The SABC has partnered with Vodacom South Africa to expand access to the FIFA World Cup 2026 through affordable data offerings on the SABC Plus streaming platform. The game-changing partnership brings together the network and the national broadcaster, reinforcing a shared commitment to ensuring public service content is universally accessible.
TikTok removed more than 1.1 million videos in South Africa during the fourth quarter of 2025 for violating its Community Guidelines, while also interrupting more than 188 000 live streaming rooms that breached its platform rules. The figures were revealed in TikTok’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, for October to December 2025, which outlines the company’s efforts to combat harmful content and improve online safety on the platform.
In an ambitious recruitment drive, Independent Online (IOL) recently announced that it is recruiting over 100 positions and the response has been overwhelming, with more than 1,000 applications flooding in within the first 24 hours of advertising multiple vacancies.
Integral Ad Science (IAS) has expanded its AI-driven Total Media Quality (TMQ) brand safety and suitability measurement to YouTube Audio Ads campaigns. This expansion provides advertisers with independent, third-party transparency for their audio investments, validating that their ads run adjacent to content that meets their specific safety and suitability standards.
The World Out of Home Organization (WOO) has announced the results of the first ever independently aggregated global study of programmatic Digital Out-of-Home (pDOOH) advertising spend, revealing that the channel generated approximately USD$1.4-billion in revenue globally in 2025, equivalent to 7% of total DOOH expenditure.
Why the real AI advantage isn’t efficiency, it’s effectiveness, says project director: AI & Automation, The Up&Up Group, and Scott Reinders, chief operating officer, Connect (part of the Up&Up Group). There’s a seductive story being told across boardrooms right now: adopt AI, move faster, do more with less. From our experience leading AI implementation and media strategy inside the same agency group, being fast is not a competitive advantage when everyone has access to the same tools.
For two decades, the implicit deal was simple: pay for keywords, get customers. That contract is void, and the disruption it caused may be one of radio’s most compelling sales arguments as Google’s AI Overviews feature quietly dismantles the modern lower funnel.
The programmatic advertising industry has made genuine progress on transparency, yet less than half of every rand spent reaches a real person. Viewability, the metric on which the industry built its confidence, was never equal to the task and is hugely gamed by fraudsters.
Slightly Dangerous Co. takes a different approach. Instead of becoming a larger generalist agency, Demographica, Halo and Second Rodeo remain focused on what they each do best and collaborating when clients need broader expertise.
Global has today launched a self-service platform, AdPower, allowing businesses to book audio and outdoor media in minutes, with campaigns going live as soon as the next day. The AdPower platform offers the opportunity to plan, create, book, and measure premium media campaigns in one place, making it easier for businesses who may not have engaged with traditional media before.