After billions of rands in losses, Showmax is officially out and a new streaming app in coming to South Africa!

A new streaming app is coming to South Africa following the recent decision to close MultiChoice's Showmax.

MultiChoice will replace Showmax with the Canal+ app, ensuring a seamless transition for subscribers and addressing significant financial losses.

MultiChoice will discontinue Showmax, drawing a line under one of Africa's most ambitious streaming experiments.

French media giant Canal+ has labelled African streaming platform Showmax an “expensive failure” after deciding to shut down ...

MultiChoice has announced that it will shut down Showmax, ending the streaming platform that was once positioned as the ...

Drama series 'Falwsome' makes its return to Showmax amongst other new titles The move finalises the partnership between MultiChoice and Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky that it announced last year. 21 ...

The chaos and uncertainty at MultiChoice has heightened after word that the entertainment giant will soon shut down its ...

Estimates suggested that Showmax had overtaken Netflix’s 1.8 million African subscribers by the end of 2023, reaching 2.1 million users, and continued growing after its relaunch in February 2024. The ...

The widely circulated Canal+ corporate statement was four careful paragraphs of saying almost nothing. The numbers, though, tell a story of a streaming experiment that burnt ...

Canal+ has called Showmax an “expensive failure” whose closure will help accelerate cost savings at MultiChoice.

Showmax reassured its clients that there will be no interruption to its current services. “You can continue streaming as ...