Jarred Mailer-Lyons, Digital Media Strategist at The MediaShop discusses movements in the Influencer Marketing space Influencer marketing has become one of the fastest digital customer-acquisition practices. Due to the sheer power of the social endorsements, targeting options and utilising influencers with high engagement rates across multiple social platforms, influencer marketing has become a key element […]
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Are You Telling Me, Or Are You Selling Me?
Nicci Jones, Digital Media Strategist at The MediaShop looks at keeping rogue influencers in (legal) checkEverything around us is for sale, from the airwaves that we listen to, to the TV programmes that we watch – even movies on the big screen have products snuck into them to subliminally drive our brand preferences. Our social […]
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Interpublic Group South Africa introduces Park Advertising, opens Meta Media
Chris Botha, current Group Managing Director of The MediaShop has announced the agency’s new central holding company Park Advertising. This entity will house two media agencies – The MediaShop and newcomer sister agency Meta Media. With immediate effect, Chris Botha assumes the role of Group Managing Director of Park Advertising, and will oversee the management […]
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Me, Myself and Envy
Maggie Pronto, Media Strategist at The MediaShop asks why we’re #SoBlessed #Grateful #SuperficialMuch Being the best you can be, to be #YourBestSelf is a powerful human need – but it’s no secret that our #SoBlessed, #SoObsessed culture is rather superficial. Expectations for happiness have escalated over the past few years – not just from consumers […]
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Are you ready to reach your future customer?
Is there any value in comforting your customers today with nostalgia from yesterday when their choices are naturally evolving at the rapid pace of a vastly shifting world around them? Gareth Grant, Business Unit Head at The MediaShop, questions how best to future-proof a brand’s message to a post 2020 customer base. In the current […]
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But what happens after Mandela Day?
Cosmos Mashego, Creditors Clerk at The MediaShop asks a pretty important question… With Mandela Day on 18 July, most South Africans were doing what they normally do on this day, and that is stuff they don’t do on any other normal day. Local celebrities, politicians and every day citizens were visiting old age homes, orphanages […]
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Marino Sigalas, Account Director at The MediaShop, shares tips on how to deal with condescending eye contact, zero attention span and multiple platform viewing. Just when you started getting the hang of Millennials with their smug self-confidence and need to feel like they are making a difference… along comes ‘Gen Z’. Gen Z are typically […]
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What’s up in the world of Digital OOH in SA?
Craig Wallis, Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop offers a snapshot The South African OOH (out of home) industry never ceases to amaze me with the incredible growth of media types, and its concomitant innovation. There are so many young, and passionate entrepreneurs out there that it bodes well for our country. Possibly the most […]
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Chris Botha, Group Managing Director of The MediaShop An update from The MediaShop I was at a talk a few years back where Adrian Gore explained in some detail why every year seems to go by quicker than the previous years. In short, the explanation goes that when you are one year old, a year […]
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Are Foogle the enemy?
Facebook and Google are the biggest media owners in almost every market across the globe and they seem to be heading for world domination says Richard Lord, Head of Digital / Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop. But, is that so bad? One of my favourite TV shows growing up was Pinky and the Brain (you’re humming that tune […]
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