Rotana Media Group has signed a deal with Arabic Subscription SVOD platform, Wide Khaliji. This long-term partnership will allow Rotana Media group to expand its Arabic content offering as it continues to deliver on its mission to entertain MENA audiences through Wide Khaliji. Rotana Media Group’s award-winning TV channels including Rotana Cinema, Rotana Drama, Rotana [...]
Spotify has announced its expansion across Africa, in more than 80 countries including Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra [...]
Showmax is investing in producing its own local content for African audiences as it competes with Netflix across the African continent. MultiChoice launched its streaming service, Showmax in 2015 and is available in 46 African countries. The company is focusing on developing movies and shows set in its biggest markets of Nigeria. “For us, it [...]
StarzPlay will be available on the new Sony Android TV for screen sizes of 55” and above models, and no subscription fee will be charged from the buyers for 12 months in the MENA region. StarzPlay provides entertainment for the whole family comprising of an array of premium titles, such as original hit shows like [...]
Shahid VIP will air the live matches of the Formula 1 season all in high-definition quality. Shahid VIP subscribers will be able to watch ‘Emilia Romagna Grand Prix’ with English or Arabic commentary, from anywhere and on any device. Jakob Mejlhede Andersen, Chief Content Officer at Shahid commented: “First, Formula-1 came to MBC Action; now [...]
STARZPLAY announced the launch of a new add-on in partnership with BluTV, Turkey’s local subscription video-on-demand service. The service is globally available for all Turkish and Arabic speaking audiences. With this new partnership, STARZPLAY subscribers in MENA will have access to BluTV’s Turkish catalogue featuring popular local drama series, all dubbed in Arabic. “We are [...]
WatchiT has announced 17 new drama series for the month of Ramadan with a three-month offer. A fee of $7.66 will give subscribers unlimited access to its content without ad breaks across all devices. WatchiT also has a discounted offer of $31.99 instead of $63.99 on its annual bundle. Content that will be exclusively available [...]
DStv viewers in Zimbabwe can have free access to Showmax if they are premium subscribers or they get a 50% discount if they are at least Access bouquet subscribers. Liz Dziva, publicity and public relations manager of MultiChoice Zimbabwe said “DStv Premium customers are eligible for this exciting value-added service at no extra cost, while [...]
DStv Uganda has availed Showmax at half the price to all DStv Access, Compact and Compact Plus customers while Premium customers in Uganda will now get it at no extra cost. “At DStv, we are delighted to announce even more perks for our customers. In September, DStv Premium customers in Uganda were rewarded with Showmax [...]
StarzPlay has signed a multi-year agreement with Japanese anime providers TV Tokyo, adding over a thousand episodes of anime content to its library for subscribers across the MENA region. Maaz Sheikh, co-founder and CEO StarzPlay, said: “Our partnership with TV Tokyo to bring some of the most popular anime series establishes Starzplay as the true [...]
