RamsayMedia has been undergoing a strategic transformation over the last three years under the management team lead by MD Stuart Lowe.
Category archives: Featured
The death of the music store
If you look carefully, you can already see the beginning of the end of the music store as we know them in South Africa, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK in the first of a series on the future of music.
Ad workers on go slow
The Creative Recruitment And Producer’s (CRAP) union – which represents copywriters, graphic designers and recruitment agents across the country – has announced that its members are set to embark on a nation-wide strike in a bid to improve wages and working conditions.
S’HOT: Loving Porky’s CrateFan
Cratefan was created to showcase Coca-Cola’s recycling initiative, Live For a Difference, during the FIFA World Cup. Cratefan is a complex inner skeleton of scaffolding which is then clad with an outer layer of red Coke crates. Building on the recycling theme the installation is being continuously reimagined to celebrate Christmas, Easter and Cokes’ 125th Birthday.
And your next phone is … (hint: don’t assume its an iPhone)
With the market changing so fast, what smartphone should you get next? It’s an increasingly complex question, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK as he lays out the landscape for your future options.
S’HOT: Birds+Bees
A collaboration between DraftFCB, Michael Meyersfeld and Luma resulted in this campaign for Vodacom’s adult content management system.
King James makes good
King James, one of the country’s most respected ad agencies, is full of good news. The Cape-Town-based agency, named after its founders Alistair King and James Barty, has been winning business and accolades and has just moved into the stately building it bought, the historic Roodebloem Manor, in Woodstock, Cape Town.
Hair affair
A new book explores the township barbershop as cultural and social hub
HP surrenders in PC, phone, tablet war
A series of recent announcements from HP represented the company’s surrender in the war for the most hotly contested segments of the market, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
Social media use in journalism still evolving, as new award shows
The Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards is among the most prestigious and richest in the country. The awards, now celebrating its 10th year, rewards outstanding reporting and excellence in journalism, with the overall winner walking away with R125 000 in prize money.
The Vodacom awards have various categories by media such as print, radio, television and by niches such as sport, financial/economic reporting, consumer journalism etc.