Research
We diagnose the real problem behind the brief, before anyone writes a media plan against it.
Africa's intelligence engine.We connect what brands spendto what they can prove.
Talk to usOur mission is to connect research, data, and technology into an ecosystem that helps Africa’s businesses compete on intelligence.
We diagnose the real problem behind the brief, before anyone writes a media plan against it.
We quantify what actually moves outcomes, so budget follows evidence rather than habit.
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.
Platforms, intelligence layers, and measurement tools - each solving a specific problem for brands, agencies, and media owners across East Africa.
OOH location intelligence.One platform to plan, buy, and measure out-of-home. Data-led site selection, audience scoring, budget simulation, and AI-powered verification of every proof-of-posting image.Open the platform
Free-to-air audience intelligence.Monitors YouTube simulcasts of 15 East African free-to-air television channels. Records concurrent viewers, captures live chat, and turns ephemeral audience data into a permanent, comparable record.Open the platform
Media planning and governance OS.The operating record for media planning and trafficking across digital, TV, radio, OOH, and print. One deterministic naming standard, version-controlled plans, and automated reconciliation.Open the platform VAULT™
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.
Can the team clearly see progress, assets, owners, and blockers?
Are roles clear, briefs actionable, and tools correctly activated?
Does everyone understand performance, expectations, and what is at risk?
Is the system improving over time, not repeating the same failures?
Is there a feedback loop where lessons are captured, reused, and shared?
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.
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.
Consumer, competitor, and brand research that replaces assumptions with evidence, so every strategy decision starts from what your market actually thinks.
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.
We map how work actually moves through your business, surface the bottlenecks slowing it down, and design the path to automate it.
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.
We design and build full-stack systems, from internal tools to customer-facing platforms, engineered to scale with your business rather than just launch.
How we have helped brands replace guesswork with systems, and systems with results.
OOH intelligence
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.
Broadcast intelligence
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.
Audience intelligence
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.
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
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.
Published research,market intelligence,and findings from
the field
Evidence and frameworks for sharper, more defensible investment decisions - drawn from the same platforms our clients run on.

Footfall tells you people showed up. It doesn't tell you whether the location was ever worth showing up to. Retailers across East Africa are still confusing the two.
1 August 2026

Culture is no longer the backdrop to marketing — it's one of its primary competitive arenas. The brands that win won't be the fastest to react. They'll be the ones who know when not to.
1 July 2026

A customer sees a TV ad, searches on Google, talks to an agent, gets a referral, and buys three months later. Most insurers still can't say which of those touchpoints actually earned the sale.
1 June 2026
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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