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[Issued by Carat] The importance of proving return on investment to clients is probably the biggest overall focus media agencies will see in 2013, says Lerina Bierman, Media Director at global media agency, Carat. Bierman says 2013 will be a year of returning to basics, as budgets continue to bite and clients demand to see real value.
7 Jan 2013 10:41 [Nomaswazi Nkosi] Popular radio and television personality Bonang Matheba is excited at having made it into the list of
Forbes Magazine's 13 most influential artists in Africa and has promised to work harder to make her star shine brighter.
7 Jan 2013 08:04 
NEW YORK, US: Millward Brown, a global research agency, expert in helping companies grow great brands, has released its annual top 10 digital and media predictions, highlighting growing trends in the media sector.
7 Jan 2013 06:22
[Nick Hedley] JSE-listed Naspers is now less of a media company and more a diversified technology investor - becoming one of few global conglomerates to achieve this feat.
3 Jan 2013 09:42
The Africa Cup of Nations matches, which are set to create football mania in Johannesburg from 19 January until 10 February, will also be shaking things up on the TV front.
3 Jan 2013 09:31
[Peter Koeppel] LAS VEGAS, US: With the rapid changes that happen in the advertising industry, deciding how to spend your marketing dollars can be a challenge. We make that choice easier with our infographic: "Advertising in the United States - Television vs Online".
28 Dec 2012 09:13
NEWSWATCH: Lungani Zama, writing in
IOL reckons that the national broadcaster has its priorities 'all mixed up' and that those running the organisation are 'clueless'.
27 Dec 2012 06:11DAKAR, SENEGAL - The second high level media workshop on the African Union Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) started on Friday (21 December) in Dakar, Senegal, with the theme
Promoting the culture of Peace through Media.
22 Dec 2012 12:06
NEW YORK, US: The Midas Awards, for the World's Best Financial Advertising, announced the award winners for the 2012 competition. This year's Midas Grand Jury awarded one Grand Midas, 26 Gold Ingots, 46 Silver Ingots, and 63 Finalists. The 2012 Midas Awards competition received entries from 28 countries and is reputed to be the only international competition that recognises excellence in financial services communications on a global scale.
21 Dec 2012 08:23
NEWSWATCH: Cricket is one of SA's leading sports and our national team - unlike our national football team - is ranked at the top or near the top in all forms of the game, but, as
Daily Maverick and
ESPNcricinfo report, the SABC will not be airing the SA-NZ test matches live.
20 Dec 2012 06:31A day after the 14th anniversary of journalist Norbert Zongo's murder in Burkina Faso and two days before the 8th anniversary of journalist Deyda Hydara's murder in Gambia, Reporters Without Borders accuses the authorities in these two countries of sabotaging the investigations into their deaths and encouraging impunity.
19 Dec 2012 12:59
NEWSWATCH: According to
Mail & Guardian,
Star editor Makhudu Sefara says the newspaper reporter working on the Ramaphosa nomination report, which resulted in the resignation of political editor Gaye Davis, was "led down an unsavoury garden path". Meanwhile, Wyndham Hartley, writing in
BD Live, says the media is becoming increasingly concerned with how government officials are handling news of Nelson Mandela's hospitalisation.
19 Dec 2012 12:31
YouTube has released a list of South Africa's top ten most popular YouTube video ads of the year. These are the South African ads which achieved the largest number of views from people in South Africa. Ranked in order they are:
19 Dec 2012 07:19