Podcasts bring brands to life
[Jayne Morgan] These days advertising agencies don't make ads for television; they make them so they will be passed around and spoofed on YouTube. Look at Cadbury's drumming gorilla or the Bravia ad (thanks to Mike Stopforth for alerting me to that whole palaver). It's all about creating great content and then getting people talking about it - and consequently getting people talking about you and your brand. 12 May 2008 09:03

SANEF concerned over SABC developments
The South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) expressed its concerns today, Friday, 9 May 2008, about the “bizarre” situation that has been happening at the SABC this past week, saying that “[t]he top level disciplinary issues and staff departures are likely to have a highly disruptive effect on the conduct of the broadcaster's operations”. 9 May 2008 16:32

One Show: Gold for JWT, Silver for Jupiter
NEW YORK: The One Show and One Show Design winners were announced last night, Thursday, 8 May 2008, in New York, and JWT Cape Town scooped a Gold Pencil for its poster campaign for Jabula Hair and Braids, with The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town taking Silver in television for Musica. 9 May 2008 11:29

New study on digital magazine and newspaper editions: growth, trends, and best practices
CAMBRIDGE MA, US: The Gilbane Group announced the general release of Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices, a pioneering and comprehensive study of the growing market for digital editions of periodical publications, earlier this week. 9 May 2008 08:38

Fireworkx unveil redesign of South African Red Cross Society's website - Fireworkx.com
The 8th of May sees World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, focusing in South Africa on a three-month emblem campaign, seeking to grow understanding of the organisation's symbolism, as well as to prevent misuse of these highly recognisable emblems. 8 May 2008 16:21

SA's fastest growing websites - Nielsen Online
LONDON: The fastest growing South African websites over the last year and the most popular sites today were revealed by Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, earlier this week. Right at the top is Creamer Media, producing three of the four fastest growing sites - Engineering News, Mining Weekly and Polity. 8 May 2008 08:52

Bullard speaks candidly on local podcast
Sacked Sunday Times columnist and controversial writer David Bullard appears as a special guest on this week's episode of ZA Tech Show - a weekly South African technology podcast. In the show, Bullard speaks candidly about his exit from the Sunday Times and presents his side of the story, while motivating his apology which was recently printed in Business Day. 7 May 2008 09:44

Editors optimistic about multimedia newspapers - survey
LONDON: The vast majority of newspaper editors world-wide are optimistic about the future of their newspapers, but they don't think of them as "print-only," having clearly accepted the multimedia revolution, according to a global survey released yesterday, Tuesday, 6 May 2008, that provides an insider's view of newsroom attitudes and strategies. 7 May 2008 09:03

SA artist designs for Google
Desré Buirski, the artist best known for designing Madiba's trademark presidential shirts, represented South Africa at the launch event of the iGoogle artist themes project in New York last week. Buirski was one of 60 artists from around the world to design her own theme for iGoogle. 7 May 2008 08:36

OPA membership grows, with agencies showing the lead - Online Publishers Association
The uptake from agencies who were recently invited to join the Online Publishers Association (OPA) has been very encouraging. The following leading online media and creative agencies have signed up as Associate OPA members: Acceleration, Group M, Longtail, Upstream, Catgraphics and Digivox. 6 May 2008 11:39

Podcasts make you new media smart
[Jon Bishop] The new media space can be quite a daunting arena to enter, filled with big ego gladiators thinking they own the arena, ever-changing developments to keep you on your toes and a Colosseum full of new terms and abbreviations deserving of their own dictionary. So how can you get clued up quick? 6 May 2008 09:14

Making new consumer connections
[Mike Abel] Hi there. My name is Mike and I am a rejuvenile. You can even call me an adultescent if you wish. I didn't know these terms until recently, when an old friend of mine sent me a brilliant article which she had written, on the demand for certain cupcakes in New York. In this piece she uses these terms to underpin the reason for the said demand. I stole them. The words, not the cupcakes. 6 May 2008 08:50

World press pays tribute to colleagues
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] A huge cloud of uncertainty, anxiety and fear hung on Saturday, 3 May 2008, the 18th World Press Freedom Day, as media practitioners and lobby groups across the globe paid a silent tribute to their imprisoned, missing and dead colleagues and decried the critical downturn of press freedom even in countries claiming to be liberally democratic. 5 May 2008 11:09