Users can find Channels in a new WhatsApp tab labeled Updates, which is separate from their regular chats with friends, family, and communities. We’re also welcoming some of your favorite celebrities, sports teams, artists, creators, and thought leaders that people can follow right within WhatsApp”.Īccording to Moon Baz, Channels allow admins to send one-way broadcasts via text, photos, videos, and stickers. Moon Baz, Creator Partnerships Lead, Africa, Middle East, and Turkey at Meta, was excited to announce the update, “We’re starting to roll out WhatsApp Channels globally and adding thousands of new channels that people can follow in WhatsApp. Soon, people across much of the Middle East and North Africa will benefit from private updates from their favorite celebrities, creators, artists, and sports teams without having to leave WhatsApp.
WhatsApp Channels is now being rolled out across the MENA region, with countries including Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Morocco soon to benefit from the broadcast service. “This spate of unprecedented ACE actions in the MENA region underscores our ever-expanding global reach and our growing relationships with law enforcement and local industry around the world core to ACE’s global goal of eradicating the illegal distribution of content and protecting the legal marketplace for content creators,” says Charles Rivkin, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association and Chairman of ACE. Egyptian authorities were helped with the shutdown by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world’s foremost anti-piracy coalition.Īlso Read: Best Video Streaming Services In The Middle East Shahed4U had been distributing pirated content since 2015, and the closure follows those of Egybest and M圜ima.
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The site’s servers were located in Alexandria and Cairo and offered access to 68,000 TV titles and 18,700 films.Īt its peak, the site’s traffic hit 155 million monthly visits across 118 domains and various copycat sites. Egyptian authorities have shut down one of the Middle East and North Africa’s largest online platforms for downloading pirated media, Shahed4U.
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