Leslie Adams, Sales Director at Reach Africa, writes that advertisers are planning TV for a consumer that no longer exists. Audiences are moving freely between broadcast, streaming, online video and gaming on the same TV, yet advertisers are still playing catch-up up with their planning. Switch on the TV at home and you could end […]
Leslie Adams, Sales Director at Reach Africa, says Connected TV (CTV) receives just 7% of total media budgets, despite delivering a knockout punch on returns (30% higher ROI according to Analytics Partners). The question worth asking is why, because CTV is not new anymore, and the evidence is strong. Audiences have already made the move, […]
The WesBank New Generation Social & Digital Media Awards, South Africa’s premier independent and performance-based digital accolades, have become the definitive benchmark for digital excellence in the South African corporate and agency sectors. The WesBank New Generation Social & Digital Media Awards is proud to announce the opening of early-bird entries for its landmark 14th […]
Caitlyn Greve, Digital Co-Ordinator at Sauce Advertising, says if you’re a marketing decision-maker, you need to hear this: brands aren’t just losing clicks, they’re losing eligibility. As we all know, online search doesn’t work like it used to. Discovery is becoming increasingly local and context-aware, and that means your marketing mix needs to be managed […]
According to Thule Ngcese, Creative Partner, Distrikt 9 (a VML supplier development partner), AI is giving us flawless sunsets, flawless skin, flawless everything. But when perfection becomes the norm, it stops being a differentiator. Humans were never built to experience the world through sight alone. We have four other senses waiting to get back in […]
S’phindile Kabwe Garcer from Tribeca Public Relations says in 2026, we are moving into a space where ‘search’ as we know it, is dying. People aren’t clicking through 10 different websites to find an answer anymore, they’re just asking AI, and expect the first answer to be the right one. Whether it’s ChatGPT, Gemini, Co-Pilotor […]
Modern Marketing expo organisers Practical Publishing have announced the dates for the Modern Marketing Expo in 2025. Visitors to the 2025 event can embrace the future by seeing the latest opportunities in branding and marketing solutions. Visitors will also get new perspectives in graphics, signage, commercial print, digital printing, T-shirt printing, vehicle graphics, digital packaging and more. A major theme of [...]
Craig Lubbe, CEO of bidorbuy, discusses emerging e-commerce opportunities and what entrepreneurs abroad are doing that their local counterparts could be doing. In May this year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a report that showed e-commerce’s share of the global retail trade grew from 14% in 2019 to 17% in 2020. The huge increase, representing tens of [...]
According to Reagan Kok, Hoorah Digital CEO, it is worth interrogating what exactly is meant by empathy in the context of business generally and marketing and advertising specifically. Empathy is the ability to understand or share another person’s feelings or experiences. By implication, this suggests that empathy in the business context is about placing the needs and desires of the customer [...]
Brent Haumann, Managing Director, Striata, says research shows that you have just seven seconds to make a first impression. In today’s world, chances are that the first time a customer comes across your business, it won’t be through an advert or a shopfront, but online. That digital first impression matters far more than you might think. As is the case in [...]