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Africa's intelligence engine.We connect what brands spendto what they can prove.

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About Datalytics

The intelligence layer behindAfrica'sbrand decisions.

Our mission is to connect research, data, and technology into an ecosystem that helps Africa’s businesses compete on intelligence.

Research

We diagnose the real problem behind the brief, before anyone writes a media plan against it.

Data

We quantify what actually moves outcomes, so budget follows evidence rather than habit.

Technology

We operationalise the workflows, integrations, and visibility that make the first two repeatable.

Datalytics was born from Saracen Marketing Group’s transformation into data-driven growth. We are SMG’s intelligence engine, helping brands, agencies, and institutions compete on evidence, not guesswork.

We do not sell dashboards. We build systems that make performance visible and help teams improve every cycle - auditing, prescribing, and piloting the right tools to create rhythm, visibility, and measurable ROI across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Products

The systemswe buildto back it up.

Platforms, intelligence layers, and measurement tools - each solving a specific problem for brands, agencies, and media owners across East Africa.

Our method

VAULT™

Five pillars that scoreexecutionhealth.

Our diagnostic engine for marketing execution. It finds the invisible blockers, maps each gap to the right module, and turns the result into a repeatable improvement path.

  1. Visualize

    Can the team clearly see progress, assets, owners, and blockers?

  2. Activate

    Are roles clear, briefs actionable, and tools correctly activated?

  3. Understand

    Does everyone understand performance, expectations, and what is at risk?

  4. Learn

    Is the system improving over time, not repeating the same failures?

  5. Transform

    Is there a feedback loop where lessons are captured, reused, and shared?

The services we offer to back it up

Evidence overguessworkat every stage.

Beyond the tools, our team runs the analysis behind the decisions - so strategy starts from what your market actually does, not what you assume it does.

  1. 01

    Social Listening & Sentiment

    We track brand and competitor mentions across social media in real time with Brandwatch, then run sentiment analysis to tell you exactly how consumers feel about your product, brand, or campaign - before it becomes a headline.

    • Brand & competitor mention tracking
    • Sentiment & emotion analysis
    • Campaign & crisis monitoring
    • Real-time alerts & reporting
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  2. 02

    Market & Consumer Research

    Consumer, competitor, and brand research that replaces assumptions with evidence, so every strategy decision starts from what your market actually thinks.

    • Consumer research
    • Competitor research
    • Brand health & perception studies
    • Qualitative & quantitative methods
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  3. 03

    Marketing Mix Modelling

    We quantify what is actually driving your results across media, price, promotions, and seasonality, so budget goes where it earns the most, not where it always has.

    • Channel & spend attribution
    • ROI & budget optimization
    • Scenario planning & forecasting
    • Short vs long-term impact
  4. 04

    Business Process Mapping

    We map how work actually moves through your business, surface the bottlenecks slowing it down, and design the path to automate it.

    • End-to-end process mapping
    • Bottleneck & inefficiency diagnosis
    • Automation readiness assessment
    • Workflow redesign & documentation
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  5. 05

    Web Development & SEO/GEO

    We design and build fast, conversion-focused websites, then make sure they get found - through classic search engine optimization and the emerging discipline of generative engine optimization, so your brand shows up whether someone is Googling or asking an AI.

    • Website design & development
    • Technical & on-page SEO
    • Generative engine optimization (GEO)
    • Performance & conversion optimization
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  6. 06

    Software Development

    We design and build full-stack systems, from internal tools to customer-facing platforms, engineered to scale with your business rather than just launch.

    • Full-stack web & mobile apps
    • API & systems integration
    • Cloud architecture & DevOps
    • Ongoing maintenance & support
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Case studies

Evidencefrom the fieldnot the deck.

How we have helped brands replace guesswork with systems, and systems with results.

  • OOH intelligence

    Data-led OOH planning for a national beverage campaign

    Replaced manual site selection with OOHna's scored recommendations across 306 sites. Budget efficiency improved when seven high-scoring sites the planner would not have considered were added to the plan.

