ثمانية (Thmanyah) is a Saudi media company founded in 2016 that produces Arabic-language podcasts, documentaries, and newsletters while operating sports broadcasting infrastructure. Based in Riyadh, the company has scaled to over 134 million listeners and viewers across the Middle East and North Africa region. What started as a passion project has evolved into a technical operation that spans content production, broadcast engineering, and platform development.
The company's technical surface area extends beyond content creation into broadcast-quality delivery systems and platform infrastructure. Thmanyah serves as the exclusive carrier of Saudi sports championships, claiming unprecedented broadcast quality in live sports transmission. The organization operates across multiple technical domains: podcast production pipelines, documentary workflows, newsletter distribution systems, broadcast engineering for live sports, and platform development aimed at empowering Arab content creators. This technical stack supports content spanning lifestyle, culture, politics, cinema, and community documentation across the Arab world.
Thmanyah's engineering work includes building solutions designed to support Arabic journalism in the digital age - infrastructure that needs to handle both the content delivery pipeline for millions of daily users and the broadcast requirements of live sports events. The company positions itself as transforming how journalism reaches Arabic audiences through technical innovation, operating at the intersection of media production, platform engineering, and broadcast infrastructure. Led by CEO Abdulrahman Abumalih, the organization maintains both content production operations and the underlying technical systems that make distribution possible at regional scale.