HiPipo Limited

HiPipo is a diversified company with operations covering Digital, Financial Inclusion, Content Production and Events

HiPipo
Type of businessPrivate
FoundedKampala, Uganda
Headquarters
Kampala
,
Uganda
Area servedEast Africa, Africa
Key peopleInnocent Kawooya (CEO)
URLdigital.hipipo.com
LaunchedMay 2007
Current statusActive

History

HiPipo was founded as a social network in 2006.

HiPipo Digital

The company's digital arm:

  • Executes integrated digital marketing and advertising campaigns.
  • Offers digital strategy consulting and advisory services to private and public sector organizations.
  • Provides proprietary market research on digital embrace.[1][2]
  • HiPipo and Cyberplc organize Digital Impact Awards Africa.[3][4]

Digital Impact Awards Africa

Digital Impact Awards Africa (DIAA)[5] is a platform that promotes Digital inclusion, financial inclusion and Cybersecurity under the theme Maximizing the Digital Dividend. The Awards seek to recognize and appreciate different organizations that are spearheading the use of digital mediums in this respect.

INCLUDE EVERYONE - Financial Inclusion

Include Everyone program has roots in the Digital Impact Awards Africa; an annual research-based awards event that HiPipo started in 2014 and have expanded annually to measure, promote and award products, services and innovations that have excelled in enabling financial inclusion in Africa. Include Everyone program has a collection of six related financial inclusion outreach projects including contests, hackathon, expo, summit, awards and research, that are manage in a synchronized way.

Media

Its digital media arm publishes and distributes high quality digital content

  • HiPipo.com, focuses on Music,
  • HiPipo Money; focuses on Business, Financial Inclusion and Technology.
  • HiPipo organizes HiPipo Music Awards and The ShowBiz League

Content

HiPipo's major content categories include Entertainment News, Music, Videos[6] and the HiPipo Charts that are powered by online music consumption statistics on HiPipo Desktop and Mobile Platforms.

Music Awards

The inaugural HiPipo Music Awards (HMA)[7][8] event was held in 2012. The annual awards have happened since then.

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References
  1. "Nonini Becomes The First Ever Official Top Facebook Artist in East Africa - Ghafla!Kenya". ghafla.co.ke. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  2. Susan Mwenesi (9 October 2014). "MTN leads the pack as top social media brand as NTV ranks as best media brand". HumanIPO. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  3. "About". Digital Impact Awards Africa- Maximising the Digital Dividend. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  4. "allAfrica.com: Uganda: Nominees for Uganda's Digital Impact Awards Africa Announced". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  5. http://www.newvision.co.ug/mobile/Detail.aspx?NewsID=671632&CatID=3%5B%5D
  6. Abu-Baker Mulumba. "The Observer". observer.ug. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  7. "HiPipo". Archived from the original on 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
  8. Samson Baranga. "The Observer". observer.ug. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
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