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In the Spend Trend Report 2026, 75% of respondents engage in sports betting in some shape or form (Image source: @ Carte Blanche )

#BizTrends | Spend Trend 2026 Part 2: Consumers adopt value-seeking spending strategiesDanette Breitenbach

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The Spend Trend Report highlights consumer spending trends in 2026 (Image supplied)

#BizTrends | SA consumer resilient, but still loves a treat!

Danette Breitenbach 23 Apr 2026

#BizTrends2026 | Modus Operandi's Simon Säll: Predictions and contradictions - The future of work

#BizTrends2026 | Modus Operandi's Simon Säll: Predictions and contradictions - The future of work

Simon Säll 4 Mar 2026

App Your Game’s Yusuf Abrahams says neuroinclusive design is the real competitive edge for 2026 (and after) (Image supplied)

#BizTrends2026 | App Your Game’s Yusuf Abrahams: Neuroinclusive design, the real competitive edge for 2026

Yusuf Abrahams 13 Feb 2026

#BizTrends2026 | Quantum Studios' Dr. Chris Roets: Memory-led marketing trends that will shape the year

#BizTrends2026 | Quantum Studios' Dr. Chris Roets: Memory-led marketing trends that will shape the year

Chris Roets 10 Feb 2026

F45's Karen Loader explains how functional fitness, strength, pilates and recovery are reshaping sports marketing (Image supplied)

#BizTrends2026 | F45's Karen Loader: 3 pillars reshaping sports marketing

Karen Loader 9 Feb 2026

#BizTrends2026 | Second Rodeo's Dan Brocklebank: Why the most important marketing trend for 2026 is not new at all

#BizTrends2026 | Second Rodeo's Dan Brocklebank: Why the most important marketing trend for 2026 is not new at all

Dan Brocklebank 5 Feb 2026

#BizTrends2026 | Jubez Digital: What Search in 2026 demands of marketers

#BizTrends2026 | Jubez Digital: What Search in 2026 demands of marketers

Julie Rosenbaum and Heleen Alberts 2 Feb 2026

5 out-of-home trends that will define 2026

5 out-of-home trends that will define 2026

Steve Duck, Tractor Outdoor 29 Jan 2026

Siki Msuseni is the founder and director of Amplified PR.

#BizTrends2026 | Amplified PR’s Siki Msuseni: SA youth are wearing their values

Siki Msuseni 28 Jan 2026

Brenda Khumalo is the founder of Lobengula Advertising. Source: Supplied.

#BizTrends2026 | Lobengula Advertising team: If employees don't believe, neither will the market

Brenda Khumalo and Adene Van Der Walt 26 Jan 2026

#BizTrends2026 | SmartCat's Nicole DiNicola: Why 2026 will be the year of orchestration for marketing

#BizTrends2026 | SmartCat's Nicole DiNicola: Why 2026 will be the year of orchestration for marketing

Nicole DiNicola 23 Jan 2026

#BizTrends2026 | Tom Kaneshige on how CMOs seized strategy in an age of chaos

#BizTrends2026 | Tom Kaneshige on how CMOs seized strategy in an age of chaos

Tom Kaneshige 22 Jan 2026

6 ways brands need to rethink marketing in 2026

6 ways brands need to rethink marketing in 2026

21 Jan 2026

Scopen President, Cesar Vacchiano, gives four shifts that together créate a single underlying mandate for 2026: relearn the consumer map (Image supplied)

Scopen President, Cesar Vacchiano: Less is more

Cesar Vacchiano 21 Jan 2026

Charne Munien is the strategy director at Rogerwilco. Source: Supplied.

Rogerwilco's Charné Munien: Brands in the new age of answering machines

Charne Munien 21 Jan 2026

Jaco Lintvelt is the MD of Incubeta Africa. Source: Supplied.

Incubeta Africa's Jaco Lintvelt: Don’t fall prey to the Arrival Fallacy

Jaco Lintvelt 20 Jan 2026

Thabang Skwambane is the CEO of Nahana Communications Group. Source: Supplied

Nahana CEO, Thabang Skwambane: Africa will ignite what is next

Thabang Skwambane 19 Jan 2026

Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) and partner in Scopen Africa shares some thoughts on what might occupy our minds in 2026 (Image supplied)

IAS' Johanna McDowell: AI, creativity and media agencies

Johanna McDowell 19 Jan 2026

Dawn Rowlands, CEO, dentsu sub-Saharan Africa, says Africa is now at the centre of a real shift in how consumer intelligence is created and used (Image supplied)

dentsu SSA's Dawn Rowlands: While marketing talks about innovation, Africa built it

Dawn Rowlands 16 Jan 2026

Michael Cost is the head of strategy and client development at Humanz. Source: Humanz.

Humanz' Michael Cost : The influencer marketing cheat sheet

Michael Cost 16 Jan 2026

Flux Trends will present The State We’re In 2026” – Navigating the Dark Forest in February (Image source: © Marvin Zettl

FluxTrends presents its trends for 2026 Navigating the Dark Forest

15 Jan 2026

WOO president Tom Goddard. Source: WOO.

WOO president Tom Goddard: How OOH is reinventing itself

Tom Goddard 15 Jan 2026

Erica Bopape (CM SA) is the executive for marketing and communications at Absa Business Banking. Source: Absa.

Absa's Erica Bopape: What 2026 will demand of financial services marketers

Erica Bopape 14 Jan 2026

10 marketing trends for 2026

10 marketing trends for 2026

Kantar 18 Nov 2025

CEO Discovery Bank and Discovery South Africa, Hylton Kallner talks about the SpendTrend 2025 report findings (Image supplied)

Discovery CEO Hylton Kallner on the future of spending

15 Apr 2025

Busisiwe Phakathi is 5fm's marketing manager. Source: Supplied.

Busisiwe Phakathi, 5FM - Keeping radio relevant among youth

Busisiwe Phakathi 6 Feb 2025

Grant Lapping is a digital executive at Midnight. Source: Supplied.

3 trends dominating search: GEO, social search and voice

Grant Lapping 5 Feb 2025

$Andre Le Roux, head of strategy: TBWA\Coastal, talks about trends that drive culture to understand SA shopper (Image supplied)$

TBWA\Coastal's Andre Le Roux - Understanding the SA shopper

Andre Le Roux 4 Feb 2025

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