    Sites scored
    306
    Sites selected
    35
    Scenarios compared
    3
  • Broadcast intelligence

    Vernacular radio monitoring for a financial services brand

    Echo detected 183 mentions across 17 stations in four languages within one week. The brand's media plan allocated 60% to English stations, but 92% of the conversation happened in vernacular.

    Mentions detected
    183
    Languages
    4
    Vernacular share
    92%
  • Audience intelligence

    Prime-time audience measurement for a Kenyan broadcaster

    LiveFTA measured concurrent viewership at 10-minute intervals across the prime-time window, revealing that 40% of the 7pm bulletin audience left within 15 minutes of the programme transition.

    Peak viewers
    14.6K
    Audience decay
    40%
    Days tracked
    30

SmarterMarketingSmarter

Every industry has its own challenges. We built Datalytics to adapt, so whether you're managing vendors, launching nationwide campaigns, or scoring creative ideas, we've got the data muscle to back you up.

across everyindustry

Theindustrieswe serve

  • Tech
  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Insurance
  • Retail
  • Travel & Entertainment
  • Telecommunications
  • FMCG
  • Capital Markets
  • Automotive

MeasuredProvenMeasured

The footprint behind every number we report.

  • 22+

    Radio stations monitored

    Continuously, across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

  • 15

    FTA TV channels tracked

    Polled every ten minutes through prime time.

  • 306

    OOH sites scored

    Ranked against the audience a brief actually targets.

  • 3

    East African markets

    One measurement standard across all of them.

FAQ

Questions,answeredbefore you ask.

  • What does Datalytics actually do?

    We build marketing technology tools (OOHna, AdOps, Echo, LiveFTA, Kreate Commerce) and run the data and research services behind them - social listening, market research, marketing mix modelling, business process mapping, web development, and software development - so you get both the software and the team that knows how to use it.

  • Do I need to use your tools to work with your services team, or vice versa?

    No. The tools and services are used independently. You can bring in our research, social listening, or marketing mix modelling team without adopting any of our software, or use a tool like AdOps or Echo entirely on its own.

  • What is Brandwatch, and why do you use it?

    Brandwatch is the social listening platform we use to track brand and competitor mentions across social media, forums, and news at scale. We layer sentiment analysis on top of what it captures, so you get a read on how people feel, not just how much they are talking.

  • What is GEO (generative engine optimization)?

    GEO is the practice of structuring and positioning content so AI systems - ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and similar - can find, understand, and cite it, the same way SEO does for classic search engines. We offer it alongside classic SEO as part of our web development service.

  • Which industries do you work with?

    We work across tech, healthcare, financial services, insurance, retail, travel & entertainment, telecommunications, FMCG, capital markets, and automotive - see the full list further down this page.

  • How is a project typically structured?

    It depends on the service - a social listening engagement starts with defining what to track, a research project starts with scoping the questions that matter to your business, and a process mapping engagement starts by mapping how work currently moves through your team. Get in touch and we will walk you through what applies to your case.

  • How much does it cost?

    Pricing depends on scope - which tools or services you need, and how much data or how many stakeholders are involved. Reach out and we will give you a quote scoped to what you actually need.

  • How do I get started?

    Email us with a short brief on what you are trying to solve, and we will follow up to scope the right mix of tools and services for it.

Start a project

Tell us what you are trying to solve

A few details now saves a few emails later. Send us the brief and we will come back with the right mix of tools and people for it, not a generic pitch.

Prefer to write it yourself? Email START@DATALYTICS.COM directly.

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for thebest in thebusiness.

From startups to global giants, our tools help marketing teams move faster and deliver results that matter.

Ready to simplify yourmarketing and scale what works?

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Datalytics Africa is a subsidiary of Saracen Marketing Group. While Datalytics products and platforms are offered independently, historical brand experience referenced on this site reflects work delivered by Saracen Marketing Group teams, including individuals who now form part of the Datalytics core.

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