The media entitlement myth

[Chris Moerdyk: @chrismoerdyk] It is probably time for South Africa to decide whether it is a free-market democracy or a socialist entitleist communist kleptocracy. Read more >>

More judging panels for Loeries

The judging panels for the Loeries TV and Radio and TV and Radio Crafts for the 34th Annual Loerie Awards have been selected. Chairing all three panels is SA-born Tony Granger, the global chief creative officer of Y&R New York. Granger will also be speaking at the Loeries Seminar on Friday 21 September. Tickets are still open for booking online. Read more >>

NGO extends reading plan to more Johannesburg areas

The NGO help2read has expanded its Gauteng network to Emzimvubu Primary in Diepkloof and Shomang Primary in Orlando West, Soweto, so that both can start benefiting from this volunteer literacy programme. Since branching out into Gauteng in 2011, it has partnered with 19 schools. Read more >>

Call for board members to head up World Design Capital 2014 company

The Cape Town Partnership, coordinator of Cape Town's successful bid for the World Design Capital 2014 Host City Agreement, has been tasked by the City of Cape Town to assist with the setting up of the World Design Capital 2014 implementation company and to provide essential strategic and project support. Read more >>

Where traditional and digital meet in the mobile space

[Clinton Young] It is funny to me that the future of traditional advertising is digital. Where people believe that digital will someday kill traditional media, I believe that digital is in fact its saviour. With the fast adoption of smartphones, wireless internet and other mobile devices, the emergence of traditional and digital is most certainly happening in the mobile space. Read more >>

More sex, please - we're hot-blooded SA males

NEWSWATCH: According to Health24, the Women's Health/Men's Health Sex Survey has found SA males want more sex - surprise - and more communication - what? Meanwhile, on a different subject altogether, some people are a bit "mal" over the packaging design for a local wine, reports Times Live, and Naspers plans to keep on growing, reports Business Day. Read more >>

Research Channel Africa website gets a revamp

In the early 2000s, South African-based media group Creamer Media leveraged the research and interactive abilities of the internet by creating a product that allowed users to quickly access information from the large archive associated with the Engineering News and Mining Weekly publications. Read more >>

SA marketing research needs to wake up!

[Butch Rice] When it comes to marketing research, South Africa is looking more and more like a dusty museum of techniques from a bygone era. It is almost impossible to believe that interviewers are still being sent out armed with pens and clipboards to knock on doors, to interview luckless respondents who take pity on them, and pay the price by answering boring question after boring question for an interminably long time. Come on guys, catch a wake up! Read more >>

Video Jockey auditions in July for MTV Base

To track down the TV star of the future, MTV Base talent scouts are to hold auditions in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg in July 2012, with one winner becoming the new VJ (video jockey or TV presenter) for the youth entertainment channel. Read more >>

Five Future Stars selected

Argo, a multi-media communications company, has selected five winners from the 216 entrants that submitted their Future Stars entries. The competition targeted aspirational youth under the age of 21, to motivate them to believe in themselves and in education's power to help them achieve their dreams. Read more >>

2012 Midas Awards for The World's Best Financial Advertising: Call for entries

NEW YORK, US: The World's Best Financial Advertising, presented by the Midas Awards, has announced its call for entries. The Midas Awards is claimed to be the only international competition to recognise excellence in financial advertising and marketing on a global scale. Among the companies honoured in the 2011 Midas Report was SA's The Jupiter Drawing Room. Read more >>

Ovum comment on Google product announcement

LONDON, UK: Google made a handful of major product announcements at its I/O developer event yesterday; the next iteration of Google's Android operating system, Jelly Bean, an aggressively priced 7 inch tablet from partner Asus, and a home media device which will be marketed under Google's own brand. Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at Ovum provides his perspective. Read more >>

Sweet homecoming for kidnapped SA couple

There were mixed emotions at OR Tambo International Airport when South African couple Debbie Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari walked out of the international arrivals to meet their families and friends on Wednesday. Read more >>

Transnet to go to international debt market

State-owned freight and ports company Transnet will go to the international debt market before the end of March to raise capital for its R300bn capital expenditure programme‚ Transnet CEO Brian Molefe said today. Read more >>

Bloc Party announced as Rocking The Daisies 2012's headline act

Indie rockers Bloc Party will be the headline act at Rocking the Daisies 2012,on Saturday, 6 October at the Cloof Wine Estate, Darling, Western Cape. The band's new album, "Four", will be released on 20 August, 2012. Read more >>