Media intelligence and consumer research for Africa
Proof of what ran.
Straight from radio.
We monitor radio, TV, print and social continuously and match every airing by audio fingerprint — then ask a panel of verified consumers across 21 African markets what they made of it.
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Media Intelligence
Know exactly where your brand ran — and who ran against you
Radio, television, print and social, monitored continuously and read by brand — the recording itself, matched and timestamped.
Radio
151 stations · 138 capturing liveEvery station, fingerprinted against your advert — matched by audio, not guessed from a schedule.
- Verified airings by fingerprint
- Competitor share of voice
Television
23 channelsThe same fingerprint pipeline, plus the picture — a brand seen but not spoken still counts.
- Spot detections, channel and timestamp
- On-screen appearance from video
Editions collected and read end to end. Every mention filed to the edition it ran in.
- Edition-level coverage
- Mentions tied to the page they ran on
Social
Verified accounts onlyFollowers and engagement for the accounts we've confirmed are actually yours.
- Owned-audience growth over time
- Handle verified before it's counted
Plan, track, prove
The whole arc of a campaign, in one place
Buying, delivery and reporting are usually three tools and three numbers. Here, they're the same data, read at three moments.
Media Planner
Where to buy, ranked by what the market actually ran.
- Station-by-station comparison
- Cost per airing from the rate card
Track Campaigns
One brief, watched across every medium it runs in.
- Delivered vs. planned, daily
- Underdelivery visible in time to fix it
Brand Reports
Everything one brand ran, rolled into one document.
- Cross-campaign, cross-medium
- Share of voice, PDF and CSV
Consumer research
Monitoring tells you what ran. Ask people what it did.
Surveys distributed to verified consumers across 21 African markets, with instant airtime and data rewards — so the same platform that proves your spot aired can tell you whether anyone remembers it.
Smart survey builder
Multiple question types, skip logic, conditional branching. Build complex surveys without complexity.
21 African markets
Target by country, gender, age. Reach the exact segment your research needs.
Rewards in seconds
Airtime or data bundles delivered instantly via Africa's Talking. High incentives, high completion.
Built-in quality checks
Speed detection, location verification, duplicate prevention. Data you can trust.
Live analytics
Response dashboards, geographic heatmaps, demographic breakdowns. All updating in real time.
Precise targeting
Country, gender, age range filters. Only reach respondents that match your research profile.
Built for low bandwidth
Offline caching, lightweight UI, fast loads. Designed for how people actually use phones in Africa.
Your own panel too
Upload your staff, customers or panellists as Private Shapers and send a survey straight to them.
Campaign controls
Set budgets, schedule dates, cap responses. Full visibility into spend and progress.
The app
Designed for simplicity and speed
A lightweight mobile experience built for low-bandwidth networks. Consumers browse surveys, earn rewards, and track achievements — all from one app.
Browse available surveys with reward details and estimated completion time.
How a survey works
Three steps from question to insight
Build your survey
Use our builder to add questions, set skip logic, upload a cover image, define your audience, and set a response goal. Takes about 5 minutes.
We distribute it
Your survey goes live on the Core Intelligence mobile app. Consumers matching your targeting criteria see it in their feed and get notified.
Analyze responses
Watch responses arrive in real time. View breakdowns by demographics and geography, then export your data as CSV or JSON when you're ready.
Rewards
People answer because they get paid to
Complete a survey, get mobile data. It's that simple.
Coverage
21 countries and counting
East, West, Southern, and North Africa. Our consumer network grows every month. Need a country that's not listed? Let us know.
“We used to spend months and tens of thousands on field research teams. Core Intelligence gave us better data in four days, across three countries, for a fraction of the cost.”
“The targeting is unreal. We reached exactly the 18-25 demographic in Lagos that we needed for our fintech product launch.”
“95% completion rate is not a marketing number. We actually get it, every campaign. The instant rewards make all the difference.”
Pricing
One subscription, every medium
Radio, television, print and social are covered by the same plan — there is no per-channel bill to assemble. Surveys are priced per campaign on top, with respondent rewards included.
Starter
Track your own brand on air and prove airings to clients.
- Your brand's detections
- Confidence score and duration per detection
- See which stations your ad aired on
- Detection history — 30 days
- Weekly CSV export
Professional
Everything in Starter, plus competitors and the Media Planner.
- Up to 25 stations monitored
- 3 brands tracked at once
- Competitor tracking and share of voice
- Media Planner included
- Programme segment matching
- Daily reports and real-time email alerts
- Estimated airtime value per detection
- Detection history — 90 days
- PDF + CSV export, API read access
Enterprise
Everything in Professional, plus market-wide intelligence.
- Every station we monitor in Uganda
- Unlimited brands tracked
- Market-wide share of voice and spend
- Rate card matching — cost per airing
- Real-time push alerts
- Custom reports and compliance certificates
- Detection history — 12 months
- Webhooks and multi-user access
- Dedicated account manager
Running surveys instead? Talk to us — survey campaigns are quoted on audience size and response goal, and the airtime and data rewards respondents receive are part of the price.
Stop taking the schedule's word for it.
Seven days of every feature, self-served. Point it at your brand and see what has been running.