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Media24, South Africa’s leading media company, launches the Daily Sun app on Pugpig Bolt

Media24 has launched Daily Sun’s first app on Pugpig Bolt, bringing Reels-style Clips, live coverage, text-to-speech audio and podcasts to its fully digital audience.

25th August 2026

Since publishing its last print edition in December 2024, Daily Sun has built an audience of 2 million regular website visitors and 3.5 million active social followers. The title also ranked as one of South Africa’s most trusted news brands in the 2025 Reuters Institute Digital News Report. The new app brings a dedicated mobile channel to a loyal audience that was already fully digital.

Daily Sun is one of the first Pugpig customers to go live with Clips, our Reels-style vertical video experience. The dedicated tab lets readers swipe continuously through short-form video, bringing a familiar social format into the app. Clips gives Daily Sun’s audience a more engaging way to discover and consume content, while keeping that viewing experience and audience relationship within a fully-owned channel.

Audio gives users another way to fit content into their day. Text-to-speech is available on every article, so it’s easy to catch up while commuting, multitasking or simply when they don’t feel like reading.

The Listen tab brings podcasts into the app, letting users move between written stories, narrated articles and longer-form audio in one place.

Over in the Follow section, readers can select specific topics and authors to build a personalised feed around their own interests. Saved content sits in here too, giving them a clear place to return to stories and videos whenever they choose.

Daily Sun is a major addition to the Pugpig portfolio, and our first customer in South Africa. We’re really pleased to welcome such an iconic media brand to Bolt.

The Daily Sun app is available to download now on iOS and Android.