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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.

This we take a closer at the newly launched online personal forex transfer service, ClickFX. One of South Africa’s largest Forex intermediaries ForexPeople, has introduced ClickFX to offer South Africans a simple and cost effective way to transfer Forex online. We were joined by Richard Beddow, Chief Executive Officer of ClickFX to find out more.

We talk to Mpho Maseko, Chief Marketing Officer at Wunderman South Africa, about the worlds of broadcast marketing and digital/CRM are intersecting to create more meaningful opportunities for brand storytelling. We explore the ways in which brand owners and agencies can come together to meet the needs of changing consumers while evolving their capability to tell authentic stories.

This week we take a closer at the current state of Public Relations in south Africa and we have a look at the recently launched marcusbrewster on-demand PR service. With more than 25 years of experience in the industry, marcusbrewster is South Africa’s leading public relations agency and is now flipping the PR industry on its head with a new on-demand PR service.

On this weeks episode of BizTakeouts, The Marketing & Media radio show, we take a closer at the current state of ecommerce in south Africa and we have a look at Emerce Commerce ( @EmerceCommerce), a leading business-to- business partner in delivering world-class ecommerce solutions for the South African retail and ecommerce industry.

Cape Town based five piece, Slow Jack releases their second single ‘From a Gun’.

This week we take a closer look at the Social Media Landscape Briefing 2016 – The Definitive annual research briefings about the big platforms relevant to SA by the authorities Arthur Goldstuck and Michal Wronski, by far the biggest social media briefings of the year.