We may be seeing the signs that Gen Z, the first digital native generation, is finding digital media lacking in terms of expected experience and return. If so, the ramifications for digital advertising and engagement could be significant
They can be salacious, scandalizing or downright silly — what matters most is that they’re short. Enter the world of microdramas, a genre heavily indebted to soap operas and steamy romance novels, but with content chunked up into small bites for the era of vertical video scrolling.
Amid ongoing discussion around teenage social media bans and measures to protect young users online, Pew Research conducted a survey of more than 9,000 U.S. adults to get their perspectives on potential restrictions, and gauge support for implementation. And the results were definitive.
The Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) has dismissed a consumer complaint against PepsiCo Southern Africa’s redesigned Bokomo ProNutro packaging, ruling that the cereal’s references to “Original” are not misleading despite its widely criticised recipe change.
Meta wants to steal TV viewers, Amazon and Apple are meddling with content, and traditional media companies are pursuing megadeals to try and survive.
The South African AI Visibility Report 2026 analysed 3,240 answers from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini across 18 industries and 256 brands. No South African brand yet earns the AI’s full confidence, and five major categories remain wide open.
Get a first look at South Africa’s most trusted social media benchmark. The Executive Summary offers a preview of the South African Social Media Landscape Report 2026, highlighting the biggest trends, key findings and expert insights shaping social media in South Africa.
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.