Richard Lord, Media & Operations Director at media agency Meta Media, says that 2020 proved to be a tumultuous year for advertising. Overnight, budgets were cut, strategies were changed, priorities re-looked, but some platforms fared better than others. TV benefited from a captive, stay at home audience with more time on their hands. Newspapers and […]
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Meta Media turns two!
Happy second birthday, Meta Media! This “curious” cultured, #SoWhat driven, full-service media agency opened their Johannesburg office doors in January 2019 and Cape Town in February 2019 and have flourished ever since. “Over the past two years we have continuously proved that we are the “so what” agency, consistently looking for the insights behind the […]
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By Richard Lord, Media & Operations Director, Meta Media Advertisers are taking a stand against Facebook’s stance on hate speech and it is causing the share price to nosedive (8% down on Friday 26 June). Since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minnesota police in May 2020, the world has been […]
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And what a year it was! After opening their doors on 2 January 2019, Meta Media has proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the agency is a force to be reckoned with in the South African media landscape, now and in the future. Meta Media is a member of the Nahana Communications Group […]
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Richard Lord, Media & Operations Director, Meta Media discusses #StreamingContent. A new year. A new decade. And as with every new year, everyone wants to know what 2020 is going to hold in store for us in our world of media and advertising. Already this year my inbox has been inundated with top 10 trend […]
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Rugby World Cup 2019; the numbers you never knew
Richard Lord, Media & Operations Director, Meta Media So the Rugby World Cup is in full swing. We are into week three and for the most part, have just one round of pool games left before we move into the knock-out stages. We at Meta Media are all about the data and the numbers. We […]
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After only eight months since opening its doors, media agency Meta Media has scooped third at the 11th annual MOST Awards in two of the toughest categories: the prestigious Full Service Media Agency award and overall Media Agency of the Year sector. Celebrating excellence in the media industry, it was a really good evening for […]
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The Super Bowl – the story you didn’t know
By: Richard Lord, Media & Operations Director, Meta Media So, the Super Bowl, the world’s biggest televised sporting event, was played this past Sunday with the New England Patriots winning a record equalling 6th title, beating the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 in the lowest scoring game in NFL history. This was Super Bowl LIII which, […]
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Are Foogle the enemy?
Facebook and Google are the biggest media owners in almost every market across the globe and they seem to be heading for world domination says Richard Lord, Head of Digital / Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop. But, is that so bad? One of my favourite TV shows growing up was Pinky and the Brain (you’re humming that tune […]
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