The Opera browser accounts for 2% of browser market share, according to Statcounter.

On Wednesday, Opera launched Opera Ad Manager, a self-serve ad platform to buy inventory on Opera News (not to be confused with a publication of the same name about the actual opera) that doesn’t use third-party cookies. In this period, 23% of the Opera Mini user base in Tanzania accessed the video platform while in Kenya only 17% of the user base accessed the platform.įurthermore, across Africa, Opera users saved an impressive 77 petabytes (77 million gigabytes) of mobile data in 2018 due to the data saving features in Opera’s products.Opera Ads, the online ad platform launched by Norwegian browser maker Opera in 2019, is serving up some self-serve. The report which gives a detailed look at the digital landscape of the African region further details that eight out of ten people access Facebook on a daily basis with Opera Mini registering on average 73 million browsing results to social media platforms in Q1-2019 in Africa.Īccording to the report, the most browsed category of websites were social media platform domains such as Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, followed by search engine websites like Google, and entertainment and sport websites.ĭata from the report show that in March 2019, Tanzanians are more likely to access YouTube from their mobile browser than people in Kenya or Nigeria. 40% of Kenyans using global mobile browser Opera Mini access online social media site Facebook, says a 2019 State of Mobile Web Report for Africa.

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