According to Sithembile Ntombela, Marketing Awards Council Member and Head of Marketing at Brand South Africa, she has seen local and global brands using the rich culture, heritage and diversity that South Africa has to offer, linking themselves to more South African centric messaging with great results. What springs immediately to mind is a Santam insurance […]
Dr Roland Goldberg, a senior lecturer in marketing at the North-West University states that your wallet is more closely connected to your nose than you might think. One of his fields of expertise is retail atmospherics, which includes scent marketing ‘I am flabbergasted by retailers who still use outdated forms of marketing like the distribution […]
According to IAB SA, key findings show that advertising in the news is brand safe, increases trust and drives consumers to take action. More than 40% of consumers would be willing to try a brand after seeing an ad in a news outlet. This and more is evidenced in the latest research conducted in the […]
According to Ad Operations Lead at OleConnect Cape Town, Daniel Schmidt, viewability has been a buzzword in the advertising industry for a number of years. Clients want their ads to be seen by prospective buyers and agencies have been selling them ‘viewability solutions’. It is interesting to note that agencies use demand-side platforms (DSPs) as […]
According to HaveYouHeard’s Head of Insights, Claudia Schonitz, there are a number of significant challenges the post-pandemic South African consumer will have to face, noticeably on the financial and mental health fronts. As South Africans are reaching the end of the Government’s pandemic management cycle, it seems as if the post-apocalyptic world is not the […]
Modern Marketing attended the launch of Wavemaker’s Teenage Research Report on 14 October, where Delia Van Staden, Head of Analytics and Insight at Wavemaker, unpacked some valuable insights about the gatekeepers of modern and future trends. The Live Panel Teenager Report is a collaboration project between MediaCom, Mindshare and Wavemaker. Benefitting from the agencies’ experience in […]
David Jenkins, co-founder of Mickey Llew, states that a Board is typically comprised of C-suite executives from similar industries, as well as legal, accounting and corporate governance experts. However, the dramatically increased impact that online properties, social media and other digital considerations have on operations means that a new non-executive director portfolio needs to be added […]
The Woolworths and Loeries Student Portfolio showcase is an initiative that aims to reshape work experience in the creative sector to meet the needs of both young people and business. In its second year, the initiative, which is benchmarked against the best programmes of their kind in the world, gives 75 communication and advertising students […]
The Nedbank IMC white paper states two rules: everything has changed so change with your customers and stop calling everybody Millennials. These are just the first in a succinct list of rules and highlights outlined in a white paper from the conference, which took place online in July with 1200 delegates. Prepared by Caitlin Ferreira, Senior Lecturer […]
Business Alchemist Andreas Smit says brands that are not engaging directly with their customers beyond the realm of traditional media are guaranteed to lose traction and market share. There is more than enough evidence to confirm that consumers are not brand loyal and nothing about lockdown changed that. In fact, up to 36% of consumers […]