I was fascinated to read earlier this week about Daily Maverick’s irrepressable entrepeneur Branko Brkic’s plan to launch SA’s first iPad daily “newspaper” under the Maverick brand. It’s a concept that I’ve been keen on ever since laying my hands on an iPad and I too have spent many hours doing sums on the back of knapkins wondering if they can be made to work.
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Schabir Shaik: In or out?
Posters of convicted fraudster and special friend to President Zuma, Schabir Shaik, who has been in and out of jail a number of times, were placed behind and in front of railings around Cape Town. The headline asks: ‘In or Out?’
Jason Xenopoulos wants to win the advertising war
Jason Xenopoulos recently re-emerged as an important player in the SA digital arena through his role in facilitating and leading the merger of Brandsh, Stonewall+ and Cambrient,to launch Native.
A very civilised CityMob
A series of Facebook pages, started several years ago, has been so successful that its creator has teamed up with two friends to start a group-buying business called CityMob off the back of it. Daniel Solomon started the I Like Cape Town fan page on Facebook on a whim and has seen it grow to a group with over 30 000 members.
Solomon and his partners also run I Like Durban (with over 40 000 fans), I Like Johannesburg (more than 5000 fans), I like PE (over 8000 fans) and I Like South Africa (over 36 000 fans).
The people want to overthrow the ad tracker
You have every reason to be paranoid about your privacy in a digital world, says Dominic White, a security consultant at SensePost and self-proclaimed ‘argumentative Catholic hacker geek’, known under the pseudonym ‘Singe’ online. White was a speaker at ITWeb’s Security Summit recently held in Sandton, where he discussed the politics and technology around online privacy.
S’HOT 2011 review: End of the Big 5
The Client: Save the Rhino
The Agency: Stick
The Brief: Highlight the seriousness of the current carnage and show what the eventual outcome of the continued slaughter might turn out to be.
Creative Solution: Create intriguing visuals that suggest that when the rhinos have all gone nothing that we can ever do will bring them back. The Big 5 might soon be something of the past. The work was done pro-bono and is running in supportive media including the inflight magazine of Mango.
Creative Team: Jono Wolberg (Art Director), Mike Ellman-Brown (Copywriter & CD ) and Darryl Cowling (Creative Director)
Publishers explain ABCs hits, misses
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) released the local print media’s 2011 first quarter circulation figures earlier this week and, as usual, it makes for interesting reading. A couple of figures really jump out as worth investigating.
S’HOT: Afrikaans creatives ‘jolling’ and ‘rolling’ in New York
by MarkLives. In a series of three posters aimed at luring entries from the industry, the overall Pendoring winner shows how he revels like a born rock star in New York, Paris and Amsterdam.
Nikki Cockcroft leaves Primedia Online for Woolies
Nikki Cockcroft, long serving CEO of Primedia Online, where she oversaw leading South African portal iafrica.com, digital agency Prezence and trafficking solutions provider 365 Digital, has announced her resignation, effective 30 June 2011. She joins retail giant Woolworths as head of online and will take up her new position at the beginning of July.
Read all about it: Post election newspaper front pages
2011 local election newspaper front pages