http://electricsheep.co.za Bl33ts for the Digital Age Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:15:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://electricsheep.co.za/how-africa-accesses-facebook-on-mobile-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-africa-accesses-facebook-on-mobile-2014 http://electricsheep.co.za/how-africa-accesses-facebook-on-mobile-2014/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:36:31 +0000 http://electricsheep.co.za/?p=521 About a year ago, I took a look at how Africa accesses Facebook on mobile as part of a project for a course run by the ODMA (the Ogilvy Digital Marketing Academy). I sourced all of the data from Facebook’s ad planning tool and broke the data down into: Total Facebook users by country Total mobile Facebook users by country Total mobile users accessing Facebook on Feature phones, on Android, on iOS, on BlackBerry and on Windows Phone. Facebook recently announced that there are over 100 million people in Africa using Facebook, half of all Africans connected to the internet. […]]]> http://electricsheep.co.za/how-africa-accesses-facebook-on-mobile-2014/feed/ 2 http://electricsheep.co.za/snappy-payments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=snappy-payments http://electricsheep.co.za/snappy-payments/#comments Thu, 22 May 2014 12:52:13 +0000 http://electricsheep.co.za/?p=423 http://electricsheep.co.za/snappy-payments/feed/ 0 http://electricsheep.co.za/how-africa-accesses-facebook-on-mobile/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-africa-accesses-facebook-on-mobile http://electricsheep.co.za/how-africa-accesses-facebook-on-mobile/#comments Mon, 09 Sep 2013 20:15:05 +0000 http://electricsheep.co.za/?p=151 by Adam Skikne We’ve often heard that Africa is the next big opportunity for businesses and brands. We also heard that social and mobile are two factors that are going to shape the way that business is conducted in Africa. So with this in mind, I thought it might be worthwhile to try shed some light on how how Africa accesses Facebook, the world’s largest social network, on mobile. It sounds like a simple question but the answer is a bit more complicated. We should all know that there are a number of social and economic factors that make each […]]]> http://electricsheep.co.za/how-africa-accesses-facebook-on-mobile/feed/ 3