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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 »
Africa: Vodacom Video Play Hits 800,000 Active Subscribers in Seven Months and Will Expand Into Lesotho, Tanzania, Mozambique and DRC
Africa's mobile operators have struggled with Video-on-Demand platforms and faced a number of obstacles including the shortcomings of their own networks. But at last things seem to… Read more »
Ethiopia: Diaspora Digital Music Service Arifzefen Prepares to Launch Back Home
Ethiopia is one of Africa's larger digital markets with lots of unrealized potential. Recent political changes mean that may slowly begin to change. Russell Southwood spoke to… Read more »
Africa: 2019 Must Be the Year Africa's Mobile Operators Adop
Digital content and services have been slow to take off, even in Africa's largest digital markets. The cost of data and the fear of running out of it still haunt's Africa's young… Read more »
Africa: Umoyastream Pilots a Pan-African Gospel Streaming Platform at Taxi Tanks Using Localized Wi-Fi + Hard Drive Delivery
Streaming in Africa is a tough mountain to climb but Thabo Dabengwa knows that as he set up his new company after being made redundant from Kagiso Media. Russell Southwood spoke to… Read more »
Africa: Umoyastream Pilots Pan-African Gospel Streaming Platform at Taxi Ranks
Kenya: Odanga Madung, Odipo Dev On Its Charting of Celebrity Engagement in Kenya and What It Costs to Buy Celebrity Influencers
There are now many African online celebrities and offline celebrities who've built a following. Digital savvy ad agencies are now buying access to their followers to get people to… Read more »
Nigeria: Music Streaming Services Continue to Grow Despite Coson Chaos, Regulatory Barriers and Etisalat Crash
Nigeria's music steaming services have really being going through it recently: the near bankruptcy and coming ownership change at 9mobile; restrictive regulations from NCC; and… Read more »
Kenya: Viusasa Wants to Be the One-Stop Shop for Local Content
George Waititu is the CEO, Content Aggregation which has launched Kenya's Viusasa. It wants to become the local content contender able to take on the other more Pan-African… Read more »
Africa: Angola's Leading Online News Site Club K Tracks Corruption and Human Rights Abuses
Africa's diaspora produced news websites allow people in tightly controlled and/or corrupt states to know what's actually happening in their country. Russell Southwood spoke to… Read more »
Africa: Promoting Africa's Games Developers Internationally At Gamescon and Paris Games Week
The African gamers community is growing in numbers but the challenges of producing games for the continent are considerable. However, slowly things are beginning to fall into… Read more »
Africa: Ringier's News and Info Platform Pulse Gets 170 Million Video Views Per Month With Short-Form Content
Since 2011 Swiss media firm Ringier has steadily built up its African businesses covering classified platforms and media. Their growth has been significant and demonstrate that… Read more »
Africa: Worldreader Increases It Active Readers in Africa and Wants to Get Its APP On 40 Million Handsets Through Opera
Free book reading platform Worldreader has over the last three years increased its active readers in Sub-Saharan Africa and has ambitious plans to keep increasing the numbers.… Read more »
Cape Verde: Cap Verdean and Congolese Music Streaming Platform Launched
Cap Verdean music industry veteran Elodie Dasilva, CEO of music label LusAfrica and DRC's Djo Moupondo of La Clique Musique have come together to launch a low-cost music streaming… Read more »
Africa: Duncan Mcleod, Founder, Techcentral On Why Podcasts Will Become Massive When Mobile Data Prices Fall and Why He's Doing Podcasting
Podcasting gives enormous opportunities to those in Africa who can produce high-quality content. Data costs still need to come down and discoverability needs to go up but there are… Read more »
Africa: Why Design Is 'One of the Most Important Things Happening On the Continent'
Danish designer Jens Martin Skibsted became interested in Africa but couldn't find much on Africa design. He launched a magazine called Ogojii - Innovation in African Design which… Read more »
Africa: One of Africa's Successful Youtubers You've Never Heard of Talks About Passionate Content, Mother Tongue Languages and Monetizing Channels
Vusi Sibiya is a soft-spoken but highly knowledgeable YouTuber who has both set up successful YouTube channels for media organizations and sells advertising for channels. Russell… Read more »
Africa: Digital Lab Africa Drives Content Innovation
Digital Lab Africa was launched last year by the French Embassy and the French Institute in South Africa as part of their on-going support to creative industries. It has partnered… Read more »
Africa: Airbnb Looks for Tourism Growth Across Africa
Airbnb is an international shared economy start-up that has built its presence in Africa without a lot of hoopla. At the end of last year, it released a progress report on where it… Read more »
Africa: South Africa's Joox Takes On International Music Streaming Brands
Once the biggest thing in town, South African media and entertainment giant Naspers is now playing the unaccustomed role of underdog with digital service. But maybe its launch of… Read more »
Zambia: Vodafone Zambia's Music Streaming Service 'Is Different to Everywhere Else' and It's Also Planning Other Digital Content Services
Music streaming services have had some success in Sub-Saharan Africa but it has tended to be in the larger country markets. This week we talk to Vodafone Zambia's B2B Director… Read more »
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