Advertising and Media

Trouble with the law: could your Adwords be infringing on trademarks?

The issue of Adwords has become increasingly important in trade mark law. When you buy a word from Google as an Adword, this has…

Data journalist? Here’s how to deal with the changes to ScraperWiki

Scraping is an important tool for data journalists. Sometimes you are lucky, and can download your data or copy-paste them from a website. Bad…

Check out RMB’s nifty new grad recruitment tool

This is pretty cool. This year, instead of just touring university campuses, South African financial giant Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is taking a digital…

Are you an inbox hero or villain? Why you should care about email reputation

We’re all accustomed to the generic narrative of hero vs. villain. We see it in Westerns, childrens animations, action films and even soppy romances….

Disaronno hits Vine to give its mini music fest some mini video creativity

Vine may still be newbie on the social media scene, but it’s already being used by major brands to share quirky six second long…

12 ways to nail that digital advertising award

The very first time I attended the Loeries (South Africa’s largest advertising awards) at Sun City back in 2000, I danced with Lowe Bull…

User-generated content: Myths and lessons learnt

Demotix is a London-based, award-winning “citizen journalism” website and photo agency. The site has around 15 000 members in 190 countries who contribute content…

The entrepreneurial illusion explained

Entrepreneur, entrepreneur, entrepreneur… You hear this word over and over again, yet few bother to look it up in the dictionary. Go on, prove…

The importance of being seamless: From ‘marketing’ to ‘website’ in 3 easy steps

Much has been written about online marketing, whether it is search engine marketing, social media or viral videos. Much of it is also written…

Online branded entertainment: Now sold in a bigger box!

I just watched an episode of Mad Men, but skipped the adverts. There’s possibly an irony to watching a TV show about advertising, but…

Digital is not the death of anything, it’s the awakening of everything else

Earlier this year, Miles Young, the global CEO of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide said: “The great mistake of today’s business environment is to believe…

Ten things newsroom managers need to know about journalism now

For print newspapers to survive and possibly flourish as digital businesses, some new rules are needed. And they are not necessarily the ones they…

Extreme Makeover: Getting unsexy or difficult brands onto social media

Social media as a marketing platform is what most marketers are talking about these days. Helped by mass worldwide adoption, as well as wilting…

The media is dying, long live the media

Did you know that the first printed books in England would leave a blank rectangle at the beginning of a chapter so that an…

Social media lessons from a Russian meerkat

Social media this and that still seems to bombard us everyday, and South African marketers are quickly coming to grips with it – we…

The digital revolution and the fight for journalism

One of the great joys of my annual trip to London as a judge of the CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the year awards,…

Coming to a phone near you: Six examples of how social media took the starring role in the news

Until Twitter came along and blew the lid off news coverage of the Iranian elections last year, many of us were scratching our heads…

The battle for budget in the digital space

2010, another year, another marketing budget, another significant year-on-year increase in the amount corporates intend on investing in digital. As an eMarketer, this is…

Why News Roulette is such a great idea

Just as Nick was about to pull the trigger in the final, deadly game of Russian Roulette in the ‘Deer Hunter’, the tape in…

We are going to need artists

In a lecture room in Johannesburg recently I finished my class with a slide with only a strange square image that looked like a…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV