out its content from the platform.
Synamedia’s portfolio of solutions will reportedly help customers make more intelligent use of virtualisation and cloud, as well as smooth service providers’ infrastructure transformation journey to IP.
The WAVO online streaming platform is supported by OSN, which showcases rich content including live TV, shows on demand, hit movies and the most-talked about series in English and Arabic ...
The explosion of over-the-top (OTT) and user-generated digital video content in the current multi-screen environment is creating strong demand for monetisation technologies among both content owners and advertisers, according to Frost & Sullivans recent ...
Viu, a pan-regional OTT video service from PCCW Media Group, has signed a content agreement with Workpoint, Thailand-based entertainment content provider, enabling Viu viewers to access more than 1,500 episodes ...
Viacom International Media Networks is expanding its digital footprint across Europe and Africa. The media company has hannounced new distributions deals with key multiplatform players abroad. New partnerships include the launch ...
Twitter has announced the launch of a two-part Arabic series; #YallaGoal Asian Cup, sponsored by Dubais Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) , and produced by football news brand ...
Online users who viewed games videos were more likely to subscribe to a greater number of SVOD (Streaming Video-on-Demand) services than the average user; around six SVOD services, compared to ...
Vitec, a provider of video encoding and streaming solutions, has acquired Telairity, a provider of H.264 encoding workflow solutions to broadcasters worldwide.Commenting on the acquisition, Mark D'Addio, Vitec's senior Vice ...
From left: Onur Alp Aydin, Business Development Manager with Ahmed Nureni, Director, Business Development, Qanawat.With programmatic TV as represented by VOD and YouTube poised to account ...
Virgin Mobile, the second brand under the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has teamed up with Netflix to provide customers three months subscription with Netflix, at no extra fee.The offer ...
SVOD platform, iflix, has announced a significant expansion of its linear channel offering bringing the tally of licensed channels on iflix to 50 currently available and on track to reach ...
James Farrell.James Farrell has been appointed to the newly created role of head of international originals for Amazon Studios, effective immediately.Farrell will lead the international original ...
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 ...
Fahad Al Hassawi, Deputy CEO, EITC Telco Services.du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has signed a distribution agreement with Prime Video to offer du ...
Video was found to be almost 58% of the total downstream volume of traffic on the internet as per the 1H 2018 Global Internet Phenomena Report by network intelligence solutions provider, ...
TwitterFronts event in Singapore on 11 September.Social media platform Twitter has unveiled 50 new and expanded premium video content collaborations, including a dozen in India, to ...
Twitters live-streaming service Periscope will be blocked during Turkeys top football league matches, an Istanbul court has said in a landmark ruling. The court has approved a request from satellite broadcaster ...
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 ...
Last year's winners at the training camp.For the third year, YouTube will organise the YouTube NextUp contest aimed at discovering Arab content creators across the MENA ...
Screenshot of the channel's YouTube platform.Amman-based Roya TV network reported an 82% increase in its online viewership by the end of Ramadan which translates to a ...
du customers (Smart Plan, Emirati Plan) will receive a a 12-month free subscription to the Anghami Plus platform and a six-month free Wavo subscription as part of a new offer. ...
Abe Shady Aboul Naga, a senior digital media executive in the regional media industry, has joined the regional leadership team at Vuclip, a PCCW Media company. Viu, from Vuclip and ...
Saudi Arabia-based comedian Ibraheem Alkhairallah.Saudi Arabia-based comedians Ibraheem Alkhairallah and Moayad Alnefaie, join fellow Arab performers Adi Khalefa (Palestine) and Rawsan Hallak (Jordan), as part of Netflix's ...
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: ...
Mackenzie Logan, Business Development Manager of Streamroot.io.Walking through the busy halls of BroadcastAsia 2018, it was heartening to note the number of companies focused on the ...
Ahmad Bsat, Regional sales manager ME.IP video and digital signage technologies' provider, Exterity, has expanded its team in the Middle East.Following the promotion of Eleuterio Fernandes ...
Video-on-demand service Viu has announced its third original for the region, Wahid:Wahid, a satirical show about the upcoming FIFA World Cup championship.The show highlights the nuances from the World Cup ...
From left: Kinda Ibrahim, Director Media Partnerships, MENA, Twitter with Bahaa Moussalli, Co-founder and CMO of STEP Group.Entertainment platform for Arab millennials, YallaFeed and Twitter have ...
Hob El Tayebin is Viu's first-ever Saudi OTT original.Vuclip has announced the premiere of eight shows exclusively for Ramadan on its OTT service Viu. These shows ...
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 ...
Executives from Intigral and Viva at the signing.Kuwait-based telecom operator, VIVA has signed a strategic partnership with Intigral for JawwyTV, the new mobile application that offers ...
YallaFeed and Twitter have launched the first live show in the MENA region, #HawanahZein, on the social media platform. The biweekly evening show will focus on whats happening in the ...
Eurosport has teamed up with cloud-based video specialist Grabyo to amplify its distribution of live streams and real-time highlights across social platforms.The partnership has included the use of Grabyo services ...
Cary Fukunagas series Maniac.Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix, has announced developments in content from EMEA at the See Whats Next Netflix event in Rome.A new ...
At the launch of Asli within the OSN studios in Dubai Media City.OSN's Asli will debut at the pop culture festival Comic Con to be held ...
OSN has extended its partnership with Sony Pictures Networks (SPN) enabling OSN Pehla customers access to Sony Entertainment Television, Sony MAX, Sony MIX and Sony SAB TV.As part of the ...
Carlos Tibi, CEO and Founder IcflixDubai-based Icflix has deployed the KeyOS MultiKey DRM Service for their streaming and VOD platform. Icflix provides Hollywood, Bollywood and Jazzwood ...
Lebanese comedian and actor Adel KaramNetflix has announced that the first local production out of Middle East, Adel Karam: Live from Beirut comedy special will launch on Thursday, March ...
With an estimated 40 hours of content to be made online in season one, OSN's Asli went live on February 6, 2018, from the custom-built studio within the OSN offices ...
Three in ten consumers say they stream video content more than they did a year ago in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, according to new research from YouGov Omnibus.The study based ...
(l to r) Sanjay Das, Chief Works Officer with Pegah Ghaemi, Creative Head and Filmmaker at My Film Works.My Film Works, an online cinema platform for ...
Wochit, the social video creation platform has announced the appointment of Colm Curneen, as the companys Director Of Business Development.Curneen, who is a media industry veteran with more than 15 years ...
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 ...
Yahoo has bought video streaming startup RayV. The financial terms of the deal, however, were not disclosed.Yahoo is focusing on ramping up its offerings for streaming video live or on ...
YRfree Technologies, a mobile video streaming technology specialist, has appointed Mantech Computer Services, Bahrain, as their distribution partner for the GCC region.Mantech, the longest established computer company in Bahrain, has ...
