Explore the Fast Company Middle East’s Most Innovative Companies 2025 list, featuring 56 winning entries reshaping businesses and industries. We’ve selected the companies making the most significant impact with their initiatives across 24 categories, including the most innovative AI and data science, sustainability, energy, finance & fintech, and women-backed companies.

Media is where content meets strategy, shaping markets, culture, and ideas. These companies are driving innovation in distribution, analytics, and engagement, transforming how audiences experience information. They are capturing influence and trust, and thriving on insight, experimentation, and speed. 

Asharq News

For technology-driven, immersive journalism

Asharq News is redefining how audiences experience news. The channel launched The 4th Dimension in July, the first live news show to integrate a lifelike AI avatar that collaborates with human presenters to analyze complex topics in real-time. Using mixed reality, data visualization, and immersive graphics, Asharq News creates interactive and engaging experiences that captivate audiences. Its AI-powered Vertical Stream enables mobile viewers to navigate stories intuitively, while proprietary tools analyze 1,600 hours of video per month to enhance multilingual indexing and content discoverability. With these innovations, Asharq News has doubled its engagement metrics and achieved a record viewership, positioning the brand as a trusted and forward-thinking media pioneer.