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PlaylistUncovered.com Announces the Launch of Its New Music Website

2013-08-22T09:42:00.000+01:00

Playlistuncovered.com will provide Nigerians with the latest musical singles, albums and musical videos from the local and international artistes.

Users of the new Playlistuncovered.com website would enjoy a whole new experience in pure online entertainment with a great look and feel. Artistes, managers and public relation officers can also register on the website to promote their songs.

Artistes and Publicists can take advantage of the new website by posting their songs directly via an admin panel and would only wait for the post to be approved by main admin of the website.

CEO of PlaylistUncovered.com, Okeje Michael says that unlike other music websites, upcoming artiste should be rest assured their songs would be live on the website.

“I quite understand that the challenge upcoming artiste have in Nigeria is that music websites don’t upload their songs. This is very different with us, we have a system that allows all songs by upcoming and made stars to go online. I can assure all songs releases in Nigeria or outside with permission from the owners would be online and be reviewed by music lovers.”

About Playlistuncovered.com

Playlistuncovered.com is a Nigerian entertainment website to get free music downloads from artistes in the country and outside. The music site is also available on android and mobile devices.

9 African Millionaires To Bet On In An Internet Boom

2013-08-20T09:36:00.000+01:00

Some may argue that Mark Shuttleworth doesn’t count as a bona fide internet-made billionaire (given his venture capital interests), but he certainly is a good benchmark for the current batch of African internet entrepreneurial frontrunners to aspire to. Almost everyone on this list has already made sizeable personal fortunes with online ventures, but some of them, like Heunis and Apteker seem to be biding their time. With internet commerce projected to be one of the fastest growing African industries in the next 10 years, these are 10 people who have the expertise and the industry know-how to exploit an African internet boom.

1. Abasiama Idaresit, Nigeria

Business: Digital marketing agency, Wild Fusion

Idaresit is the founder, CEO and sole shareholder of Wild Fusion, one of the continent’s top digital marketing agencies. The company was established in 2010 and had no external funding. Today it has annual revenues of $6 million and is aiming to increase that to $10 million (R99 million) this year. The agency offers internet marketing and digital strategy solutions to international companies. International clients include Unilever, Visa and Samsung. The digital marketing agency was also the first in West Africa to be a Google’s Adwords certified partner.

2. Justin Clarke & Carey Eaton, South Africa and Kenya

Business: One Africa Media

Clarke and Eaton are co-founders of One Africa Media. The company is the continent’s largest online classifieds group. Included in their online property portfolio is PrivateProperty.co.za, Jobberman.com, Cheki.com and SafariNow. An Australian recruitment portal, Seek purchased a 25% stake in the company for $20 million (R198 million). This acquisition increased One Africa Media’s value to $80 million.

3. Jason Njoku, Nigeria

Business: Nigerian movies, iRokoTV

iRokoTV is the largest distributor of Nigerian films in the world and is a free service that streams Nigerian and Ghanain movies. Users pay a monthly subscription fee of $5 for access to the latest content. With more than 500,000 registered subscriptions, the online streaming service has secured over $10 million in capital from Tiger Global Management, as well as $2 million from Kinnevik, a Swedish firm.

4. Herman Heunis, Namibia

Business: Messaging service, MXit

Founder of Africa’s first instant messaging service and largest social network. To date some 20 million people all across the globe use the instant messaging service. Heunis sold the company in 2011 to an investment company, World Of Avatar for $50 million (R 496 million).

5. Adii Pienaar, South Africa

Business: WordPress themes, Woothemes

Woothemes, founded by Pienaar develops and designs customised themes for WordPress. Today the company has annual revenues in excess of $3 million (R29 million). The company also provides Tumblr with themes.

6. Ronnie Apteker, South Africa

Business: Internet services, Internet Solutions

Internet Solutions was South Africa’s first service provider. The service provider services more than 70% of companies listed on the JSE. The internet service provider was sold to Dimension Data in 1997 for $65 million (R646 million). The 45-year-old now uses his millions to invest in South African online startups. Apteker has also added movie producer and writer to his CV.

7. Gary Levitt, South Africa

Business: Email marketing, Mad Mimi

Levitt founded the company in 2008. Mad Mimi is an email service enabling users to create, send and share branded emails and newsletters. With more than one billion messages sent monthly and 150,000 corporate users the company has an annual revenue of $6 million (R59 million).

8. Ayisi Makatiani, Kenya

Business: Internet services, Africa Online

Makatiani is the co-founder of Africa Online, an internet service provider in Africa. He sold the majority of his shares in 2000 to African Lakes Corporation, but still has a stake in the company valued at $10 million (R99 million).

9. Njeri Rionge, Kenya

Business: Internet services, Wananchi Online

Wananchi Online was the start of Rionge’s fortune. She co-founded the internet service provider which today is East Africa’s leading cable, broadband and IP company. A 50% stake of the company was bought by Emerging Capital Partners for a reported $26 million (R258 million).

[Source: Forbes]

Websites you can download Nigerian movies

2013-08-19T23:16:00.000+01:00

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Nigeria’s e-commerce site, Konga.com, has surpassed 500,000 fans on its verified Facebook page

2013-08-18T06:07:00.000+01:00

Nigeria’s e-commerce site, Konga.com, has surpassed 500,000 fans on its verified Facebook page, growing from 2,000 one year ago.

“Konga.com now has half a million proud fans on its verified page on Facebook. This time last year, we had only 2,000+ fans and today it’s 500,000+,” Konga stated.

While thanking its customers and other stakeholders that contributed to the achievement, it said with the feat, e-commerce in Nigeria is now growing rapidly.

