Billionaire Richard Li’s streaming business is on a roll, mulling a potential initial public offering after its platform Viu beat Netflix in subscribers in one of Asia’s most competitive markets.
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Walt Disney Co’s popular and fast-growing streaming service, Disney+, is coming to South Africa. The platform will be available sometime in the middle of 2022.
MultiChoice Group-owned Internet streaming provider Showmax is upping the ante in the streaming wars, offering access to all matches of the English Premier League, La Liga and Serie A.
eMedia Investments, the holding company of e.tv, eNCA and Openview, has plunged headfirst into streaming, launching eVOD, a video-on-demand service, in partnership with MTN South Africa.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the Nigerian authorities are acting opportunistically, if reports of a massive penalty by the Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Service against MultiChoice are true.
Tencent shares were on track to fall by their most in a decade on Tuesday after a Chinese state media outlet branded online videogames “spiritual opium”.
The movie-goers who used to throng the cinemas of Johannesburg’s Sandton City shopping centre have, since the pandemic, watched the latest releases from a big screen in a rooftop car park.
If it’s serious about videogames, Netflix should give serious consideration to buying CD Projekt, the beleaguered game maker behind Cyberpunk 2077. By Kim Tae.
BritBox, the British streaming joint venture between ITV and BBC Studios, will be available in South Africa on 6 August, adding to a growing list of local and international options vying for local viewers’ attention.
Telkom now has an own-branded music streaming service after reaching an agreement with Joox, owned by China’s Tencent, to launch the offering.