MBC Group, the media and entertainment conglomerate in the MENA region, has announced its H1 financial results ended June 30th 2025, reporting revenues of SAR 3 billion (€0.69bn), up 37. per cent YoY, supported by solid growth across all business segments. Net profit for the six-month period was SAR 335.4 million in H1 2025, a 41.1 per […]
MBC Group, the MENA media and entertainment conglomerate, has announced its financial results for Q1 2025 reporting a 117.3 per cent YoY increase in net profit to SAR 263.5 million (€63.1m) on revenues of SAR 2 billion, up 65.4 per cent YoY, and yielding a net profit margin expansion of 3.1 percentage points to 12.9 […]
Mediagenix, a specialist in software solutions for content strategy, content value management and content scheduling, has announced that Shahid, the Arabic streaming platform, has gone live with Mediagenix On-Demand, a scheduling, content management and content performance solution for managing high-performance, dynamic streaming operations. Shahid is part of MBC Group, the media and entertainment conglomerate in […]
BBC Studios has announced an agreement with MBC GROUP to launch BBC Kids content on Shahid, the Arabic streaming platform, from February 8th. The collaboration will bring BBC Studios’ children’s content to a wider audience in the Middle East, providing families and children aged 0-12 with digital access to a diverse range of inspiring, entertaining […]
MBC Media Solutions (MMS), the commercial arm of MBC Group — a media company in the Middle East and North Africa — has announced its partnership with Viaccess-Orca and Equativ to empower the monetisation of Shahid, MBC GROUP’s streaming platform. Shahid is the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform offering its 15 million monthly unique viewers […]
Technology company KONKA Group and MBC Group, a media company in the MENA region, have announced a strategic partnership that will allow all KONKA Android (version 11 and up) and webOS smart television users in MENA countries to quickly access MBC’s Shahid, the Arabic streaming platform, via the homepage launch bar or the Shahid App. […]
Personalised recommendations and hyper-targeted advertising platform ThinkAnalytics has confirmed that MBC GROUP streaming service Shahid is deploying the Think360 personalised content discovery and viewer engagement platform. Shahid will go live with Think360 in the summer of 2022, with support for Arabic, English, and French languages. It will support Shahid’s customer acquisition and content monetisation goals […]
A White Paper from Comcast Technology Solutions, released ahead of Dubai’s CabSat, says that the MENA region offers “a thriving and dynamic market in which to operate for content, streaming providers, and distributors”. But the broadcast market cannot stand still, warns the study. It quotes Luis Duran, the former CCO at MBC’s Shahid and now […]
In October 2019 it was announced that Sam Barnett would be leaving his CEO role at MBC, the Dubai-based broadcasting giant. He was in post for some 17 years. He stayed on as an ‘advisor’ to the business, but has now returned as CEO of the MBC Group. Barnett is replacing Marc Antoine d’Halluin who […]