African Teen Mags Mobizines Efforts

Mail&Guardian has a piece on youth media in Africa, starting with the teen mags launching mobizines — Saltwater GIRL,Blunt, Zig Zag, Seventeen and HIP2B2 have all launched mobizines in the past 8 months. Saltwater Girl was apparently the first, and they’ve given some figures — it has “attracted over 5,000 total download users and an average of 3,000 refresh weekly… Since July, 3,000 read it religiously each week”. The magazine has a circulation of about 45,000.

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