Shahid is one of the largest premium VOD services in the world. As a pure OTT player, Shahid has a market share of approximately 85% of premium VOD viewership across MENA.
During Ramadan 2019, Shahid served 248 million videos to 27 million users. A custom CDN was also developed for the service.
In this session, Theresa Regli, conference chair, will discuss with Adriaan Bloem, Head of Digital Infrastructure, the monumental project of launching this video streaming service and managing and growing it successfully in the age of Covid, including the organisational and technical challenges of managing and streaming large quantities of high-resolution video.