DStv will bring back Open Time from 7–9 November 2025 to mark its 30th anniversary, offering all active decoder subscribers free access to DStv Premium for the entire weekend — a nod to the original M-Net Open Time, but extended beyond its daily two-hour slot.
SABC CEO Nomsa Chabeli said the broadcaster’s licence fee–based funding model no longer works, calling for a new approach. In its 2025 Annual Report, SABC reported a R253.29 million loss, up from R197.76 million the previous year.
Ster-Kinekor is making significant upgrades to its cinemas, with its sites in Blue Route Mall and the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, as well as The Zone in Rosebank, benefiting from major renovations. It also said it was in the advanced stages of conducting viability assessments for four new commercially attractive cinema sites.
Global IQ helps advertisers plan, measure, and optimise campaigns across audio, video, and OOH by combining real-time exposure data, data science, and LLMs to deliver deeper audience and performance insights.
LoopMe has launched a Guaranteed Brand Outcomes solution with Dentsu X, enabling advertisers to pay only for achieved results and drive measurable shifts in consumer behaviour.
Search is ever evolving and OpenAI’s new web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, has arrived to change how audiences may discover and interact with content as we know it. Built around ChatGPT, Atlas integrates AI directly into the user’s workflow, letting it suggest next steps, summarise research, automate tasks, or even act on behalf of the user — all while keeping privacy and data under control.
Across boardrooms, the mandate has become clear: demonstrate growth, safeguard cash, and control risk. It’s no wonder that more organisations are now experimenting with having marketing report into finance — in some cases through dotted-line structures rather than directly to the CEO.
The merger will create the world’s largest ad holding company, generating over US$20 billion in net revenue. The CEO said integration teams are working to ensure a smooth transition while both networks continue winning new business.
Who cares about improving the advertising industry? If the attendance of Thursday’s second annual ‘Advertising: Who Cares’ event in Leicester Square’s Vue cinema is anything to go by, at least 200 senior industry leaders from the UK, Europe and North America, spanning agencies, brands and media owners.
Australia was the first to announce restrictions on people under 16 having a social media account. New Zealand may soon follow, and Denmark’s prime minister recently declared her country would ban social media for under-15s, accusing mobile phones and social networks of “stealing our children’s childhoodâ€.