Latest Industry News
Boomtown’s Bayeza internship programme listed as a finalist in the 2019 Future of HR awards
Boomtown’s innovative internship programme Bayeza, is a finalist in the 2019 Future of HR Awards in the Best Graduate Development Programme category. Hosted in partnership with Careers24, the Future of HR Awards celebrate industry leaders achieving exceptional standards in people management and showcase strategies that make a direct impact on business performance and reshape HR... Continue reading→
New CTT campaign from HaveYouHeard highlights Mother City’s winter soul
Cape Town Tourism has launched a digital campaign to promote the city and its surrounds as an ideal winter getaway destination with a tongue-in-cheek video parodying Mother City clichés and good-naturedly teasing its residents. Created by HaveYouHeard’s Group ECD Dan Berkowitz and ECD Gavin Whitfield and directed by Ari Kruger from Sketchbook Studios, the video... Continue reading→
How to safeguard your online profile
Millions of South Africans have an online presence, and most eagerly start and end each day checking Facebook, Twitter and Instagram profiles. However, many do not keep in mind that, with the amount of personal information they post online, they need to safeguard themselves, as well as their family and friends. Although social media is... Continue reading→
Peel away the layers of big data for richer insights
Often considered a buzzword, big data can be described as the vast volume of structured and unstructured data which floods business daily. However, it is not the size of the data collection that counts, but rather what you choose to do with it that counts. So, one could deduce that in-depth analysis of big data... Continue reading→
Farmer’s Weekly editor awarded international accolade
Denene Erasmus, editor of Caxton Magazines’ Farmer’s Weekly, has been awarded the inaugural IFAJ-Alltech International Award for Leadership in Agricultural Journalism at the Alltech Ideas Conference (ONE19) in Kentucky, USA. This accolade is a new award from the IFAJ (International Federation of Agricultural Journalists) that recognises excellence and leadership by young journalists. After a nomination... Continue reading→
#ROOTS2019 mapping the more economically active South Africa
Set in motion with in-field interviews in March 2018, South Africa’s largest quantitative community survey #ROOTS2019 is ready to be launched in June across South Africa. The all new ROOTS 2019 will unveil new and insightful stories coming out of local geographic areas. “The ROOTS survey has been conducted every three years since 2001 and... Continue reading→
Hive Digital Media announces management structure
Newly formed specialist digital media agency, Hive Digital Media, formerly the digital sales unit of SPARK Media, has announced the appointments of its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) Parmeshan Moodliar, Chief Operations Officer (COO) Kristin Louw and Group Programmatic and Data Manager Ashleigh Footit. “It gives me great pleasure to announce changes in the management structure... Continue reading→
Converse Brings The Female Narrative To The Fore
In 2018, Converse in partnership with brand and communication agency, Joe Public, launched their ‘All The Stories Are True’ campaign. A series of long-format 90” films featuring trailblazing Kwaito group, Trompies, and well-known South African personality, J’Something, who shared their real-life ‘Chuck’ stories – based on the brand’s most famous sneaker. In 2019 Converse then... Continue reading→
Spitfire Inbound Becomes A HubSpot Platinum Partner Agency
Spitfire Inbound, an inbound marketing, sales and services agency in Johannesburg, recently announced its HubSpot Platinum Partner status. HubSpot is a leading growth platform, and works hand-in-hand with agency partners to grow their businesses through inbound software, services and support. HubSpot awards Platinum status to agencies demonstrating inbound marketing,sales and services to the highest standards.... Continue reading→
Students get ‘Neon Runner’ game published on Google Play
Four second-year students from Vega (a brand of the Independent Institute of Education – The IIE) are well on their way to pursuing lucrative careers in the gaming world, after having their game, Neon Runner, successfully published on the Google Play store. Neon Runner is an endless runner game that becomes more challenging as it... Continue reading→