Chartbeat’s recent report, Navigating The New Traffic Landscape, looks at AI and other emerging trends are impacting site traffic. And while there’s rightful concern for media publishers, in particular: These sites aren’t necessarily eating up search just yet.
Caxton Media is offering advertisers opportunities to engage audiences around the tournament through its exclusive, multi-platform football environment that connects brands with South African fans before, during and after the tournament.
20 years strong and still growing in the digital space. One thing remains: Daily Sun is the voice of the people. Now, as Publisher of the Year at the 2025 Bookmark Awards and listed among SA’s trusted news brands in the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s Digital News Report, Daily Sun proves those relationships translate beautifully into the digital space.
What should be done about this over-frequency problem? First, the industry needs to fess up about it and stop making faux promises of frequency capping. Suggesting that it’s being done is a lie. Second, stop pretending that over-frequency is okay. It is not. It is bad for viewers. It is bad for advertisers. And it is bad for publishers.
The new offering will allow marketers to reach consumers using the app’s search function, as well as through a new Suggested Places feature
South Africa has eight entries on the New York Festivals (NYF) 2026 Radio Awards shortlist, with seven for Hot 102.7 and one for Metro FM.
Attention asks: “Was the ad likely to have been seen?” Attentiveness asks: “Can we prove a human was there?”. For years, we measured reach. Then clicks. Then viewability. Each time, we congratulated ourselves on the sophistication of our analytics and moved on. That is, until someone quietly pointed out that the metric we’d enshrined as ‘gospel’ didn’t actually tell us whether a human being had engaged with the ad in any meaningful way. We are at one of those inflexion points again.
The researcher outlined three potential scenarios, with the worst one drawing comparisons to the 1973 oil crisis.
SABC announced that the iconic lifestyle magazine show Top Billing would be returning to SABC3 from March 2026 with several of the former famous presenters, six years after it was cancelled in October 2019. Caroline Phalakatshela, SABC publicist, in response to a media query about Top Billing, told TVwithThinus “The SABC confirms that the return of Top Billing on SABC3 remains in development.
Meta‘s Instagram wants to make it easier for marketers to buy ads that tap into viral moments on its short-form Reels videos. Instagram announced that it is expanding Reels trending ads (RTA) inventory to add “TV & movies” as a new trending-content category alongside other new verticals like travel, business, and finance and investments. Instagram also launching new, limited-content lineups for “key cultural moments” such as Fashion Week, Formula 1 races, Black Friday and NFL games.