Social Media South Africa

World PR Day

The Golden Age of Strategic PR is here. Join the organisations defining it.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

More #WPRDAY2026

Subscribe & Follow

Promoted

Your dashboard is lying to you: Why brands keep missing the 1 trillion rands township economy

The Media Krate Your dashboard is lying to you: Why brands keep missing the 1 trillion rands township economy

2 days

Advertise your job vacancies

Jobs

Digital Coordinator Pinetown
Intern / Junior Social Media Marketer Cape Town
Paid Media Specialist Johannesburg
Digital Content & Project Specialist Johannesburg

More jobs Submit a job Open account

New Biz Press Offices

The following companies have opened Biz Press Offices on Bizcommunity.com!

We bring the best distributed solutions to the world's most ambitious businesses. Part of the Brandtech Group.

View Brandtech+'s Biz Press Office

RMB is a leading African Corporate and Investment Bank.

View RMB Corvest's Biz Press Office

Multimedia

All Galleries Audios Videos

#RAPTBizTrendsTV | The Culture Foundry Co's Luke van der Spuy: When Gen Z decides you're not cool anymore

#Effies2025 | Halo and Pineapple: 100% sustained results

#Effies2025 | Ogilvy and VW: Creating campaigns for societal change

#Effies2025 | Sanlam's F-Show breaks through the finance category

Every year, on 16 July, communications professionals around the world celebrate World PR Day (#WPRD) and Bizcommunity also dedicates the month of July to PR (Image @Bizcommunity)

#WPRD2026 | The Golden Age of Strategic PR is here. Join the organisations defining it.

Caitlin Perry, head of marketing, Flow sayscommerce media is outpacing the industry's ability to buy it (Image source: © 123rf )

How advertisers can tap into commerce mediaCaitlin Perry

Image credit:

The new threat to South Africa’s children is not on the streets; it’s onlineRebecca Matle, Tsholofelo Makhathini, Faaiza Gangat, and Minah Mojela

Nhlanhla Ngcobo (left) and Theo Ferreira (right) have been promoted to group executive creative directors at VML (Images supplied, Image composite by Lesley Svenson @ Bizcommunity)

VML promotes Cannes-winning ECDs

Natascha Torres, head of digital media strategy at iqbusiness asks are you buying media or buying attention? (Image source: © 123rf )

4 ways to measure what counts: Attention, not clicksNatascha Torres

Mr Price launches first co-created collection with social influencer Sphokuhle

Mr Price launches first co-created collection with social influencer Sphokuhle

Source:

The hidden burnout crisis facing social media marketersKelly Cours Anderson, Ashley Hass and Breanne A. Mertz

Caitlin Perry, head of marketing, Flow sayscommerce media is outpacing the industry's ability to buy it (Image source: © 123rf )

How advertisers can tap into commerce media

By Caitlin Perry 1 day

Image credit:

The new threat to South Africa’s children is not on the streets; it’s online

By Rebecca Matle, Tsholofelo Makhathini, Faaiza Gangat, and Minah Mojela 1 day

Company news

More company news | Submit

5 lessons from the world's largest Out of Home Congress

Provantage 5 lessons from the world's largest Out of Home Congress

46 minutes

Reach Players L’Oréal South Africa expands in-game brand experiences across Maybelline, Garnier and CeraVe

1 hour

Dentsu X partners with Africa Creative Agency on WAV Festival 2027 and Africa House

Dentsu Dentsu X partners with Africa Creative Agency on WAV Festival 2027 and Africa House

1 hour

MO Agency releases SA's most extensive AI Visibility study of LLM band recommendations by industry

MO Agency MO Agency releases SA's most extensive AI Visibility study of LLM band recommendations by industry

1 hour

Jacaranda FM appoints Bhekiwe Khumalo as HR manager as Dane de Klerk takes group role

Jacaranda FM Jacaranda FM appoints Bhekiwe Khumalo as HR manager as Dane de Klerk takes group role

2 hours

Biz Most Read Award winners June 2026

Bizcommunity.com Biz Most Read Award winners June 2026

6 hours

Bizarre, but it’s happening: Your connected TV budget might be paying for a very attentive refrigerator

TruthsetsOnline.com Bizarre, but it’s happening: Your connected TV budget might be paying for a very attentive refrigerator

23 hours

Why ChatGPT ads could become the most important advertising channel since Google

PRNews OU Why ChatGPT ads could become the most important advertising channel since Google

