The Center East and North Africa’s media {industry} is about to increase to $20.6bn by 2028, based on Dubai Media Metropolis’s Arab Media Outlook – Future Imaginative and prescient report.
Dubai Media Metropolis will play a number one position in spotlighting the sector’s transformation when it joins international leaders at BRIDGE Summit 2025, working from December 8–10 on the Abu Dhabi Nationwide Exhibition Centre.
The occasion, recognised because the world’s largest gathering of leaders within the media, cultural and inventive industries, will spotlight the area’s rising affect and speedy tempo of change throughout content material creation, know-how and digital economies.
Dubai Media Metropolis
For greater than twenty years, Dubai Media Metropolis has fuelled the event of the UAE’s media and inventive industries.
Along with Manufacturing Metropolis and Studio Metropolis, it types TECOM Group’s Media Cluster, dwelling to main international manufacturers reminiscent of CNN, Reuters, Discovery Networks and Epson. Throughout the three ecosystems, greater than 40,000 artistic professionals contribute to shaping the area’s increasing media panorama.
At BRIDGE Summit, Dubai Media Metropolis will underscore the alternatives rising from the sector’s projected rise from $17bn in 2024 to $20.6bn by 2028, reflecting a 4.9 per cent compound annual development charge.
Majed Al Suwaidi, Senior Vice President of Dubai Media Metropolis, Dubai Manufacturing Metropolis and Dubai Studio Metropolis at TECOM Group, mentioned: “The exponential development and evolution of the regional media market necessitate a collaborative strategy from {industry} stakeholders throughout the private and non-private sectors to chart a sustainable, unified path ahead. Digital transformation is basically altering how companies function, customers eat, and creators create.
“The BRIDGE Summit presents a strategic alternative for us to make sure its integration works to the benefit of creativity. Our dedication to shaping this future trajectory and contributing to the ambitions of the Dubai Financial Agenda D33 underscores our recurring participation at this prestigious media occasion.
“We stay up for empowering our numerous neighborhood of creators, innovators, changemakers, and storytellers, and collectively shaping the best way ahead.”
Championing creators and start-ups
Media Metropolis will even champion the varied artistic and media neighborhood it hosts — spanning multinational media organisations, regional companies and high-growth start-ups.
Strengthening this presence can be in5 Media, the industry-focused vertical of TECOM Group’s in5 entrepreneurship incubator.
in5 helps start-up development by offering entry to superior content material creation and manufacturing amenities, together with recording and manufacturing studios, screening rooms and modifying suites.
It additionally presents mentorship and networking alternatives to assist founders convey high-quality content material and progressive media merchandise to market.
Dubai data and innovation financial system
Dubai Media Metropolis sits inside TECOM Group’s portfolio of enterprise districts, which incorporates:
- Web Metropolis
- Manufacturing Metropolis
- Studio Metropolis
- Information Park
- Worldwide Educational Metropolis
- Science Park
- Dubai Design District (d3)
- Industrial Metropolis
