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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
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
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: 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
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
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,
“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
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
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,
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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