EntertainmentAfrica.com
EntertainmentAfrica.com is Africa's largest online entertainment content portal for everything music, movies, games, gadgets, events and competitions related and has over 150 000 profiled subscribers. Its content is syndicated to several various partners to enhance their offering from a rich deep content perspective.
EntertainmentAfrica was developed for maximum user penetration in South Africa and has a comprehensive customised Content Management System for updating all content aspects from albums to videos and competitions to newsletters.
EntertainmentAfrica also makes extensive use of the Prezence developed built in drawing API to easily redraw the content “pods” at different widths and heights and to easily change the colours for of the various sections. Great thought and planning has gone into every aspect of EntertainmentAfrica to ensure that user flow is easy and that user experience is always very relevant and that related content displays when viewing details on any particular article.
EntertainmentAfrica features rich media content like sound clips for almost every album on the site, charts and playlists jukebox. There are also loads of videos that can be found in the video jukebox.
EntertainmentAfrica's movie section has a comprehensive movie scheduling system where users can view what's on at any cinema at any time of the day. Some clever time stamps have been added to the movies to ensure that users will only view times that are still available for that day/rest of the week.
The website incoporates very innovative promotions called “Site Takeovers”, which generates huge word-of-mouth marketing, and that allows partners/advertisers to market their product, for a defined period of time, to a captive audience when they load up the website. Other innovation advertising solutions include the ability to brand certain sections of the site, e.g. the video jukebox.
No other site offers this level or degree of customised advertising solutions, setting it apart from other sites as a definitive portal for the fans where advertising is interactive, and adds value to the user experience, as opposed to them being bombarded with flashing banners and buttons.
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