New MyTelescope analysis shows a surge in users wanting to leave Meta platforms, with Facebook and Instagram each logging over 14 million “how to delete” searches between June and November 2025, up 40% and 27% respectively.
Dentsu’s efforts to sell off international assets over the past nine months have essentially failed, according to a report by the Financial Times of London late Tuesday. Dentsu shares fell 10% on the news Wednesday.
One of the key things we need to do in 2026 is persuade the big holding company-owned media agencies that there are better things to do with their money than always throw it at the big online platforms,” says Goddard.
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.