Our Story

“For over 20 years our content has resonated with a diversity of audiences, in multiple countries and across continental divides. That’s versatility for you.”

Netsport Media rose to prominence in South Africa’s publishing sector as a producer of   world-class, circulation-boosting magazine supplements. With iconic products like SA Sports Illustrated Swimwear in our portfolio we expanded our offering to encompass branded multimedia experiences that combined print, television, radio, mobile and digital outputs. Our multi-media creations included SA Sports Illustrated Swimwear, Kick Off SoccerBabes and SA Lingerie.

Today, Netsport Media provides rich media content to mobile value-added services (VAS) markets in Africa and the Middle East. In addition to creating content that is polished, compelling and relevant, we also partner with – and secure exclusive distribution rights from – international content owners in the health, education, devotion, sport and entertainment categories. This content is repackaged for specific mobile markets and where appropriate is translated to ensure local resonance.

With a premium content catalogue of over 100 000 videos spanning all key categories and genres, Netsport Mobile is now armed with one of the most powerful short format catalogues in the market.

We also secured a major asset in the burgeoning mobile gaming space via our exclusive distribution partnership with Emerge gaming and their ArcadeX platform. This competitive gaming platform is distinctly different from the multiple gaming platforms in the market and delivers an unparalleled feature set for the gamer as well as also provides a host of branding and engagement opportunities for brands, products & companies.

Early 2020 saw Netsport Mobile build and develop WooHoo365, it’s own casual gaming product. This platform offers users the ability to play an ever increasing number of  fun mobile HTML5 games with the added bonus of daily draws to win great prizes in the form of cash, airtime and data. This is a high engagement and retention product.

We entered into a partnership with Big5Games in March 2020 to distribute their vast array of Football Fantasy & Match Predictor games, their Celebrity Fantasy League Games as well as their Finance/Stock games. All of these can be white labelled and customized for any market and these games are guaranteed to create stickiness and engagement with customers.

May 2020 saw the new alliance with HeadStart Education Technologies being formed where we offer a full suite of eLearning products – from EDC (ages 2-8), ages 7-13 and grades 8-12. Comprising videos, audiobooks, workbooks, study guides, applications these will support and assist learners of all ages and levels. Coding skills development guides and courses also available.

A strategic decision was taken at the end of 2018 to invest in technology and along with our hugely talented James and Tim Shier and their team, we have built an entire technology stack.  We have also developed multiple technology solutions so as to facilitate smooth and easy provisioning of products and services to mobile customers.

In short, we are totally invested in ensuring that customers in emerging and developing markets gain access to first-world mobile products and services in an easily accessible and affordable manner.