Nineve Van Zyl, Design Lead at Sprout, shares some guidelines on what to consider when crafting compelling and effective programmatic display creatives. The majority of browsers visiting an e-commerce website don’t convert on their first visit. There are several reasons for this, but none as critical as context, i.e. understanding where in the customer journey […]
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Darling campaign captures women’s imagination and blows up on social media
#DarlingBigThankYous goes viral A recent Darling social-media campaign #DarlingBigThankYous honours the selfless women who drive our society, has gone viral on social media. Conceptualized and executed in conjunction with Conversation Lab, the campaign video has 2 324 521 views and earned 3 647 shares on Facebook, since its launch, three weeks ago. The #DarlingBigThankYous campaign […]
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Amongst many other target groups, SPARK Media’s ignition TARGET has got the ‘business minded’ market covered. The company’s programmatic and direct audience solution through the utilisation of their Data Management Platform (DMP), has the capability to collect and deliver relevant, customised Interest Based Audiences. “An Interest Based Audience is a group of consumers who are […]
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With more than 15 years’ experience as a marketing manager and client service professional, Ulrike du Toit has joined Sprout Performance Media as digital operations director this month. The programmatic media buying agency has been growing significantly since it was founded in 2013, and having Ulrike onboard will assist Sprout in optimising its service levels […]
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From September to December 2017, Beautiful News South Africa, in conjunction with its proud sponsor Mercedes-Benz South Africa, will be screening short-films of ordinary South Africans doing extraordinary things, putting a positive spin on what it means to be South African. The film viewing experience offers short videos to passengers, travellers and tourists as well […]
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In response to the massive amounts of underutilised data housed by retailers worldwide, Popimedia develops ad-tech solution to provide results-based marketing across the customer journey JOHANNESBURG-based Popimedia, Africa’s largest Facebook Marketing Partner and global social media ad-tech partner, has created a tool to allow retailers full control of the customer journey, across platforms and channels, […]
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SPARK Media extends reach of ROOTS data beyond agencies
ROOTS is South Africa’s largest urban community survey providing powerful insights into consumer’s purchasing behaviour and media consumption habits at a local level. Previously ROOTS data has primarily been accessible to media agencies and SPARK Media’s direct clients. Until now. Through BMi Research and a bespoke software programme Storyteller by SPARK Media, the reach of […]
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Organisations are urged to embrace digital transformation to remain competitive. Jonathan Jardim, software developer at SilverBridge Holdings, believes that while technology forms an important part of this process, the human element should not be forgotten. “We are living in a connected world where companies are competing against global organisations. Customers are also more technology literate […]
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Facebook Marketing Partners has identified Bionic, powered in sub-Sahara by Primedia Unlimited, as its 2017 Innovation Spotlight Award winner in the Omnichannel: Online and Offline Sales category. The awards call for the year’s most exciting new technologies built on Facebook’s Application Programming Interface (API) to solve marketing challenges. “Bionic is a platform designed to manage and […]
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San Francisco-based Brightplan has appointed leading South African digital creative consultancy Platinum Seed as its digital partner, preferring the local agency over others. The partnership will kick off with Platinum designing and developing the user-experience and user interface for BrightPlan’s launch website. They will also be responsible for developing a go-to-market strategy for the product, […]
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