For South Africa’s youngest citizens finding a job remains an enormous challenge. While the country’s official unemployment rate is now 27.7%, the most affected group by far are young people under the age of 35, as a staggering 38.6% of youth are currently unable to find work. Against the backdrop of a sluggish economy finding […]
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Sanlam’s Born Today Film Born In A Day
Today is Sanlam’s 100th birthday. To celebrate 100 years of securing financial futures for generations to come – and to remind us of our responsibility to build a better world for each new life to inherit – the King James Group shot Born Today. Filmed, finished and flighted today, in the space of just 12 […]
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Levison Wood travels over fascinating, dangerous terrain in his journey From Russia to Iran on BBC Earth
Known for inspiring audiences by sharing the incredible wonders of our universe, BBC Earth’s popular series From Russia to Iran is back with explorer Levison Wood. This self-filmed, riveting series delivers televisions rawest and most authentic travel series. Levinson is taking on a new expedition to cross the mighty Cacuses mountain range that lies between […]
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2018 Oscar-nominee Revolting Rhymes now streaming first and only to Showmax
“The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. She whips a pistol from her knickers.” There’s the story of Little Red Riding Hood that everyone knows and then there’s the Roald Dahl version. Dahl may be best known for bestselling children’s books like Matilda, The BFG, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, James and The Giant Peach […]
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BBC Earth (DSTv Channel 184) has today launched a global search for a fresh new presenter who can offer a different perspective on all things natural history and science, to join the team to film a four-part YouTube series. If you’ve never before been a presenter and are; Passionate about our planet and all the […]
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Brand spend on advertising and sponsorships last year totalled a hefty R45-billion investment into the South African market, signalling it as the biggest marketing investment for most brands. However, while spend figures are up from 2016, growth is still muted (below inflation) with brand investment often one of the first costs to be cut when […]
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Advertising campaigns around responsible drinking have been ubiquitous with the common theme worldwide playing on fear veiled in a morbid reality of destruction and death. The much anticipated Aware ‘Choices’ campaign by Riverbed, released on 31 May 2018, flips this concept on its head, presenting a more positive persuasion by giving context to the notion […]
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Big ratings for Rapid Blue’s ‘Come Dine With Me South Africa’
The SAFTA winning local format, Come Dine With Me South Africa, produced by Rapid Blue, returned to BBC BRIT for a fourth series. Brilliant casting yielded some stand out contestants which combined with many incredibly funny hosting faux pas, the final three episodes of the new series become the highest-ever rated episodes across the BBC […]
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Shamendran Naidu, Executive: Transit Ads™ shares key research insights into how and why digital television network TRANSIT.TV delivers highly effective, incremental reach when bundled with terrestrial TV campaigns. As marketers, we know that TV viewing is no longer limited to the living room. Today’s viewers watch what they want, when they want across multiple devices […]
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Digital satellite television channel, Zee World, which offers mainstream viewers in Africa the best in award-winning Bollywood movies and series, a variety of food, kids and talent shows and lifestyle programmes elected to use Street Network Bus Shelters in order to extend the reach of its latest ‘It’s Happening’ campaign.Street Network’s bus shelter offering provided […]
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