Directed by Fadi Haddad, the 80-minute drama/comedy is scripted in Arabic with English subtitles.
The channel falls within the country's culture ministry’s “Culture Is in Your Hands… Stay at Home” initiative, which strives to convince Egyptians to stay home during the outbreak.
The move is an attempt to curb the dissemination of rumours and hoaxes about the pandemic, YouTube said.
It will be part of mobile operator Vodacom’s Video Play Premium service and will also be available as a standalone subscription Micro Pass.
SNA has partnered with social media giant Facebook to launch a fact-checking show ‘Corona Question and Answer’, which will air daily at 7 pm local time.
The lineup includes a number of films and original TV shows from ZEE5 including "Mentalhood" and "Rangbaaz".
Dailymotion is a video platform focussing on topics like news, sports, music, and entertainment, as well as comedy skits, political debates, fashion shows, and gaming live-streams.
Apart from that, the new Sony BRAVIA Android TV buyers will also get free Shahid VIP subscriptions.
To avail the free month of Shahid VIP, users must sign up between March 20 and April 5 in the Middle East region.
SwitchTV, which was announced to Etisalat customers last week, will be available to all UAE residents irrespective of whether they are Etisalat or du subscribers.
StarzPlay and Discovery have partnered to debut the latter's VOD service Dplay in the MENA region. StarzPlay CCO and Co-founder Danny Bates and Discovery's Director of Business Development Francesco Perta...
Dplay, which is due to launch in Q2 on StarzPlay, will be available as an add-on for a monthly subscription rate of AED/SAR15 in the GCC. Rates for other markets...
The convention was scheduled to take place from March 25-28 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
Beginning today, VIP subscribers for Shahid streaming service will receive six months of Spotify Premium for no additional cost.
Produced and directed by Sky News Arabia and hosted by news anchors, Carolina Nassar and Chantal Saliba, the five-minute weekly show will feature guest experts and cover trending topics on...
Available in 20 countries across the MENA region and Pakistan, StarzPlay offers more than 10,000 hours of content for its users.
The competition was for the users who watched "Welad Rizk" film and the "Vikings" series on Jawwy TV between January 20 and 24, 2020.
If implemented, the move will put YouTube in direct competition to Amazon and Apple which offer similar services at the moment.
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.
YouTube contributed roughly 10% to all Google revenue which makes the video-sharing platform’s ad business nearly one fifth the size of Facebook’s, and more than six times than all of...
Disney also revealed the paid subscriber numbers for ESPN+ and Hulu as 7.6m and 30.7m, respectively as of February 3.
WATCH iT to launch first original production series 'Shadid Al Khotoura' in March 2020, starring Ahmed Al Awady and Reem Mostafa.
MBC launched its revamped streaming service Shahid last month with significant changes to content, strategy and technology making it a formidable competitor in the Arab world.
The fully animated series will feature viewers and their friends as the stars of each episode. The show will premiere on February 1, 2020.
The latest acquisition reflects StarzPlay's commitment to expanding its Arabic offering to meet the expectations of its subscribers in the MENA region.
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.
Netflix has posted a strong 2019 driven by its Q4 performance and high sales in EMEA last year.
Voot Select is the second subscription-based streaming service from Viacom18 and will go live on Viacom18’s VOD service Voot, which boasts of around 100m monthly active users.
The free premium ad-supported streamer will be offered in two tiers: Peacock Free and Peacock Premium which will cost $4.99 per month for users in the US.
While Shahid Premieres will offer exclusives from the world of cinema and television, Shahid Originals will focus on a variety of local and regional premium productions.
WAVO is an online streaming platform hosting popular TV shows, Hollywood and Arabic blockbuster movies, kids’ content, and live sports.
Streaming platforms led the awards with 30 nominations total among Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV Plus.
In response to news reports tying Netflix with a production reportedly titled Alexander the Great, the streaming platform released a statement denying any knowledge or affiliation with such a production.
The series is written, produced, and created by Egyptian-American actor Ramy Youssef who won the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.
The megastar posted his first TikTok video and pledged to bring more diversity to his content in 2020.
With this partnership, Eros Now aims to offer its content across genres and Indian regional languages to Ooredoo’s subscriber base.
Weyyak is Zee Entertainment’s first Arabic Video On-Demand streaming platform which provides premium content for free that is available on both website and mobile devices.
Produced by Netflix and Skydance Media in association with Bay Films, "6 Underground" was shot in Abu Dhabi.
WAVO, which provides entertainment from content creators such as HBO, Disney, Universal and more, will now be available to millions as a pre-loaded application on the LG content store.
The show, which is scheduled for release in 2020, will shed light on the human side of Abla Fahita in a social comedy drama full of thrill.
The drama series explores the activities of undergraduate students and their teachers at a typical Nigerian university.
It is estimated that Netflix will have lost 1.6m total subscribers during Q4 of 2019, a period during which both Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus launched.
In a statement issued to BroadcastPro, Viu said it was prioritising its investments to South East Asia, and Middle East and Africa to further achieve rapid growth in a sustainable...
"Queen Sono" is Netflix’s first script-to-screen, fully produced African original series with an all-African cast and crew.
Twofour54, in association with Netflix, releases four photos from behind-the-scenes of 6 Underground in Abu Dhabi, ahead of its release on the streaming platform on Friday, December 13, 2019.
Twitter hosted an event last week to showcase how the platform was used extensively by high-profile figures to announce news in 2019.
Partners will bring an anthology of urban legends to MENA screens, with acclaimed director Yasir Al-Yasri contracted to produce the series.
Africa’s streaming platform for documentary films will present stories that reflect the difficulties of migration as faced by thousands of people.
The collaboration will allow Viu users access to content from Discovery Networks Asia Pacific channels on an on-demand basis including lifestyle and reality shows as well as documentaries.
Disney Plus users have so far generated as many as 25.6 million viewing sessions per day on the mobile app.
The digital entertainment platform, which caters to the South Asian diaspora in the Middle East, offers over 100,000 hours of content across 17 languages
Users claimed that their accounts were hacked within hours of the streaming service going live with the error message saying that their password was wrong.
The UAE’s first 4K OB van has arrived in Abu Dhabi, and it promises to raise the level of live sports production in the region. BroadcastPro takes an exclusive tour...
STARZPLAY has renewed its contract for a second time with Intigral to cater to Saudi Arabian audiences.
Following the introduction of a 50% discount offer on its annual subscription package, ZEE5 has seen a 20% growth in total subscription revenues over the period.
Disney will dig deep into its content library to allow users to stream Disney, Pixar and Marvel movies and shows on its streaming service Disney Plus.
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.
Webedia Arabia will also be launching Millenium Arabia – an Arabic platform focusing on gaming and esports in the near future to further diversify its offering. Edouard Griveaud, VP Gaming...
