OSN
“Can a regional MENA pay-TV operator transition into a streaming-first subscription business while keeping legacy DTH economics viable?”
HQDubai Media City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
IndustryMedia / Streaming & Pay-TV
The story
OSN (operated by Gulf DTH FZ LLC) is a MENA-region pay-TV and streaming operator headquartered in Dubai Media City. Its embedded finance footprint is limited to subscription billing rails (credit/debit cards and PayPal) plus an in-app wallet for the OSN Store box-office purchases. There is no evidence of banking, lending, issuing, payroll or other deeper embedded finance products.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2020
OSN partnered with PayPal as an official payment method for subscriptions via osn.com.· payments
The stack
Payments / PSP
Accounting gap: none