FeaturedQ4 2025 · ANNUAL REVIEW

The State of African Media Intelligence — 2025 Annual Report

Twelve months of coverage across 47 markets. Two decades of methodology refinement. One landscape that has fundamentally shifted: how brand reputation is built, measured, and defended in African media.

36-page report · methodology + benchmarks + 2026 outlook

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What is in the report

  • · The 12-month volume + sentiment baseline across 47 monitored markets
  • · Six structural shifts in African media we tracked in 2025
  • · Methodology revisions we are rolling out for 2026
  • · The five sectors where measurement gaps are most expensive
  • · An outlook framework for boards and CCOs planning the year

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Reputation Analytics14 Jan 2026

Why share-of-voice is the wrong question for most B2B brands.

Volume metrics dominate media-intelligence dashboards. But for most B2B organisations, the question that matters is not "how much" — it is "where, and to whom?" An argument for prominence-weighted measurement.

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Methodology08 Jan 2026

The impact score, explained.

Our scoring methodology pairs three variables — prominence, sentiment, and reach — into a single 1–5 composite. Here is how it works, why we built it this way, and what it does not measure.

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Industry Brief02 Jan 2026

African media markets — what changed in 2025.

Broadcast consolidation in Nigeria, the rise of WhatsApp-channel news distribution across SADC, and the regulatory tightening on social-platform monitoring in Kenya. Three structural shifts that should reshape your 2026 plan.

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Practitioner POV17 Dec 2025

The reputation crisis that never made the front page.

Most reputational damage does not arrive as a single news cycle. It accretes — across regional papers, niche trade press, and unmonitored Hellopeter threads. A field guide to detecting slow-moving risk.

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Reputation Analytics04 Dec 2025

AVE is not dead. It is just being misused.

Advertising Value Equivalent has been declared obsolete for fifteen years. It is also still the most-requested metric in client briefs we receive. A defence of AVE — under specific, narrow conditions.

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Methodology21 Nov 2025

Voice-to-text is not transcription.

Continuous broadcast monitoring requires more than a speech-recognition API. We walk through the validation layer that turns raw transcripts into usable coverage — and where pure-software approaches break.

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