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Harmonic's VOS360 Media SaaS to empower TOD with low-latency live sports streaming and enhanced video quality.
How do broadcasters chart a steady course as turbulence and disruption become the new normal? Streaming, in particular, has upended broadcast business models in the region. In a special CEO ...
By making linear channels available alongside VOD, broadcasters are giving viewers the best of both worlds.
StarzPlay has evolved over the years from being solely an OTT player in the MENA market to offering its robust tech platform to telcos and studios, both locally and globally. ...
The solution enabled savings up to 70% on bandwidth and CDN storage, while maintaining the video quality.
The Switch TV multiscreen service features free-to-air and premium live TV channels, catch-up and on-demand, with Arabic, Asian and Western TV channels.
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With the new service, users can stream, download, and surf the internet without data restrictions.
The onus is increasingly falling on broadcasters to provide a memorable experience for viewers at home, using the latest technologies to facilitate the highest quality real-time streams.
Jawwy TV will be launching several new TVOD movie options available for rent starting from June.
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Shofha is also planning to launch its Smart TV app later this year.
The new service bundles the existing Showmax entertainment service with music channels, news, and live sport streaming from SuperSport.
The platform will be available from today and will have video content generated by the company.
Users can find the Shahid app either via the launcher bar (home screen) or download it through Google Play.
Yebo features educative, inspiring and entertaining narratives about Africans, their overcoming spirit and aspirations for the future.
To avail the free month of Shahid VIP, users must sign up between March 20 and April 5 in the Middle East region.
"Chicago Street" goes back and forth between two different time periods reflecting the pros and cons of Syrian society via a love story.
According to the updated agreement, four channels of SPI/FilmBox along with access to select VOD content will be available for another two years on D-Smart’s OTT platform, D-Smart GO.
SuperTV will also stream these live channels plus offer them through video-on-demand platforms in partnership with mobile network operators throughout Africa.
YuppTV came quietly onto the MENA scene two years ago, and has gone from strength to strength under the leadership of Zahra Zayat, VP and Head of MENA.
The report outlines consumer promotions delivered by the video-on-demand service which has reportedly helped attract new customers and retain market share.
Interra Systems will demonstrate its cutting-edge content quality control (QC), monitoring, and classification solutions for the media industry at BroadcastAsia 2019.
The Anti-Piracy Conference will cover wide-ranging issues within piracy, addressed by a stellar line-up of speakers representing content owners, streaming platforms, technology solutions providers, the legal fraternity and enforcement authorities, ...
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The partnership will make Bollywood content available to customers as an add-on package with Ooredoos set-top-box at a competitive price on a monthly basis.
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Kinda Ibrahim tells BroadcastPro ME about her career trajectory and Twitters growing broadcast partnerships.
The complete OTT-over-satellite solution includes Anevia?s GENOVA smart transcoder and NEA-LIVE packager to prepare live channels. The OTT stream is delivered via satellite using Quadrille?s QuadriLive.
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The March preview of ZEE5 comprises Originals, which will be released for its global audiences.
With her plans for an over-arching programming line-up of long- and short-form content, Amanda Turnbull is driving reach for Discovery in MENA.
ContentArmor will present its anti-piracy watermarking solution and other content protection technologies for sports and media industries at the tradeshow.
Experts will come together at the Dubai World Trade Centre to discuss the changing roles of content creation, distribution and consumption.
Alexander Kurz will work closely with the EMEA sales and business development teams to increase market share and raise brand awareness in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region and CIS ...
ABS will use EUTELSAT 53A?s Ku-band resources over Central Asia to provide nationwide coverage for the launch of its new DTH platform, Oqaab HD+.
Digital content revenues are expected to reach $250bn in 2019, up $23bn from last year, according to a report titled Digital Content Business Models: OTT & Telco Strategies 2019-2023 from ...
iflix co-founder and CEO, Mark Britt.On-demand video streaming platform iflix, has sold its stake in iflix Africa to telco group Econet Global Limited. Kuala Lumpur-based iflix, ...
Zain Kuwaits Chief Commercial Officer Meshal Mohammed (2nd from right), Zain Kuwaits Chief Corporate Communications and Relations Officer Waleed Al Khashti (2nd from left) and Amazons ...
ZEE5, the digital entertainment platform from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. has announced its title sponsorship of the Northern Warriors in the second season of the T10 Cricket League. Northern Warriors ...
Cinemoz, a VOD platform from Beirut has launched 'Moz Originals: The return of Arab imagination', an original content channel dedicated to "Arab genre and entertainment". The tech startup that launched ...
The poster for the comedy series Click.Streaming service, Vuclip partnered with Jordans Roya TV to stream Click, a 30-episode show, as part of its Ramadan lineup, ...
Wesam Kattan, Vice President, Content & Brand Marketing, MENA.VOD service provider Vuclip, has partnered with Omantel to offer Viu, Vuclip's OTT video service, to Omantel's mobile ...
Etisalat has announced the launch of its new Play on Demand service for postpaid and prepaid customers, offering unlimited video streaming for 5 fils per minute.The service gives Etisalat postpaid ...
Algérie Telecom Satellite (ATS), a subsidiary of Algérie Telecom, plans to introduce a triple play service to provide customers with internet, telephone and video-on-demand (VOD) via satellite.ATS is looking to ...
(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 ...
Mobility solutions provider, Mahindra Comviva, has entered into a partnership with Sacom Mediaworks, a content aggregator in the MENA. This tie-up with Sacom Mediaworks will provide Mooditt Digital Store, Comvivas ...
MENA on-demand streaming platform Starz Play has partnered with LG to embed its video streaming application directly onto LG Smart TVs.Following the launch, select LG Smart TV models in the ...
MBC Groups video-on-demand (VOD) application, Shahid VOD has been named as one of the best apps of 2017 in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by the technology company Apple ...
Arun Prakash, President and COO of VuclipVOD service provider for emerging markets Vuclip has announced that it will release a slate of original productions for Arab and ...
The European Media Map series highlights TV market in all 28 EU countries and Turkey, which have a population footprint of 600 million.Research from TVT Media, a global ...
Lee Hobbs, VP of Brand & Content, Discovery CEEMEA.In an interview with BroadcastPro ME, Lee Hobbs, Vice President, Brand and Content, CEEMEA, Discovery Communications, reveals the ...
The Worthy feature film from Image Nation Abu Dhabi has been released in the Video on Demand (VOD) format and is now available on du, Etisalat, Ooredoo (Qatar and Oman), iTunes and ...
Sherif Dahan.Vuclip has announced the launch of Viu, a direct to consumer video-on-demand (VOD) service, in the Middle East.Viu already operates in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Hong ...
BBC Director General Tony Hall has said that the BBC iPlayer will be reinvented in a bid to make it the UKs top online TV service by 2020.He described iPlayer ...
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 ...
