About Spaza Insights

Pioneering music monitoring technology built specifically for the African market. We help rights holders capture every broadcast play and secure every due royalty.

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Our Mission

Empowering African Music Rights Holders

At Spaza Insights, we believe every play deserves recognition and every creator deserves compensation. Our mission is to bring transparency, accuracy, and efficiency to music rights management across Africa.

The African music industry is experiencing unprecedented growth, with Sub-Saharan Africa recording music revenues reaching $110 million in 2024—a remarkable 22.6% growth rate that signals the continent's emergence as a major force in global music. Yet, many rights holders continue to lose significant revenue due to inadequate monitoring of broadcast airplay.

We built Spaza Insights to address this gap. Our platform combines cutting-edge audio fingerprinting technology with deep expertise in African broadcasting to provide comprehensive, accurate, and reliable music monitoring services.

Our Story
Our Story

Born from African Music Industry Needs

Spaza Insights was founded by a team with deep roots in the African music industry. Having witnessed firsthand the challenges that artists, labels, and publishers face in tracking broadcast airplay across the continent, we set out to build a solution that truly understands African market dynamics.

Radio remains the dominant medium for music discovery and consumption in Africa, with millions of listeners tuning in daily across thousands of stations broadcasting in dozens of languages. Yet, unlike mature markets where monitoring infrastructure is well-established, Africa has historically lacked comprehensive, technology-driven solutions for tracking music airplay.

Our founders recognized this gap and assembled a team of audio recognition experts, music industry professionals, and African market specialists to build Spaza Insights from the ground up—technology designed specifically for Africa's unique broadcasting landscape.

What We Stand For

Our Core Values

These principles guide everything we do at Spaza Insights.

Accuracy First

We are committed to delivering the most accurate music monitoring data in the industry. Every detection matters because every play represents value for rights holders.

African Focus

Unlike global platforms adapted for Africa, Spaza Insights is built specifically for African markets, understanding the continent's linguistic diversity and broadcasting complexity.

Rights Protection

We exist to protect and empower music rights holders. Every feature we build, every station we monitor, is designed to help creators receive their due compensation.

Innovation

We continuously push the boundaries of audio recognition technology, adapting our systems to handle new languages, new formats, and new broadcast channels.

Partnership

We view our clients as partners. Success means their success—more accurate royalties, better market insights, and stronger rights protection.

Transparency

We believe in clear, honest data. Our clients should understand exactly what we're monitoring, how we're detecting, and why our reports matter.

By The Numbers

Our Impact

Spaza Insights is making a measurable difference for music rights holders across Africa.

50+ Radio Stations Monitored
30+ TV Music Shows Tracked
30+ Countries Covered
40+ Languages Supported
Our Leadership

Meet the Spaza Insights Team

A diverse team of music industry veterans, technology experts, and African market specialists.

Chief Executive Officer

20+ years in African music industry

Former executive at major African record label with deep connections across the continent's music ecosystem.

Chief Technology Officer

Audio recognition specialist

PhD in signal processing with 15+ years developing audio fingerprinting and recognition systems for broadcast monitoring.

Head of Operations

Music rights management expert

Experience managing rights collection and distribution for collecting societies across multiple African markets.

Head of Business Development

Pan-African music industry leader

Established relationships with labels, publishers, and collecting societies across East, West, and Southern Africa.

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