{"id":136991,"date":"2016-09-16T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=136991"},"modified":"2016-09-16T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:51:46","slug":"huffington-post-south-africa-launching-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/136991\/huffington-post-south-africa-launching-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post South Africa launching in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/media24-to-launch-huffington-post-in-south-africa-20160916\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Media24<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and The Huffington Post will launch HuffPost in South Africa in November.<\/p>\n<p>This is HuffPost\u2019s first venture into sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa an \u201cextremely exciting market for the company\u201d, said HuffPost CEO Jared Grusd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternet users there are expected to grow to 35.4 million by 2018, digital video is expected to grow by more than 29%, and overall mobile phone users to 41.5 million,\u201d said Grusd.<\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post launched its first international edition in 2011 and is now in 16 markets across six continents.<\/p>\n<p>HuffPost South Africa will be the 17th edition.<\/p>\n<p>HuffPost will provide international content and its technology platform, while Media24 will provide the local content and handle advertising sales.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Huffington Post almost in SA<\/h3>\n<p>Several\u00a0years ago, Moneyweb and Biznews founder Alec Hogg unsuccessfully tried to bring The Huffington Post to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg was in discussions with The Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, but was not successful in reaching an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0local version of The Huffington Post was not sanctioned as South Africa was \u201cvery low in terms of the size of the online media market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile they were initially very keen\u2026 we are too small relative to other geographies,\u201d Hogg told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg said at the time that The Huffington Post may one day come to South Africa, but it was unlikely to be with him.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on media<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Media24 offloads INET BFA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/136601\/media24-offloads-inet-bfa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Media24 offloads INET BFA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Anonymous \u2018hacktivists\u2019 take on Gupta media\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/127067\/anonymous-hacktivists-take-on-gupta-media\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Anonymous \u2018hacktivists\u2019 take on Gupta media<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media24 and The Huffington Post will launch HuffPost in South Africa in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":136995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-136991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136997,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136991\/revisions\/136997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}