A free press or media has an important role to play in democracies as it is responsible for gathering and distributing the information that citizens use to decide how they are going to vote...
Hanno Brink 3 May 2021
White Square international advertising festival announced the jury for the 2021 festival...
Knowing that somebody cares about your experience, and is doing their utmost to make it better, can help make it a little more bearable. That's where we believe FlySafair (pronounced 'fly-saf-air') comes in...
Issued by eatbigfish 11 Dec 2020
The African Youth Survey 2020 reveals a rising Afro-optimism among the continent's youth, driven by a strong sense of individual responsibility, a post-colonial mindset, entrepreneurialism and confidence in a shared African identity...
This past decade has been a decade of disruption globally...
Cathy Ibal 6 Jan 2020
BDO and Warc's new 'Martech: 2020 and beyond' report indicates that the worldwide global martech market has grown by 22% year-on-year...
"Agencies need to adapt. The agency model is broken. What brands and marketers need right now is greater collaboration, including ownership of their data." Sage words from Daniel Wilkinson, the London-based Head of Paid Media for Jellyfish...
Issued by Jellyfish South Africa 16 Sep 2019
Launch of a study that provides insights on trends and knowledge of the African media sector and how it affects investment, governance, local business and economies...
Black Royalty Minerals has launched its Mining Academic Programme in Bronkhorstspruit, with the aim to provide educational support to the local community, increasing the understanding of key subjects...
Cannes Lions Media honours Sir Lucian Grainge as their Media Person of the Year 2017 at the annual festival...
They know how you browse the internet, your favourite TV shows and where you shop and travel. Data collected by internet and media...
The False Bay TVET College community will bid farewell to two very deserving students participating in the 2016-2017 Community College Initiative (CCI) Programme.
Issued by False Bay College 28 Jun 2016
TV Connect, one of the world's leading events in connected entertainment has unveiled new event features to the upcoming TV Connect 2016, taking place from 26-28 April at ExCeL London...
TV Connect has announced the addition of several noteworthy speakers from leading global technology and media companies for the upcoming TV Connect 2016 from 26-28 April...
Never before have brands had to work so hard for an audience's attention. Before a brand can entertain or inform, its communication needs to be noticed...
David Smythe 15 Jan 2016
Programmatic buying or RTB (real-time bidding) has ceased to be that concept or 'new channel' confined to the likes of the US and Europe, or let's just say the 'developed markets'...
Graham Du Plessis 11 Jan 2016
Retail Congress Africa will present one of its top honours, the Lifetime Achievement Award, to Herman Mashaba, founder of Black Like Me, on 18 November...
Over 250 global retail leaders will meet in the Sandton Convention Centre on 18 and 19 November to discuss, debate and define the future of retail across Africa...
Retail Congress Africa is proud to present the prestigious Award for Innovation to the Okunoren Twins. This award is intended to celebrate retailers who are driving change and growth with inspirational vision and foresight...
The overall winner of the 2013 MTN Business App of the Year awards, SnapScan, has recently been introduced by financial services provider, Standard Bank.
This year's awards are the result of a partnership between MTN Business, Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia, Mlab and the Core Group and will be adjudicated by an independent panel of judges who are experts in the fields of technology and media.
I chatted to Homecoming Revolution founder and CEO, Angel Jones and newly appointed managing partner, Bruce Mubayiwa to find out more about his new role as well as where the company is heading.
Ilse van den Berg 9 Dec 2013
The inaugural Nedbank Capital Sustainable Business Awards saw leading South African companies recognised for their long-term efforts towards sustainability. The ceremony took place at the banking giant's corporate head office in Sandton.
The African Movie Channel (AMC) has officially announced its carriage agreement with StarTimes, an African digital terrestrial television (DTT) operator. This deal will see AMC launching on StarTimes DTT platform at the start of August 2012.
The Broadcast, Film and Music Africa (BFMA) conference opening tomorrow in Nairobi has producers and film experts from the USA's Hollywood, Nigeria's Nollywood and India's Bollywood in the list of experts speaking at the conference.
The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government, along with Durban municipality, have teamed up with leading international renewable energy institutions to create an R11,2bn renewable energy hub project due to be completed by 2020.
