Craig Wallis, Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop In the Out of Home industry, I am always amazed at the vast number of media owners who place digital screens into a multiplicity of environments. There must be at least 70 players in this advertising industry with around half of them playing in the very visible […]
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AI won’t lead to better consumer engagement but machine learning will
Jarred Mailer-Lyons, Head of Digital at The MediaShop Science fiction movies and novels did an amazing job of creating and dramatizing encounters with Artificial Intelligence – but did it prepare us for the real world of AI? Unfortunately not… Most people probably still envision AI in the form a robot straight out of The Jetsons if you […]
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Have we forgotten the power of why?
Isla Prentis, Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop For those of you who have read The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy … the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42, as calculated by the supercomputer. There’s just one problem, a big problem – no one knows the question. This always makes […]
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Behind the Walled Gardens
Andrew Dabbs, Digital Media Strategist at The MediaShop Over the Easter period, I was fortunate enough to travel and see my 95 year old granny in the beautiful county of Sussex. Only there for a short stay and sticking to a 95 year old’s schedule, I grabbed a newspaper one morning with my cup of […]
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One size does not fit all
Maggie Pronto, Media Strategist at The MediaShop Personalisation in advertising communication is a key part of the consumer journey. Consumers want a unique connection in exchange for their time, but they’re also concerned about how brands use their data. Or are they? Research from “The State of the Connected Consumer” by Salesforce, indicates that consumer’s […]
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Are brands living up to client expectations?
Jedd Cokayne, Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop I am not sure about you, but there is an underlying feeling that the world’s equilibrium is not quite balanced at the moment. I think this is abundantly evident in South Africa’s downturn in consumer confidence due to the current economic situation, the fact that we’re in […]
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The Rise Of eGaming
Prince Ndlovu, Media Strategist at The MediaShop eGaming has been a massive sports and leisure pastime around the world, even creating instant millionaires and businesses in the process. All this has been driven by easy access to the internet. Tournaments around the world are commanding around 172,000 fans that attend these online events and around […]
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Celebrating women in media
Lorraine Gwewera, Digital Strategist at The MediaShop In the wake of International Women’s Day, I found myself thinking about where we as the media industry stand when it comes to feminism. I decided it was a chance for us to celebrate some of the female trailblazers within the media space. Women have come a long […]
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The MediaShop empowers from within
South Africa’s top rated media agency, The MediaShop, is committed to the development of young media practitioners within the advertising space. The agency has been running an effective internship programme for a number of years and also tries to employ all of them on a permanent basis once they have completed the programme. On 1 […]
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A blog about a blog
Yvette Gengan, Digital Media Manager at The MediaShop If you are anything like me then blogging is no Friday night ‘Netflix and chill’ for you either. I over think the whole process. In fact, I pondered for days for a blog topic I felt had real purpose. After a while, I realized that in my […]
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