After billions of rands in losses, Showmax is officially out and a new streaming app in coming to South Africa!

MultiChoice will discontinue Showmax, drawing a line under one of Africa's most ambitious streaming experiments.

MultiChoice has announced that it will shut down Showmax, ending the streaming platform that was once positioned as the ...

A new streaming app is coming to South Africa following the recent decision to close MultiChoice's Showmax.

Estimates suggested that Showmax had overtaken Netflix’s 1.8 million African subscribers by the end of 2023, reaching 2.1 million users, and continued growing after its relaunch in February 2024. The ...

Drama series 'Falwsome' makes its return to Showmax amongst other new titles The move finalises the partnership between MultiChoice and Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky that it announced last year. 21 ...

The widely circulated Canal+ corporate statement was four careful paragraphs of saying almost nothing. The numbers, though, tell a story of a streaming experiment that burnt ...

The chaos and uncertainty at MultiChoice has heightened after word that the entertainment giant will soon shut down its ...

Showmax reassured its clients that there will be no interruption to its current services. “You can continue streaming as ...

Canal+ has called Showmax an “expensive failure” whose closure will help accelerate cost savings at MultiChoice.

The announcement by MultiChoice that it will soon shut down its Showmax video streaming service has shocked subscribers and sparked concerns about the future of local content production.

French media giant Canal+ has labelled African streaming platform Showmax an “expensive failure” after deciding to shut down the service following years of mounting losses at South African pay-TV ...