As it does every year, the Vivendi group presented its results for the first half of the current year at the end of July, providing some insight into the development of CANAL+ in Africa. Overall, CANAL+'s total revenue amounted to €2.87 billion for the first six months of 2022, up...
Interview with Renaud Glenisson, CEO of Jumia Côte d'Ivoire
Renaud Glenisson joined Jumia Côte d'Ivoire in 2015 as Chief Financial Officer and was then appointed Chief Financial Officer for West Africa in 2017, still based in Abidjan. In 2020, he took on the role of Chief Financial and Risk Officer of JumiaPay for Africa and became Chief Executive Officer...
Ouagadougou hosts the first international short film festival
Beyond FESPACO, the continent's premier film festival, Burkina Faso is hosting its first international festival dedicated to short films: the Ouaga Court Festival. "There are very few venues for screening short films on the African continent, whereas elsewhere in the world there are high-quality, well-known festivals dedicated to this form...
Announcements, conflicts, and uncertainties three months before the 2022 FIFA World Cup
In July 2021, to everyone's surprise, it was announced that the free-to-air and pay TV rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup for French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa had been awarded to a Togolese company that was virtually unknown until then: New World TV. A year later, New World TV, whose...
IPTV in Senegal: +52% in the first half of 2022
IPTV in Senegal: +52% in the first half of 2022 Thanks to exceptional months in March and April, advertising investment in Senegalese television channels increased by more than 50% compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Omedia institute, which tracks TV advertising investment in several...
Netflix Creative Scholarships Equity Fund opens to students in West and Central Africa
Netflix announces the expansion of its Netflix Creative Equity Scholarship Fund to film and audiovisual students in West and Central Africa. Applications are now open for those wishing to study at institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, and Gabon. Launched in 2021, the Netflix Creative Equity Fund will be awarded to...
Ivory Coast: Voxafrica launches the first season of The Voice Kids Francophone Africa
After hosting the third season of the talent show The Voice Afrique in 2021, Côte d'Ivoire is now hosting the first season of The Voice Kids. The pan-African television channel Voxafrica has officially launched the French-speaking version of The Voice Afrique talent show dedicated to children. The channel's teams, led...
RFI launches the 8th edition of the RFI Talents du Rire Award
RFI launches the 8th edition of the "RFI Talents du Rire" award. Initiated by comedian Mamane, a columnist* on the international radio station, in collaboration with Gondwana-City Productions, this award has been showcasing new French-speaking comedy talent in Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Caribbean since 2015. The winner, selected...
"Africa in Figures," the new magazine from TV5MONDE Afrique
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, is broadcasting a new 15-episode economic magazine program called "L'Afrique en Chiffres" (Africa in Figures) exclusively on the web. The web magazine "L'Afrique en Chiffres" is a video module that addresses complex economic and social issues by presenting and analyzing key data from institutions as diverse...
4th wave 2022 Media measurement in Cameroon
Médiamétrie has just published, as it does every two months , the audience results for the fourth wave (May/July 2022) of its regular declarative measurement, carried out with Omedia from April 30 to May 15, 2022, and from July 2 to 17, 2022. The TV audience and Internet usage study...