Marketing & Media Audio

This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on brands in a future where digital wallets are a gamechanger as the technologies of digital identity, crypto/blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) converge.

Born in 1994, Gen Z are the born free generation and they are redefining the world from work to play, opening challenges and opportunities that brands need to understand they want to stay relevant and thrive in the Gen Z world.

This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on agentic AI and how it is revolutionising business, especially on the continent.

The second episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on the informal economy, a key growth trend reshaping South Africa’s and Africa's economies. Often referred to as the grey economy, it is brimming with potential.

Afro-optimism, or more specifically, the African growth mindset is a greater sense of optimism that, despite challenges such as electricity and water that the continent faces, is in stark contrast to a growing Western degrowth mindset of pessimism about the future, and Africa.

“We can talk about AI all we want to, but the foundations of AI are about how you can harness the power of digital to transform the continent in the way we want it to transform.”.

At the recent Effies SA, hosted by the Association for Communication & Advertising (ACA), the Grand Effie was awarded to Halo, for its campaign for its client, Pineapple.

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, Yongama Nxiweni, Conversation Analyst @ Aqua, educates us about how to leverage social listening and research to provide a critical advantage in sports gambling.

Artists and designers battle with the idea that they think that they own their ideas, but that their ideas are mostly references of other ideas so can they really own anything? Often originality of design, and the creativity of artists, is contested by other artists and corporations, delegitimising ideas and feeding people unoriginal outcomes. In this episode we discuss whether originality is the key to success for creators (maybe it’s not) and what does originality even look like anymore?...

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.