

“YouTube is becoming more successful in Saudi Arabia, and people are creating more genuine content because we have nothing else to do,” he said.

MBC, which commissioned Sketch-in-Motion, an animation studio in Amman, to produce a short series about a Bedouin tribe called Al Masageel, is talking to the company about a longer second season. There are more revenue streams that could be generated around this animation, other than the traditional sponsorship or television spots and this should give more room for growth.” “However, they are going to be more aware of this genre, especially that the business model is changing. “There is still some resistance in the market, especially from traditional broadcasters,” Badih Fattouh, the MBC group director in Dubai for content, said this month in a telephone interview. Online Arab creativity has also been galvanized by high Internet and mobile penetration, affordable Internet and cellphone services, censorship in traditional media outlets and the fact that most of the world’s 300 million Arabs are tech-savvy youths who scour the Internet for content that piques their interests. But the demand for original Arabic content is fueling more investment in an industry once looked upon as a children’s play space, rather than a money-making, cross-generational genre. The rise in interest in Arab animation is a recent development. After successful installation, you can find "Arabic Cartoon/افلام كرتون" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.MBC, a Saudi-owned television group, called him with a job offer, so he quit his advertising job.
