Creating interactive content helps increase viewing times and even further data capture, while helping to influence how the rest of the consumer's viewing experience will unfold, says Ian Sharpe, CEO...
Despite the setbacks due to Covid-19, this year has been favourable for regional brands, be it MBC announcing Shahid's soaring popularity or the UAE launching its Mars Mission.
“While everyone gets into firefighting mode when problems arise, as a regional industry, we have collectively failed to learn any lessons from past instances,” says Hasan Sayed Hasan of Master...
The first issue of the BroadcastProME magazine was released ten years ago in July.
“When migrating to AV-over-IP, the control layer is one of the most crucial aspects to consider, as it affects nearly everybody who interacts with the system on a daily basis,”...
Are companies freezing all expenditure or rerouting their CAPEX to suit new needs in a coronavirus-impacted business scenario?
“To successfully own a share of the OTT pie today, companies need to deliver consumers the content they want, on their preferred device,” says Rick Cordeiro.
Broadcasters worked on new strategies this year to counter the impact of the pandemic and subsequent lockdown on Ramadan productions.
“By leveraging AI, algorithms can be trained to learn what matters and how changes in these fingerprint timelines are connected to the content individual viewers enjoy,” says Marcus Bergström.
Facebook and Netflix have come forward with USD 100m each for those financially affected by the lockdown triggered by the pandemic.
The role of the executive team is to remind all teams that only tangible outcomes on the key KPI defined beforehand are worth it.
There’s no doubt that the media industry is going through tumultuous change, but good content continues to be sought-after by both media houses and viewers alike.
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.
Marc Antoine, whose reputation precedes him as an M&A specialist, usually comes into a company when a big change is on the horizon.
Another year has gone, and alongside celebrating a new generation of path-breakers at our awards and offering a fantastic networking opportunity, it gives me immense satisfaction to see that the...
With a lot of coverage around product launches, technologies and esports, I thought I’d shift focus to some of the other highlights at IBC this year.
“A robust cloud-based solution ensures digital assets are not only protected but also reusable for the future.”
Rasha Shokr outlines the conditions that favoured the golden era of Egyptian cinema and proposes a solution for restoring Egypt to its past glory.
Early this year, we made a conscious decision to ferret out women leaders in media from across the Middle East and Africa and write their stories.
Working together to find a common, shared approach to data could have amazing benefits.
By 2021, industry investment in IoT is predicted to go up to $1.1tn. Of course, as the use cases increase, the rate of security breaches will also go up. In...
While IP has become a given in large operations, smaller outfits like regional TV stations and local radio stations are now warming up to the benefits of this lean way...
The real potential of IP, however, lies in transforming the way production teams work especially in the live production environment. Remote at-home production is just one way that IP...
Vijaya Cherian, Editorial Director, BroadcastPro ME. BeIN Sports let go of a fifth of its staff last month, and OSN, which has been trimming its staff...
Constantinos Papavassilopoulos, Associate Director, IHS Markit Technology. The pay-TV and over-the-top (OTT) subscription markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have followed divergent...
Vijaya Cherian, Editorial Director, BroadcastPro ME. How time flies! BroadcastPro Middle East will be nine this July and SatellitePro seven. I thought this would be a...
There is definitely a role for cloud in our broadcast operations, but not all roles are ideal in a cloud ecosystem. Brick Eksten shares some ideal and not-so-ideal cloud scenarios.
The MENA Anti-Piracy Conference takes place on 23 April at the Ritz-Carlton JBR in Dubai and is free to attend for industry professionals; however, online registration at www.antipiracyconference.com is mandatory.
Kyle Goodwin, VP of Product and Innovation at Concurrent Technology, writes that delivering a quality of experience on a par with linear TV broadcast is the goal that OTT operators...
In this issue, the first of a series we intend to run periodically through the course of the year, we feature seven women who have not just tasted success but...
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...
Nick Pearce-Tomenius is Sales and Marketing Director at Object Matrix.With hybrid workflows that are able to apply the advantages of both cloud and on-premise platforms, media...
Vijaya Cherian, Editorial Director, BroadcastPro ME.I dont know about you but grocery shopping or meandering through traffic and waiting endlessly for a parking spot so I...
