KSA: Connected Homes ResearchPosted on: Monday 7 September 2026 | IAB MENA CTV Taskforce In early 2026 IAB MENA collaborated with RTL to extend their annual ‘Living Room Study’ into UAE and KSA. This delivers unique insights into MENA audiences’ claimed content preferences, device usage, first‑destination choices and more. The study places a particular emphasis [...]
CTV & OEM Capabilities in MENAPosted on: Friday 15 May 2026 | IAB MENA CTV Taskforce CTV and OEM advertising opportunities have become more readily available across the MENA region, but their capabilities, measurement options and buy types vary making it a complex landscape to fully understand. To that end, the IAB MENA CTV taskforce [...]
The Development of CTV in MENAPosted on: Thursday 13 Nov 2025 | IAB MENA CTV Taskforce Traditional TV has often been considered one of the most, if not the most, powerful communication tool and thus reigned supreme in advertising for its vast reach and branding impact. Today, as audiences consume video across diverse platforms, the [...]
First view of the CTV ECOScape in MENAPosted on: Wednesday 5 March 2025 | IAB MENA Ecosystem & Channel Development Updated on: Wednesday 17 December 2025 | IAB MENA Ecosystem & Channel Development Connected Television (CTV) refers to television sets linked to the internet, either directly or through devices. CTV has has a wide range [...]
MENAVoices: In-depth perspectives on the growth and potential of CTV in MENA – insights, strategies, and best practices for the regionPosted on: Wednesday 9 October 2024 | IAB MENA Ecosystem & Channel Development CTV continues to grow globally and across the MENA region. To help navigate through the key questions surrounding CTV in MENA, members [...]
Launched at an event on 5th October, 2023, the "How to get started with CTV in MENA" whitepaper was accompanied by a keynote address by Springserve and panel discussion comprising members of the CTV task force who led the development of the whitepaper.Posted on: Wednesday 04 October 2023 | IAB MENA Ecosystem & Channel Development [...]
IAB MENA CTV landscape and ecosystemPosted on: Thursday 3 November 2022 | IAB MENA For the first time in MENA, the IAB's CTV Task Force has produced a landscape of the current OTT and CTV ecosystem with the support of Yann Colléter from the Streaming Lab and SAAND. The landscape highlights the significant opportunity that OTT [...]
Working in partnership with our connected TV (CTV) members, we’ve developed a set of shared definitions for the CTV sectorPosted on: Thursday 3 November 2022 | IAB MENA Ecosystem & Channel Development Committee The MENA region is often called a video region. No wonder when the IAB MENA Adspend survey covering 2021 highlighted Video accounting [...]
OTT players in MENA demonstrate a healthy and growing ecosystemPosted on: Tuesday 01 November 2022 | IAB MENA The OTT market in MENA is significantly more active than many realize and has seen major growth over the past few years. Characterized by a mix of global giants and a healthly local ecosystem, recently there has [...]
