Tag: anghami

Linkfire opens up conversion data from Anghami in Middle East

Music-marketing firm Linkfire continues to deepen its relationships with streaming services in interesting parts of the world. Its latest partner is Anghami in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It’s the latest deal...

September 19, 2019

Anghami adds top-up subscription including Game of Thrones

The first episode in the final season of TV show Game of Thrones aired overnight. Don’t worry, Music Ally won’t be giving any spoilers away in this story. What we will be doing, though, is noting a very interesting Game...

Anghami adds more than 250 local podcasts to its catalogue

Soon, it’ll be quicker to list the music-streaming services that *aren’t* streaming into podcasts as an additional content format. Middle Eastern / North African service Anghami is the latest, having added more than...

Middle-Eastern streaming service Anghami has 1m+ subscribers

The Middle East is currently a big strategic focus for global streaming services like Spotify and Deezer, but they face competition from established local service Anghami. Now it has released some new figures on its business, in...

Music-streaming in the Middle East: ‘There is a space and place for everyone’

Spotify and Deezer's recent launches in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have highlighted the region's status as a strategic priority for the music industry – although these companies (and Apple Music) are facing...

January 24, 2019

Global music-streaming: ‘For growth you have to look outside of the Western markets’

Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon may dominate many of the discussions about music-streaming, but there is more to the global streaming market than the biggest players. A strand at Music Ally and Music Biz's NY:LON Connect...

January 22, 2019

Anghami adds music-recognition feature with ACRCloud

Spotify and Deezer may have ambitions to take a chunk out of its audience in the Middle East and North Africa, but local service Anghami remains the dominant audio-streaming player in the region for now, with more than 70...

November 21, 2018

Local streaming services: Anghami, Hungama and more (#midem)

In 2016 and 2017, various industry execs have predicted that the global music-streaming market will come down to five or six large-scale services: Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify and perhaps a couple more pureplays drawn from...

Anghami, the Spotify of the Middle East, has 33m listeners

It would be crass to call it “the biggest music-streaming service you’ve never heard of”, but Anghami is comfortably dominating in the Middle East – with no plans to expand outside of the region just yet – and pointing...

February 13, 2017

Anghami adds new video feature for its 24m users

Middle Eastern music-streaming service Anghami, which is headquartered in Beirut, now has 24 million listeners for its freemium offering.