Media
Phat Joe leaving Heart 104.9 FM
On-air morning show host Phat Joe has announced he will be leaving Heart 104.9 FM . His last day on-air will be Friday, 12 October 2012.
The AdVantage archive page 19
Industry reporting published on this domain when AdVantage ran as a monthly trade title: appointments, campaigns, awards, research and agency news. Nothing here has been updated - it is kept online because the record is worth keeping.
Marketing
61% of formal Gauteng households have cars
According to ROOTS 2010, the Newspaper Advertising Bureau (NAB) and Caxton/CTP’s urban retail and readership survey, 61% of formal households in Gauteng have one or more cars in the household. Centurion in…
News
Capitec Bank SA’s top company
Capitec Bank Holdings scooped the coveted title as South Africa’s top company at the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies Awards banquet held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Capitec won in 2010 and…
Advertising
Tavern TV highly effective in reaching emerging black middle class
Which brand would not want to captivate a market that holds over 40% of spending power in South Africa? One Digital Media’s recent study shows that their Tavern TV network manages to do just that, and it does…
News
ABF Presidents Cup Golf Day to be held in May
Support a very worthy industry cause and book a fourballs for the annual ABF Presidents Cup golf day, which takes place on Thursday, 31st May at the Johannesburg Country Club, Woodmead.
Advertising
Primall Media unveil digital platforms in Sandton City
Hot on the heels of Sandton City’s major refurbishment, Unlimited’s retail advertising specialist Primall Media, has added to the centre’s aesthetics by installing 12 skyscrapers and two video walls to its…
Media
Sports Illustrated’s Guide to 2012 Olympic Games on sale now
Sports Illustrated’s definitive guide to the 2012 Olympic Games is bagged free with the August edition of the magazine. A 40-page day-by-day TV guide, the supplement covers not only the main events and…
Media
Have you booked for AMASA media planning workshop?
The next annual AMASA workshop will again be held at the picturesque Little Switzerland resort in the Drakensburg from the 2nd to the 5th of August 2012. Themed the Nuts n Bolts of Media Planning, the workshop…
News
Forbes Africa’s first issue unveiled
Forbes Africa launched last night at a star-studded event where mining tycoon, Patrice Motsepe, was revealed as the man on the cover of the first edition. In the cover story Motsepe refutes nationalization and…
News
International recruitment agency enters SA market
Fabric, one of the UK and Middle East’s leading marketing, communications and digital recruitment firms has entered the South African market with the launch today of its Johannesburg office.
Digital
Caxton’s look local
If you haven’t seen it yet, Caxton’s online offering, www.looklocal.co.za http://www.looklocal.co.za/ > , offers community news, by suburb, in an easy to access hyperlocal online format. Since its inception,…
Media
Huisgenoot, YOU and Drum top 3 selling magazines in SA
This month family interest weekly magazines Huisgenoot, YOU and Drum are listed together at the top of South Africa’s Audit Bureau of Circulations’ (ABC) sales figures released yesterday for the last quarter…
Media
Mediamark launches Lab42
“Lab 42 is an initiative to pool creative resources with the objective to offer even more targeted solutions to our advertisers,” explains Cindy Diamond, Mediamark’s Inland Sales Director.
Media
BDLIVE breaks daily web traffic record
BDLIVE, Business Day’s two-month-old flagship website, this week proved its popularity among readers by breaking its predecessor’s daily web traffic record.
News
New Isolezwe editor appointed
Seasoned journalist, Mazwi Xaba, is the new editor of the powerhouse Zulu language daily newspaper, Isolezwe.
News
Coca-Cola supports SA Brand Museum project
Coca-Cola, arguably the world’s strongest and best managed heritage brand, is joining Europcar, McDonald’s, Sanlam, Vega, Avis, Vital, Telkom, Business Connexion, Kulula and PPC as a founder sponsor of the…
Marketing
Limited seats left for IMC Conference
The eight keynote speakers will take to the stage to present their integrated topics and delegates can look forward to gaining new marketing tools and ideas to make their next campaign an award-winning one.…
Advertising
Cross Colours creates saucy campaign
Cross Colours, an integrated advertising agency based in Johannesburg, has developed a series of tongue-in-cheek radio commercials and print ads for RockHard Weekend, a natural sexual performance enhancer for…
Advertising
MoneyGram and ComutaNet team up
MoneyGram offers convenient and flexibile way to transfer money across the globe. The company recognised that there are millions of people in South Africa who would benefit greatly from the service if they…
Marketing
Flash your Tash
To celebrate the month of November, el Jimador tequila is returning to their roots, by encouraging South African men to cultivate a little facial hair on their upper lip and Flash their Tash . Through a series…
News
Forbes Africa’s first issue unveiled
Forbes Africa launched last night at a star-studded event where mining tycoon, Patrice Motsepe, was revealed as the man on the cover of the first edition. In the cover story Motsepe refutes nationalization and…
News
Throw Angry Birds and win at rAge expo
This year’s Really AWESOME , rAge , will keep techno-junkies hooked for hours with a variety of interactive and exciting attractions, competitions, products and games. A novel addition this year is that Apex…
Advertising
Conversation LAB wins new business
Durban and UK – New creative agency, Conversation LAB has won two pieces of new business – International Fashion brands Beaver Canoe and Style. This comes hot on the heels of their other significant new…
News
Getaway heeds call to postpone conference
In response to appeals from delegates, Getaway has decided to postpone its Travel & Tourism Conference till the end of August. The new dates, 31 August and 1 September, dovetail with the Getaway Show and will…