The countdown has begun for Season 2 of the Basketball Africa League! On the schedule: 12 teams will compete in Senegal, Egypt, and Rwanda for a total of 38 games. In February 2020, just a few months after the creation of the first NBA Academy Africa in Dakar, aimed at...
Burkina Faso channels at the top on Facebook
RTB and BF1 occupy the top two spots in the TOP 10 channels in terms of Facebook subscribers outside the three countries we analyzed separately: Senegal, Cameroon, and Ivory Coast. Although not an indicator of audience size, the number of subscribers to a television channel's Facebook page is indicative of...
IPTV November 2021: a record month in Senegal thanks to food brands
November 2021 alone generated 2,152,000,000 CFA francs in gross advertising revenue in Senegal for the television channels studied by the Omedia institute. This represents an increase of +142% compared to the same period in 2020 and, more importantly, it is the first time that IPTV has exceeded 2 billion CFA...
"De plus en plus loin" (Further and Further Away), the new series from CANAL+ and Alex Ogou
After directing the hit series Invisibles and Cacao, Alex Ogou returns with a new series, "De plus en plus loin" (Further and Further). This time, Alex Ogou returns as producer of this new project made for CANAL+ International. It should be noted that the director created his own production company...
"Women of Africa in Action": 31 episodes of 4 minutes and a collection of 10 episodes of 13 minutes on TV5Monde
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, will exclusively broadcast season 3 of its short program dedicated to portraits of influential women in Africa, "Femmes d'Afrique en Action" (Women of Africa in Action), for one month starting March 1. International Women's Day will thus be celebrated every day in March on TV5MONDE, in...
23 African radio and television journalists honored at the first edition of the African Media Awards
The African Media Awards, organized by the Pan-African Journalists Network, will honor media professionals on the continent each year. For its first edition, the jury chose to reward two specialties in broadcast journalism, namely the best radio and television news presenters from the twelve French-speaking African countries that participated in...
Interview with Lacinan Ouattara, founder of the Abidjan International Media Forum
Lacinan Ouattara is a web journalist with nearly 15 years of experience in the media and communications sector. He has been working for 10 years at Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI), a public service media group, where he is responsible for implementing the digitalization strategy for content and media. Today, he...
Kwame Senou and Sophie Masipa launch a pan-African communications agency called ESG
After working at Harmonies Media Group in Ivory Coast, Kwame Senou founded Opinion & Public in 2019, a public relations agency affiliated with the BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe) group. Through this entity, he represents BCW in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Benin, and Liberia.He is also the vice president for French-speaking...
YouScribe announces fundraising of nearly €5 million
YouScribe, a digital streaming library, has announced that it has raised nearly €5 million in funding to consolidate its development in Africa.Created in 2011 in France, Youscribe is a digital library model that provides access to over a million books via mobile devices. Today, the startup has become the largest...
Altavia Blue Lions announces acquisition of Master Group agencies
Two years after announcing the acquisition of the pan-African digital communications agency Blue Lions, the Altavia group has officially integrated the agencies of Master Group, a network specializing in communications. Altavia is once again strengthening its presence in Africa and the Indian Ocean thanks to Master Group's long-standing locations in...