French company JCDecaux has appointed South African Donald Liphoko as marketing director for sub-Saharan Africa for the outdoor advertising group. The French company has just announced its choice of the South African. He will now be responsible for implementing JCDecaux's strategies in sub-Saharan Africa. "We are very pleased to welcome...
4,110,000 subscribers for CANAL+ in Africa
The Vivendi Group's financial results published on February 14 confirm the importance of the African continent for the CANAL+ Group With an increase of more than 650,000 additional subscribers, the CANAL+ Group reached 4,110,000 subscribers in Africa at the end of December. At the end of December 2018, the Canal+...
Interview with Clémentine Tugendhat, Director of Thematic Channels at Canal+ International
Since its launch in April 2015, NOVELAS TV has attracted a very large audience, to the point where it is now by far the most watched pan-African channel in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. According to the latest Africascope study, in 2018, 51.5% of respondents had watched the channel in the previous...
Interview with Denise Époté, Director of TV5 Monde Afrique
According to the latest Africascope 2018 results, TV5 Monde Afrique is the most watched generalist channel across Africa, with a 5% audience share and a 48.5% cumulative audience over the last seven days. What do you think is the secret to your channel's enduring success? The mirror effect is undeniable!...
CANAL+ supports Beninese cinema
A few weeks after a training session dedicated to ORTM journalists organized in Mali, CANAL+ launched a new initiative in Benin, in the city of Cotonou. See also: Canal+ and Galaxie Africa train Malian television journalists Out of around 100 applications received, ten young local talents were selected by the...
JCDecaux signs partnership agreement with Abidjan city authorities
Out with the old bus shelters and anarchic posters in the city, JCDecaux wants to work with urban authorities to build modern advertising street furniture. On February 5, 2019, Philippe Landrieu, CEO of JCDecaux - Côte d'Ivoire, presented the French company's ambitious project: "The aim is to create street furniture...
Lagardère sells media assets to South African group Kagiso Media
On Monday, the Lagardère group announced that it had sold a 20% stake in South African radio station Jacaranda to the Kagiso Media group, as part of its ongoing refocusing on its publishing and transport distribution activities. In its press release, the French group stated that this stake had been...
Press release: TV5Monde at FESPACO, February 23 to March 2, 2019
As a partner of major international and French-language festivals, TV5Monde is joining forces with the latest edition of FESPACO, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This anniversary edition will be featured on the channel with the program "300 Millions de critiques" (300 Million Critics) as well as "L'Invité"...
Interview with Stanislas Seveno, Senior Client Advisor at Kantar TNS
The Africascope results have just been released. What stands out to you about the 2018 edition? Firstly, we can see strong growth momentum among internet users across the board. This is particularly true in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the development of lower-cost data plans...
Africascope 2018: press release from Canal+ Advertising
The results of the 2018 AFRICASCOPE** study conducted by KANTAR TNS among residents of the capitals of eight sub-Saharan African countries, representing 18.7 million individuals aged 15 and over, once again highlight the exceptional performance of the pan-African television channels marketed by CANAL+ ADVERTISING: CANAL+ SPORT, the leading channel among...