Marketing & Media Audio South Africa

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with future thinker and Flux Trends partner, Bronwyn Williams.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with Ndeye Diagne, the managing director West, East and Central Africa at Kantar.

In this episode, we talk to Mike Oelschig, Head of Strategy @ Cerebra about the importance of crisis communication on social media. We explore different types of crises and the potential impact that they can have on brands. We further explore what we, as agencies, can do to mitigate this type of risk for our clients. An informative episode for those looking to better understand how to navigate a crisis.

On the 1st of December, we celebrated #wundermanday by inviting representatives from the different Wunderman Companies in South Africa (Aqua, Base2, Cerebra and Applogix) and discussing what it means to 'come together'.

Batsirai Madzonga, Associate Creative Director @ Aqua, talks to us about how it is critical for creatives to get inspiration from their local contexts. He shares with us how the African context has inspired creatives across multiple disciplines including fashion, design, art and marketing. An important and intelligent discussion.

We talk to Tara Marsh, Global Head of Content @ Wunderman and self-professed content queen, about all things content. A deeply informative conversation with a global leader in content marketing.

Matt Black, senior content strategist @ Aqua, comes on the show to talk about the evolution of political communication in the digital world. We look at the key examples of the US presidential election, Brexit and the political landscape in South Africa, with a view to identifying key lessons for marketers.

This week we chatted to Brett Burgess, BU Head Training Division at adidas South Africa, about the launch of the Adidas Athletics category and specifically the Z.N.E (zero negative energy) hoodie which was the focus piece of the category’s first range.

This week we chat to Paul Williams, Country Manager for Fortinet, the number 1 online hardware and software security vendor in Africa. We take a closer look at the rise of cyber security, what companies, IT managers and individuals need to know and where the threats line.

Lisa Partington, Social Media Brand Manager @ Coca-Cola Customer Interaction Centre, joins us on the show to us about how social media influencers can be used to create marketing value for brands.

This week we chatted to Busi Sizani, Uber for Business Program Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa. We take a closer look at Uber for Business, a ride management platform built for companies big and small. One app for safe, reliable, and easy to expense rides globally.

This week we chatted to Mike Wronski ( @mikewronski), Director of Digital Flow, straight from presenting some of his research findings at the Social Medial Landscape Briefing 2016 in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Mike will be discussed the top 5 platforms, how the research results and the latest announcements will impact brand social media planning for FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube....

In this controversial episode, we talk about the distinction that exists between creative advertising and effective advertising, and what agencies need to do to balance out the pressures of client demands and creative egos. Our conversation explores the challenge of maintaining an artist’s mindset in an environment where clients are expecting advertising that delivers meaningful results, and what can be done to drive a balanced perspective in agencies. We discuss the initiatives that Rory has introduced into Aqua in order to achieve this mindset. An exciting and revealing podcast....

This week we take a closer at the newly launched getTOD (@getTODSA), a free-to- download mobile application that allows users to connect with tradespeople to meet their particular needs, using location based tracking and reliable supplier availability in real time.

This we take a closer at the newly launched online personal forex transfer service, ClickFX. One of South Africa’s largest Forex intermediaries ForexPeople, has introduced ClickFX to offer South Africans a simple and cost effective way to transfer Forex online. We were joined by Richard Beddow, Chief Executive Officer of ClickFX to find out more.