David Spencer, Commercial Director MENA, FreeWheel.New year is a time for new beginnings and infusing new energy to existing ideas. 2019 heralds a new chapter for...
Chris Merrill, Director of Product Marketing at Grass Valley.While still a young segment in the Middle East, with revenues of around $3bn in 2017 (Statistica), all...
Our vision when we launched BroadcastPro Middle East was not just to be a leading magazine in the MENA region. We wanted to be perceived as an industry insider, who...
Olivier Karra, Director for OTT & IPTV solutions, Harmonic.Broadcasters and service providers can dramatically speed up the time to market for new services, lower their media...
Marc Valdivia is a Data Engineer at NPAW (Nice People At Work).Neural networks allow the identification of the most important variables related to churn and ...
From not having any cinema screens until last year, it is estimated that KSA will be able to accommodate around 2,600 by 2030 and generate $950m in box office revenues,...
Neil Sharpe, Director of Product Marketing at Friend MTS.When it is prioritised by rights holders and television platforms, content theft can be stopped with subscriber watermarking...
Dr. Karsten Konrad, Product Manager - Intercom.Intercom systems have adapted as modern broadcast workflows and productions become even more demanding. The aim is to reduce set-up...
The winds of change are becoming stronger in broadcast. If we only felt a gust or two in previous years, it has gathered strength, building towards a gale, with IP,...
Peter Chave is Principal Architect at Akamai.One of the most valuable commodities today is viewer attention. From broadcasters to advertisers, everyone with a message is competing...
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of travelling to the IBC offices in London, where the jury for the IBC Innovation Awards gathered to deliberate over the shortlist....
Ted Korte, COO, Qligent.With a bottom-up approach, beginning with the end user and working up to the headend, the media industry can reduce abandonment, increase engagement,...
Last month, there were a number of announcements that coincided with the Chinese premier's visit to the UAE. Image Nation announced that it would launch a 24/7 Chinese channel while...
Anthony Smith-Chaigneau is Senior Product Marketing Director at Nagra.Consumers may find themselves with an unnecessary dilemma over which HDR-format TV to purchase and manufacturers need to...
For a quiet month like Ramadan, a lot has been going on in the TV industry and I believe a lot of the ruckus has to do with the...
Kieran Kunhya, MD, Open Broadcast Systems.Despite proven benefits in remote production, live production and use of software-based architecture, broadcasters are choosing to merely dip their proverbial...
Why should we take piracy seriously in the Middle East? Because it has started crippling our media companies to such a great extent that if we dont collectively do something...
Vijaya Cherian, Editorial Director.NAB CEO Gordon Smiths speech at the opening ceremony got me thinking on how much of an influencer the organisation is, the respect...
Ibrahim Al Akkad is Regional Director for Grass Valley Middle East.Guest columnist, Ibrahim Al Akkad of Grass Valley Middle East, outlines the benefits of UHD/4K production and...
Todd Riggs is Marketing Product Manager for Infrastructure at Ross Video.The concept of software-defined production (SDP) seeks to offer simplicity in the face of potential migration...
The MENA media industry is going through a time of tumultuous change. Some of it is exciting and upbeat, others are downright disconcerting.For instance, Saudi Arabias injection of $64bn into...
Cliff Beek, President of Cloud Constellation Corporation"A space-based cloud storage network would provide government and private organisations with an independent cloud infrastructure platform, completely isolating and...
It is strange to speak of meeting a living legend in the same breath as witnessing live tennis action captured via a remote production hub somewhere in Melbourne. Yet in...
African reel success since the early 2000s has been the story of its most populous country, Nigeria. At a recent panel on African filmmaking, hosted by Canon at its CABSAT...
Chrys Poulain, Director of Sales APAC, France, Middle East and Africa at NexGuard, a Kudelski company.From education and punitive steps to watermarking, MENA demonstrates many ways...
How much do we know about Africa, and more specifically African movies or TV? Perhaps we do have some visibility to content from Egypt and Morocco maybe also Algeria....
The survival of the MENA media industry is at stake with the impending arrival of FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google)! Are we ready?This was the key takeaway from...
