Hipipo
Type | Private |
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Founded | Kampala, Uganda |
Headquarters | Kampala, Uganda |
Area served | East Africa, Africa |
Key people |
Dr. Frederick Wamala, Ph.D (Co-Founder and Executive Chairman) Innocent Kawooya (Co-Founder and CEO ) |
Website |
www |
Launched | May 2007 |
Current status | Active |
HiPipo is digital, music and events company.
History
HiPipo was founded originally as a social network in 2006.
HiPipo Digital
- Executes integrated digital marketing and advertising campaigns.
- Offers digital strategy consulting and advisory services to private and public sector organizations.
- Provides proprietary market research on digital embrace.[1][2]
- HiPipo and Cyberplc organize Digital Impact Awards Africa [3][4]
HiPipo Media
HiPipo digital media arm publishes and distributes high quality digital content
- HiPipo.com, focuses on Music,
- HiPipo.com 5Star; focus on Business and Technology.
- HiPipo organizes HiPipo Music Awards and The ShowBiz League
Features
Among HiPipo's major coverage is Entertainment News, Music, Videos[5] and the HiPipo Charts that are powered by online music consumption statistics on HiPipo Desktop and Mobile Platforms.
HiPipo Charts
In 2012, HiPipo launched the "HiPipo Charts Festival" and annual event with the theme “Celebrating and Promoting Uganda Music Online Performance” with the first ever Mobile Web Voting in Uganda.
HiPipo Mobile
In 2012,HiPipo launched mobile version that targets to provide the social entertainment accessible on desktop to majority of Africans that currently do not have Personal Computer access. The mobile version host the fist of its kind mobile web voting in East Africa for the first Annual HiPipo Charts Festival.
HiPipo Music Awards
The inaugural HiPipo Music Awards (HMA)[6][7] event was held on February 9, 2013 at Theatre La Bonita. It was sponsored by Pepsi, WBS and The Red Pepper. HMA is an annual awards project and event.
References
- ↑ "Nonini Becomes The First Ever Official Top Facebook Artist in East Africa - Ghafla!Kenya". ghafla.co.ke. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ Susan Mwenesi (9 October 2014). "MTN leads the pack as top social media brand as NTV ranks as best media brand". HumanIPO. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ "About". Digital Impact Awards Africa- Maximising the Digital Dividend. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ "allAfrica.com: Uganda: Nominees for Uganda's Digital Impact Awards Africa Announced". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ Abu-Baker Mulumba. "The Observer". observer.ug. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ HiPipo
- ↑ Samson Baranga. "The Observer". observer.ug. Retrieved 13 March 2015.