PDBY Media at University of Pretoria
Website: pdby.co.za
Social media: 18,771 followers
Pdby.co.za is the University of Pretoria’s student newspaper website. Like its print version, the online version caters to English and Afrikaans speaking students, but most stories are in English.
PDBY Media stands for Print Digital Broadcast Youth Media and is the rebranding of the old newspaper’s title, Perdeby.
Advertisers can make use of pdby.co.za for web banners and social media posts.
The team also produce a monthly newspaper that goes out for free on campus. PDBY newspaper offers print adverts.
Web traffic:
- Average monthly pageviews: 4,234
- Average monthly users: 2,316
Web traffic averages based off totals for 2022, actual term time traffic should average higher.
Social media
- Facebook: PDBYmedia 12,305 likes*
- Twitter: PDBYmedia 499 followers*
- Instagram: PDBYmedia 5,967 followers*
*Last updated: September 2026
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