Category Archives: OTT / VOD

Moonbug Entertainment renewed partnership with MBC Group

Moonbug Entertainment has renewed its partnership with MBC Group. The new cooperation agreement, Moonbug is set to add more television shows and programmes dedicated to children on the Arabic streaming platform Shahid VIP. The previous agreement MBC, Moonbug licensed properties including Little Baby Bum, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Little Baby Bus, ARPO, My Magic [...]

Showmax premiered first South African original ‘Troukoors’

Showmax has premiered the first season of its much anticipated South African original, a romcom titled ‘Troukoors’ (Wedding Fever). The show created by SAFTA winner Louis Pretorius and SAFTA nominee Albert Snyman, follows Ilse-Lee van Niekerk as Jessica, a wedding planner who is surrounded by love but struggling to find it for herself. The series [...]

Jawwy TV offered viewers new content in MENA

Intigral, provider of digital entertainment and sports in MENA, will be airing a rich line-up of fantastic movies, shows and programs on its premium OTT service Jawwy TV, wrapping up its new releases for this year on a strong note. With top-quality digital entertainment from a wide range of popular genres to enjoy, all viewers [...]

Zattoo & AXIAN partner to bring IPTV & OTT to Madagascar

Zattoo, one of the leading TV-as-a-Service providers in Europe, is proud to announce its new partnership with the AXIAN Group. Telma, an AXIAN Group subsidiary, and the biggest telecoms operator in the Indian Ocean, is using Zattoos end-to-end, fully hosted & managed TV-as-a-Service to offer a state of the art set-top box and App based [...]

HBO’s Gossip Girl reboot now available on Showmax

Showmax announced that the first 10 episodes of HBO’s Gossip Girl reboot are now available with the final two episodes coming express from the US on 10 December 2021. The reboot’s launch saw it trending at #1 on Twitter and generating over 15 billion total social impressions, pulling in a record number of viewers over [...]

Mauritius Telecom to bring UEFA Campions League

Mauritius Telecom and Showmax, the Multichoice-owned local streaming service, have partnered up to bring UEFA Champions league and major football leagues to my.t customers and football fans in Mauritius. Through this partnership, my.t customers will be able to access Showmax Pro features the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, English Premier League, FA Cup, Serie A, [...]

YouTube launched fund for short-form video creation in MENA

YouTube has launched a YouTube Shorts Fund in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and Morocco. The Shorts Creator Fund is one additional way through which creators and artists can monetise their content on YouTube from advertising to Paid Digital Goods, merchandise branded content and more. This shorts feature [...]