Previously we had slowed down the expansion across the Egyptian market because of the sociopolitical situation.ĭid ICFLIX face any difficulties in acquiring films and series from the regional and international sellers given the fact that many of its competitors buy their content? So far, we have 700,000+ subscribers including 100,000+ from Egypt, each paying around LE 50 per month to see all our content. Yes, and for 2016 we have many strategic partnerships lined up with telecom operators across the region. Carlos Tibi, a high-tech entrepreneur, saw a gap in the market and co-founded a new video-on-demand platform in 2013.īack then the ICFLIX launch events in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco were the talk of the town, with many celebrities from these countries attending. In 2013, we launched the service online and on some smart devices and now, ICFLIX is available across 8,000+ devices. That’s when I came up with the idea for ICFLIX, an entertainment platform that combined Hollywood, Bollywood and Jazwood - a term we coined to represent Arabic cinema and programming. Everyone was asking if they could have something like Netflix but in Arabic, so I thought, why don’t we do something with Arabic content.
You couldn’t find it anywhere and if you did, it would be chopped up into different pieces, so you had to watch the first half then the other. While I was in the US, I felt this pent-up demand for Arabic content. I advised Fortune 500 companies and had most Fortune 100 companies as clients, helping them to structure and make their businesses more efficient by leveraging technology solutions.
I started my career on the West Coast California where I worked in technology. Egypt Today interviewed Carlos Tibi for a sneak peek at ICFLIX’s 2016 plans for the streaming market and the Arab film industry. His vision for ICFLIX was to create an over-the-top library, streaming content online, anywhere, anytime and on any device. ICFLIX offers Jazwood (Arabic content), Bollywood and Hollywood movies, TV series, documentaries and kids animation to a large group of cinema and television fans in the MENA region.īefore ICFLIX, Tibi held a number of senior management positions where he successfully designed and implemented e-commerce solutions for leading IT and Secure Cloud companies. Seeing a gap in the market, high-tech entrepreneur Carlos Tibi co-founded a new video-on-demand (VoD) platform in 2013. Netflix is set to be huge when it lands in Egypt this month, but despite all the raving, there are audiences in the Middle East and North Africa region who still want their Arabic content. Online entertainment streamer ICFLIX, offering affordable content in Arabic, plans on making more original TV shows and films this year, including the first movie to tackle the ISIS issue.
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