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» Confidential Business and Financial Data » Pan-African Advertising Agencies » Multinationals & Key African Companies


From a product advertising and social marketing perspective, there is significant unrealised potential within sub-Saharan Africa’s free-to-air television markets.

Outside of South Africa, there are three types of advertisers that have either already established or are increasingly involved in establishing viable pan-African operations.

These are:

  1. Multinationals which have secured previously established monopolies and are determined to protect their market share.
  2. African-owned companies that are aggressively breaking into new regional markets outside their established home markets.
  3. Small to medium sized in-country enterprises that seek to either break into already established markets or develop new products for under-serviced markets.

ABN’s social marketing objective is to become a prime pan-African vehicle for the dissemination of vital public service announcements and knowledge-enhancing programming – in line with the tenets of the Millennium Development Goals.

ABN will develop a trustworthy, socially responsible programme distribution brand through its partnering relationship with the African Public Broadcasting Foundation. ABN will sell prime public service announcement and sponsorship opportunities to key social marketing advertisers including international development agencies and non-governmental agencies.

ABN has engaged the services of the Africa Extension Group of Companies (www.africanextension.com). African Extension - Africa’s leading independent Media Services Company – is a specialist provider of media services, offering strategy, planning and procurement to commercial advertisers social marketing focused organisations that are seeking pan-African advertising campaign implementation.

The relationship the Africa Extension Group will augment ABN’s regional and international advertising sales efforts as it will equip the company with a specialist, pan-African programme monitoring capability.

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