MultiChoice launched Showmax across Africa 11 years ago in August 2015 to compete with the advent of streamers like Netflix, ...

Showmax was an "expensive failure," said Canal+, which owns 70% of the venture. NBCUniversal staffers were informed about the cuts on Wednesday.

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

Canal+'s announcement that it's pulling the plug on MultiChoice's Showmax has upset Africa's creatives and content producers.

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 ...

This decision comes after 'substantial annual losses experienced by the Showmax business' that 'proved unsustainable'.

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 ...

Following the news that MultiChoice will shut down Showmax in South Africa. The announcement marks the end of one of Africa’s ...

Showmax launched in August 2015 as MultiChoice's answer to the growing wave of international streamers — Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc. — that were slowly eating into its pay-TV subscriber base ...

Multichoice has pulled the plug on streaming service, Showmax. Here's everything you need to know about ...

After an 11 year run, Showmax will cease to exist, soon. When exactly the streaming service with ties to MultiChoice will shutter isn’t exactly clear, per an email sent out to subscribers on Thursday ...

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