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💼 The CABSAT 2025 Guide
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💼 The CABSAT 2025 Guide

What’s happening on stage, and off.

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Yann Colleter
May 12, 2025
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Hey streamers! Welcome to Dubai for CABSAT 2025 😎👇

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CABSAT 2025 starts tomorrow, and if you’re coming to (very) sunny Dubai this week, this guide is for you.

I wasn’t there for the very first edition in 1993, but after attending more than 10 times, I’ve earned my badge as a regular 😉

In this guide, I’ll help you make the most of your time:

✅ A quick look at the main agenda

✅ The private events and parties you should know about

✅ Last-minute tips to connect with the right people, especially streamers

Here’s your guide to CABSAT 2025 👇


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Read on to learn about:

  1. CABSAT 2025: What’s on the agenda? A quick tour of the official agenda and top sessions to attend

  2. The unofficial CABSAT: Private events, off-agenda summits, and where real conversations happen

  3. So What? How to connect with streamers and make the most of your time at CABSAT


This edition is supported by RightsHero, the AI based technology for Anti-Piracy, Content Protection & Cybersecurity.

RightsHero

If you work in MENA streaming, you already know: The biggest threat isn’t churn. It’s not discovery. It’s not even payment or internet access.

It’s piracy, and everyone in the industry will tell you the same.

There are great initiatives to understand the impact of piracy in the region, like the Iraq Without Piracy summit I attended in Baghdad earlier this year.

But I still hear it too often: “There’s nothing we can do.”

There are real solutions, and experts dedicated to this fight.

RightsHero is one of them, working with local broadcasters, streaming platforms, media companies and festivals across MENA. Some of the tools they use:

  • Search Engines (De-Listing)

  • Tubes & UGC Web Enforcement

  • App Stores Protections

  • Live Streaming Disruption

  • Illegal Ads Takedown

  • Illegal IPTV Devices and Apps Disruption

  • Pirated Content Monitoring & Analytics

  • P2P Content Monitoring & Analytics

  • Cyber Security Services & Auditing

  • Forensic & Technical Investigation

The results speak for themselves:

✅ 3M+ pirated videos detected in 2024

✅ 94% success rate in content removal

✅ 1.1M+ takedowns on Telegram, Dailymotion, OK.ru

✅ Trusted by Rotana, Shahid, stc tv, Viu, Yango Play, and more

One of the best ways to fight piracy? Keep talking about it, and showing what it really looks like.

Here’s a short video I recommend from RightsHero: “The daily reality for media companies facing piracy.” Let me know what you think!


CABSAT 2025: What’s on the agenda?

If you’ve never heard of CABSAT before, the name might sound old-school, and that’s because it is. It started back when CABLE and SATELLITE ruled the media world.

But times have changed.

Today, CABSAT is much more than that. The event now calls itself: “Pioneering the Future of Media and Entertainment in MEASA.”

If you want to understand what CABSAT is really about, just look at two things: The conference program and the exhibitor list

🎤 Let’s start with the conferences.

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