Middle East & Africa Social Media Analytics Market

The social media analytics market in Middle East & Africa is expected to grow from US$ 318.16 million in 2022 to US$ 912.45 million by 2028; it is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 19.2% from 2022 to 2028.

Upward Demand for Business Intelligence (BI)

The increasing competitiveness amongst businesses can be attributed to several factors that differ from country to country. Globalization, rising adoption of Industry 4.0, growing promotional activities, increasing brand awareness, and higher price sensitivity amongst consumers are a few major factors fueling the same. Thus, in a bid to gain a competitive edge, most enterprises have been exploring newer avenues for gaining intelligence on their competitors. Business intelligence (BI) uses different solutions and services to transform gathered data into actionable insights. Traditional BI was mostly restricted to identifying competitors and gathering as much information as possible on them but could not structure, analyze and provide meaningful insights from multivariate data pointers. Social media analytic solutions and services can provide varied BI information. It can aid in identifying competitors, understanding which and how they are utilizing social media platforms, understanding their strategy, compare own social results with competitors, and identifying gaps or threats in social strategy. Additionally, social media analytics can aid performance benchmarking of ad campaigns, understanding appropriate posting time, revealing customers' pain points, and differentiating one’s brand from its competitors. Such benefits have led to a growing demand for gathering BI through social media analytics. For instance, Northern Light Group, LLC aided one of its clients to gain BI by developing and managing a knowledge management platform. Northern Light Business News and 5 other subscription-based market intelligence sources feed data to this platform. Similarly, NapoleonCat, developed by Napoleon Sp. z o.o. have been aiding collectible metal poster e-commerce site Displate (GWD CONCEPT Sp. z o.o.) to analyze their social media performance, connect to newer customers and gather BI on their competitors among others. All such factors collectively have been driving the social media analytics market growth. Several startups, providing social media analytic solutions, have come up in the past few years, again suggestive of the growing importance businesses place on social media analytics. NeenerAnalytics, Catalytics Datum, Astroscreen, ViralStat, and CircusSocial are some prominent startups providing such solutions. CircusSocial raised US$ 1.0 million in 2021 to fund its business activities, suggesting venture capitalists' faith in their solution's demand. The growing demand for BI and social media analytics is promoting the development of several such startups.

Market Overview

The social media analytics market in MEA includes South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the Rest of the MEA. Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that has developed and introduced a national policy on AI. The MEA is projected to witness a rapid rise in industrialization, leading to urbanization, which would further drive the overall economy of this region. The Gulf countries are economically advanced, while the African countries are yet to level up to their economic conditions. The Saudi Arabian Data and Artificial Intelligence Agency (SDAIA) launched an AI Policy to lead the country's transformation into a data-driven economy. In addition, the country's 2030 vision aims to create sustainable cities and ensure optimal use of resources in important sectors of the economy. This has led the government to realize the importance of AI and automation to boost its skills. In addition, the country plans to launch education reforms to match AI and digital skills. As a result, the development of AI will enhance its use for data analysis, thereby providing growth opportunities for the social media analytics market.

Middle East & Africa social media analytics Market Revenue and Forecast to 2028 (US$ Million)

Middle East & Africa social media analytics market Segmentation

The Middle East & Africa social media analytics market is segmented on the basis of component, application, deployment, organization size, vertical, and country. Based on component, the market is bifurcated into solutions and services. The solutions segment held a larger market share in 2022. Further the component is bifurcated into professional services and managed services.

• Based on application, the market is bifurcated into customer experience management, competitive intelligence, sales & marketing management, and others. The competitive intelligence segment held the largest market share in 2022.
• Based on deployment, the market is bifurcated into cloud and on-premise. The cloud segment held a larger market share in 2022.
• Based on organization size, the market is bifurcated into large enterprises and SMEs. The large enterprises segment held a larger market share in 2022.
• Based on vertical, the market is segmented into BFSI, IT & telecommunication, media & entertainment, retail & e-commerce, and others. The retail & e-commerce segment held the largest market share in 2022.
• Based on country, the market is segmented into the South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Rest of Middle East & Africa. The UAE dominated the market share in 2022.  

Cision Ltd.; Hootsuite Inc.; IBM Corporation; Meltwater N.V.; Oracle Corporation; Qualtrics International Inc.; Salesforce, Inc.; Sprout Social, Inc.; Talkwalker S.a.r.l; Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. are the leading companies operating in the Middle East & Africa social media analytics market.   

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