“We say a big thank you to every shopper, blogger, journalist, and to all Nigerians that have been a part of our Journey so far,” the company added.

In July, Konga’s Facebook page became the second page in Nigeria to be verified on Facebook, second only to President Goodluck Jonathan.

The page is also the first page owned by an e-commerce website to be verified in Africa.

Konga.com is also one of the four Nigerian websites that are among the 15 most visited websites in Africa has given by Alexia ranking.

Top Ten Most Visited Nigerian Websites and Blogs, April 2013

2013-08-17T09:40:00.000+01:00

Top Ten Most Visited Nigerian Websites and Blogs which we started in January of 2013 we bring to you the list of most visited Nigerian sites in April, 2013.

1. www.nairaland.com: It has a global Alexa ranking of 1,061 and is the 7th most visited site in Nigeria. This site’s content places it in the “Chats and Forums” category of websites.

2. www.vanguardngr.com: The online version of the well read newspaper still retained its top spot for months running now. Vanguardngr.com is ranked 1,974 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings and is the 12th most visited website in Nigeria.

3. www.Punchng.com: It is ranked 13th most visited site in Nigeria ,Punchng.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 2,288.

4. www.naij.com : It is ranked 14th most visited site in Nigeria, has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 2,963.

5. www.Lindaikeji.blogspot.com: The entertainment and fashion blog is at 15th position. Ranked 3,443 in 3-month global Alexa ranking and 32nd most visited site in Nigeria.

6. Guaranty Trust Bank : GTBank is a leading African Bank that offers Online/Internet Banking, Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Investment Banking ad Asset Management services.Its 3 month global Alexa ranking is 3,565 and ranked 17th most visited site in Nigeria.

7. www.bellanaija.com : It is ranked 25th most visited site in Nigeria, three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 6,072.

8. www.Saharareporters.com: sahara reporters, the radical citizen journalism site is at 10th position.Ranked 5,809 globally and 30th most visited site in Nigeria.

9. www.informationng.com : Informationng.com is ranked 6,693 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. It is ranked 32th most visited site in Nigeria.

10. www.thenationonlineng.net : Thenationonlineng.net has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 5,977

and 34th most visited site in Nigeria.

Nigerian Websites Growing faster in Traffic than South African Websites

2013-08-16T01:02:00.002+01:00

Nigerian websites, particularly social networks and e-commerce sites, are beginning to catch and will eventually surpass their South African counterparts, according to a social media expert.

According to the Alexia ranking, out of the 15 most visited websites in Africa, four are from Nigeria – Nairaland at number one

, Vanguardngr.com at number 5

, Jumia Nigeria at number 12

and Konga.com number 14.

Although Nigeria’s largest social networking site, Nairaland, became the continent’s most visited website earlier this year, overtaking South Africa’s News24

, South Africa still has more websites (seven) on the list than Nigeria.

Experts however believe the margin will continue to reduce as more Nigerians come online and rely on the internet for their daily lives.

Social media is another area that experts believe would further close the gap between Nigeria and South Africa.

The World Internet Ranking Accommodates 5 Nigerian Banks

2013-08-15T11:35:00.002+01:00

In the past few years, banks in Nigeria have embraced e-banking to satisfy customers’ insatiable appetite for efficient services and need to move with time. However, findings by our correspondent reveals that deployment of information and communications technology in creating platforms for online transactions have yet to drive the much needed traffic to the websites of many of these financial institutions.

A search through alexa.com, a portal that provides web traffic data, shows that only five, out of 22 commercial banks in the country, make up its list of websites ranked worldwide, making them appear in the 500 most visited websites in Nigeria – with Guaranty Trust Bank leading the pack.

The other banks are Zenith Bank,

First Bank,

Access Bank

and Fidelity Bank

– coming second, third, fourth and fifth respectively.

Guaranty Trust Bank’s www.gtbank.com which is the most ranked commercial bank’s website in the country, occupies the 18th and 3,584th position in the country and world respectively, according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings.

According to the site, the visitors to the bank, which has been online for at least eleven years, view six unique pages each day on average. Compared with all Internet users, gtbank.com’s users tend to have postgraduate education, and they are disproportionately childless men browsing from work, according to the alexa.com,visitors to the site spend about 10 minutes per visit to the site and 42 seconds per page view.

Coming a distant second is Zenith Bank’s website.Though zenithbank.com has been online since 1997, 129 websites in Nigeria have a better traffic rank than it does. The site ranks 130 in Nigeria and 23, 449 globally. Alexa’s statistics summary for zenithbank.com reveals that its visitors view 6.5 unique pages each day on the average while the fraction of visits to the site referred by search engines is approximately four per cent.

Established in 1894 and literally the first bank in Nigeria, First Bank of Nigeria Plc’s web portal,Firstbanknigeria.com comes third in the comity of commercial banks on the Internet in Nigeria. It occupies 309th and 40,098th position in Nigeria and the world respectively. Visitors to the site spend roughly three minutes per visit and 51 seconds per page view. Visitors to it view 2.2 unique pages each day on average.

Among users in Nigeria, accessbankplc.com attains a web traffic rank of 348, making it occupy the fourth position among the most visited bank websites in the country. Its global traffic rank is 51,210. According to Alexa, the fraction of visits to the site referred by search engines is approximately 10 per cent, and roughly 19 per cent of visits to it consist of only one page view.

Though fidelitybankplc.com has been online for more than 10 years, it is the 493rd most ranked website in the country with its three-month global traffic rank being 74,859.

According to alexa.com, the fraction of visits to the site referred by search engines is about seven per cent. Visitors to the site view an average of 4.6 unique pages per day. However, 26 per cent of visits consist of only one page view.