Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Al Jazeera Media Network is launching a streaming platform called Al Jazeera 360 that the Qatar-based news network is hailing as a digital milestone and a gateway for the public to watch its news content without restrictions at a time of mounting tensions over its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Following the Al Jazeera 360 kickoff on Sept. 15, the streamer — which is free-of-charge and currently only in Arabic language — has drawn more than a million views in its first week of service and hit more than 300,000 app downloads, according to Jamal Elshayyal, the network’s digital content manager.
In an interview with Variety Elshayyal called AJ360 “the fastest growing” streamer in the Arab World, even though, he added, “it’s early days.” The Al Jazeera 360 streaming and video-on-demand platform comprises the network’s news channels, plus a smattering of content produced exclusively for the platform, and, significantly, up to 50,000 hours of news programs and documentaries that have been in Al Jazeera Media Network’s archives since its inception in 1996.
The Al Jazeera 360 launch is taking place just as Israeli troops on Sunday stormed into its offices in the Israeli-occupied West Bank ordering the satellite network’s bureau to shut down after, in May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet shut down Al Jazeera’s operations within Israel.
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