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MultiChoice provides financial assistance to young content creators
Over R180m in support for more than 25 black-owned enterprises through its innovation fund since 2016, with eight new beneficiaries added this year.
By Palesa Mofokeng
20 May 2021 12:00
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Small businesses are vital to the countryâs economic growth, says the pay-TV provider. Image: Shutterstock
The past year witnessed an explosion in demand for online content as people were forced to stay âlockedâ up in their homes due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
MultiChoice responded by collaborating and empowering online content creators to scale up and meet the growing demand, with the MultiChoice Innovation Fund adding eight beneficiaries to its list, all black-majority-owned businesses â helping them to create 47 new jobs.
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MultiChoice Group, continuing its strategy of cooperating with competitors in the hope of keeping its own customers sweet, on Friday said it has added YouTube to its high-end DStv Explora Ultra personal video recorder (PVR) decoder.
The addition of the Google-owned YouTube to the platform comes after MultiChoice last year launched the Explora Ultra, offering its own DStv and Showmax streaming services along with rival services Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
The new PVR offers what MultiChoice calls a âDiscovery And Launchâ or Dial protocol that allows viewers to play YouTube videos from another device like a smartphone directly onto the TV without first pairing the devices. This makes it easier to watch shared or archived content from a secondary device of choice, the broadcaster said in a statement.
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What does an online delivery service, a payment solutions provider, an online publication and a film and television production company have in common? Young and passionate entrepreneurs funded by the MultiChoice Innovation Fund.
This support was crucial during the past year’s Covid-related challenges. The fund provided much-needed financial support to the eight beneficiaries, all black majority-owned small businesses, which helped them to create 47 new jobs.
Some of the companies that have been added to the growing list of MultiChoice Innovation Fund beneficiaries include: Bubblegum Club: Born as a cultural intelligence agency, it has grown into a digital publication and a content production studio.