BRASILIA, BRAZIL: Ad Dynamo announced its entry into Brazil yesterday. "Brazil represents an enormous growth market in both online and mobile advertising, and we're very pleased to be launching here with a relevant and established player such as Realmedia," says Sean Riley, CEO of Ad Dynamo.
NEW YORK, US: More than 300 of America's leading advertising industry professionals gathered on the evening of 17 January 2012 to honour Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs, creative Paula Green and director/producer Joe Pytka, 2012 inductees in Creative Hall of Fame. The One Club for Art & Copy also bestowed honours on Robert Lawton, co-founder of Creative Circus/Atlanta, as the inaugural inductee in its new Educator Hall of Fame.
NEW YORK, US: The One Club for Art and Copy has announced that it will induct Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, advertising creative Paula Green and director/producer Joe Pytka into the Creative Hall of Fame on 17 January 2012. The One Club is also initiating an Educator's Hall of Fame with its first inductee, Robert Lawton from Creative Circus in Atlanta.
Following a successful internet and digital marketing conference in Nairobi in June, Afri-Tech has announced it will be heading to South Africa to host a Technology & Digital Summit as it seeks to inject the uptake of technology in Africa.
The 13th African Renaissance Festival is hosting the day-long Ignite Youth Conference, which takes place at Durban's Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre (ICC) on Tuesday, 2 August 2011. The festival began 13 years ago in an endeavour to reignite Africa's own belief in itself and in its potential to develop its own resources.
NEW YORK, US: Owners of eReaders and tablets are heavy readers of printed versions of magazines and newspapers. Women prefer eReaders; 'wow' factor of Tablets appears to attract men.
JOHANNESBURG: Omidyar Network on Tuesday, 7 December 2010 announced an US$825,000 grant to the Praekelt Foundation to support its pioneering use of mobile technology to drive positive social change. Funded through Omidyar Network's Government Transparency investment area, the grant will be used to extend the foundation's mobile technology platforms across Africa.
LINCOLN, UK: RealWire has announced yesterday, 24 November 2010, its PRFilter, a patent-pending technology that is designed to match releases to recipients on a more personal basis than existing categorisation systems.
WASHINGTON: After months of top secret development, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. appears poised to take the wraps off a digital newspaper for the iPad called The Daily.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: comScore, Inc. has announced the appointment of Amy Weinberger as vice president for Australia and New Zealand. Weinberger will be responsible for new and existing business in Australia and New Zealand and will be based in Sydney
LONDON, UK: In a bid to find innovative technology stars of the future, the Tech Media Invest 2010 (TMI) programme came to its conclusion last night at The Cumberland Hotel, with PwC awarding the Hottest Prospect award to Mind Candy.
Everyone knows that Steve Jobs has banned porn and any sexual content from the iPad but is this a wise move? I just started reading Nick Bilton's book "I live in the future & here's how it works" and the first chapter is about his investigation of the porn industry to see if there are any lessons to be applied to the media industry.
Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley 20 Sep 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, US: GfK Technology team launches rebranding effort to reflect expanding client portfolio and west coast presence in the USA. New San Francisco office of GfK Technology to be led by former international technology consultant.
ASPEN: Top technology and media executives wrapped up a three-day conference, during which they grappled with, and left unresolved the question of whether readers will pay for news online.
NEW YORK: Top New York Times executives expressed confidence that a plan to start charging readers of the newspaper's website from next year will not result in a significant loss of traffic.
According to Ben Akol, information and communication technology and media programme manager at the Open Society Initiative of West Africa, more people in Africa will be connected to high capacity and fast internet through fibre optic cables if governments as regulators put in place better policies.
Walter Wafula 9 Sep 2009
It's Highway Africa time again and the little, old, and serene town of Grahamstown, 131km from Port-Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, has been ‘invaded' by more than 700 media practitioners from more than 40 African countries and other parts of the world, meeting here to discuss the burning issue of citizen journalism in today's fast-changing media environment. The conference opened today, Monday, 8 September 2008, at Rhodes University and will end on Wednesday.
Issa Sikiti da Silva 8 Sep 2008
Radio is “so last century”, an old medium which is losing out to the iPod, online radio and cellphones. This is the view of former ‘Mr Radio', Stan Katz, who is aiming to transform the mobile space in South Africa by providing free online access and calls via your cellphone.
Louise Marsland 19 Jun 2008