South African born and bred Habari Media recently earned its global stripes with the announcement that it had not only won LinkedIn Champion 2013, an international award that recognises the best of the best sales partners on the massive LinkedIn platform, but also the right to sell global advertising space on this incredibly popular medium Read more…
Up and coming creative agency Conversation LAB, hot on the heels of their Mr Price Sport and Hirsch’s business wins, has now added international fire and security giant, Chubb Fire and Security South Africa to their fast-expanding client base. Conversation LAB has been appointed to develop and execute Chubb South Africa’s marketing strategy and creative Read more…
‘Team Ah Yeah!’ has won the first Hellocomputer/Draftfcb Hack-a-Thon of 2013 in a challenged dubbed ‘Hack4Kids’. Briefed to meld tech and creative to engage children between the ages of 4 and 10, participants and their creations were judged by Danette Breitenbach (Advantage), Fran Luckin (Ogilvy), Brent Singer (Network), Brett Morris (Draftfcb), Theo Ferreira (Aqua) Read more…
The key finding of research Howzit MSN commissioned from market researcher Echo with the goal of achieving a clear and more accurate view of print and digital audience numbers is that readership figures shows that the internet now has a further reach and a wider audience than print. The findings indicate that print audiences are Read more…
Hellocomputer and Draftfcb’s first hack-a-thon of 2013 kicks off in just 24 hours in the Johannesburg office in Katherine Street, Sandton. Teams will be briefed at 18h00 on Thursday May 9 and be given 48 hours to complete their hack before presenting the outcome to judges Danette Breitechbach (Advantage), Fran Luckin (Ogilvy), Brent Singer Read more…
Great News! Junk Mail has won the ICMA (International Classifieds Media Association) Innovation Award for the Junk Mail Xchange platform on Mxit! The ICMA is a premier global community of leading players in the Classified Media Industry. The organization was founded in 1986 and it’s mission is to sustain growth of the Classified Media Industry Read more…
Whilst competition for brand spend in Africa is highly competitive there remains a great need for industry sharing and insights amongst industry players across Africa, hence the broadening of the Aegis Media Thought Leadership Digibate platform into Africa whereby sharing can be done not only by the media/marketing industry players, but also from client perspectives. Read more…
World Wide Creative (WWC), the Cape Town-based digital marketing agency, headed up by Fred Roed and Mike Perk, have recently announced the appointment of a new GM for their Cape Town office in the form of Alex Acton. Alex was already with WWC as a Project Strategist, working on clients including MyCiti (The City Read more…
“Search volume does not equal valuable visits,” Rand explained. “Content has to be great enough so that at least one out of every ten people reading it will want to share it. Content is only good when it is unique, targeted and remarkable.” According to Rand, the most important things that make a site Read more…
Simfy Africa, South Africa’s first music streaming service, has chosen Prezence Digital, one of South Africa’s leading digital agencies, to develop the BlackBerry version of its music services app. Simfy Africa is a partnership between the European streaming provider, Simfy, and local digital content company eXactmobile. This service brings together superb backend technology and general Read more…