22 February 2018
Findings of the latest Africascope 2017* survey show the impressive performance of Africanews with annual audience in French-speaking Africa constantly growing at +19% compared to 2016.
The survey conducted in eight countries**, also reveals that Africanews’ awareness is now 45% up 6 points from 2016. This growth is captured by a weekly audience of 3.2 million viewers.
To measure TV audiences and awareness ratings, Africanews relied on Kantar TNS’ expertise through its Africascope survey conducted in 8 French-speaking Africa countries and 9 capital cities representing more than 18 million individuals, aged 15 and above.
According to the survey, Africanews’ audience is young and more affluent than the average of the target population. The majority of its audience are men, who account for 64% of Africanews’ viewers in these eight countries.
Africascope also highlights the strong TV audience in all countries surveyed, with an average 90% of people aged 15 and over watching television daily, which amounts to 16.4 million viewers.
Outstanding rates for Africanews in Congo Brazzaville and Gabon
Barely two years after its launch, Africanews is widely acclaimed in Congo Brazzaville where awareness of the channel reaches 78%.
Since its launch, Gabon has been very receptive of the new Pan-African and multilingual news outlet and the awareness rate remains exceptional at 68%.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon, Africanews also enjoys strong awareness levels of 50% and 46 % respectively.
Elsewhere in French-speaking Africa, the awareness of Africanews continues to see a steady growth. 40% of respondents have heard of the channel in Ivory Coast, 35% in Senegal, Burkina Faso, 33 % and 29% in Mali.
Michael Peters, CEO of Euronews and President of Africanews
“Since its launch, Africanews, as the first pan-African and multilingual media outlet, has been offering to its viewers, innovative and qualitative content produced by Africans and broadcast from our headquarters in Pointe-Noire, Congo.
This dedicated offer to a rising continent has resonated with local people who year after year renew their confidence for access to a relevant, credible and independent information.”
*Africascope 2017 (January-December) in 8 countries.
**Countries surveyed: Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou), Cameroon (Douala and Yaoundé), Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon (Libreville), Ivory Coast (Abidjan), Mali (Bamako) and Senegal (Dakar).
6 February 2018
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) appoints Euronews Group as its content and brand syndication agent to represent Al Jazeera’s digital flagship brand AJ+ at a worldwide scale.
Euronews Group is now in charge of marketing and promoting AJ+ digital channels to third party clients and specifically to its well established worldwide network of content and syndication partners.
Since 2014, AJ+ is available on its own social networks and through its mobile app in English, Arabic, Spanish and soon in French. Euronews has proposed its expertise to AJMN to develop the online infotainment brand. Euronews will make AJ+ content available on new media partners’ digital products and will propose creating new programmes tailored to specific markets and partners.
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Michael Peters, CEO, Euronews |
“We are proud to have been chosen by AJMN to participate to AJ+ future development, which has gained worldwide recognition among young people at a very fast pace since its launch.
Our experience in marketing content licence agreements in coordination with a fantastic product such as AJ+ provides a solid platform for the success of this collaboration. This partnership is an exciting milestone for both our companies in terms of global commercial roll-out and paves the road for potential additional collaboration with AJMN in the future.”
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Dr. Yaser Bishr, Executive Director of Digital, Aljazeera Media Network |
“Al Jazeera has made great strides over the last few years to organically target younger segments of audience through its digital native AJ+. The growth has been organically fuelled through social media, but it is time to consider strategic partnerships for direct scaling of our message. We are very pleased to partner with Euronews to explore untapped distribution opportunities through their impressive & multicultural network within Europe and globally. This collaboration cannot come at a better time as we flourish AJ+ into a diverse audience centric digital network with the recent launch of its French and 4th language edition.”
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Abdulla Alnajjar, Executive Director, Global Brand and Communications |
“I am delighted by this strategic engagement with Euronews, which will further extend the reach of the AJ+ brand to new markets and diverse audiences across the globe. This marks the beginning of a strategic commercial relationship between our organisations and I look forward to continuing this fruitful collaboration into the future.”
[Source: Euronews press release]
29 January 2018
Hungary’s first pay TV operator Magyar Telekom adds Euronews Hungarian, the only international news media produced in Hungarian to all its platform’s basic-level offers.
Launched in May 2013, Euronews’ Hungarian service is a 24/7 news outlet dedicated to the Hungarian market, produced from Budapest.
Magyar Telekom, part of Deutsche Telekom Group, has now included Euronews Hungarian to the basic packages on IPTV and cable and to the family package on satellite allowing Euronews to reach more than 860,000 subscribers.
With this new distribution agreement, Euronews Hungarian is now available in 1.2 million homes throughout the country.
Euronews Hungarian
Produced by a team of 31 people including 24 journalists at the Budapest bureau, two at the Euronews HQ in Lyon and three in the Brussels bureau, the 24/7 Hungarian news service will celebrate its fifth anniversary in May 2018.
