African Streamer Showmax’s CEO on Doubling Down on Originals, How Africa Surprises Hollywood Folks Marc Jury discusses the appeal of the English Premier League, the challenges of serving 44 markets ...

EXCLUSIVE: African streamer Showmax has lined up a true-crime series about chilling serial killer Stewart ‘Boetie Boer’ Wilken, and you can see the trailer above. Boetie Boer: Inside the Mind of a ...

The African streamer previously said it would roll out more than 1,300 hours of original content in the coming year, a 150 percent increase compared to the year before. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

“We are doubling down on Africa,” says CEO Marc Jury. “We’ve been here for 38 years, and we intend to be here for a long time still to come. And we feel we’ve got all the best local knowledge in terms ...

WWE and video entertainment platform MultiChoice have revealed a broadcast partnership that will see the latter’s streamer Showmax become the new home of WWE Network in Africa. The partnership ...

EXCLUSIVE: Showmax has unveiled trailer for Catch Me A Killer, the TV series about South Africa’s most famous serial killer profiler starring Game of Thrones’ Charlotte Hope. Co-produced with ...

MultiChoice is shutting down Showmax, but users can still enjoy their favourite shows and programmes The company has decided to stop accepting new subscriptions ahead of the platform’s final shutdown ...

MultiChoice launched Showmax across Africa 11 years ago in August 2015 to compete with the advent of streamers like Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon’s Prime Video, Disney+ and others which all became ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Discover Digital, hoping to capitalize on the rapid uptake of smartphones and improving telecommunications infrastructure on the continent, is starting a video ...

French broadcaster Canal+ will shut South African video streaming app Showmax as it overhauls services offered by its newly acquired subsidiary MultiChoice. Launched in 2015, Showmax was an attempt to ...

This report provides a data-driven profile of Showmax users in South Africa, drawn from the Statista Consumer Insights. It compares these brand users side by side with video streaming users and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eight and a half years after its launch, African streaming service Showmax is ready for a bigger spotlight on the continent thanks ...