South African born and bred Habari Media recently earned its global stripes with the announcement that it had not only won LinkedIn Champion 2013, an international award that recognises the best of the best sales partners on the massive LinkedIn platform, but also the right to sell global advertising space on this incredibly popular [...]
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NATIVE launches Bookly app
Thanks to NATIVE’s new Mxit app, bookly, author Fiona Snyckers can now launch her book to an audience of 7.3 million monthly active users and do it three weeks before the real-world launch in bookstores. bookly is the most sophisticated e-reader app available on the Mxit platform. NATIVE began developing the app in early 2013, [...]
Team Ah Yeah!’ has won the first Hellocomputer/Draftfcb Hack-a-Thon
‘Team Ah Yeah!’ has won the first Hellocomputer/Draftfcb Hack-a-Thon of 2013 in a challenged dubbed ‘Hack4Kids’. Briefed to meld tech and creative to engage children between the ages of 4 and 10, participants and their creations were judged by Danette Breitenbach (Advantage), Fran Luckin (Ogilvy), Brent Singer (Network), Brett Morris (Draftfcb), Theo Ferreira (Aqua) [...]
Fontera digital works appointed as online partner to gemgem
, one of South Africa’s only independent development houses has developed a innovative mobile soccer application for the iPhone and Android mobile devices called ‘My Soccer Life’. The application is aimed at the growing number of smartphone users in Africa and gives the user live soccer scores, results and fixtures from all the major soccer [...]
Hellocomputer and Draftcb hold Hack-a-Thon
Hellocomputer and Draftfcb will hold their first hack-a-thon of 2013 in May at their Johannesburg office in Katherine Street, Sandton. Teams will be briefed at 18h00 on May 9 and be given 48 hours to complete their hack before presenting the outcome to the panel of judges. This is the second hack-a-thon sponsored by Hellocomputer and Draftfcb. The [...]
Companies can achieve personalised marketing direct to customers
Appealing to today’s consumers who are overwhelmed with media and marketing messages can be challenging. says that marketing campaigns need to be increasingly consumer-centric and this demand now sees Point offering a Variable Data Management service. According to Green, variable data printing, simply put, is where nuggets of consumer information are mined from a [...]
Online competition to learn about local newspapers
The exciting Compass Trail online competition comes to an end at the end of March 2013, after running successfully for a year. The Compass Trail was initiated as an interactive activation to run alongside Ads24’s local newspaper research, Compass 24, and make it more accessible to advertising industry professionals, who won a variety of [...]
Facebook launches new application
Facebook has announced a home screen or “launcher” application for Android which will take over the user’s phone home screen on an Android device and provide a Facebook-centric experience and way of interacting with the device. Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at Ovum, has the following initial reaction: “Any broadening of Facebook’s appeal on mobile devices [...]
Garmin releases major update for mapping application
Garmin Southern Africa has announced Garmin Adventures a free, interactive way to swap stories with a community of fellow explorers, brag to buddies about your travels, or let friends and family find your favourite spots. After releasing a major update to their free mapping application BaseCamp, the Garmin can now be more of a diary, [...]
E-commerce retailer spots a gap in the fashion market
Diligo.co.za is an online fashion store offering seasonal trends to the style conscious convenience seeker. Founded in 2010 by Lauren Graham and Kimberley Wood, Diligo.co.za services Southern Africa with chic womenswear at affordable prices. Having returned from London with a serious online shopping addiction Diligo.co.za CEO Lauren Graham spotted a gap in the market for [...]
