Hello, Joel-Amos BADI You must be very busy at the start of this new academic year in 2025. What are the main new features planned for your program schedule? JAB: Actually, we are currently focused on our coverage of the presidential campaign, which will keep us busy until mid-November. So...
ZIFFA, a new film festival in Senegal
The first edition of Ziffa (Ziguinchor International Film Festival & Animation) will take place in Casamance from November 12 to 15, 2025. This new film festival aims to promote the Ziguinchor region through a pan-African and international artistic program, while highlighting cultural diversity, youth creativity, and the potential of southern...
Three African series selected for the Rendez-vous Création Francophone at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival
The series ECHOES (10x52'), developed by Aby Media (Kimberley Azria and Bernard Azria) in partnership with RTI, has been selected for the Rendez-vous de la Création Francophone at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival, which will take place on September 16 and 17 and will showcase a select group of projects...
How brands used TV in Cameroon in 2024
After Senegal and Ivory Coast, Adweknow has published its annual report, which provides valuable insights into how brands managed their TV advertising presence in Cameroon in 2024, based on TV advertising data from Ipsos. According to IPSOS, ORANGE Cameroon, MTN Cameroon, and CANAL2 ranked first in the monthly TOP 10...
After SICA, SIMA
Following Côte d'Ivoire, which hosted the third edition of the Abidjan International Audiovisual Content Exhibition (SICA) in Abidjan last June, it is now Senegal's turn to launch the first edition of a new event that will bring together media professionals, public institutions, technical partners, and digital companies: the International Media...
In Togo, an animation studio is reimagining African stories
Article published in Le Figaro and selected by Adweknow (Le Figaro with AFP) In a working-class neighborhood of Lomé, the capital of Togo, the teams at the Aruka animation studio aim to reinvent African stories in order to show an image of their continent that bucks the clichés. Cartoonists, editors, voice...
Initial results of the New National Audiovisual Media Measurement
After more than two years of anticipation, the national audience measurement system for audiovisual media is finally up and running: the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA) published the first results this week. The Kantar study was conducted in two waves: from May 6 to 30, 2025, and from June...
GLOBO and CÔTE OUEST AUDIOVISUEL at MIP AFRICA
(press release) GLOBO will be alongside Côte Ouest Audiovisuel (Mediawan Africa) for the second consecutive year at the fourth edition of MIP Africa, which will take place from September 1 to 3, 2025, in Cape Town, South Africa. This must-attend event, which brings together producers, broadcasters, platforms, and economic operators,...
Gulli Africa celebrates its 10th anniversary
Created in 2015 in 22 French-speaking African countries by the Lagardère Active group, already publisher of Canal J and Gulli France, and sold to the M6 group in 2019, which has been its publisher ever since, Gulli Africa is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The channel is available exclusively on Canal+...
CANAL+/MULTICHOICE: APPROVAL BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMPETITION COURT
CANAL+ and MULTICHOICE announced in a press release published on July 23 that the South African Competition Tribunal has approved CANAL+'s mandatory takeover bid to acquire all outstanding ordinary shares of Multichoice Group not already owned by CANAL+, excluding treasury shares, from MCG shareholders for ZAR 125.00 per share. This...