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Dubai-based digital media company Augustus Media and Zee Entertainment announce a streaming partnership with the Weyyak Platform for its brand business tech streaming service, Smashi.
Smashi is a live streaming service from the heart of the Arab world, covering the most innovative products, services, and technologies changing our lives.
Weyyak is a freemium Video-On-Demand (VOD) platform from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited targeting the Arabic audience globally. It offers a vast library of entertainment content Arabic, Turkish, and exclusive Indian shows of all genres.
Weyyak will stream Smashi’s content via all of its licensed digital platforms including its website, tablets, connected TV, and mobile application available on Google Play and App Store.
This partnership will amplify the relationship between Smashi and Weyyak audiences, delivering insightful region-related news to its Arab audience.
Both Augustus Media & Weyyak hope to provide mutual benefits enhancing each entity's position as the leading modern media and on-demand content.
“Our priority is to offer our audiences a variety of content that we select carefully in order to keep them entertained anytime, anywhere. Through our collaboration with Smashi.tv, Weyyak’s audience will also have the privilege of browsing news content across all devices to remain up to date,” noted Nadine Samra, chief business officer at Weyyak.
“We have been impressed with what Zee has accomplished with Weyyak over the last few years as the streaming ecosystem develops. It is important to find the right strategic partnerships and we believe we have it in this case.
The business & tech content Smashi focuses on is niche and working with exciting platforms like Weyyak is a great way for us to provide original content to an existing audience,” said Richard Fitzgerald, CEO & Founder of Augustus Media
