While magazines grew 1.5% in the year, buoyed by growth in custom magazines of 12%, the Audit Bureau of Circulation’s (ABC) second quarter of 2026 for magazines shows a decline from the previous quarter.

Commercial performance is being influenced by more than the strength of a campaign idea, with Warc highlighting cultural relevance, creator partnerships, interactive experiences and platform-specific execution as important factors in driving results.

AdTopia has added sport, wildlife and youth entertainment to its TV network. The expansion grows Adtopia’s channel footprint on DStv and extends its programming into new genres, giving advertisers additional ways to reach audiences beyond the network’s existing news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sport and documentary offering.

Poor thinking can lead to wasted budgets, wrong audiences and missed opportunities.

The global retail media market continues to expand, with ad investment expected to exceed $200bn this year and reach $223bn by 2027, according to Warc Media. However, growth is slowing towards single digits, and there are dangers of ‘enshittifying’ the shopper experience, which in turn may have a negative impact on campaign effectiveness, as retail media networks look to meet ambitious targets.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced that The Philipstown WireCar Foundation was named Digital Brand of the Year at the 2026 Bookmark Awards, the result of a dominant run that saw its work claim the black pixel, South African digital marketing's highest honour, in category after category.

Last week, the inaugural edition of Die Papier’s electronic newsletter, Net Vir Jou (Just For You), launched.

The Media Krate launches S-OOH as purposeful disruptors: not to make noise, but to make neglected media environments work harder, look better and mean more. Where traditional OOH sells surfaces, The Media Krate engineers presence. It reads commuter spaces as living systems made of infrastructure, commerce, culture, movement, memory and habit.

Three studies found similar weaknesses in AI guardrails, with models vulnerable to gradual, sympathetic or manipulated questioning.

Workers at eNCA, e.tv, and kykNET's eNuus are "vibrating with anger" after eMedia handed them retrenchment letters last week including e.tv's main news bulletin anchor Melanie Rice.