When buyers ask AI about South African news media, TimesLIVE is named in 1 of 6 answers.
We put 6 real buyer questions to Claude and read every answer. News24 and Daily Maverick are named more often.
AI names TimesLIVE in 1 answer, but ties it to no single idea yet.
Read from the 1 answers that named TimesLIVE.
Once AI starts naming you, this is where you see what it says. The full report shows what competitors are praised for.
TimesLIVE is fourth. News24 is named almost twice as often.
Top brands named across the same 6 answers, ranked by share of answers. Average position is where each brand lands in the answer.
- 01 News24 100% #2.0
- 02 Daily Maverick 83% #2.2
- 03 Mail & Guardian 67% #3.2
- 04 TimesLIVEYou 17% Not named
- 05 Independent Electoral Commission 17% #1.0
- 06 amaBhungane 17% #1.0
Buyers asked. AI answered. TimesLIVE was not in it.
Two of the 5 questions where AI recommended other brands. The full report lists every one, with the answer AI gave.
TimesLIVE loses most when buyers are comparing brands.
All 6 answers, grouped by what the buyer was trying to do. The full report shows which gaps to close first, and how.
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Comparing brands0 of 1
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Shopping for a specific need0 of 1
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Asking for someone like them0 of 1
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Deciding what to look for0 of 1
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Asking which brand to buy1 of 2
recommending others
- Which of the 0 websites to get TimesLIVE onto first
- The questions to win, in the order to win them
- What to publish on TimesLIVE's own site and Instagram
We read 6 answers. You have seen two of them.
The rest stays sealed until you open the full report: every brand AI named, every answer word for word, and what to change.
Seven posts, scored on five things.
Read from their seven most recent posts. Each one is scored out of 100 below, with what we saw behind the number.
- 01Visual identity
- 02Hook strength
- 03Format range
- 04Captions & CTAs
- 05Cadence
Where the feed is strong, and where it leaks.
Scores are relative to the posts analysed, not to competitors. That comparison is in the full report.
A 6-colour palette held across 7 posts (consistency 0.20). Recurring marks: large white serif headline overlay, TimesLIVE logo on the frame.
Your best post earns 0.2% engagement; the median post 0.1%. The one that landed opened with “Stokvel group robbed at gunpoint during year-end gathering”.
3 images, 2 reels across 5 posts. carousels untested.
4 of 5 captions ask the reader to do anything. 0 hashtags per post. 33 words on average.
35.0 posts a week between 9 Nov and 9 Nov. A daily rhythm, sustained. Reach is the constraint, not output.
Your best posts, ranked by engagement rate.
Ranked by engagement rate. What each one did differently is read from the frame and the caption.
All 5 posts, by engagement rate.
One bar per post, in the order they went out. Hover a bar to see its date and rate.
“Stokvel group robbed at gunpoint during year-end gathering”, 0.2% ER.
“WATCH | ...”, 0.0% ER.
What makes a post recognisably yours.
Extracted from the frames and captions, not from a brief.
Look
Speaker or subject pushed to one side of the frame with a large serif headline block beside them.
Voice
“Third-person news copy written like a wire brief: concrete figures, named officials, no opinion, and every caption points readers onward to the story.”
Recurring marks
- 01large white serif headline overlay
- 02TimesLIVE logo on the frame
- 03dark, high-contrast news card look
- 04WATCH label on reel captions
What the accounts competing for your audience are doing that you are not.
The scorecard tells you where you stand. The full report tells you against whom, and what to post next week.
See everything else Nayavo doesWhen buyers ask AI about South African news media, TimesLIVE is named in 1 of 6 answers.
TimesLIVE is fourth. News24 is named almost twice as often.
- 01 News24 100% #2.0
- 02 Daily Maverick 83% #2.2
- 03 Mail & Guardian 67% #3.2
- 04 TimesLIVE YOU 17% Not named
- 05 Independent Electoral Commission 17% #1.0
- 06 amaBhungane 17% #1.0
Buyers asked. AI answered. TimesLIVE was not in it.
Every kind of question, and how often AI named you.
- Comparing brands0 of 1
- Shopping for a specific need0 of 1
- Asking for someone like them0 of 1
- Deciding what to look for0 of 1
- Asking which brand to buy1 of 2
We read 6 answers. You have seen two.
Seven posts, scored on five things.
Visual identityPalette, layout, marks 20
A 6-colour palette held across 7 posts (consistency 0.20). Recurring marks: large white serif headline overlay, TimesLIVE logo on the frame.
Fix in full reportHook strengthBest post vs. median 22
Your best post earns 0.2% engagement; the median post 0.1%. The one that landed opened with “Stokvel group robbed at gunpoint during year-end gathering”.
Hook formulasFormat rangeReel · Carousel · Image 69
3 images, 2 reels across 5 posts. carousels untested.
Formats to testCaptions & CTAsAsks, hashtags, length 58
4 of 5 captions ask the reader to do anything. 0 hashtags per post. 33 words on average.
CTA templatesCadencePosts per week 95
35.0 posts a week between 9 Nov and 9 Nov. A daily rhythm, sustained. Reach is the constraint, not output.
Best posting windowsYour best posts, ranked by engagement rate.
#1 · 0.2%
Speaker or subject pushed to one side of the frame with a large serif headline block beside them.
“Third-person news copy written like a wire brief: concrete figures, named officials, no opinion, and every caption points readers onward to the story.”