Alistair Mokoena has been appointed as country director at Google South Africa...
7 hours ago
Google on Wednesday revealed a new feature on Search that gives users a simpler way to shop for fashion items on mobile...
Shereesa Moodley 9 hours ago
Films opening at South African cinemas, this week, include Sam Mendes's Oscar-nominated World War I epic, 1917; Ladj Ly's Oscar-nominated full-length feature film debut, Les Misérables; and a reboot of The Grudge...
Daniel Dercksen 10 hours ago
The Mother City Comedy Festival will make its return with more than 45 comedians performing in 40 shows at the Baxter Studio Theatre in Cape Town from 11 to 29 February...
11 hours ago
Five South African tech startups will head to Silicon Valley next week as part of a Silicon Valley Bootcamp programme...
1 day ago
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the ability of computers to learn, gain experience and make decisions, just like humans...
Avsharn Bachoo 1 day ago
Internationally-acclaimed New York singer, actress and impressionist Christina Bianco will bring her Me, Myself & Everyone Else show to South Africa in April...
1 day ago
As a Google Ads agency that's been working with the product since 2012, we've seen through some of the half-truths Google's been selling lately...
Issued by Starbright 2 days ago
Mobile apps are reshaping all industries and business leaders need to quickly adopt the latest mobile app trends in order to succeed in 2020...
Nick Durrant, Issued by Bluegrass Digital 3 days ago
A number of macro trends are delivering unhindered economic progress on the African continent, driving momentum and positioning Africa as a significant component of the world market...
Geoffrey White 3 days ago
We need to prepare for a future when everyone uses the internet on their phone, says Linah Maigurira, Google head of retail, sub-Saharan Africa...
13 Jan 2020
While the views of Camps Bay's Victoria Road sunset strip are a true drawcard for Kove Collection's five-star The Marly, there's lots to see inside the recently renovated and expanded boutique hotel and sparkly new spa, too...
Leigh Andrews 13 Jan 2020
While it's not exactly easy to predict the future, there are a few musical movements that have seemed to gain momentum over the last year-or-so, movements that will hopefully be more relevant than ever, in the first year of our new decade...
Tecla Ciolfi 13 Jan 2020
Data privacy and protection are likely to be high on the agenda for 2020 in the wake of Facebook-Cambridge Analytica and other data scandals. These controversies have prompted regulators and consumers alike to question how much personal data big tech companies gather, how they put it to work, and how they store and manage it...
Grant Lapping 9 Jan 2020
Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Benjamin "BeBe" Winans will be touring South Africa in March 2020...
9 Jan 2020
The last decade was all about the cloud. From 2010 the cloud moved from novelty to the accepted means to deploy infrastructure...
Johan Walters 9 Jan 2020
For years digital marketers revelled in the fact that they could accurately measure the return on ad spend. Since everything could be tracked, we could know where our money was being spent and how it was being consumed by our target audiences.
Andrew Smit 8 Jan 2020
Sports betting from a mobile phone has changed betting drastically and will continue to influence the industry in the future by expanding technologies and cultivating interest...
Issued by Starbright 8 Jan 2020
Warc has announced a total of nine winners - one Grand Prix, two Golds, three Silvers and three Bronzes - in the Best Use of Data category for Warc Media Awards 2019...
8 Jan 2020
Although this generation has less spending power than Millennials, it is estimated that 40% of consumer spending will be attributed to Generation Z consumers in 2020...
Semona Pillay 8 Jan 2020
Introducing The Roundtables, iProspect's new long-form thought-leadership initiative that brings together change agents, creative visionaries and industry powerhouses...
Issued by Dentsu Aegis Network 7 Jan 2020
2019 was, by far, the biggest year the meat-alternative industry had ever seen. This is not surprising given the rapid growth of plant-based living and veganism...
Tammy Fry 7 Jan 2020
When applied correctly and ethically, data is a powerful resource in how businesses target and personalise customer interactions in the digital age...
Odette Faling 7 Jan 2020
These are dangerous days for advertisers - at least those who have used television as the foundation of their communication strategy...
Federico de Nardis 3 Jan 2020
Technology is advancing every day, often with promises of solutions to make our lives easier and simpler...
Anja Mulder 2 Jan 2020
Born between the mid-90s and early 2010s, Gen Z's have grown up around Wi-Fi, smartphones and social media. With easy access to Google and YouTube, they're accustomed to having infinite knowledge at their fingertips...
