Blizz Uganda

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Blizz Uganda
Type of site
Entertainment news website
Available inEnglish
Headquarters Kampala, Uganda.
Parent Blizz Entertainment Limited
URL www.blizz.co.ug
CommercialYes
Launched2015;8 years ago (2015)
Current statusActive

Blizz Uganda is a Ugandan news website founded in 2015. Owned by "Blizz Entertainment Limited", the website provides entertainment, national and sports news mainly from Uganda and the East African Community.

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History

Blizz Uganda was launched in 2015 [1] and is headquartered in Kampala, Uganda the capital and largest city in the country.

Blizz Uganda launched as an Entertainment Website but later increased the scope to cover National, Sports, Business and Political News.

The company was incorporated in 2016 as Blizz Entertainment Limited.

In 2017, the company changed the domain from ugblizz.com to blizz.co.ug and in that year received Accreditation from Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) the regulator of digital communications licensed as an online news publisher. [2]

In 2021, Blizz Uganda launched a Business news website with a directory [3] and job portal The Pearl Post. [4]

Overview

Blizz Uganda is a registered media company licensed as an online website.

The website covers fields of Entertainment, Politics and Sports news in addition to music streaming and downloading. The website mostly covers local news from Uganda.

Reception

Blizz Uganda upon its launch became one of the most visited websites in the country. In 2021,May, it was listed as Number 10 in the list of most visited websites in the country. [5]

The website says that they receive over 1,700,000 pages every month [6] which makes them one of the most visited websites in the 3rd largest economy in the East African community.

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References

  1. Pearl; Post (1 June 2021). "Blizz Entertainment Limited". The Pearl Post . Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  2. "LIST OF AUTHORISED PROVIDERS OF ONLINE DATA COMMUNICATION SERVICES IN UGANDA" (PDF). UCC . 29 May 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  3. "Blizz Uganda launches a Business Directory website". Times Uganda. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  4. "Blizz Uganda Opens Up Online Job Search Web Portal". Celeb Patrol. 22 June 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  5. Tushabe, Nasa (19 May 2021). "Blizz Uganda listed among top 10 most visited news sites in Uganda". The Pearl Post. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  6. "About Us". Blizz Uganda. 6 June 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2021.