Toyota South Africa and its long-standing agency, FCB Joburg, have enlisted the support of a world-renowned and very cheeky family to build on the success of 2018’s Dakar campaign, for Dakar 2019.The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Dakar 2019 consists of 12 days of intensive 4×4 driving […]
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Three Key Search Marketing Trends for 2019
Google search marketing saw an upswing in technologies such as chatbots, voice search, image searches and enhanced search engine results (SERP) features in 2018. While these will continue to play a role, the evolution of search in 2019 will be largely driven by three key elements: Google My Business, advertising automation, and SEO algorithm updates. […]
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Shaping creative business minds for the fourth industrial revolution
With smart technologies disrupting industries and changing the way we see and experience the world, the future workplace looks very different to the past. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or ‘Industry 4.0’, is upon us, and the graduates of 2018 and beyond need to be prepared for what this new wave of change brings. According to […]
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Five ways to hack Google rankings
Securing a brand’s place at the top of Google’s rankings is the new holy grail in marketing. Being ranked at the top of Google doesn’t refer to paid search which are the first links you see marked with “AD”, they’re the links that appear directly underneath the ads and are known as organic results. According […]
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The SpaceStation’s viewability stats exceed market standard by 20%
Recent stats* released to The SpaceStation by Google Ad Manager show that their overall ad viewability sits at an impressive 71%, which is a much higher than the South African market standard, over the same period, of 51%. The same stats also showed an above-the-fold viewability of 82% compared to a market rate of 65% […]
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VUKA: Short Film Long-Lasting Message Be Part Of The Change
Underage drinking is an endemic problem in South Africa which increases during the holiday season. To help reduce the misuse of alcohol and rally South Africans to curb underage drinking, SAB, together with integrated brand and communications group, Joe Public United, launched a powerful short film for the SAB’s 18+ #BeTheMentor programme. The film taps […]
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Print is dying and Radio is next!
Now that was dramatic! OK, maybe I should change the header to “Radio as we know it is dying” says Marino Sigalas from The MediaShop. That’s because just like when the internet crawled out of a nerd’s basement and slowly ate newspapers and magazines, replacing them with online news services, blogs, Twitter and a thousand Russian […]
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Vodacom Partners with Street Network for Fibre Offering
Vodacom recently partnered with Street Network to drive awareness in Cape Town of the mobile service provider’s fibre offering. To this end, Vodacom has embarked on an awareness campaign that sees it rolling out a thought-provoking execution across a number of strategically-located bus shelters along popular routes in the Mother City, targeting commuting Capetonians as […]
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Establishing a platform for in-store digital growth
By Cecil Ungerer, Chief Sales Officer of in-store advertising innovators Smart Media Despite challenging economic conditions in 2018, South Africans still managed to spend around R32 120 per second at retail stores recording sector growth of 0.7% year-on-year since September 2017. Although growth was lower than recorded in 2017, retailers in pharmaceuticals, medical goods, cosmetics, and […]
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#Takebackthetax Ignites Change
The illicit cigarette trade in South Africa is a parasite, infecting the growth of our country by eroding more than R7 billion in tax revenue every year. Primarily a lack of enforcement and penalties has allowed the illegal industry to thrive, to a point that the number 1 selling cigarette brand in South Africa is […]
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