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South Africa’s Takealot Group reported its first full-year adjusted operating profit on Monday, 29 June 2026 as strong order growth and gains in its logistics arm helped the country’s biggest e-commerce firm deliver $1bn in annual revenue.
Artificial intelligence, creators and a bounce-back in craft were some of the shared themes identified by attendees across the sweltering weeklong confab in France.
SA’s real unemployment rate is 15%, as many of the individuals who are formally unemployed earn income in the informal sector. This means that they do not feature in formal statistics produced by bodies such as Stats SA, leaving SA with an inflated unemployment rate of 32.7%. Informal economy expert GG Alcock explained this phenomenon on a recent Common Sense podcast, where he discussed the township economy.
The World Out of Home Organization Congress in London formally launched Version 2.0 of its Global OOH Audience Measurement Guidelines — the most substantial update to the medium’s measurement framework since the original WOO guidelines were published at Congress in 2022.
Local broadcasting is at a pivotal moment, with broadcasters and ad-tech innovators converging on strategies and solutions that will ultimately result in the modernization of advertising on local linear television.
Newsday offers South Africans the latest political, financial, and economic news, with a sprinkle of sport and general reporting.
Vinton Cerf will step down from his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist next week, marking the conclusion of one of the most influential careers in technology history.
Instead of relying on paid advertising to do the leg work through conventional product messaging, this campaigning leans into humour and absurdity to capture public attention and drive marketing. One of the platform’s most successful campaigns was ‘Expedition Impossible’, where Flat Earthers were issued a challenge to dust off their boots and prove that the Earth is indeed flat and has an edge. The premise was deliberately provocative: if participants could find the edge of the Earth, the CEO of Columbia, Tim Boyle, promised they would win ownership of the company.
“Growth without coherence is just activity. What we are launching is not another advisory firm. It is a fundamentally different way of working, one that connects people, data, human insights, strategy and technology into one cohesive, forward-looking plan. Businesses deserve partners who can see the whole picture and provide effective solutions,” says Kgaugelo Maphai, Group CEO of Matrix Group.