Jumia has announced that it has launched an initiative to enable brands and businesses to advertise on its platform in order to reach a wider audience.
Jumia’s Head of Growth & Partnerships, Olusegun Martins who made the announcement said in a statement: “Our platform is one of the most visited in Nigeria and Africa. We are in 12 countries of Africa, and in each country, we serve consumers absolutely everywhere.
“We are much more than e-commerce, we have hotels, flights, restaurants, classifieds portals, and many more platforms, which give us even more data and more ability to target the right audience for brands looking to reach a wider and more targeted audience.”
In 2018, page views on the Jumia website reached over 700 million, but now averaging over 90 million views per month.
“We have bespoke solutions for various needs. We can help brands build awareness, consideration, engagement, sales, even multiple products to tap into. We can segment users in a very unique way based on their real shopping interest at the most granular level.
“We help brands to target users geographically in the most effective way. We have run very successful campaigns in multiple countries and advertisers who choose Jumia can decide to allocate recurring budgets to our platform,” Martins continued.
Martins further disclosed that Jumia digital advertising platform is growing very fast. Every day, more users access Jumia and use it as a source of research, inspiration, and shopping. “No other platform is growing faster,” he said.
Its campaign reporting tools are objective and independent. Jumia is adapting the model of the leading e-commerce platform in the US, Amazon.
“We have an online shopping audience. Amazon Advertising is growing very fast because brands and advertisers see it as a great alternative for other advertising channels, “he added.
Martins informed that the decision by Jumia to veer into the advertising business space arose out of the popular demand by various customers of the company who had long been yearning to have an advertising platform owned by Jumia to expose their services and brands.
According to him, over the last seven years, Jumia had remained one of the top 10 most visible websites in Nigeria, adding that the clamour by customers for an advertising platform from Jumia was on the increase, hence the decision by the company to give it a try this year.
