By Gareth Grant, Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop We all choose to live and shop locally, in geographic areas that suit us and that are convenient to our life stages and lifestyles. This plays a role in the shops we frequent, the restaurants we eat at, the cinema houses we chose to watch the […]
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Post about it!
By: Kgavgelo Masenya, Media Planner at The MediaShop. I recently went for brunch at a cute new spot with a group of friends, and as foodies we wanted to try a bit of everything, so we ordered quite a few dishes, and once the food arrived guess what we did? Yep, we grabbed our phones […]
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2022’s biggest challenge – turning knowledge into insights
The ability to understand people and situations by extracting relevant consumer insights can give brands the critical edge when it comes to crafting their communication and deciding how to deliver this to their target audiences. For companies performing at the top of the industry, the use of marketing insights are not token efforts, they’re embedded into […]
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By Claire Herman, Media Operations Manager, The MediaShop From a Full House of Golden Girls to Game of Thrones and Squid Game – the evolving story of TV in our lives… Following the recent deaths of Betty White and Bob Saget, I was taken back to the “early days” of television, where we waited impatiently […]
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The latest South African economic outlook set for 2022 ranks a few key influencing factors for the year including loadshedding, municipal coalitions, lockdown restrictions and on-going vaccination impetus from government and private organisations who are stating for mandatory vaccinated employee policies. The hybrid working model of online and bricks and mortar seems to be settling into […]
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Nadine Lerm, Media Strategist at The MediaShop says that the fast-food industry had to adapt in multiple ways to escape the devastating impact of Covid-19. There is no doubt that most industries have gone through a tough time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit South Africa. Lockdowns, supply chain constraints, unrest and load-shedding have all had devastating […]
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Jedd Cokayne, Business Unit Manager at The Media Shop takes a look at marketing lessons from one of the world’s greatest athletes. As we start to wind down for the year, calm down to a mild panic and look forward to spending the festive season with friends and family, I ponder over the year that […]
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The country has been resilient as we unpack the meaning of a new variant and South Africans and the business community continue to remain agile as our economy evens out and rebounds alongside other countries. South Africa’s back to work momentum is gaining traction as optimism to open up the country’s sectors and regain 2020 […]
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Megan Walker, Senior Media Strategist at The MediaShop, looks at the Internet of Things in the retail and media space On the back of helping my son with an IoT focused school project, I naturally started thinking around the subject of IoT in a business context, and as is my habit I started by looking […]
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Colin Ramparsadh, Business Unit Director at The MediaShop Over the years we have learned a lot from TV, despite our parents often despairing that the hours and hours spent in front of the box instead of studying would ruin our lives! There is some merit in watching television though – let me explain. In the […]
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