"Print is dead" they said, "go digital" they said - we've heard the maxim time and time again and resultantly relegated print to the sidelines, we've left it feeling hapless and irrelevant...
Sam Swaine 14 Jan 2019
M&C Saatchi Abel took home a Grand Prix for Nando's '#rightmyname' in the print communication category for tactical use of newspaper at this year's Loerie Awards, which took place on Friday, 17 August and Saturday, 18 August at the ICC in Durban...
Jessica Tennant 24 Aug 2018
Keeping to the Women's Month theme, we asked a couple of female local jurors to select this year's Loeries predictions in their respective judging categories...
Jessica Tennant 17 Aug 2018
Shield announced yesterday that it has been nominated for 'Best New Sponsorship' and 'Campaign of the Year' at this year's Sport Industry Awards taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre this Friday, 17 August...
Jessica Tennant 14 Aug 2018
There has never been more demand for hyperlocal marketing than there is today. And print is one of the best methods to support hyperlocal reach...
Vaughan Patterson 30 Jan 2018
Tiso Blackstar Group's automotive standalone supplement, Sunday Times Motoring is going to be inserted into the Sunday Times Lifestyle magazine section, as Lifestyle Motoring...
Jessica Tennant 22 Sep 2017
The Audit Bureau of Circulations recently reported that, overall, consumer magazine circulations grew over the past year by just under 3%, which isn't too bad considering that they fell 11.7% in the 4th quarter of 2016 from the same period in 2015...
Chris Brewer 14 Aug 2017
There's a growing opportunity for South African digital businesses to harness the power of print to build their credibility, says Vaughan Patterson...
Vaughan Patterson 4 Aug 2017
The Sunday Times recently launched Money - a new personal finance section which appears every weekend in the Business Times - which is edited by Laura du Preez, who joined the Tiso Blackstar Group in May this year...
Jessica Tennant 25 Jul 2017
Following the announcement of bilingual Ideas/Idees magazine being closed down by Media24 late last year, editor Terena le Roux approached management to transfer ownership into her name. Now the owner of startup publishing company IdeesFabriek (Ideas Factory), Le Roux says it really was that straightforward...
Jessica Tennant 22 Feb 2017
The ABC 4th Quarter 2016 results, released via webinar for the first time, show that the total number of products and titles reported on for the ABC 4th quarter 2016 has increased to 982 from 854 in 2015...
Danette Breitenbach 9 Feb 2017
I think it's a fair assumption to make that writers (rather like media planners) should know what their target market and/or readers is/are...
Chris Brewer 23 Jan 2017
Our appetite for tailored, customised, and personalised service is bigger now than ever before, largely due to the ability to gather and crunch data from online sources. The result is that businesses like Amazon can automatically suggest other products that actually do suit our tastes or, at the very least, perusal and buying patterns...
Vaughan Patterson 7 Oct 2016
Video, native advertising, mobile apps - these were some of the main talking points yesterday at the first day of the Media24 Lifestyle Summit...
Beverley Klein 23 Sep 2016
Good journalism is good business, and it is also an essential profession for the political and democratic health of any nation...
Danette Breitenbach 25 Jul 2016
It's the golden age of invention, thanks to the new Maker Movement, 3D printing and the ease of prototyping. That's good news for inventors...
Boris Dzhingarov, Monetary Library 8 Feb 2016
Mobile elements in marketing campaigns are becoming an industry standard, which is not surprising considering that PwC predicts 88% of South Africans have mobile Internet access...
Jacques van Wyk 12 Oct 2015
If brands prize reaching consumers across all touch points wherever they are, why do media still have to justify using print to do the same?...
Louise Marsland 11 Sep 2015
Despite a move towards printing less, the reality is that with growing volumes of information, organisations are actually printing more than ever...
Caron de Fortier 9 Jul 2015
Jonathan Deeb, Executive Creative Director of FCB Johannesburg, spoke to our Cannes Lions media correspondent, Ann Nurock, on his experience of being part of this year's Press Jury...
Ann Nurock 2 Jul 2015
Michelle Vahl has been appointed NAB Sales Manager (Johannesburg). She oversees a team of 13 sales people across both NAB and Habari Media...
Louise Marsland 1 Jul 2015
The latest release of the All Media and Products Survey (AMPS), released today by the South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF), shows overall stability of the media...
Chris Brewer 2 Apr 2015
When the printing and manufacturing Paarl Media Group decided to list on the JSE, it started on a journey into what could well have been into the dark unknown of choosing a new name...
Chris Moerdyk 17 Mar 2015
Organisations wanting to toe the compliance line when it comes to regulatory requirements linked to PoPI and FICA, must factor paper-based documentation into their governance, risk and compliance strategies, or run the risk of non compliance...
Andrew Griffith 1 Feb 2015
Tandi Potgieter, the new MD of Printstagram, a personalised photographic printing company, hopes to transition the business from a purely web-based enterprise to have a bricks-and-mortar retail footprint in partnership with photographic outlets nationwide...
Louise Marsland 12 Nov 2014
As South African newspapers and magazines come under increasing pressure from digital competition, so must they look to digital innovations such as augmented reality to rejuvenate their business models.
Diane Charton 18 Jul 2014
Once again I'm back to debunk a few myths about brand guidelines... and here's what you need to know...
Chemory Gunko 3 Jul 2014
The printing industry has changed, with many established printer providers, as well as new companies, adopting digital printing solutions to meet the demands of the print market.
Leon Minnie 13 Jun 2014
The advent and mass proliferation of the internet is the same in terms of its significance in the modern world and in particular the resulting implications for communications.
Lisa Basson 18 Feb 2014
One big paradigm shift in the design arena over the next few years, will be what I refer to as the 'corporate designer'. This is a designer that has a clear understanding of both business, as well as more than one design principle. (video)
Dave Nemeth 30 Jan 2014