Branding News South Africa

Mxit Brand Index: 31 July 2013

The latest Mxit Brand Index has been released, revealing the top South African brands on Mxit on 31 July 2013. Mxit have decided to increase the monthly index to include the top 40 SA brands this month.

PositionBrandLast month's positionNumber of subscribersActivity
1SuperSport11 892 615
224.com21 330 461
3Ster-Kinekor3628 219
4M-Net4504 951
5SPAR5481 754
6Cell C6457 243
7Nike Football7442 674
8Kick Off8399 871
9GoodHope FM9395 572
10ANC Western Cape*New Entry375 752
11FNB10374 753
12Samsung11374 620
131Life12369 725
14Nokia13349 065
15adidas17344 567UP
16Standard Bank15317 229
178ta (Telkom Mobile)14314 883DOWN
18Red Bull16312 890
19Mr. Video18271 153
20Nu Metro19268 009
21PEP20260 388
22KFC21250 869
23Boston City Campus247 701
24Democratic Alliance204 410
25MTV Base202 141
26tvplus 195 266
27Yellow Pages191 975
28Seventeen 178 222
29Disney165 503
30Kaizer Chiefs161 379
31Sowetan Live152 264
32LEGiT150 073
33Direct Axis149 964
34Mr Price145 431
35Department of Basic Education137 816
36Cricket South Africa131 802
37Hip2b2124 351
38Times LIVE117 543
39Childline108 818
40Woman Online106 266

Mxit Brand Index: 31 July 2013

Top brands

Top Mobile brand: Cell C
Top banking brand: FNB
Top financial services brand: 1life
Top sporting brand: Nike Football
Top media brand: SuperSport
Top retail brand: Spar

Criteria

When evaluating the top brands in the Mxit ecosystem of apps, games, content and communities, we applied the following criteria:

  • Working app with updated information
  • Real world brand that exists outside of the Mxit ecosystem
  • No services based apps and games such as MxPx, Judgeme, Moonbase, Battletrivia, Wikipedia, Hello Doctor, etc.
  • No individual celebrities such as Romy Titus, Riaad Moosa, etc.
  • No chat rooms

Analysis: Social media story of the year?

ANC Western Cape gains over 370,000 followers on Mxit in one month.
adidas campaign delivers 15% growth and displaces 8ta (Telkom Mobile) in the top brands

Newcomers ANC Western Cape must surely be the social media success story of the year on Mxit, showing phenomenal growth from just over 2,000 subscribers on the 30th of June, to 375,752 subscribers by 31 July. The ANC entered the brand index at position number 10, displacing all but one brand, adidas.

adidas' 'Black is Back' campaign added 44,368 new subscribers to their app, and moved adidas further up the brand list, closing in on the other sporting brands on the list, Nike Football and Kick Off. SuperSport remains the top sporting brand on Mxit. With the growth of the adidas app, 8ta has moved down the list, from 14th to 17th position.

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