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The blog about South African advertising, marketing & social media

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MarkLives.com ranks 35 in Africa and 22 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 148, and 174 according to page views:

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The Mercury, IOL quotes MarkLives, forgets to credit us

The Mercury and IOL finally caught up with the bloggers and the tweeps. It has run a story on its front page about the letter those ridiculous lawyers of FIFA sent budget airline Kulula.com. Colleen Dardagan writes that “the airline broke the news on Twitter yesterday, saying: ‘Oh dear, letter from

TopTV launches in SA

On Digital Media (ODM) has finally announced details of its multi-channel television brand  TopTV. It offers the first real alternative to the DSTv monopoly. The service will see a staggered roll-out from May 2010 with pricing options ranging from R99 to R249 per month. It will be targeted at customers

News24 misrepresents ‘Malema Facebook page’

A story published today (March 17, 2010) in Afrikaans newspaper Beeld and republished on News24 (English) purposely misrepresents the supposed Facebook page of Julius Malema. The story is headlined ‘Malema fan counts dead ‘boere” and reporter Daniëlla du Plooy writes that “One of Julius Malema’s supporters is placing ‘updates’ of farm

Loeries 2010: Call for entries campaign launched

Loeries 2010: The biggest event of the year. The campaign theme for this years’ annual Loeries event, announced today, Monday, 15 March 2010, by CEO Andrew Human, is of course a tongue-in-cheek, if rather dry, reference to that ‘other’ biggest event of the year. Before those FIFA lawyers get their

FIFA bullies target Kulula

According to Kulula it has been targeted by FIFA for its ad on being the ‘Unofficial National Carrier of the ‘You Know What.” The low cost airline recently challenged other carriers to keep their fares low during the FIFA World Cup in June and July this year. News broke on its

The ‘mega R25,000,000 MILLION’ auction from Aucor

I have never met Rick Raubenheimer but I can yell you the guys has a sense of humour. He recently lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA) against a print advertisement for auction house Aucor. The ad in question reads: “MEGA FURNITURE AUCTION-NO RESERVE! Thursday,

DStv acknowledges promo similarities with iconic Apple ad

“Here’s to the crazy ones… who had the balls to copy one of the greatest commercials ever made.” The Bizcommunity.com peanut gallery was un-amused when Ornico recently picked a DStv promo titled ‘The Dreamers‘ as its ‘Ad of the Week’ on its ad showcase on Biz. The promo in

Shame on SAPA for giving bigot national, uncritical exposure

One Taryn Hodgson of The Christian Action Network (CAN) has been gaining considerable exposure in the mainstream media thanks to SAPA. Hodgson launched an attack on DSTv for researching the possibility of offering a pornographic pay-TV channel to South Africans. SAPA decided to cast her as a vocal opponent

Arthur Goldstuck – Influence 2010

Mandy de Waal believes influence to be one of the most valuable commodities in Social Media, communities and business today. To find out who has influence, what influence is and how it will affect our lives and work, she speaks to some of the most influential people in media,

Piyush Pandey ♥ Zoozoo

Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai creative director Piyush Pandey introduced South Africans to these Zoozoo characters created for Vodafone during last years IPL. He was a speaker at this years Design Indaba. They were a huge hit in India as well as with the crowd at the Indaba.

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