Attila Kert, a renowned Hungarian journalist with 25 years of experience, is the Director of Euronews Hungary Kft., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Euronews SA.
Euronews Hungarian TV is available across Europe thanks to the Eutelsat Hot Bird 13B satellite. The Hungarian newsroom also provides news and reports for hu.euronews.com, the mobile app, the YouTube channel, and also for its social media accounts: Twitter @euronewshu and Facebook
Since May 2017, as part of the new Euronews strategic plan to adapt itself to the expectations of its multiple local audiences, Euronews Hungarian has started to shape its international news bulletins and to produce specific stories to resonate with the Hungarian audience’s interests. To fully implement the new strategic plan, Euronews’ Hungarian team is set to launch a range of new flagship programmes in the coming years.
(Source: Euronews press release)
24 January 2018
For the first time, Euronews’ 360° news content is available on smart TVs across the globe thanks to a partnership with The Dream VR, the world’s first VR and 360° TV platform.
Euronews, the pioneer international newsroom in the production of immersive video reports, partners with The Dream VR, the only technology provider in the world able to broadcast 360º content on connected TVs.
For a potential audience of 300 million Samsung Smart TVs and 50 million Apple TVs in 180 countries, a patented technology allows The Dream VR users to activate Euronews 360º content on Smart TVs using just the remote control arrows.
A selection of Euronews’ best immersive content is already available via a dedicated channel on The Dream VR app and fresh content will be uploaded as it is produced.
Euronews is the first news media to partner with The Dream VR, joining over 150 channels, with content from Disney, Sony, Universal, Univision and leading soccer clubs around the world.
The partnership also includes monetisation of Euronews’ 360º videos via display advertising.
Euronews was the first international newsroom to fully incorporate 360º video news into its production workflow in 2016. Today, this cutting-edge publishing platform reaffirms Euronews’ position as a leading innovator in Europe when it comes to immersive journalism.
The Dream VR team is located in Madrid, Barcelona and Miami. Its VR app has 2 million downloads and is available on every major 360º and VR platform including Samsung Smart TV, Appel TV, iOS, Android, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear, HTC Vive, Topying, Pico and coming soon to PSVR.
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Thomas Seymat, VR & immersive journalism editor, Euronews |
“Reaching new audience is the Euronews immersive journalism team’s aim in 2018. We are very pleased to benefit from the innovative and exclusive worldwide solution from The Dream VR to allow smart TV viewers to live a unique experience of international and European news.”
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Albert Palay, CEO THE DREAM VR |
“THE DREAM VR is extremely glad to be able to have Euronews as a partner, the latter being the biggest news player in Europe, with growing potential and influence around the world thanks to their recent partnership with NBC News. This collaboration gives us the chance to have great up-do-date content of general interest, which will attract a varied and high standard public worldwide.”
7 December 2017
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service and the Copernicus Climate Change Service, both implemented by ECMWF, have joined forces with Euronews to provide an exclusive daily 24-hour air quality forecast for Europe and a monthly climate update dedicated to the planet’s changing climate.
With the exclusive Air Quality Forecast provided by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and broadcast on Euronews, people can now find out about the expected air quality where they live, work or are planning to visit.
In view of a recent European environmental report* detailing how poor air quality, particularly in urban areas, has a significant economic impact, increases medical costs and reduces productivity, being able to check the air quality will help people make informed choices about the activities they undertake in the hours ahead.
The monthly Climate Update is based on Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) data and will highlight a number of recent events that are related to our planet’s changing climate. Major floods, droughts and wildfires have impacted large parts of Europe.
C3S and CAMS are part of Copernicus, the European Commission’s ambitious Earth observation programme, providing environmental data and information services. This data is collected by a series of advanced satellites, called Sentinels, and together with additional data from dozens of other satellites from global organisations and thousands of ground sensors it is processed by the ECMWF and can be downloaded free of charge.
* www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-quality-in-europe-2017 p.9
Air quality: an exclusive and daily air quality forecast programme
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Everyday, Euronews offers to its European viewers air quality forecasts of major European cities. Each city is featured with an air quality index, from 1 to 5 (very good to very poor)
Broadcast several times a day with updates every morning and evening, an animated map of Europe shows Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) exclusive air quality data.
to watch a preview: click here |
| Duration: 1′
1st morning broadcast at 06:45 CET
1st evening broadcast at 18:40 CET |
Climate Update: our planet’s changing climate
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Each month, the new Climate Update focuses on a specific topic related to Earth’s changing climate.
Euronews highlights a recent climate-related event that occurred in Europe and shows data and maps to understand it. Thanks to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the Climate Update explains how climate change affects our surroundings.
to watch the first episode: click here |
| Duration: 1′
first broadcast: every 15
of the month at 8:15 CET |
