MultiChoice launches HDTV [Issa Sikiti da Silva] MultiChoice has launched high definition television (HDTV) in the South African market, the first of its kind in Africa. The event took place last night, Thursday, 24 July 2008, at Atlas Studios in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. 25 Jul 2008 10:40
Ad agencies are “bottom-feeders” - Alistair King [Vivian Warby] Alistair King, creative director of KingJames and one of the judges in this year's Loeries Awards, tells it as it is in the industry these days, no bars held. “We have become bottom-feeders,” he says, talking quite frankly about ad agencies in the new era. 24 Jul 2008 23:54
Destination SA always better on the big screen South African Tourism is launching a global cinema advertising campaign that will take destination South Africa commercials to more than 1770 cinema screens in Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the UK and the US. The campaign launches next month in Canada and runs until February 2009. 24 Jul 2008 23:51
Rapid corporate adoption of social media [Walter Pike] Twice as many rapidly growing companies believe that social media is very important in their marketing strategy in 2008 than did in 2007, with 77% using at least one form of social media, according to new research released by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research. The subject of the research was the Inc 500, a list of the fastest growing companies compiled by Inc Magazine. 24 Jul 2008 23:46
The return of Noot vir Noot Noot vir Noot, officially the longest running game show in South Africa and also the most popular Afrikaans TV show ever, returns to SABC2 for a groundbreaking 31st season from next Friday, 1 August 2008 at 7.30pm. 24 Jul 2008 23:43
Your winners - the Encounters Audience Awards The winners of this year's Audience Award at The Encounters South African International Documentary Festival are Shamiela's House directed by Robyn Rorke for Best South African Documentary, and Angel's in the Dust directed by Louise Hogarth for Best International Documentary winner, it was announced today, Thursday, 24 July 2008. 24 Jul 2008 19:04
Debut of cultural district brochure The first annual Newtown Brochure - published and project managed on behalf of the Newtown Management District (NMD) by Blue Planet Media - is now available, focusing on the potpourri of cultural, educational and tourist attractions in Newtown, Johannesburg, ranging from museums, art galleries, restaurants, theatre, dance and live music. 24 Jul 2008 19:03
Spread it with Jam Sandwich SABC2's new music “reality”/documentary show Jam Sandwich is a 13-part reality/documentary/entertainment series where musicians from different market segments of the South African music spectrum are put together to collaborate. Jam Sandwich promises to deliver television that opens the door on how musicians work, how they create and what they are really capable of, given a free rein without the demands of commercial success. 24 Jul 2008 19:01
HDI, MTV partner for industry roadshow Youth market specialists HDI Youth Marketeers and music and youth entertainment network MTV Networks Africa are joining force to create a roadshow designed to show advertising and media planning agencies what's really going on in the forever evolving youth space, and how to tap into it. 24 Jul 2008 18:59
Free Madiba birthday special serves over 10000 When a public challenge was issued to Nando's last week by SABC2's Morning Live to better its offer of free meals to everyone 90 years and older in honour of Nelson Mandela's birthday, Kevin Utian, Nando's MD, immediately picked up the gauntlet. He opened up the offer to include every South African who shares a birthday with Madiba, and by the end of business on Friday, 18 July, an astonishing 10,800 free birthday meals had been dished out to South Africans around the country. 24 Jul 2008 11:19
New agency takes Checkers account The decade-and-a-half relationship between Checkers and Berry Bush/BBDO Cape Town is now over. "This year, in 2008, we decided that it was time to make sure that we were still receiving the best brand insight available in the industry," says Neil Schreuder, marketing manager for the Shoprite Checkers Group. "After the pitching processes we decided on NINETY9CENTS to handle our full advertising account.” 24 Jul 2008 09:34
Company news
TEC Video supports the empowerment of scriptwriters - TEC Agency Although the three-month strike by US film and TV writers is a distant memory for some, TEC Video believes it is something we cannot just forget, and there are long-term lessons for the industry as a whole. 25 Jul 2008 17:25
Executive Succession Management - Challenge or crisis...? This two-day Executive Succession Management Seminar will provide you with research and case studies exploring some existing trends and practices that will provide you with key insights on how to get your executive succession management programme moving forward. Come and hear from SABMiller, Goldfields, NECSA, and more... 25 Jul 2008 16:15
Digital marketing: Doing the homework - digiVOX [Andrea Mitchell] Digital marketing today, means a very different thing to what it did ten years ago. Ten years ago, it simply meant placing a banner on a web site. Some banners didn't even click through to a web site, as advertisers often didn't have a web presence. Media owners even charged a “loading fee”. Knowing how many times it had been viewed, let alone any more data beyond that, was not even considered. 25 Jul 2008 15:02
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When a public challenge was issued to Nando's last week by SABC2's Morning Live to better its offer of free meals to everyone 90 years and older in honour of Nelson Mandela's birthday, Kevin Utian, Nando's MD, immediately picked up the gauntlet. He opened up the offer to include every South African who shares a birthday with Madiba, and by the end of business on Friday, 18 July, an astonishing 10,800 free birthday meals had been dished out to South Africans around the country. 24 Jul 2008 11:19
This two-day Executive Succession Management Seminar will provide you with research and case studies exploring some existing trends and practices that will provide you with key insights on how to get your executive succession management programme moving forward. Come and hear from SABMiller, Goldfields, NECSA, and more... 25 Jul 2008 16:15
Oasys Innovations ensured that Durban's beachfront provided a backdrop with the infrastructure they delivered to MTN's Durban Fashion Week, which took place during the last week of June. 25 Jul 2008 15:34
