Insights

Last year, a young Nairobi-based software engineer refused to buy from a fast-fashion retailer because the brand wouldn't disclose its labour practices. That same week, a small family business in Lagos pivoted to selling refurbished goods instead of new imports. In Johannesburg, a beauty influencer built an empire promoting locally-sourced...

Africa's financial revolution is not coming. It is already here. While the rest of the world spent decades building branch-based banking systems, Africa leapfrogged them entirely. Today, Africa processes more mobile money transactions than anywhere else on earth, accounting for 74% of the world's total volume and over $1.4 trillion...

For years, social media has become a cornerstone of brand-consumer relationships. Yet many marketing leaders still rely on global benchmarks that fail to capture the unique behaviours of Nigerian audiences. That gap is now closing. The Nigerian Social Media Benchmarks report by Marketing Analytics Africa is the first comprehensive study...

From loadshedding-driven ultra-high-temperature (UHT) loyalty to private-label defection, the forces rewriting consumer behaviour in South Africa's dairy market are more complex than any single brand strategy can encompass. In an average South African household, milk is not considered a purchase. You need it. You buy it. It sits in the...

While Instagram captures much of the conversation around social media in Nigeria, our latest report reveals that true competitive advantage comes from understanding platform-specific roles and allocating resources accordingly. Analysing 83 leading brands across five key sectors, the research exposes both underutilised opportunities and proven pathways to higher engagement on...

Walk into any branch of Equity Bank in Nairobi, GTBank in Lagos, or Standard Bank in Johannesburg, and within seconds, before a single word is spoken, you know exactly where you are, who works there, and whether you feel comfortable handing over your money. That instant recognition is not accidental....

How do your customers find you for the first time? It sounds like a simple question. Yet, for most African marketing teams, it is one of the least well-answered questions in their entire intelligence stack. Brand discovery is inconsistently tracked, rarely benchmarked, and rarely analysed across markets at a pan-African...

Most African Brands Are Watching Their Competitors And Still Losing to Them Here is an uncomfortable truth: the brands doing the most competitor monitoring in Africa are not always the ones winning market share. Walk into any marketing meeting in Africa, and you will find someone ready with a competitor's...

Every year, marketing teams across Africa sit down to set their annual goals. And every year, a version of the same conversation plays out in boardrooms, strategy off-sites, and budget meetings. We hear things like, “Let's grow our social following by 50%.” “We need to increase brand awareness.” “We should...

Year in, year out, hundreds of millions of Africans observe Easter. They fast, they pray, they attend multi-hour church services in outfits pressed and chosen with care. And then, almost without missing a beat, they eat, they travel, they gather, they spend. This is not a contradiction. It is one...