{"id":845498,"date":"2025-12-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=845498"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:23:50","slug":"tight-race-between-capitec-and-standard-bank-for-top-spot-in-media-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/845498\/tight-race-between-capitec-and-standard-bank-for-top-spot-in-media-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight race between Capitec and Standard Bank for top spot in media rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The latest media sentiment report released by Press Pulse shows that Capitec and Standard Bank top the rankings, followed by FNB, Absa, and Nedbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press Pulse developed an artificial intelligence (AI) sentiment-measuring system for media reports in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system focuses on local business reporting from top-tier media publications and measures companies\u2019 success in achieving positive exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sentiment ranking is based on the number of positive, neutral, or negative articles and the reach and influence of the publication where they are published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, the more positive articles a company receives, the better its sentiment ranking. The inverse also holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system uses natural language processing and deep learning for accurate sentiment detection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking online media sentiment is an important metric for assessing a company\u2019s media and marketing strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online media in South Africa is highly influential, which is why companies invest heavily in public relations and content marketing to get positive exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media reports also reflect the general perception of a company and provide a snapshot of public sentiment about the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The South African banking system is highly competitive, and media reports highly influence consumer decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is, therefore, important for local banks to ensure they receive favourable media coverage to attract new clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South African banks’ media sentiment rankings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The latest Press Pulse media sentiment report showed that Capitec and Standard Bank are in a close race for the top spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitec received a positive sentiment score of 184, followed closely by Standard Bank South Africa, which scored 178.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitec has been a standout performer in the South African banking sector for two decades, which shows in the media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It received overwhelmingly positive coverage, which was bolstered by strong financial results and a good operational performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standard Bank has also performed well, which is seen in its high ratio of positive to negative articles in top business publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It unveiled many positive developments, including securing the infrastructure to expand Home Affairs services to 20 additional branches by early 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standard Bank is also streamlining its South African branch network by expanding cashless branches and upgrading its ATM network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FNB has also performed well, which was helped by the rapid growth in FNB Connect and by enhancing its eBucks rewards and benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chart below shows the media sentiment rankings over the last three months of Capitec, Standard Bank, FNB, Absa, and Nedbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The latest media sentiment report released by Press Pulse shows that Capitec and Standard Bank top the rankings, followed by FNB, Absa, and Nedbank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":791109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[29,1798,76,1799,22562,499],"class_list":["post-845498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-absa","tag-capitec","tag-fnb","tag-nedbank","tag-press-pulse","tag-standard-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845498","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845500,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845498\/revisions\/845500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}