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Meta launches ‘Creators of Tomorrow’ campaign celebrating emerging talents from across Sub-Saharan Africa www.theexchange.africa
  • The chosen Creators of Tomorrow are making waves in their online communities and demonstrating a best-in-class approach to video formats, technology, and interactive entertainment.
  • Over the next year, Meta will work closely with these creators to help them increase their audiences and turn their interests into careers using Meta technologies.
  • Meta will organise unique events across the region to honour the Creators of Tomorrow, presenting the most recent news, insights, tools, and resources from Meta technologies

 

Meta has announced the start of ‘Creators of Tomorrow,’ a new initiative that recognises young talents from across the world who are driving a new wave of creative material on the internet.

The campaign highlights Sub-Saharan African innovators from East Africa, Southern Africa, and Francophone Africa.

The chosen Creators of Tomorrow are making waves in their online communities and demonstrating a best-in-class approach to video formats, technology, and interactive entertainment.

The global campaign …

French's Canal+ Group acquires Rwandan studio Zacu TV www.theexchange.africa
  • Since its inception in 2017, ZACU has made rapid strides toward being one of the most successful internet streaming service providers in East Africa
  • 19% of Rwandan households owned a TV in 2019, therefore the country’s 9.37 million mobile phone users make a considerably more viable business for digital content creators
  • Canal + already serves consumers in both Anglophone and Francophone West Africa, and it already has 23.7 million members all over the world

As part of its strategy to further consolidate its position in East Africa, the French company Canal+ Group has announced that it will be purchasing ZACU TV, Rwanda’s first digital streaming platform.

After recent forays into film production in West Africa, this current endeavor indicates that the French media behemoth recognizes the untapped potential of independent film production in Africa as an attraction for the growing on-demand viewership across the continent.

The decision to expand into …

opera news vs scooper

Digital news curation is one of the businesses that is doing well in Africa.

With most people in Africa having access to smartphones and other gadgets that can access the internet, there has been a growing urge for news and information.

However, despite the availability of certain information, getting the right content you want can sometimes be a hassle as they tend to be scattered all across the internet.

Digital content curation and players are killing it in Africa, by bringing people the latest and most popular news on different categories.

People are now able to get trending news as well as local and international happenings which they can manually personalize according to their preferences.

Currently, there are three digital news curation companies that are making a killing in Africa.

These are Opera News, Scooper News and Phoenix Browser.

Opera News

Opera News was basically a feature that was incorporated …