1 day

Preteen girls shouldn’t be singing to their own babies

Joe Public Preteen girls shouldn’t be singing to their own babies

1 day

CEM Africa returns to Cape Town as CX leaders tackle trust, AI and the future of CX

CEM Africa Summit CEM Africa returns to Cape Town as CX leaders tackle trust, AI and the future of CX

2 days

From zero to 1 million in one month

Broad Media From zero to 1 million in one month

2 days

Fandom as algorithmic fuel: How AI is killing traditional marketing

Brave Group Fandom as algorithmic fuel: How AI is killing traditional marketing

2 days

More news

Nhlanhla Ngcobo (left) and Theo Ferreira (right) have been promoted to group executive creative directors at VML (Images supplied, Image composite by Lesley Svenson @ Bizcommunity)

VML promotes Cannes-winning ECDs

2 days

Natascha Torres, head of digital media strategy at iqbusiness asks are you buying media or buying attention? (Image source: © 123rf )

4 ways to measure what counts: Attention, not clicks

Natascha Torres 2 days

Source:

The hidden burnout crisis facing social media marketers

Kelly Cours Anderson, Ashley Hass and Breanne A. Mertz 26 Jun 2026

Mr Price launches first co-created collection with social influencer Sphokuhle

Mr Price launches first co-created collection with social influencer Sphokuhle

26 Jun 2026

The Content Creator Awards have extended their entry deadline (Image supplied)

Content Creator Awards deadline extended; R10k prize for automotive winner

25 Jun 2026

#Cannes2026 | Silver for Mtana ka Gogo leads SA's latest wins

#Cannes2026 | Silver for Mtana ka Gogo leads SA's latest wins

Karabo Ledwaba 25 Jun 2026

Several South African agencies have been shortlisted at Cannes Lions (Image source: @ Media Marketing )

#Cannes2026 | Philipstown WireCar Grand Prix leads SA shortlist

Danette Breitenbach 23 Jun 2026

WPP will become the first advertising partner to pilot Meta's new creative solution. Source: Supplied.

WPP and Meta expand partnership with new creative AI pilot

23 Jun 2026

Got award-winning work? Deadlines fast approaching for 14th annual WesBank New Generation Awards

Got award-winning work? Deadlines fast approaching for 14th annual WesBank New Generation Awards

New Generation Awards 23 Jun 2026

African creatives discuss the importance of Cannes to Africa. Picture l to r: Yusuf Adejumo, creative director, TBWA\Concept Nigeria, Audrey Quaye creative director Innova DDB Ghana, Alex van Niekerk, executive creative director at TBWA\Ascent, Graham Cruikshanks, director of Africa operations at TBWA, Eric Mununuzi, chief creative Officer at TBWA\Uganda (Images supplied, composite by Ruth Cooper @ Bizcommunity)

#Cannes2026 | Should Africa care about the Cannes Lions?

Danette Breitenbach 22 Jun 2026

The Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, will deliver the keynote address for the 2026 Social Media Summit for Government (Image supplied)

Communications and Digital Technologies minister to deliver Social Media Summit keynote

19 Jun 2026

EXCLUSIVE | Comrades 2026: When YouTube becomes TV

Kelvin Watt 18 Jun 2026

5 free marketing channels every law firm should use

Andrea Paulsen 18 Jun 2026

UK government draws a line in the sand with social media ban

17 Jun 2026

#YouthMonth | The inheritance of influence: What the youth of 1976 gave today's generation

Jessica Gbedemah 17 Jun 2026

Global Effie Index: 2025’s most effective marketers, brands and agencies

17 Jun 2026

Print reshapes from collapse to selective resilience

15 Jun 2026

LinkedIn extends tools to creators

12 Jun 2026

A campaign is a fiction - the algorithm needs continuity

pierre cassuto 12 Jun 2026

TikTok Live is open. Your customer is inside. So where are you?

Runyararo Mutsinze 12 Jun 2026

World Cup marketing: Finding the balance between cultural moments and legal boundaries

Darren Olivier, Danielle van Deventer and Mandla Ngidi 12 Jun 2026

#Cannes2026 | SA features in first shortlists

Danette Breitenbach 11 Jun 2026

Fifa World Cup sees surge in search for Bafana Bafana

11 Jun 2026

Instagram introduces grid reordering

11 Jun 2026

One Club Creative Hall of Fame 2026 inductees named

9 Jun 2026

#BehindtheIMC | MENAT Publicis Groupe’s Tahaab Rais: Marketers are the observers of humanity

Danette Breitenbach 5 Jun 2026

Let's do Biz