As newer and more innovative technologies change how content is created, distributed and consumed, the entry of global players is threatening the local South African market share and compelling local media organisations to rethink their traditional business models to take up the competition in the global context...
Roman Magis 15 Jul 2020
Journalists need to be taught how to be entrepreneurs so they can contribute to the survival of the media industry, said Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, chairman of the APO Group...
Louise Burgers 16 Dec 2019
WarnerMedia recently hosted a panel discussion around creating relevant brands for African audiences at Discop Johannesburg 2019. Julien Borde, head of Channels for France, French-speaking territories, Africa and Israel tells us more about how the company plans to implement these insights across the African market...
Jessica Tennant 22 Nov 2019
Future historians may well scramble to understand what was going on at the Media Freedom Conference in London and the simultaneous Social Media summit at the White House (held earlier this year in July). They will surely be confounded by media policy in the post-broadcast era by looking at these two events. And they will struggle to reconcile what is claimed to be policy against what is actually practised on the ground...
Derek Abdinor 17 Sep 2019
Google launched the Google News Initiative, followed by the GNI Innovation Challenge to aid publishers in Africa transition to digital. We speak to Google's Mich Atagana about the initiative...
Louise Burgers 28 Aug 2019
Kantar CEO Eric Salama presented an update on the new ownership structure and the opportunities under, Bain Capital during a press call held on Thursday...
Juanita Pienaar 5 Aug 2019
The media landscape is changing rapidly and the way that media agencies are planning and buying digital media is ever-evolving...
Mark Botha 29 Jul 2019
Masterclasses on programmatic advertising buying have been held by 365 Digital in Nigeria, as well as other African markets...
Louise Burgers 11 Jul 2019
The Augmented World Expo is underway in Silicon Valley, USA, and Johan Walters shares highlights from Day 1...
Johan Walters 30 May 2019
It is important to tell the joyful African stories, not just those of pain and suffering...
Louise Burgers 4 Mar 2019
Jessica Tennant interviews Peter DeBenedictis, chief marketing officer for Microsoft in the Middle East and Africa on his recent business trip to South Africa...
Jessica Tennant 5 Feb 2019
Bizcommunity invited contributors to join its vision for Africa (with over 230 industry trend contributions making up the 2019 report) at BizTrendsLIVE!, which took place at Ster-Kinekor Sandton City in Johannesburg on Thursday, 31 January.
Jessica Tennant, Bizcommunity.com 1 Feb 2019
Chris Botha, group managing director of Park Advertising discusses why Wall Breakers will be the real change-makers in 2019...
Chris Botha 16 Jan 2019
Jacques Bentley from Skyworth highlights four global industry trends that are making waves and are expected to gain even more momentum in 2019...
Jacques Bentley 31 Dec 2018
The Africa Video Forum at #AfricaCom 2018, this year grappled with funding models for original content on the continent and the disruption that mobile brings...
Louise Burgers 23 Nov 2018
Jennifer Thomas, an award-winning, veteran American broadcast journalist, was invited by the United States Embassy (South Africa) to address the Cape Town Press Club on media coverage of elections in the age of fake news late last month...
Juanita Pienaar 14 Nov 2018
Media activist and former South African journalist and editor, Angela Quintal, has been interrogated in Tanzania...
Louise Burgers 8 Nov 2018
The second speaker at the 2018 DStv Seminar of Creativity was Lethepu Matshaba, vice president of Homecare Southern Africa at Unilever SA, who spoke on the relevance of creativity in a hyper-fragmented world...
Angie White 17 Aug 2018
Reporters Without Borders has recommended that media organisations and journalists around the world strengthen training in digital security in the face of increasing cyberviolence...
Louise Burgers 31 Jul 2018
The new general manager and vice president of Fox Networks Group Africa, Evert van der Veer, will focus on the expansion of Fox Sports and local content production...
Louise Burgers 16 May 2018
Nickelodeon's Alexi Wheeler shares about the talk he presented at the 2018 CTIAF, how he feels about the role of women in the animation industry and elaborates on what he thinks the industry as a whole can still improve on...
Juanita Pienaar 7 Mar 2018
Going into 2018, we need to give the word disruption the respect it deserves...
Graham Deneys 8 Jan 2018
We live in a world of blurred lines. There are companies that look and feel like cab companies. We love the services they deliver, so we're grateful for them but they claim not to be cab companies...
Omar Essack 8 Jan 2018
2017 was not a good year for companies handling crises. The number of casualties was alarming. We had our pick of it - from motoring, to beverages, to aviation, and everything in between...
Daniel Munslow 8 Jan 2018
Remind the world that responsible journalism in a healthy democracy holds power accountable and delivers the truth at all costs, despite what the architects of hate may say...
Samantha Page 8 Jan 2018
The demise of Twitter, consolidation in the media, the false economy of programmatic and other predictions...
Lisa Macleod 8 Jan 2018
The recent advances in data analytics and machine learning will see a huge shift in how we use data in 2018...
Paula Raubenheimer 8 Jan 2018
Zimbabwe remains on a knife edge as political uncertainty reigns and state television is under the control of the military...
Louise Burgers 15 Nov 2017
How does ‘going digital' in the television market affect content and viewership patterns? Kui Kariuki from Ipsos Kenya looked at what happened with Kenya's digital migration...
Louise Burgers 28 Aug 2017
Our Africa Achiever this month is co-founder of OMG Digital in Ghana, Jesse Arhin Ghansah...
Louise Burgers 14 Aug 2017
