The rand may clock another year of gains supported by easing interest rates, with firmer public finances also boosting South Africa’s domestic economy, Goldman Sachs said in a research note.
Today, audiences in the APAC region are showing signs of fatigue. Ads are not irrelevant, but they are everywhere, and their repetitive, over-personalised nature risks crossing the fine line between resonance and intrusion.
Microsoft says Copilot access on WhatsApp will end on January 15, 2026, after Meta moved to block general-purpose AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity from the app. Meta is tightening control of AI in its ecosystem, prioritizing its own Meta AI and limiting APIs to businesses building specialized customer-service tools rather than hosting third-party assistants
Programmatic ads have entered the chat … bots. On Tuesday, PubMatic announced a partnership with Kontext, a platform that uses LLMs to generate relevant ads within AI chatbots.
This Saturday, 6 December the 2025 Telkom Radio Awards named Hot102.7 (Commercial), Ikwekwezi FM (PBS), Groot fm 90.5 (Community) and Tshwane FM 93.6 (Campus) as the Station of the Year.
Insights from PwC’s Voice of the Consumer Survey 2025.
AI users behave nothing like traditional searchers – and most AI chat activity has zero commercial intent, according to a new analysis.
In a move to strengthen its connection with South African audiences and offering content that mirrors their sound, their languages, and their lived experience, the Trace Africa channel on DStv has rebranded to Trace Ngoma, which means drumbeat, celebration, unity and heritage.
WPP Media revised its full-year revenue projections upward by over two percentage points as areas like retail media and gaming attract investment.
The shift marks one of the most significant shake-ups in the country’s media and broadcasting landscape in years, signalling the end of MultiChoice’s long run as a publicly traded local giant and the beginning of a new era under the French pay-TV powerhouse.