On Saturday, 16 May, The Impilo Project, a South African non-profit organisation (NGO) has announced it has delivered healthcare to underserved communities, facilitated a health screening day at Marconi Beam Primary School in Joe Slovo, an informal settlement in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) and Effie Awards South Africa have extended the deadline for entries into the 2026 Effie Awards South Africa programme and encourage agencies, brands, media owners, specialist agencies and clients to make use of the additional time to submit their most effective work.

As brands seek to reach high-value consumers in their daily routines, Outdoor Network, a Provantage company, has extended its digital out-of-home (DOOH) footprint with the launch of a new digital billboard on Beyers Naudé Drive, positioned within the busy Randpark Ridge and Randburg commuter corridor.

Education non-profit Good Work Foundation (GWF) has announced its new Dixie digital learning campus taking shape in remote northern Mpumalanga, benefiting hundreds of rural learners and school-leavers with digital and work-readiness skills. 

Large language model (LLM) ChatGPT boasts that it has approximately 900-million weekly active users worldwide. If just one LLM, albeit the most popular, is boasting almost a billion users a week, it is hardly surprising that more people are starting to roll their eyes at the flood of AI-generated content everywhere.

Public Relations (PR) and Digital Marketing Agency, Tishala Communications, has celebrated its eighth birthday, aimed at highlighting its reputation of specialisation in technology PR.

Kaya 959 has announced significant talent acquisitions in South African radio: broadcaster Thato Sikwane, better known as DJ Fresh, will join the station as host of its flagship weekday breakfast show from Monday, 1 July.

Broadsign, a global platform for managing and monetising out-of-home (OOH) media, has announced that its sell-side AI agent and digital marketing agency, Draft Digital's buy-side agent, planned, booked and executed the first-ever fully agentic AI OOH ad campaign.

media update's Venelize de Lange talks to Murat Gebeceli about how cross-functional intelligence — from retail performance to partner feedback — is used to guide marketing decisions and improve execution across Sony's diverse MEA markets.

Some time ago, the smartest brands and agencies in South Africa realised something important: forced influencer integration simply wasn't landing anymore. They knew that audiences could see through it, creators could feel it, and the work often lacked authenticity, impact and cultural relevance.