Media monitoring & market intelligence · Africa

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Media monitoring and market intelligence across Africa — print, broadcast, online and social — delivered while you can still act on it.

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What late information costs

The story doesn't wait for your reporting cycle

Banking

A regulatory finding

Financial Intelligence Act exposure doesn't announce itself. By the time it reaches you as a formal query, the window to have handled it internally has closed.

Mining

A shutdown

Social licence erodes in community conversations weeks before it reaches a headline. The conversation you didn't hear becomes the blockade you can't negotiate.

Institutions

A narrative you have to correct

Policy narratives are set in the first 48 hours. After that you're not shaping the story, you're arguing with it.

Coverage

Nothing gets past you.

1 300+ print titles and 158+ broadcast stations, alongside online and social, across Africa — including the sources most international platforms do not index at all. Community radio, regional weeklies and the WhatsApp-fed Facebook groups where a story starts moving long before it reaches a national desk.

Social media analytics report showing users by country and a pie chart of use cases

Every mention, back to its source post

Conversation tracked across Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn — and the community groups that carry a story first — with each item traced to the post it came from.

158+ stations, clipped at segment level

Television and radio captured and transcribed, with airtime recorded per mention — including the community radio no international platform carries.

Broadcast control room monitors showing multiple live television feeds

1 300+ titles, regional weeklies included

Organisation and competitor mentions across national and regional press, read in the language they were published in.

1 300+

Print titles monitored

158+

Broadcast stations captured

African countries we monitor

Timing

You hear it while it's still small.

An alert reaches you at the moment a story publishes — not in a digest the next morning, by which point the conversation has had a night to travel and the first responses have already been written by other people.

That gap is the whole risk. It is where a manageable item becomes a formal query, where a community grievance becomes a blockade, and where a correction stops being a correction and starts being an argument.

✓Alerting at publication, across every channel in your scope

✓Routed to the people who can act on it, not to a shared inbox

✓The first hours are yours to use rather than to explain

Analysis

You know what it means, not just that it happened.

Our analysts review flagged and high-impact items so local language and context are read correctly before anything reaches a stakeholder. What lands on your desk is a brief with a recommended action — not a feed to interpret under pressure.

✓Each finding states the evidence behind it and the method used

✓Every mention linked to its original source

✓Sentiment, share of voice, advertising value equivalent and competitor movement sit underneath as supporting evidence

In-market

You're read by people who live in your market.

Botswana-headquartered, with a presence in Johannesburg, monitoring media across Africa. Our analysts read each market in its own language and context rather than modelling it from abroad — and that context is the difference between a mention and a risk signal.

Print media Broadcast radio Television Online news Social media

Proof

Who we do it for

Banks, miners and public institutions across the region rely on this feed to know what is being said about them while there is still something to be done about it.

First Capital
Bank

Banking

Debswana

Mining and resources

First National
Bank

Banking

Bank of
Botswana

Central bank

Why us

Built by people who needed this to exist.

Social Light was built in Botswana by a team that could not buy this coverage anywhere — the regional and vernacular sources that decide a story here simply were not in anyone's index.

The work has since been recognised beyond the region.

Forbes 30 Under 30 Africa PR Week

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