Tag: social media platforms
Online brand protection – best practices for brand owners
Online shopping is prevalent due to the ease and convenience with which consumers can purchase goods or services. Consumer decisions to purchase branded goods or services range from the repute of the brand and whether there is an event taking place which is endorsed by or associated with the brand for example a major sporting event, to customer reviews.
How to define a strategy for agility and resilience in uncertain...
The effects of the global pandemic have permeated every facet of our professional and personal lives. How we approach work and how organisations view business fundamentals have irrevocably changed. The pandemic has catalysed digital business initiatives with the focus shifting to adapting to the demands of employees, customers, and other stakeholders.
Competition Commission gets competition wrong
The international company Meta (which owns Facebook and WhatsApp) has been referred to the Competition Tribunal, to be fined 10% of its turnover for violating Section 8 provisions of the Competition Act, which prohibit the abuse of dominance by a company.
REVIEW | Pivo – A portable robot cameraman
As individuals become more obsessed with recording their daily lives, they may want to up their game. Pivo gives them that edge. Pivo is not just for standard video recording: it can be used as a mount for stable time-lapses, smoother panoramas, and video calls.
Balancing privacy and digital marketing in the information age
The world of digital marketing is in a state of upheaval. With everyone from government policymakers to independent web browsers changing and updating privacy policies, businesses are faced with a digital advertising minefield.
Your actions in cyberspace can now land you in prison
By proclamation in the Gazette, President Cyril Ramaphosa has fixed 1 December 2021 as the date on which certain sections of the Cybercrimes Act, 19 of 2020 (Cybercrimes Act/the Act) come into operation. This means that the Act is now enforceable.
REVIEW | TECNO Spark 7 Pro
TECNO Mobile’s Spark 7 Pro has been officially launched in South Africa. SPARK 7 Pro brings perfectly proportioned forms and best-in-class functions together under one roof - this is exactly what South Africa’s younger generation has been waiting for
BOOK REVIEW | My Final Answer
Written in an engaging and self-deprecating style, this book is an unexpectedly funny and candid, behind-the-scenes account of what was unfolding in those newsrooms as the stories broke, peppered with anecdotes around those involved in making those stories happen around those involved in making those stories happen.
The state of social media in South Africa
2020 proved to be a tumultuous year for advertising. Overnight, budgets were cut, strategies were changed, priorities re-looked, but some platforms fared better than others.
Why you need social commerce
Shopping has always been a social activity. Just two years ago, you would find people discussing the good and bad about their recent purchases over coffee. Today, e-commerce finds people shopping from the comfort of their home, and social commerce means they’re still shopping while being social on their preferred platforms such as Instagram Checkout or Facebook Shops.
