Designed as a news reading app, Zim News displays a variety of news sourced from RSS feeds published by news publishers on the Internet. biNu has shown an increase in Zim News usage since Tuesday, 14 November.
"As news of a possible military coup has been emerging in Zimbabwe, it’s become evident that the country’s citizens are relying more heavily than before on Zim News to receive updates and clarification on the situation," says Gour Lentell, CEO of biNu.
By Wednesday, 15 November, app usage had tripled to more three million page views – an equivalent of nearly 100 million page views per month. Each user spent on average 93 minutes in the app, with 85 page views.
On Thursday, 16 November, Zim News showed 3.2 million page views, with users spending on average 94 minutes each in the app, navigating an average of 83 page views.
Despite the number of page views, daily data usage per user was 1.1 MB, and the app itself has a small download footprint of 4MB.
Zim News #datafree can be downloaded via the Google Play Store or from www.datafree.co.za.
For more information, visit www.bi.nu.