Great new ad from Y&R for Playboy South Africa showing “how women’s hairstyles have influenced men over the years.” Yeah you need to see the spot to get the punchline. More than 400 000 others have in only 10 days it has been online.
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Winning work: Gold winners from SA at the Cannes Lions
Winning work: Gold winners from SA at the Cannes Lions. See the work you hear so much about!
Do South Africans still Yahoo!?
Do South Africans still Yahoo!? Indeed they do. According to Apurimac Media, the sales representative for Yahoo! in sub-Saharan Africa, the site receives 1.5 million monthly visitors from South Africa generating 256 million page views.
Tiffany Shlain on our connected lives
Encounters, the documentary festival, returns to Cape Town and Johannesburg from 7-24 June 2012 and this year features Tiffany Shlain, the founder of The Webby Awards, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and director of Connected, which won The Disruptive Innovation Award from Tribeca, the Audience Award for Best Documentary from Maui Film Festival and four awards from The Los Angeles Movie Awards.
City Press takes i magazine national
The glossy Sunday read launched by City Press in October 2011, i, will be distributed nationally from this Sunday (June 3). The magazine was previously only distributed in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal – two key growth markets for the paper.
Will HTC slay the market-share monster?
Almost every new major smartphone announcement comes with an element of groundbreaking change. Every groundbreaking change is heralded as the next big thing, until the next next-big-thing arrives the following day. Or until the next big thing turns out to the last big novelty.
Facebook in South Africa – the numbers
South Africans have embraced the social network in force. Official figures put the number of South Africans accessing Facebook at 4.8 million (of which 3.5 million access it via internet as well as via mobile devices).
The great Internet shift
The switch-on of the WACS cable, the first in-flight WiFi in South Africa and the latest Internet stats made for a big Internet week.
Awards Candy – SA app start-up signing global award shows
Wallace Seggie, a South African creative director, has developed an app that brings together in one place award winning work from a number of the worlds’ largest advertising festivals.
Internet Access in South Africa to hit 20% penetration by 2013
The following is a tweetnote presentation – 10 tweets on the same topic – on the Internet Access in SA 2012 study for the 2012 Netprophet conference recently held in Cape Town.