Advertising and Media

Twitter showed more ads to people with fewer followers

A report by The Verge on Thursday revealed that Twitter once showed its users ads according to their follower counts. “Historically, users with high…

Apple shot Selena Gomez’s latest music video with the iPhone 11 Pro

Apple on Tuesday released a teaser for a Selena Gomez music video showing off the iPhone 11 Pro’s triple camera system with 4K video…

Apple drops a wedding cake on an iPhone 11 Pro, because advertising

With the launch of its iPhone 11 Pro range last week, Apple also dropped a pair of promotional ads showing off the device’s triple-camera…

Who knew an ad for Apple AirPods could be this adorable?

Product advertising is supposed to fill you with a lust for that product, even if you don’t need it. Apple probably wrote the damn…

iStore Meets melds Apple marketing and South African celebs with education

iStore in South Africa on Tuesday announced the launch of “inspirational and informative” iStore Meets across the country. The events, which will take place…

South African digital agency Black Beard rebrands to Basalt

South African digital agency Black Beard has rebranded to Basalt, the company announced last week. The company believes that the rebrand reflects its “the…

Trust me, I’m Mac Book: Microsoft trolls Apple in its new Surface Laptop ad

The flames of a long standing war between Microsoft and Apple were fanned on Wednesday when the former released an ad featuring the favourable…

The one thing digital marketers don’t use enough

There’s a lot of room for interpretation in digital marketing, but there’s one thing you absolutely cannot and should not leave out of your…

Pornhub’s ‘Horny Little Christmas’ ad is more SFW than expected

We’ve written quite a bit about Pornhub in the past, but not because of the actual site’s content. Its Insights blog sheds some gloriously…

BS Detector: an add-on to detect fake news websites

Fake news websites have enjoyed a surge in popularity thanks to social media, but truly exploded thanks to the US election. But how do…

After Trump win, internet to get Canadian mirror (kind of)

The US election has forced tech companies and other entities to look closely at their operations, owing to the imminent Trump administration coming into power….

Digital publishing and the world’s largest education company

As an arm of a 172-year- old publishing company, Pearson Education has experienced the digital revolution first-hand. Many saw the seismic shift toward digital…

Reddit’s Joel Meek on challenges facing digital publishing

Joel Meek has been VP of Operations at Reddit for over a year. In his role, Joel oversees Reddit’s Community, Trust and Safety, Finance, Media…

Google wants to make annoying mobile interstitials a thing of the past

Google has announced that it will soon revamp its mobile search functionality to better aid users on their journey through the web. This improvement…

Fake news in South Africa: 5 websites you should definitely avoid

Whether it’s to simply hoodwink people or to generate ad revenue, fake news websites have received mainstream attention in recent months. Now, we’ve already…

South Africa’s Quirk rebrands as Mirum

One of South Africa‘s largest digital agencies, WPP-owned Quirk, has today announced that it is rebranding to Mirum. The move comes after the company…

AT&T, Time Warner in $85bn deal – but will it happen?

US network AT&T has agreed to acquire Time Warner in a deal worth around US$85.4-billion. The acquisition, which will take the form of stock and cash,…

Kansas City Diaries: the art of organic search

Kansas City Diaries is an exclusive article series by Natalie Pool as she goes undercover at VML’s global agency headquarters in Kansas City, USA,…

Publishing power: blasting the tech barrier to innovative ideas and content

Enterprise organisations still caught in the dark ages of taking days, even weeks to publish simple content changes need to look hard at their…

Google now lets you ‘Fact Check’ News articles

Mountain View’s Google has announced that its News portal will now include “Fact Check” tags to “help readers find fact checking in large news…

Are South African brands ready for augmented reality?

Although augmented reality (AR) technology is not new, it is only now beginning to gain the attention of media and marketing professionals. The big…

Google Pixel is a physical search bar, according to ad

Google doesn’t do subtle any more. Sure, Google Tricks weren’t exactly marks of elegance, nor are the coy names for its Google Pixel smartphones’…

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