Social Light monitors print, radio, television, online news and social media across Africa, from national titles to the community radio and regional weeklies that international platforms do not index. One account covers every market you operate in, with alerts while a story is still small.
African coverage is spread across thousands of outlets, dozens of languages and very different media systems. A story can start on a community station in one country and reach the business press in another within a day. We bring that coverage into one place, read it in the language it was published in, and tell you what it means for you.
Banks, mining and energy companies, public institutions, embassies, development organisations and agencies rely on Social Light to know what is being said about them across Africa while there is still something to be done about it.
582 outlets in our directory, from our clients' coverage and our own source research. The full list is in our coverage directory.
We set up monitoring in any of these countries on request, scoped to the outlets, languages and topics you need.
All 54. Southern Africa is covered as standard, and monitoring in any other country is set up for the outlets, languages and topics you need.
Yes. One account covers every market in your scope, with the same alerts and reports across all of them.
Yes. Coverage is read in the language it was published in, and briefs are written in English. Tell us the languages you need when you set up your scope.
Alerts go out at the moment a story publishes, across every channel in your scope, rather than in a digest the next morning.
Yes. Creating an account takes about ten minutes and does not ask for a card. Nothing is charged until you choose a package. You can also book a demo, or take our free media intelligence assessment.
Tell us your markets and the names you need watched.