Herman’s appointment is more than a personal milestone. It’s a powerful acknowledgment of her 25 years of industry leadership, unwavering dedication to media excellence and her passion for nurturing the next generation of talent, says Meta Media.
The 78th Annual General Meeting of the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) took place on Wednesday, 16 July 2025, where the new board of directors and executive committee (Exco) for the 2025/26 fiscal year was confirmed.
LinkedIn is seeing record engagement, and with over a billion members, its AI-powered Accelerate campaigns help advertisers reach highly relevant audiences across sectors.
Often overlooked, Gen X is set to spend $15.2 trillion in 2025—making it the world’s second-largest consumer market after the U.S., nearly doubling China’s.
It seems there’s never enough content – companies are flocking to generative AI tools, especially for digital video ad creation, new data finds, but separate research indicates a stark dip in trust if a piece of content is perceived to be AI-generated.
The advertising industry continues to buy connected TV the wrong way. We have carried over one-to-one programmatic logic from display and online video into a channel that behaves nothing like them. CTV is not a personal screen; it is a household screen.
The Digital Law Company has asked the court to hold Meta in contempt for not providing data on users sharing explicit content of SA schoolchildren on WhatsApp. The firm seeks possible jail time for Meta’s SA public policy head if the company continues to defy a court order to release the data and shut down offending channels across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.
“SABC will receive R704 million over the MTEF. This includes R43 million for programme production, R464 million to support the core public broadcasting mandate, R197 million for Channel Africa,†Minister Solly Malatsi said.
All things generative AI- and connected TV (CTV)-related for the second half of 2025 are the strong focus of media and marketing executives, according to a new study from Mediaocean.
Pretoria advertisers now have full local print reach thanks to a new Spark Media partnership between Caxton and NisMedia.