The Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) recently announced its areas of focus for each of its portfolios in 2013, in its ongoing effort to build and sustain a vibrant and profitable digital community across Southern Africa. This year has seen a change in the formation structure of the committee, with a Steering Committee replacing [...]
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BabyGroup a first in SA
BabyGroup is a first in South Africa, offering parents-to-be and parents an online hub providing products, expert information and support, during pregnancy, birth and parenthood. “We started the business to solve a problem,” comments Henri Holtzhausen, Co Founder and Co MD at BabyGroup. “Parents get inundated with information and advice on everything from pain relief [...]
Open for business
We’re open for business”. This is the message from Justin Robinson, head of design of the newly launched strategy, change is a new boutique strategy and design agency with a national and international client base. Robinson continues, “We focus on strategic solutions that deliver intelligent, bespoke design and digital experiences that create and build meaningful [...]
Habari Media expands mobile reach with 2go partnership
Habari Media, Africa’s leading digital sales house, has added 2go, the most exciting mobile social networking platform operating across the continent, to its mobile stable. This partnership allows Habari’s customers to reach millions of young, active, highly engaged users in Africa. 2go is a mobile social network focused on Africa, where users chat and [...]
Health24 launches new website
Launched over a decade ago, Health24 has always been a trusted source of health information and is the “go-to” portal for nearly a million monthly unique browsers (January 2013 international Effective Measure stats). This month, it received a re-launch facelift to provide additional editorial tools, multimedia and a focus on interactive elements for users. [...]
Eight ways mobile payment can grow online business
By Donna Baxter With an increase in the number of mobile phone users, more than half of them use their smartphones for a convenient shopping experience. This indicates that online businesses need to follow this technological shift in a large spectrum. If you aim to reach your target audience with a focused approach, there definitely is an opportunity for you, [...]
Tips for safe online shopping
Statistics show that online shopping is growing at a rapid rate in South Africa, with ecommerce sites like Loot.co.za reporting over 80% growth in certain product categories over the recent festive season. A recent survey undertaken by the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) indicated that 52% of respondents had shopped online in the last [...]
Strong clickthrough rates for Howzit MSN
Howzit MSN, a member of the Kagiso Media group, is delivering (CTRs) to South African advertisers that outpace the average in most industry categories by a wide margin. Depending on the industry, the portal delivers CTRs up to 5.5 times higher the average, according to an analysis by Kagiso Digital media solutions company [...]
Valentine’s Day one of the biggest news days SA will experience this year
News24 outstrips competitors with breaking Valentine’s Day news With the tragic shooting at Oscar Pistorius’s house and President Zuma’s State of the Nation address, Valentine’s Day 2013 was quite likely one of the biggest expected and unexpected news days South Africans will experience this year. News24 was the platform where millions of South Africans [...]
Over 90% of travellers go online to source travel info
A recent survey, conducted by The SpaceStation on behalf of News24 Travel and GoTravel24 found that an astounding 93% of travellers surveyed use the Internet to source their travel information. There is an online revolution underway in the travel industry. Recently 2 000 News24 Travel and GoTravel24 readers were surveyed to find out why this shift has happened and [...]
