Jumia allows brands to advertise on its platform for wider audiences

With e-commerce being a leading platform for buying and selling commodities, the advent of digitization has brought about a surge of elements that are targeted at enhancing shopping experience, to the most minute level.

Kenya’s leading e-commerce platform, Jumia, has opened up has opened up its online platform to brands and corporate organizations for advertising. The company’s CEO, Sam Chappatte, made the disclosure during the launch of Jumia Advertising Services (JAS) at Movenpick Hotel recently.

“20% of active internet users in Kenya are on Jumia each month. We know our customers well – what they shop, how much they spend, etc – and can use this to present relevant adverts to them. This can enable our customers to discover relevant products & services, and will become a powerful digital marketing channel for advertisers,” said Jumia Kenya CEO, Sam Chappatte.

Chappatte further emphasized that their messages will reach highly targeted segments, right at the moment of purchase – e.g for DSTV the ads will be presented to people who are buying new TVs, or when selling beer, key messages can be shown to customers who are looking at a competitor’s products.

“We are launching Advertising in response to significant demand from agencies & brands. For effective digital marketing campaigns, you need data. This is what is special about our solution – and why leading brands that have been piloting with us over the last months are coming back for more” he concluded.

With operations across 11 countries in Africa, Jumia plans to target users geographically & segment them based on their shopping behaviour at the most granular level.

The launch of Jumia Advertising Services is part of the company’s 2020 Strategy to increase the monetization of their platform. The company confirmed that they will also be opening up their extensive logistics network to third parties (eg for deliveries of packages, even those not sold on Jumia).