The RTI Business Meeting on May 6, 2021, at the Majestic Cinema Room of the Sofitel Hotel Ivoire, served as a forum for the RTI group to deliver the results of audience studies commissioned from three (3) leading research firms. These firms are KANTAR TNS, MEDIAMETRIE, and MARKETING CHOICE MY....
TV channels are displayed in Abidjan
In recent days, the streets of Abidjan have been flooded with visuals from communication campaigns launched by two major players in the Ivorian audiovisual sector. The first campaign promotes LIFE TV through visuals featuring the hosts of its main programs: LIFE TALK, LIFE WKD, LIFEMUSIC, and WILLY A MIDI. This...
Interview with Elodie Mbida, co-founder and Publishing Director of NAOLE MEDIA
Elodie MBIDA is the Publishing Director of Naole Média, a French-speaking African platform specializing in news about the communications industry, with a focus on public relations, communications, and crisis management. Convinced that local expertise must be fully leveraged to grow the ecosystem, she works to promote professionals in the communications...
Eutelsat expands Wi-Fi network coverage across sub-Saharan Africa with Express Wi-Fi, the platform designed by Facebook
Eutelsat Communications is set to ramp up its use of the Express Wi-Fi platform in partnership with Facebook to provide satellite broadband services in several regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Through Express Wi-Fi, Eutelsat aims to connect thousands of households in underserved rural areas stretching from Nigeria to Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania,...
Group Vivendi Africa rolls out CanalBox in Brazzaville
The Vivendi Africa Group, a new player in the African telecoms market, has announced the launch of CanalBox, its FTTH ultra-fast broadband internet service, in Brazzaville, two years after Pointe Noire. Three offerings will be rolled out across the country, providing fiber optic access to the entire population: Canalbox Start,...
African Digital Week held in Abidjan
After being canceled due to the health crisis, African Digital Week is back in 2021 with the main theme "Augmented Africa." Organized by the Groupement des opérateurs du secteur des TIC (Gotic) and the Confédération Générale des Entreprises de Côte d'Ivoire (CGECI), the 2021 edition of African Digital Week will...
"Junior, Golden Ideas," an animated series written by 10 African screenwriters
Ten young screenwriters from five countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, and Togo) have been participating in a screenwriting residency since early April to develop season 2 of the animated series "Junior des idées en or" (Junior with Golden Ideas), named after the hero of an animated...
MEDIAWAN, new developments in Africa?
According to La Lettre A, Mediawan, founded by Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse, and Pierre-Antoine Capton, is about to finalize the acquisition of a major production company in Ivory Coast and set up a division dedicated to Mediawan's development in Africa, which will be headed by François Thiellet, former director of...
IPTV Cameroon in the first quarter of 2021 +15.9%
Advertisers' gross advertising investments increased by 15.9% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the first quarter of 2020, according to the Omedia institute, which conducts monthly advertising monitoring of the CRTV and CANAL2 television channels in Cameroon. Five advertisers appeared in the TOP 10 in January, February, and...
Death of Bechir Ben Yahmed, founder of Jeune Afrique
Bechir Ben Yahmed, founder of Jeune Afrique magazine in Tunisia in 1960, died on Monday, May 3, from COVID at the age of 93. Born in Djerba in 1928, Bechir Ben Yahmed launched Afrique Action in 1960, which became Jeune Afrique a few months later. Founded to support the emergence...