Africa: Connected Video's Niclas Ekdahl Sees Increasing Levels of VOD Use and Pitches a Showmax Half Price Mobile Offer in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

It may seem a strange thing to say but Showmax is still finding its feet. Multichoice may be the powerful incumbent in the pay TV sector but it has to work out how to be a… Read more »

Nigeria: Arewa24's New Streaming Service Targets 8 Million Plus Hausa-Speaking Diaspora - Just Us$4.99 a Month

Northern Nigerian Hausa-language channel Arewa24 is launching Arewa24On Demand, a new global subscription video-on-demand and OTT streaming service. Russell Southwood spoke to… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's No 1 YouTube Channel Founder Mark Angel Talks About How He and His Comedy Channel Came to Success

YouTube in Africa is creating a whole new generation of talent that doesn't have to go through the usual gatekeepers on TV and radio. Russell Southwood spoke to Mark Angel who runs… Read more »

Africa: African Free-to-Use, Music Streaming Platform Mdundo Celebrates Its Seventh Birthday

African music streaming platforms proliferated ten years ago but many of them have closed over the intervening decade. Despite the hype, success in music streaming in Africa is a… Read more »

Africa: Kenya's Ludique Works Launches First Major Pan-Continental Esports Event Outside South Africa in October

Africa's online games sector is slowly picking up momentum with the first pan-continental eSports event taking place in Nairobi in October this year. Russell Southwood spoke to… Read more »

Africa: Digital Media, Content and Services - Why They Matter and What Is Africa Doing to Encourage Them?

Africa's digital content and services sector is growing in most African leading markets. But money is tight and it's hard to make it mass market rather than a privilege reserved… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Online Music Platform Spinlet Has Generated U.S.$1.2 Million in Revenues, Transitioning to Offering Streaming-As-a-Service to Non-Entertainment Companies Like Banks and Mobile Operators

Having been promoted as the iTunes of Africa, Nigerian music platform Spinlet ran into the realities of being early into a market where paying for music was still barely accepted.… Read more »

Cameroon: Wouri TV Works With Local Producers to Create Its Own Vod Content - Version Two of the Platform Will Offer Downloads and Mobile Money Payment

Caneroon is one of the less well known film and TV content producing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Three year old start-up Wouri TV wants to change all that by raising the… Read more »

Africa: Children's Animation Company Afrika Toon Gets Huge YouTube Following

African film and TV companies are still trying to figure out how online changes what they do. This week Russell Southwood talks to Abel Kouame who is the co-founder of Afrika Toon… Read more »

Africa: A 'LinkedIn for Africa' Aims At Students and Lower Income Groups

The large global online platforms like Google Search, Facebook and Instagram are so well established that they are hard to challenge out of Africa. LinkedIn is the global jobs and… Read more »

Africa: Afriquency Launches African Music Playlists On Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer and YouTube

With tens of millions of songs on global music streaming platforms, playlists have become a key tool in getting music heard by new audiences. Afriquency has just launched a series… Read more »

Africa: Bookbeak Believes Everyone Is a Storyteller

South African reading platform BookBeak has created an African reading platform with a news angle. It's both about crowd-sourced stories and writing from more experienced… Read more »

Africa: New Report Provides Most Detailed Overview of Africa's Digital Content

It's taken four years to bring together but now it's finally out. The latest report from Balancing Act provides one of the most detailed descriptions of the areas covered by this… Read more »