In 2021, YouTube launched a $100 million #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund in an effort to help equip Black musicians with the resources and support to enable them to thrive and invest in work that amplifies the voices, perspectives and stories of all Black artists around the world. YouTube Music announced the expansion of the fund scholarship [...]
As part of its partnership with the UEFA Euro 2020, TikTok has announced a series of features and events including TikTok Live sessions, AR Filters and Hashtag Challenges, connecting the TikTok community to the game and establishing itself as the home for football fans during the tournament. Football content has had a rise on TikTok, [...]
The three-year rights extension will enable beIN SPORTS to continue to serve as the exclusive broadcaster of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League along with the new the UEFA Europa Conference League across the 24-country region of MENA through to 2023/24. The partnership will also be expanded to the UEFA Women’s Champions [...]
StarTimes and VIDAA are delighted to announce that streaming application StarTimes ON just launched on VIDAA-powered Hisense smart TVs. StarTimes ON is a mobile application by Africa’s leading digital TV operator StarTimes. It combines live TV channels and rich VOD content to offer a premium user experience. StarTimes ON serves 27 million users and ranks [...]
German kids channel provider Your Family Entertainment has inked a deal with the Ethiopian streaming platform habeshaview that will see its pay TV channel Fix&Foxi made available to habeshaview’s subscribers in English. Habeshaview provides many national and international channels to Ethiopians. It also has a strategy of making Ethiopian productions available to an international audience [...]
Ivory Coast-based startup StarNews Mobile, a mobile video network enabling celebrities and influencers to monetize their fan bases in Africa, has collaborated with mobile operator Orange to deliver its high-quality video platform to Orange’s 150 million subscribers across 15 countries in Africa. Launched in July 2017, StarNews Mobile targets the mass market with a network [...]
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has settled an agreement with Chinese technology brand Hisense centered on the distribution of the mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion’s Fight Pass streaming service. The agreement ensures distribution of the UFC over-the-top (OTT) platform on VIDAA-powered Hisense and Toshiba smart TVs as from August. The VIDAA smart platform, a Linux-based [...]
Netflix has added the Egyptian feature film Bain Bahrain (Between Two Seas) by Egyptian-American director Anas Tolba. The film is written by Maryam Naoum, screenplay and dialogue by Amany al-Tunisy and co-written by Karim Al-Dalil, starring Fatima Adel, Yara Gobran, Tharaa Jubail, Mahmoud Fares, Arefa Abdelrasoul and Lubna Wanas. The events track a woman Zahra, [...]
e.tv announced the launch of its streaming platform, eVOD in July. This new service has now undergone a name change after it missed its planned launch date in October 2020. eMedia Holdings released its annual financial results for the year that ended 31 March 2021 and said: “The new financial year will also see the [...]
UAE-based pay TV provider E-Vision has rolled out a new audience measurement initiative identifying audience preferences and trends from eLife, the Middle East’s largest IPTV service. The Television Audience Measurement (TAM) system identifies the number of views and the interests of TV viewers, so that TV stations can develop their programmes to match the desires [...]
