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brainiac/studio

Digital Studio

brainiac/studiobrainiac/studio

Serving Oman

Englishالعربية
industries / media & entertainment

Media platforms built to publish, stream, and get paid for it.

For streaming services, digital publishers, creator platforms, podcast networks and sports clubs. Video delivery, content workflows, subscriptions and ad tech, and the audience data that tells you what is working.

In short

We build streaming, publishing, creator and sports-media platforms for companies in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Oman, then Europe and Pakistan — Arabic and English, subscriptions and ad tech. We have not shipped a streaming service; payments transfer from Pay2m and Kuickpay, publishing from our website and social work for Future Sports.

Updated November 2026

our approach

A practice, not a sales territory.

Media software has one non-negotiable: content must load quickly, everywhere, on every device. A buffering video at prime time is a lost viewer; a broken paywall on launch day is lost revenue. Most media companies underestimate the infrastructure until they hit a traffic spike they didn't plan for.

We have not shipped a streaming service, and we say so. What transfers: subscriptions and payments from Pay2m and Kuickpay, fast content sites on Next.js and Cloudflare, and the website, brand and social media we run for Future Sports in Doha. Video delivery is mostly managed services — Mux, Cloudflare Stream, AWS — and our job is wiring them together properly: adaptive streaming, entitlements, and ad insertion that doesn't wreck page speed.

Audiences compare you with Netflix, Shahid and YouTube. The standard is adaptive streaming, useful recommendations, live events that hold up, and subscription flows without dark patterns. In the Gulf add Arabic and English throughout, with subtitles in both.

— who we build for

Sub-verticals.

Streaming & video-on-demandDigital publishing & newsCreator & influencer platformsPodcast & audio platformsLive events & sports techSports clubs & academiesOTT / FAST channelsContent licensing & syndicationFan engagement platformsAd-supported media (AVOD)
— problems we solve

Common engagements.

— 01

Video delivery & adaptive streaming

HLS/DASH encoding pipelines, multi-bitrate transcoding, Cloudflare Stream or Mux integration, subtitles in Arabic and English, and the CDN configuration that serves each device the right bitrate.

— 02

Subscription & paywall architecture

Stripe / RevenueCat or local-gateway subscriptions, metered paywalls, trial-to-paid flows, entitlement enforcement across web and mobile, and dunning logic for failed payments.

— 03

Content management & publishing workflows

Headless CMS architecture (Sanity, Contentful), editorial workflows, scheduled publishing, SEO-optimised content pipelines, and the multi-tenant infrastructure that separates editorial from engineering deploys.

— 04

Ad tech integration

Google Ad Manager, VAST/VPAID pre-roll and mid-roll insertion, header bidding, programmatic floor pricing, and the client-side performance engineering that keeps page TTI under control when ad tags load.

— 05

Audience data & recommendations

Play-through tracking, engagement scoring, content recommendation engines, A/B testing frameworks, and the first-party data infrastructure that replaces third-party cookies with durable audience signals.

— 06

Creator monetisation tools

Tipping, fan subscriptions, pay-per-view events, digital merchandise, affiliate tracking, and the rights-management layer that works out who gets paid across every revenue stream.

— by market

Media, market by market.

Gulf — Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman

Saudi Arabia's investment in entertainment and sport is creating new streaming, events and fan products. Media is licensed — GCAM in Saudi Arabia, the Media Council in the UAE — Arabic and English are both required, and clubs and academies need content and registration in one place.

Spain, Italy, France

Strong publishing and sports-media markets. GDPR consent shapes every ad and analytics decision, the European Accessibility Act raises the bar on captions and players, and the AVMS Directive applies to on-demand services.

Pakistan

A large, mobile-first audience on limited data. Video has to start on weak connections, payments run through wallets and carrier billing more than cards, and Urdu and English both matter.

— when not to hire us

When a hosted platform is enough.

If you need a video library behind a paywall, a hosted video-subscription platform will get you live sooner and more cheaply than a custom build. Hire us when the product is the differentiator — your own apps, unusual rights or monetisation rules, or integrations no hosted platform supports.

— compliance

Built for regulated work.

Saudi GCAM licensing for audiovisual and digital media
UAE Media Council content and advertising rules
Qatar PDPPL, Saudi PDPL, UAE PDPL and Oman PDPL
GDPR for audience data (EU)
EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive
European Accessibility Act and WCAG 2.1, with captions
Copyright takedown workflows
Card data kept with the payment provider (PCI DSS scope reduction)
— tech stack

Tools we reach for first.

faq

Frequently asked.

8 questions answered. Still have one? Reach out.

Yes, as a scoped product: adaptive HLS/DASH delivery through Mux or Cloudflare Stream, subscription paywalls, profiles and recommendations. 'Netflix-style' is a scope question, not a technical one. We'll scope the first version honestly so you launch with what you need, not an over-engineered one.

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— this sector

Tell us where it hurts.

We will say honestly whether we have shipped in your sector, what transfers from the ones we have, and where the expensive mistakes usually are.