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Evan-Lee Courie
SOUTH AFRICA
kykNET's Kassie-Kuiers reaches 500,000 views in six months

kykNET's Kassie-Kuiers reaches 500,000 views in six months
[Evan-Lee Courie] Kassie-Kuiers met Renaldo Schwarp made its debut in November 2021 and has since gone on to reach 500,000 views in just under six months...

Posted 1 year ago | Like
Evan-Lee Courie
SOUTH AFRICA
YouTube scales back; invests in YouTube Kids, Black Voices Fund

YouTube scales back; invests in YouTube Kids, Black Voices Fund
[Evan-Lee Courie] It's been reported that YouTube will scale back a significant portion of YouTube Originals, which produced original content including scripted series, educational videos, music and celebrity programming...

Posted 2 years ago | Like
Emilie Carver | Red Ribbon Communications
SOUTH AFRICA
B2B podcasts: capitalise on your brand voice

[Emilie Carver | Red Ribbon Communications] Marketers, have you had podcasts on your mind lately? You may ask yourselves, should we invest in B2B podcasts?...

Posted 2 years ago | Like
Gary Allemann
SOUTH AFRICA
PoPIA: 5 concrete steps to start your journey today

PoPIA: 5 concrete steps to start your journey today
[Gary Allemann] With a month to go before the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) comes into effect on 1 July, companies that have left their compliance programm to the last minute can follow these steps...

Posted 2 years ago | Like (1)
Andrew Bourne
SOUTH AFRICA
5 ways to write an engaging value proposition for your website

5 ways to write an engaging value proposition for your website
[Andrew Bourne] When it comes to selling newspapers, persuasive and relevant "above-the-fold" content has always been a necessity...

Posted 3 years ago | Like (1)
Sam Swaine
SOUTH AFRICA
Fierce and fearless, Lifestyling.co.za launches in lockdown

Fierce and fearless, Lifestyling.co.za launches in lockdown
[Sam Swaine] Despite the grim reaper circling South African publishing, new design-focused and lifestyle-led online magazine, Lifestyling.co.za came alive whilst we were still being birthed into a brave, new world...

Posted 3 years ago | Like (1)
Juanita Pienaar
SOUTH AFRICA
Filmmaker Dugan Bridges on Upward Globility and FMF's Khaya Lam episode shot in SA

Filmmaker Dugan Bridges on Upward Globility and FMF's Khaya Lam episode shot in SA
[Juanita Pienaar] We talk to Dugan Bridges, an award-winning filmmaker about a new video series produced by Atlas Network in the USA, which pilot episode focuses on the Free Market Foundation's Khaya Lam project in South Africa...

Posted 3 years ago | Like
Amanda Rogaly
SOUTH AFRICA
The 'new normal' of media spend in a Covid-19 world

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Image credit: 123RF.com.
[Amanda Rogaly] Media is experiencing the aftershocks of the pandemic with fast-tracked digital transformation causing seismic shifts in media consumption. In turn this is impacting media spend, creating a 'new normal' in the South African media and advertising industry...

Posted 3 years ago | Like
Danette Breitenbach
SOUTH AFRICA
#TBWAAfricaConference2019: Be the chosen one

Picture caption: (l to r): Timothy Maurice (The Brain and the Brand Show), Siya Metane (SlikourOnLife), Gareth Cliff (CliffCentral.com) Thami Pooe (The Interchange), Kelechi Nwosu (MD/CEO TBWA Nigeria) and Graham Cruikshanks (Director for Africa Operations at TBWA Johannesburg).
Picture caption: (l to r): Timothy Maurice (The Brain and the Brand Show), Siya Metane (SlikourOnLife), Gareth Cliff (CliffCentral.com) Thami Pooe (The Interchange), Kelechi Nwosu (MD/CEO TBWA Nigeria) and Graham Cruikshanks (Director for Africa Operations at TBWA Johannesburg).
[Danette Breitenbach] Today, all businesses are in media and they need to provide their audiences with content. Podcasts are a great medium to do this as they allow a brand to embed itself in the content without interrupting the audience while cultivating an audience...

