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This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on brands in a future where digital wallets are a gamechanger as the technologies of digital identity, crypto/blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) converge.

Born in 1994, Gen Z are the born free generation and they are redefining the world from work to play, opening challenges and opportunities that brands need to understand they want to stay relevant and thrive in the Gen Z world.

This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on agentic AI and how it is revolutionising business, especially on the continent.

The second episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on the informal economy, a key growth trend reshaping South Africa’s and Africa's economies. Often referred to as the grey economy, it is brimming with potential.

Afro-optimism, or more specifically, the African growth mindset is a greater sense of optimism that, despite challenges such as electricity and water that the continent faces, is in stark contrast to a growing Western degrowth mindset of pessimism about the future, and Africa.

“We can talk about AI all we want to, but the foundations of AI are about how you can harness the power of digital to transform the continent in the way we want it to transform.”.

At the recent Effies SA, hosted by the Association for Communication & Advertising (ACA), the Grand Effie was awarded to Halo, for its campaign for its client, Pineapple.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with future thinker and Flux Trends partner, Bronwyn Williams.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with Ndeye Diagne, the managing director West, East and Central Africa at Kantar.

We chat to Sean Hearn, SEO lead at Aqua, about how brands can dominate the internet through effective search engine optimisation.

Mike Jones - This week we take a closer look at Customer Experience Management and the annual CEM Africa Summit taking place on 17 and 18 August in Cape Town.

Simon Cranswick - This week we take a closer look at Customer Experience Management and the annual CEM Africa Summit taking place on 17 and 18 August in Cape Town.

Beth Strauss, strategist at BaseTwo, chats to us about the discipline of behavioural economics and how it can be applied in marketing. We discuss the role of social proof in human decision making, as well as how abundant choice has made harnessing these behavioural drivers so imperative to marketers. We discuss case studies around how organisations leverage behavioural cues in order to drive action and explore how technological trends and data are empowering brands to better understand the ways in which they can engage consumers. We explore how BaseTwo have applied certain principles of behavioural economics in the work they have done for their clients. Super informative discussion with a very clued up guest!...

This week we take a closer look at VR, AR, ARG, Pokemon Go, gamification and the Pick n Pay Super Animals app with Sea Monster Entertainment, an animation, gaming and augmented reality business.

This week we take a closer look at VR, AR, ARG, Pokemon Go, gamification and the Pick n Pay Super Animals app with Sea Monster Entertainment, an animation, gaming and augmented reality business.