According to Value Partners, a leading management consultancy firm in the Middle East, there is a significant role that digital platforms and new technology can play in the development of local content in the region. This includes the localization of content, experimenting with 'freemium' models and the collaboration of broadcasters and telco players, encouraging the collaboration between rights owners and network providers in the Middle East for funding of digital content - both online and mobile.

According to A.T.Kearney, a leading management consultuncy company, the UAE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between key government and private players in the media community. The launch of the UAE’s TV Audience Measurement Project is a significant step that will lead to increased transparency, influencing TV channels’ attractiveness to advertisers and representing a potential of additional TV advertisement revenue for media companies worth more than $2bn.

Talking to Bloomberg TV, Arabian Business reports that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is planning to start a regional news channel, one that would compete with Al-Arabiya and A-Jazeera. This investment is something that Prince Alwaleed will be doing personally, and not produced through Kingdom Holding or Rotana. According to Bloomberg, the news channel would borrow from the business model used at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Sky News channels while broadcasting different content in the Middle East.