Taking an ad agency into media ownership might sound odd to many executives but Alistair King from King James explains it was born from a personal and professional need not to come stuck in a single medium and from frustration with the general state of the ad industry.
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ACSA flips me the finger
The ever so competent guardian of Cape Town’s first point of contact with visitors both local and foreign at Cape Town International Airport has come up with new ways to drive visitors in circles. By literally letting them drive in circles.
Is Google making media stupid?
In the media world Google simply makes us repetitive. Popular Mechanics SA ran this cover in October and The Atlantic ran it in July/August 08.
No soothing ads for SA’s banking consumers
The world markets are in turmoil. The JSE plummets, the Rand slides, banks fail in US and Europe. It’s a crisis. Time for marketing departments to go in overdrive and reassure consumers that everything is OK. Your money is save with us. Not in SA.
The Sunday Times smack down
The Sunday Times smack down has begun with all and sundry having something to say after the paper retracted its front page story on Transnet supposedly selling most off Table Bay to “foreigners” (‘Transnet sold our sea to foreigners’- August 24, 2008).
The unreal world of House & Garden magazine
. With their own long term viability in mind business is finally starting to talk about social justice. Then there is Condé Nast House & Garden who sees it fit to plug “Green-painted wooden LOGS from R3262.58.
“Do no evil” Google fails own mantra
Google’s famous company mantra “Do No Evil” is being called into question in a complaint filed at the Competition Commission by a South African digital marketing agency called Entelligence.
The quest for real: Anti-Restaurants
‘Anti-restaurants’ or ‘pirate restaurants,’ as explored by The New York Times (registration required), are underground communal food experiences that is popping up all over the United Sates and the world in a backlash against the desocialisation of eating (and everything else).
Middle of the road Sasol risks arty ire*
Does Sasol want to position itself as a patron of the arts as long as it is art it likes or does nothing that challenges or comments on society? One wonders, are we culturally richer for this type of patronage, or poorer?