MultiChoice Group has signed agreements with Netflix and Amazon.com to offer the companies’ streaming services through its next-generation Explora personal video recorder decoder.
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MultiChoice Group has reported a 14% improvement in trading profit to R8-billion for the year ended 31 March 2020, despite a tough economic environment and the growing threat of Netflix.
In a bid to keep its subscriber base engaged, MultiChoice South Africa has announced various offers to its clients, including free access to 600 Udemy online courses until 31 July.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, South Africans – forced to stay at home during a 21-day national lockdown aimed at fighting the spread of Covid019 – are turning to video-on-demand services in droves.
MultiChoice-owned video-on-demand provider Showmax has added seven live news channels to the platform to keep subscribers up to date during South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown.
Netflix sees the opening of new crime-drama series Queen Sono as the first of many original African TV series that will win the US giant a bigger slice of a market still dominated by satellite TV.
Netflix has signed a distribution agreement with the Film and Publication Board, meaning the multinational streaming company must now obey local classification rules in the distribution of its content.
MultiChoice will hike the price of some DStv bouquets on 1 April, but the increases have been kept well below inflation as the broadcaster battles weak consumer spending and rivalry from online streaming platforms.
Just three months after Google launched its free public Wi-Fi initiative, known as Google Station, in South Africa, the Internet giant is backing out of the business worldwide.
MultiChoice Group-owned streaming video platform Showmax will launch a cut-price version of its product aimed at smart device users who don’t consume content on a television screen.