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SA Newspapers and their no sense approach to Twitter
MarkLives published a mini-survey on the popularity of SA news services on micro-blogging service Twitter in December last year. We thought it was time for an update.
Speakerbox rocking design
Speakerbox is an online music community that focuses primarily on South African music, music culture and live events. The look and feel of the identity is young, energetic and visually current, using a fair amount of hand done illustration with a limited colour palette to establish an overall brand consistency. From match boxes, t-shirts and skate boards to the website – Code made sure they designed one cool brand image.
New frontiers of identity
The emerging market is changing the way brand identities are forged.
Dropping ‘paper’ from news
The American Society of Newspaper Editors is planning to remove “paper” from its name and expand its membership to include editors of online-only news Web sites and journalism educators, the society announced yesterday.
The ad that features nothing but shoes
Jordan Shoes – with a little help from ZOOM Advertising – has launched a new ad campaign entitled ‘where will they take you?’
SA Newspapers on Twitter
Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, isn’t being utilised properly by South African newspaper publishers. Internationally Twitter is being used by media organisations as diverse as CNN and the NYTimes to push breaking news to subscribers. Big name local brands such as The Star, Beeld, Die Burger, the Cape Times, the Sowetan and others are still missing in action. So which South African newspapers make use of Twitter?
4,5-million South Africans now online
The number of South Africans now online have risen to 4.5 million. This is the key finding of the Internet Access in South Africa 2008 study, released today by World Wide Worx.
This website went horizontal
Television commercials production company Velocity has launched a new website as part of the new Velocity Corporate identity designed by REX. Instead of going vertical the design went horizontal effectively showcasing Velocity’s work in a unique manner.
Advertising is like bad breath…
Advertising journalist Tony Koenderman just released the world’s biggest collection of quotations about advertising, published in book form, comprising 1 618 quotations from critical or admiring opinion leaders, humourists and some of the industry giants.