John Schooling 2 Jan 2020
Marketers should not only think of social and programmatic platforms as media - but also as technology platforms that allow them to customise their messages to select audiences...
Grant Lapping 24 Dec 2019
The island of Madagascar off the southeastern coast of Africa hosts at least 12,000 plant species and 700 vertebrate species, 80% to 90% of which are found nowhere else on Earth...
Andrea L. Baden 24 Dec 2019
In the digital world, it's a given that paid search advertising is important, but only a few industries, except the finance and E-Retail sectors, are capturing the true value this channel has to offer. Most brands are missing a trick by not tracking the full customer journey says Michael King, managing director of Reprise Digital, an IPG Mediabrands company...
Michael King 24 Dec 2019
The launch of Facebook's unified Facebook Pay system across its entire family of messaging apps hasn't just created the world's biggest payment platform. It's taken the existing payment universe and turned it on its head, with huge ramifications for how businesses and influencers monetise their social media presence...
Thomas Pays 24 Dec 2019
I'm a geek. And as a geek, I love my tech toys. But over time I've noticed toys are becoming harder to understand...
Andrew Maxwell 23 Dec 2019
The Gerety Awards recently announced Johannesburg as an executive judging session with Jacquie Mullany, executive creative director at VMLY&R as the ambassador for the South African jury...
Jessica Tennant 22 Dec 2019
Let's take a look at what we can expect from the South African fashion industry in 2020...
Meagan Duckitt 20 Dec 2019
2020 promises a great line up of first-rate entertainment on the big screen!
Daniel Dercksen 20 Dec 2019
Collectively participating in open-source, collaborative thinking across industry, hierarchy, speciality, culture and most importantly competitors might seem like a risk, but one worth taking to create success in today's economy...
Paula Hulley 20 Dec 2019
Films opening at South African cinemas, this week, include: Cats, Midway and Spies in Disguise...
Daniel Dercksen 20 Dec 2019
Films opening at South African cinemas, this week, include: the final chapter in the Star Wars saga, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker and the story of the first Chinese climbers ever to summit Mount Everest in The Climbers...
Daniel Dercksen 19 Dec 2019
Michael Zylstra, Chief Strategy Officer at DAN SSA, shares his 2020 trends forecast...
Issued by Dentsu Aegis Network 19 Dec 2019
From dramas to thrillers to homegrown productions Daniel Dercksen gives his top 10 films of 2019...
Daniel Dercksen 19 Dec 2019
Data fuels our technologies, economies, populations, politics, education, healthcare, future work, and in reality, it fuels our overall survival...
Quanita Salie 19 Dec 2019
The business world is highly competitive and this applies to the largest of corporations all the way to the smallest of entrepreneurs. The economy has been merciless and no-one in business has been unaffected. In order to stay in business, one needs to stay abreast with technology and remain up to date with the latest innovations...
Odette van der Haar 19 Dec 2019
Aidan Blundell, Head of SEO at iProspect, explains why it's important to keep up with SEO trends, especially in 2020...
Issued by Dentsu Aegis Network 18 Dec 2019
Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show, currently on at the Artscape Theatre and soon to be moving to Teatro, Montecasino, is the best version of the production we have seen yet says Debbie Hathway...
Debbie Hathway 18 Dec 2019
Having a side job, or a 'side hustle' is now the norm - it means you can work your usual job while pursuing your entrepreneurial endeavour on the side...
Brent Peters 18 Dec 2019
South African companies have finally woken up to the potential of cloud services...
Ralph Berndt 18 Dec 2019
The COP25 climate meeting in Madrid concluded over the weekend. As in past meetings, the talks failed to make much progress on international climate action. And again, the views and needs of women were largely ignored...
Maria Tanyag and Jacqui True 17 Dec 2019
Expect exotic teas, mini lamb bobotie pies, chestnut macarons and much more at the special afternoon tea at Taj Cape Town...
Leigh Andrews 17 Dec 2019
I've worn several hats over the course of my career, but the one that people most associate me with is 'trendspotter'. I've been an observer and decoder of trends since childhood. It's who I am. I recognised long ago that I'm incapable of shopping for groceries, people-watching at the airport or surfing the web without instinctively looking for patterns...
marian salzman 13 Dec 2019