Louise Hefer, Media Strategist at The MediaShop says: Something horrible recently happened in our household *cue first world problem here*. Our TV remote broke, and I mean proper broke…broke in terms of not being able to forward, exit or move between channels. So now we’re rocking it old school style and having to actually get […]
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Is this how we sell things now?
Over the years, Nando’s has not only given us delicious PERi-PERi flame-grilled chicken, but food for thought via their adverts, campaigns and social commentary, with the latest one questioning the surplus of “Afro-futurism” on our screens at the moment. Their most recent ad promoting their Half Chicken with any single side was released on Monday, […]
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Conversations With Yourself In Every Life Phase
Imagine having a conversation with yourself at six different ages. Older YOU could tell younger YOU when you’re going to lose the dad bod… you’ll know whether getting a tattoo at 20 still seems like a good idea when you’re 80… and you may learn what constitutes a good monthly RA contribution. And younger YOU […]
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Debonairs Pizza Showcases Ease Of ‘Deliver To Pin’ With New TVC
Debonairs Pizza is showcasing how easy it is to interact with the Debonairs Pizza mobile app and uses its Deliver to Pin functionality to have your pizza delivered when you are not at a formal physical address. According to Toni Joubert the Marketing Executive of South Africa’s leading pizza delivery brand, “Debonairs Pizza thrives on […]
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Hat Trick for Toyota Fortuner 4×4 Challenge
Toyota South Africa is running its Fortuner 4×4 Challenge this Spring, making it a hat trick for the successful competition which pairs four professional athletes with four Toyota fans as the teams battle it out in a bid to drive home in a brand new Fortuner 4×4. Driving participation in this year’s three-month activation is […]
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Creating a travel culture among young South Africans
The key to unlocking domestic tourism and travel potential in South Africa is to create and nurture a travel culture among all its peoples, and especially among its young, increasingly mobile and highly aspirational Afrilennials. This is the strategic intent driving all local communications coming out of South African Tourism’s marketing partner, FCB Joburg.According to […]
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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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127 HOURS worth of binge watching with BBC
BBC Studios in Africa confirmed today that it has inked its first content deal with MultiChoice’s streaming services for an exclusive array of Arts and Culture content, set to inspire DStv Premium customers this spring. For those wanting to dust off those winter cobwebs and step into the new season feeling invigorated and informed on […]
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Stir things up and enter Come Dine With Me Season 5
Come Dine With Me South Africa is back and calling for contestants If you fancy yourself an aspiring chef, are holding onto that ‘always impresses’ family recipe for just the right moment, have the skills to be the host with the most or are simply looking for your (forty) five minutes of television fame then […]
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Feisty TVC For Debonairs Pizza From FCB Joburg ‘Big Nyana’
South Africa’s leading quick service restaurant in the pizza segment and FCB Joburg ‘went big’ in Debonairs Pizza’s latest television commercial with outsized locations and props to show why, when you have a taste for big things, the Big Nyana will more than make the grade.The point behind the big house, the big car, the […]
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