Posted 4 years ago | Like
Juanita Pienaar
SOUTH AFRICA
How membership is becoming a sustainable business model for public interest journalism

Styli Charalambous, the CEO of The Daily Maverick.
Styli Charalambous, the CEO of The Daily Maverick.
[Juanita Pienaar] Styli Charalambous, the CEO of The Daily Maverick, elaborates on a remarkable year of growth that the publication has experienced and shares his thoughts on how membership is carving out a place as a sustainable business model for public interest journalism...

Posted 4 years ago | Like
Maroefah Smith
Maroefah Smith
[Online Media] 

In the latest In My 20s podcast, constitutional law researcher Rebecca Sibanda takes on xenophobia and looks at African history, migration and what it’s like to be a foreigner living in another African country.

Posted 4 years ago | Like
Maroefah Smith
Maroefah Smith
[Online Media] 

In the 30th episode of the In My 20s podcast, features journalist and law and gender master’s student Karabo Mafolo tackles the ever-growing gender-based violence crisis in South Africa and touches on what it feels like to be a woman living South Africa today.

Posted 4 years ago | Like
Juanita Pienaar
SOUTH AFRICA
#Newsmaker: Tiso Blackstar's Scott Peter Smith on the importance of multimedia in modern journalism

Head of multimedia at Tiso Blackstar, Scott Peter Smith. Image supplied.
Head of multimedia at Tiso Blackstar, Scott Peter Smith. Image supplied.
[Juanita Pienaar] Tiso Blackstar's Scott Peter Smith shares why the volume and quality of multimedia production and the speed at which it can be created are making it a very useful and valuable addition to the newsroom...

Posted 4 years ago | Like
Rudolph Muller
SOUTH AFRICA
Record readership for MyBroadband - Broad Media

Record readership for MyBroadband
[Rudolph Muller] MyBroadband has increased its South African readership to 5.3 million unique monthly browsers, which makes it one of the biggest online publishers in South Africa...

Posted 4 years ago | Like
Tiffany Markman
SOUTH AFRICA
Explaining the explainer video: how to write a good video script

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Photo by Jon Flobrant on Unsplash
[Tiffany Markman] Explainer videos. Also known as whiteboard animations, illustrated stories, and fast-draw videos. They're either the best thing ever for your product, service or brand, helping you to unpack what you do quickly and compellingly. Or they're an expensive piece of website filler that few visitors watch, and almost no one views all the way to the end...

Posted 4 years ago | Like
Jessica Tennant
SOUTH AFRICA
#StartupStory: Double Apex Media

#StartupStory: Double Apex Media
[Jessica Tennant] Sudhir "Banzai" Matai, founder and managing editor of Double Apex Media, previous associate editor at Car Magazine, tells us how his online store for motoring-themed T-shirts turned into an automotive media portal...

Posted 5 years ago | Like
Andy Walker
SOUTH AFRICA
Robbie Williams (and his World Cup middle finger) spikes Google Search traffic

Feature image: Drew de F Fawkes via Flickr (CC 2.0 BY), on
Feature image: Drew de F Fawkes via Flickr (CC 2.0 BY), on Memeburn
[Andy Walker] If you were expecting Will Smith to open the 2018 World Cup in Russia this evening, don't worry, we were, too...

Posted 5 years ago | Like
SOUTH AFRICA
Burn Media to embark on aggressive growth after deal to go solo - Buckland

Burn Media's founder, Matthew Buckland.
Burn Media's founder, Matthew Buckland.
[Stephen Timm] The Burn Media Group, a media stable with publications that include Ventureburn and Memeburn, has broken away from M&C Saatchi Abel's digital agency Creative Spark and has embarked upon a new "aggressive" growth curve, says Burn Media's founder Matthew Buckland...

Posted 5 years ago | Like
Andy Walker
SOUTH AFRICA
Did Barack Obama really say 'Stay woke, bitches' in this viral video?

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Image © Memeburn
[Andy Walker] "Thank you. And stay woke, bitches," is not a quote you'd normally attribute to former US President Barack Obama. But filmmaker Jordan Peele just made this a reality, by using intelligent visual trickery...

Posted 6 years ago | Like
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