Advertising and Media

New Facebook Home ad: grandma’s boring, stare at your phone instead

Facebook seems to be taking a machine gun kind of approach to the advertising for Facebook Home. First there was that weird ad with…

New Facebook Home ad has screaming goat, is the right kind of weird

When Facebook aired its first ad for Home, you may well have found yourself thinking something along the lines of “oh jeez, this is…

New Microsoft Scroogled ad has a go at Google Play store

Wow, Microsoft’s Scroogled advertising campaign is starting to take on the tone of a heavyweight US political campaign. The Redmond giant’s latest ad in…

New Facebook Home ad: and you thought the one with chairs was odd?

Facebook’s ad agency has done it again. Yup, it’s made an ad that makes about as much sense as the climax of a Russian…

Turn your iPhone or Android into a Z10 — yep, BlackBerry’s new ad is out

When BlackBerry announced that it was planning to launch in-depth interactive ads showcasing its new operating system on competing devices, it seemed like a…

Why SA’s Online Journalism is Rubbish

When will online journalism make a real impact in this country? Matthew Buckland says that until online starts to publish more original stories, it’s…

Online advertising: Behind the Growth

If it’s not the traffic or the advertising model, why is online experience a massive growth in revenues? Matthew Buckland finds some answers in…

The online advertising edge

A great philosopher once said: I think, therefore I click. I think his name was Desmond or something, but click he did. After the…

Online advertising: Cautious Optimism

I’ve always wondered where the gazillions in online advertising revenue went. If the pundits and their skyward-pointing graphs were to be believed, I doubt…

The power of information

People are still asking today how it was that the world failed to mobilise during the Rwanda genocide. Nearly a million Africans were hacked…

Audio streaming online: Dare to Stream

Radio “streaming” may draw in a surprising amount of listeners, but the business prospects have yet to evolve. Matthew Buckland considers the current landscape…

South African websites: Who’re the Big Fish?

South Africa’s online publishers pulled in about 3,5-million unique users or readers and about 106-million page impressions in the month of August. It’s the…

Mugabe’s Online Nightmare

Net Savvy Mugabe’s Online Nightmare The Daily News website and Zimonline continue to publish news critical of the Mugabe regime, and there’s not much…

Google ads fuel dot.com recovery

In case you were one of the billions who thought Google was just a search engine, think again. It’s so much more. It is…

Joe Bloggs ‘Journalism’

Everyone’s heard of Joe Bloggs. A few have heard about Salam Pax. So what do the two have in common? They are both ordinary…

SA’s quiet revolution

Somewhat of a quiet revolution appears to be taking place in South Africa’s media world. Late last year News24 launched their 24-hour interactive news…

Are websites killing newspaper circulations?

Websites are often singled out as one of the main culprits for falling print circulations. Simply put, the argument is why would readers bother…

Mine’s bigger than yours, I think

It’s billed as the most measurable medium in the world, yet ironically, for a long time internet measurement in South Africa has been in…

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