A multi-sensory art experience comes to Cape Town

[Daniel Dercksen] If you are looking for a new experience that is fresh and invigorating, collab.studio brings a truly unique, one-of-its-kind, art installation to Cape Town on 3 December...

Fancourt Manor House takes bespoke travel to the ultimate level

[Brian Berkman] Some of the hospitality lessons from luxury Asian hotels have happily filtered down to South Africa...

The Plastics chat 'In Threes'

[Ruth Cooper] Indie favourites The Plastics recently released their eagerly awaited third studio album, which is currently available for free download - how nice! We chat to vocalist Pascal Righini about recording processes, album art and smartie rainbow streaks.

Data governance as a practice is maturing

[Gary Allemann] Data is now widely acknowledged as an asset and as such, businesses are increasingly embarking on data governance strategies...

Welcome to the River Republic

[Ruth Cooper] It's quite a thing to witness the birth of a festival; most of our local fests are unruly teenagers or heading into their dirty twenties, well established with many friends and fans.

Electronic signatures can overcome productivity blockages

[Avi Rose] Enterprises have already saved millions by switching their legacy processes to digital, but when it comes to actual transactions many still rely on old paper-based processes...

Financing infrastructure, energy projects

[Nicci Botha] Without a solid infrastructure or a stable energy supply, sustainable development and economic growth in any context is virtually an impossible dream...

Vitara ticks all the right boxes

[Henrie Geyser] Today, the motoring world is so completely hooked on smaller SUVs and the growing glut of trendy city-dwelling cross-overs pretending to be SUVs...

Word-of-mouth advertising

[Chris Brewer] Having looked at the media planning side of advertising over the past few weeks, I thought I'd end the year by examining various kinds of media, but then thought better of it...

Working for Africa

[Nicci Botha] The third and final day of the EMRC Africa Finance and Investment Forum (AFIF) saw presentations on agricultural investment opportunities on the continent as a whole...

Our top NYE options

[Ruth Cooper] For me, New Year's Eve is inevitably a let down: you put way too much pressure on having the most amazing night ever...(updated)

From Code to Whitespace: Creating brands with brains

[Leigh Andrews] Design agency Whitespace Creative just celebrated its 20th anniversary, so while you may not recognise the agency name, you'll likely be familiar with its work...

[OOH Focus] Creative in the sky

[Danette Breitenbach] Focus on the top out-of-home campaigns this past year...

[OOH Focus] Integration of mobile OOH ads

[Ran Neu-Ner] Out-of-home advertising faces a massive margin squeeze if it does not evolve faster in Africa. In South Africa, slow OOH mobile integration hampers the medium...

[OOH Focus] Time to step up to the plate

[Margie Carr] Margie Carr, managing director of In Touch Media, gives her view on why OOH is not living up to expectations...

[OOH Focus] Location is key to OOH future

[Craig Page-Lee] Technology and mobile is driving the real change in the advertising, media and communications industry, including out-of-home...

[OOH Focus] OOH measuring up

[Danette Breitenbach] By 2019, the out-of-home industry in South Africa will be worth R5.1bn. This will make SA the 16th largest OOH market globally...

[OOH Focus] Global OOH trends

[Danette Breitenbach] The biggest out-of-home trend in 2016 is digital out of home (DOOH). PricewaterhouseCoopers also predicts the industry will continue to show steady growth...

[OOH Focus] Out of home on steroids

[Danette Breitenbach] A high 79% of consumers have taken action after seeing an out-of-home (OOH) advertisement, with 62% doing so after seeing a digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertisement...