Services · Mobile app development · Video streaming apps
We take on video streaming app development in Jeddah for film distributors, festival and cinema teams, football clubs, broadcasters of lectures and cultural programmes, and hospitality groups along the Corniche. That means apps for phones and televisions, an on-demand library with rental and subscription options, live streams for match days and premieres, DRM that satisfies the studios, and a back office your programmers can run. Jeddah audiences mix long-settled families, residents from dozens of countries and visitors passing through, so the product has to speak several languages from launch.
Discovery, design reviews and sprint demos run by video call with your Jeddah team, and every decision is recorded in a shared scope document you can circulate to partners and rights holders. Everything we build, from the apps to the CDN account, is registered to your company.
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What a Jeddah streaming app can include
Jeddah has two strong reasons to stream. The Red Sea International Film Festival, now held in the Cultural Square in Al-Balad, has made the city a meeting point for Arab and international cinema, and independent producers want somewhere to show their work after the festival screens go dark. On the other side of town, Al Ittihad and Al Ahli supporters follow every training session and press conference. Add a resident population that speaks Arabic, English, Urdu, Tagalog, Bahasa and more, and the requirements become clear: flexible business models, territory aware rights, subtitles in many languages and a player that copes with patchy mobile data. These are the building blocks we usually combine. Few clients need all of them at once, and the order depends on whether your first audience is film lovers, football fans or hotel guests.
Transactional video lets a viewer rent a new release for a set viewing window or buy it outright, while subscribers browse the wider catalogue. Both models share one account, so someone who rents a festival title can later subscribe without signing up again. Prices per title are set in the CMS, not in code.
Independent films earn from day one, not only from subscriptions.
Online screenings open at a scheduled hour, close after a defined period and cap the number of viewers, mirroring a cinema hall. A Q&A with the director can follow live in the same player. Tickets for a virtual screening can be bundled with a cinema seat, and the replay stays locked once the window closes.
Festival programmers reach audiences who could not attend in Al-Balad.
Subtitle tracks, dubbed audio and audio description managed per title, with right to left Arabic rendering handled properly in the player and the interface switching language without a restart. Translators upload files through the CMS, and viewers set a default subtitle language once for every title.
Viewers from different communities watch the same film in their own language.
Distributors often hold Saudi rights for one title, MENA rights for another and festival-only rights for a third. Each item carries its own countries, dates and permitted business models, enforced automatically at playback. Expiring titles show a warning to your team weeks ahead. Holdbacks for theatrical release are respected.
Sales agents trust you with their films again.
Live pre-match shows, training footage, interviews and academy fixtures, with a match centre that sits alongside the video and push alerts when the team sheet is announced. Highlights publish shortly after each fixture, and members get early access to interviews and documentary episodes about the squad.
Supporters spend match day inside the club's own app.
Encrypted downloads with licence expiry, so viewers can watch on a flight from King Abdulaziz International Airport or in an area with poor coverage, while the rights owner keeps control over how long a file plays. Downloads quietly pause on mobile data unless the viewer allows them.
Viewing continues offline without weakening content protection.
Filmmakers and production companies upload masters, artwork and subtitle files, then see views, rentals and revenue share statements for their own titles only. Statements export to your accounting system each month. Each producer signs in separately, so no filmmaker ever sees the figures of another production.
Fewer emails chasing files and fewer disputes over numbers.
A guest version of the app for hotel and serviced apartment televisions, signed in by room, with a curated catalogue, automatic sign out at checkout and content chosen to suit families. Content can be refreshed weekly, and properties near the airport can add flight information alongside the programming.
Guests watch your programming instead of a generic TV menu.
mada and Apple Pay for residents, international cards for visitors, STC Bank where your audience uses it, and store billing on Apple and Google devices, with VAT invoices issued automatically. Failed payments are retried politely before access ends. Receipts arrive in Arabic or English, matching the viewer's language choice.
Nobody abandons a rental because their card was not accepted.
Autoplaying trailers on the home screen, short vertical previews that can be shared to WhatsApp and Instagram, and watch parties where friends in different cities start a film together and chat in a side panel while it plays. Watch parties respect the same territory rules as solo viewing.
Word of mouth turns into new viewers who arrive through a shared link.
Who this is for
Jeddah is a port city and the main air gateway for Umrah travellers heading to Makkah, so its audiences are unusually international and constantly changing. That affects language choice, payment choice and even the time of day people watch. The four groups below each start from a different place, and the first version we recommend reflects that. Evening viewing tends to run late in a city that comes alive after sunset, and peaks shift again during Ramadan, so scaling plans follow the real calendar rather than office hours.
You hold a slate of Saudi and Arab films with uneven rights, and you want a showcase that works during the festival and keeps earning afterwards. We start with a rental storefront and time limited screenings, then add subscription once the catalogue is deep enough. The rights engine is built first, because every other feature depends on knowing where and when each film may be shown. Producers get their own dashboards from the first release, which makes the platform easier to sell to new filmmakers.
We work from your rights spreadsheet, however messy it is.
Clubs in Jeddah have passionate followings at home and among expatriate fans abroad. A club streaming app carries the content the league broadcaster does not, such as academy games, behind the scenes features and long interviews. We design it around your existing broadcast commitments and add memberships so loyal supporters pay once for everything. Away fans in other Saudi cities and abroad become the paying audience, while local supporters get free highlights that keep them in the app. Content can be geo-blocked where league rights require it.
Institutions running lecture series, Quran recitation programmes or heritage documentaries about historic Jeddah want a respectful, ad-free home for their recordings. We build calm interfaces with clear categories, scholar or speaker pages, transcripts in several languages and audio-only playback for listening while commuting or travelling to Makkah. Search covers speakers, topics and Quranic references, so a viewer can find a specific lecture quickly. Recordings of evening lectures can be published the same night with chapter markers for each topic, and older archives can be digitised in batches.
Content review rules are written with your own editorial board.
Properties along the Corniche and near the airport host guests from across the Muslim world and beyond. A branded in-room and mobile streaming service gives them films, children's programming and destination guides in their language, and it gives the property a channel for its own promotions during the stay. Integration with the property management system keeps room status in sync without extra work for front desk staff. Staff can switch the curated selection by season, for example promoting family films during school holidays and religious programming in Ramadan.
How we work together
Distributors and clubs usually begin with a fixed scope release tied to a programme date and continue on a monthly retainer for new titles, devices and features. Groups with a bigger roadmap can take a dedicated team that joins their stand-ups. Codeeo's team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi works with Jeddah clients through scheduled video calls and a shared project board, so progress is visible every week. Ownership of the code and accounts transfers to you throughout, not at the end, so there is never a moment when your platform depends on our goodwill.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Players, encoders, multi-DRM services and CDNs are selected for your device mix and audience spread, with a preference for components your future engineers can replace one at a time instead of a single locked platform. Hosting location is agreed with you under the PDPL, and the CDN is chosen for strong delivery across the Kingdom and to viewers abroad.
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It depends on devices, catalogue size and the business model.
A rental storefront for a festival slate on phones and the web is a smaller project than a club TV service with live matches on four TV platforms. We agree the release order around your fixed date, put the rights engine and payments first, and hold back features that can follow later. The dates are written into the scope after discovery, not guessed on the first call. If the date cannot move, we cut scope rather than quality, and we tell you which items moved and why.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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