MediaMotionWe grow by partnership, not by scraping.
Every hour in our catalogue got there because someone trusted us with it. Networks, language institutions, annotation teams and platforms — this is how we work with each, and what we bring to the table.
Broadcasters, radio groups & studios
The foundation of the catalogue. We take on the licensing, processing and sales work so your archive earns without pulling your team off air.
- Revenue share on every downstream licence
- First-look on custom data commissions from buyers
- Co-branded provenance — or full anonymity
- Legacy tape digitisation covered
Universities, language boards & archives
Orthography, dialect coverage and evaluation design are not things we want to guess at. We partner with the people who have spent careers on them.
- Paid advisory on transcription conventions per language
- Research access to held-out evaluation sets
- Co-authored benchmarks and dataset papers
- Priority sequencing for under-served languages
Native-speaker transcription partners
Our pipeline drafts; humans decide. We are building a network of vetted transcription and QA teams across South Africa's provinces, paid properly and trained on our conventions.
- Ongoing volume, not one-off gigs
- Tooling, style guides and calibration sets provided
- Per-language leads with editorial authority
- Fair-rate commitments published in the agreement
Data marketplaces, cloud & tooling partners
Buyers already have places they go to find data and pipelines they run it through. We would rather show up there than make them come to us.
- Catalogue listings on partner marketplaces
- Native delivery into cloud data lakes
- Integrations with training and eval tooling
- Referral agreements for enterprise deals
The people in the recordings are partners too.
Presenters, performers, callers and guests are the reason this data has any value. We review talent agreements at audit, exclude anyone who asks, redact personal information before delivery, and are working with performer and broadcasting bodies on a standard for AI-training consent in South African media. If you represent one of those bodies, we would like to talk.
South Africa first. Then the continent.
Each new market starts the same way: one anchor network, one language institution, one local QA team. If you can be one of those three somewhere in Africa, we want to hear from you.
South Africa
Afrikaans, isiZulu, English in production. isiXhosa and Sesotho in diligence. Processing hubs across South Africa.
Southern & East Africa
Swahili, Shona, Setswana and Amharic-language broadcasters in early conversation. Looking for anchor partners in Nairobi, Harare and Gaborone.
West Africa
Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Twi and francophone catalogues. Open to introductions to networks in Lagos, Accra and Abidjan.
Tell us who you are and what you'd bring.
A network with an archive, a department with expertise, a team with native speakers, or a platform with buyers — pick the closest fit and we'll take it from there.