Africam
Live African wildlife, streaming 24/7
The challenge
Africam streams live wildlife from cameras across Africa, around the clock. The challenge was turning those cameras into a platform people come back to every day: somewhere to watch, to be told the moment something rare walks into frame, to join in, to learn and to support the work, all in one place and on any device.
The solution
We designed and built the new Africam platform, now live, around the cameras: live streams and highlights, instant sighting alerts, games and competitions that turn viewers into spotters, a community forum, a field guide to Africa's animals and birds, and the memberships and shop that fund it all.
0/7
Live streams
Instant
Sighting alerts
All-in-one
Watch, play, learn, shop
In their words
“Handee rebuilt Africam from the ground up and never lost sight of what makes it special: the animals, and the people who love watching them. The platform is faster, the community is growing, and we finally have a product we can build on.”
What we built
Everything the cameras feed
One platform around the live streams: watching, playing, talking and learning, on the web and in the alerts app.
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Every camera, live, in one place
All the live cameras on one screen, with Recent Alerts showing what's been spotted in the last few minutes, where, and how rare the sighting is.
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Instant sighting alerts
The iOS and Android alerts app tells viewers the moment something rare walks into frame, so nobody misses it.
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Africam TV
Wildlife Watch streams around the clock, from sunrise game drives to night-vision predators, beside Recent Live Shows, Ranger Diaries and Conservation Stories.
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SafariSnaps & the Photo Competition
Spot wildlife, tag what you see and climb the leaderboard, while every shared photo is automatically in the running, ranked by likes.
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A community around the cameras
Boma Chat runs beside every stream, and the forum links threads straight to the stream or highlight being discussed.
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A field guide, built in
Animals A–Z and Birds A–Z give every species its own profile, with rarity, tags and the facts behind it.
Gallery
The stars of the show
Every product decision on Africam serves one thing: the animals in front of the cameras. These are the moments the platform exists to carry, live, to anyone, anywhere.
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From our insights
Practical writing on how we build, from the first prototype to a fleet in the field.
