Arab online video sharing by AlArabiya.net …. what!
Strange!
An official news source and top Arab satellite news network is pioneering the concept of online video sharing in the Arab world!
AlArabiya.net, the highly trafficked website of AlArabiya news TV (part of the MBC network), introduced an online video sharing site and it’s quite successful.
Whereas independent sites like YouTube or Metacafe created this idea worldwide, the most popular Arabic implementation comes from the website of a TV broadcaster!
Obviously, they’ve got some Web 2.0-influence within their otherwise rigid news organization.
The question is, how relevant are personal videos (some even taken by mobile phone) to a serious news site. Is comedy and ridicule part of the image of a professional news TV channel like Al Arabiya?
Visit AlArabiya’s video sharing site here.
1 comment October 29th, 2006
