South Africa-based Showmax Fighting off Netflix in Africa | Vantage with Palki Sharma

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South Africa-based Showmax Fighting off Netflix in Africa | Vantage with Palki Sharma


South Africa-based Showmax Fighting off Netflix in Africa | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Showmax, a South-Africa based streaming platform, has overtaken Netflix to become the streaming platform with the most subscribers in the African continent. Showmax relies on local content and football to keep Netflix at bay. But how long can the African…

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@obarovft314
17 hours ago

As much as i support Africa, I must admit showmax pays peanuts to producers.

@badseedzontop5687
17 hours ago

The response from Biden is comedy😂’how dare he say that’?

@Marie-cj4cn
17 hours ago

Am in Gambia, how can I sign up??

@cycletechsa
17 hours ago

Just started to hate this channel…This is definitely not Africa….Niyanya ngoku

@okuhle5820
17 hours ago

At least Multichoice got something right. I just wish they'd do the same for DSTV.

@balqaasem
17 hours ago

Why do they always show the worst views in Africa? There are some amazing views in Africa, beautiful architecture too, but none is shown on the MSM

@applemaniac8796
17 hours ago

They have blocked people from diaspora watching certain shows. Which does not make sense. You are paying. Silly really

@BashiyrDouglas
17 hours ago

Amazing

@BashiyrDouglas
17 hours ago

We are Global Indigenous people!! Love and Unity is the best key for us all together!!💯  Also Giving thanks to the Great Mother's/Goddesses and Great Father's/Gods and the Ancestors and Guardians!! Saying from Snefer aka Bashiyr!!👸🏿🤴🏿

@derekemi5963
17 hours ago

As a Nigerian its my duty to hate south Africa. I will never use that crap .. Netflix all the way

@Expose_bankers_and_auctioneers

3 months after cancelling, they simply TOOK a months subscription out of my bank account & then ignored me til I gave up. THEY SUCK.

@BBZoneasembotop10
17 hours ago

Good news

@insanitywithin1
17 hours ago

It's a waste of money

@insanitywithin1
17 hours ago

Showmax is shit

@powertechnical
17 hours ago

I will not look at the subscriber numbers because it is included with some DStv package as standard. Rather check how many logins or views it generates

@rogersubramani5554
17 hours ago

Utter bull. Showmax is free to dstv subscribers. They only subscribe for the sport

@snownfire
17 hours ago

Showmax = the best

@robertprice952
17 hours ago

As a south african with showmax,netflix ,Disney plus and amazom prime subscriptions i can confidently say showmax is way better than netflix and amazon prime

@brendaoyetomi
17 hours ago

Showmax has the latest movies like 2023 Tom Cruise mission impossible just watched it yesterday you have to wait for years with Netflix

@nadinesmith4397
17 hours ago

Why is anyone surprised that a platform that is preexisting and has a customer base can outperform Netflix?

@lfc13
17 hours ago

This feature doesn't tell the viewers how many sudscribe to both,was there a survey done,in SA households have Dstv and Netflix together with other streaming services, depending on ones preference, some also subscribe and unsubscribe depending on what is showing for the month or a certain period.presently the EPL is on ,that is why the showmax subscription base has increased

@suspiciousafternoon
17 hours ago

it's simple Showmax doesn't do that woke nonsense Netflix constantly pushes with repeated increases in subscription prices

@raymondshiburi9151
17 hours ago

Who owns Showmax?

@phoenixaidensystems
17 hours ago

Lies 😂😂😂 I am in South Africa I don't even watch Showmax. No1 in my circle watches it

@oscarncube5698
17 hours ago

This is only because of the monopoly on the English premier league.

@moreece1713
17 hours ago

It's owned by a billionaire who funded apartheid. Imagine if you did your research 😂😂😂

@amosshield
17 hours ago

Useless covered story. Ask Africans to tell African stories. All these insert about Africa….they are all lies

@emmanuelaniche864
17 hours ago

A great move. We keep encroaching💪

@Prime-casts
17 hours ago

This means nothing as long as the end of the day these things end up being owned by the same people, theres a group in this world that acquires everything and makes it its own. I'll only be proud when I see the people owning the companies that produce what they consume. ITS NOT A WIN FOR AFRICA.

@ingamgoduka57
17 hours ago

Koreans are taking over our entertainment using Netflix.

@Applesauce56
17 hours ago

Showmax new app trashhhhh

@Applesauce56
17 hours ago

The new app trashhhh Showmax sucks

@theboomletgroup8436
17 hours ago

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

@ccbaxter.1384
17 hours ago

Ban Netflix from Africa. We dont need it.

@IamSisu
17 hours ago

Netflix should take the woke shit to America and leave us alone!

@MAC9949
17 hours ago

But to be clear, Showmax is popular in Anglophone Africa as its programming is mostly in English. So it is not surprising that it is popular in the likes of South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and the likes. In Francophone Africa, it is still Canal+

@andresaxmanbrown
17 hours ago

This is GREAT! How can we stream Showmax in the UK?

@Coachbill254
17 hours ago

I support Showmax from Kenya. Atleast they don't force the unnatural agenda in their content. They can reduce on the women drinking content though.
Netflix has been forcing the six coloured agenda in it's contents, so un-African

@dorcaselohorodidi8602
17 hours ago

But is it owned by an African?

@xin0
17 hours ago

With no account crackdowns as well!

@davemorgan6013
17 hours ago

The world's fourth-largest streaming service is Tencent Video, with over 120 million subscribers.

@duwaynem.467
17 hours ago

Hooray Showmax BUT DSTV still sucks!!

@lanla6838z
17 hours ago

Those are DStv subscribers.
DStv account is DStv, GOtv, DStv Stream and Showmax.

All these services say show up as Showmax on the Metadata.

No way Showmax is more popular than Netflix, at least not in South Africa.
In the rest of Africa Showmax may have a head start where Netflix is not available.