When Showmax announced that all that content was headed for DStv after its shutdown in April, we and a bunch of others ...

The stories that defined Showmax are not disappearing. Instead, they are finding a new home on DStv Stream, where a dedicated ...

MultiChoice South Africa CEO Marc Jury will oversee the streaming service, co-owned by MultiChoice and Comcast, until a permanent head is found. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The CEO of ...

MultiChoice has informed customers that its streaming service Showmax will cease operations on 30 April. The last day that ...

MultiChoice’s new owner, Canal+, has described the broadcaster’s over-the-top (OTT) platform, Showmax, as an “expensive failure”. In a statement accompanying its unaudited full-year results, Canal+ ...

MultiChoice’s decision to shut down Showmax has prompted widespread commentary on the streaming platform’s massive losses. However, there is more to the story of how Showmax landed in a death spiral.

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 ...