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Boland Media to merge two newspapers
Boland Media, a division of Media24, has announced the merger of two of their newspapers - Helderberg Gazette, which was traditionally distributed free and DistrictMail which was sold. The new weekly newspaper named District Mail and Helderberg Gazette, will be distributed free from 4 May 2022 and boast a 36,000 print order. 20 Apr 2022 Read more

City Press celebrates 4 decades of publishing excellence
Gayle Edmunds, head of content at Adspace24, in conversation with City Press editor Mondli Makhanya and managing editor Mapula Nkosi. 1 Apr 2022 Read more

Adspace24: Leadership appointments
Adspace24 is excited to announce select appointments of their senior leaders. 23 Mar 2022 Read more

Agile, cross-platform and collaborative: Media24 launches Adspace24
Media24 is evolving its sales division to meet the challenges facing today's media landscape - and those of tomorrow. Adspace24 is the amalgamation of their two sales divisions, Ads24 and The SpaceStation, to forge a focussed, collaborative team able to create bespoke solutions ranging across Media24's news products. 10 Mar 2022 Read more

News24 in partnership with Adcock Ingram OTC launches season 4 of Sponsors of Brave
News24 in partnership with Adcock Ingram OTC is spearheading season 4 of the Sponsors of Brave campaign - this time calling on all South African residents to Be Brave, Mzansi and to do the Dance of Brave. 14 Sep 2021 Read more

Sponsors of Brave: The Gratitude Season - Meet the two winners
Selected from thousands of nominations made by readers across South Africa, eight heartwarming nominee stories were selected and featured on Sponsors of Brave: The Gratitude Season. From these eight, two ultimately were chosen to walk away with the grand prize of an exciting opportunity to pursue a passion project of their choice. 31 Aug 2021 Read more

News24 walked away with top honours at the IAB Bookmark Awards
News24 had an excellent run at the virtual IAB Bookmark Awards held on Thursday, 29 July. Not only did 24.com win the Black Pixel in the Special Honours category as Best Online Publisher for the fifth consecutive year, but News24 also made a clean sweep in the publishing categories. Now in its 13th year, the IAB Bookmark Awards recognise the best digital and tech innovations in the media industry. 2 Aug 2021 Read more

Showing appreciation with Sponsors of Brave: The Gratitude Season
Season three of Sponsors of Brave is now open for nominations! Calling all South African residents to the frontline! It's time to rally together to celebrate our pharmacy heroes who have made our safety their priority during this global pandemic and beyond. 4 May 2021 Read more

Introducing the winners for The Sponsors of Brave: The Next Generation
Selected from hundreds of nominations made by readers all over South Africa, 10 incredible nominee stories were selected, paired up with impactful mentors, and featured on Sponsors of Brave: The Next Generation. 22 Dec 2020 Read more

Honour the brave: Celebrating the next generation of healthcare professionals - voting closes midnight Friday, 11 December
Season two of 'Sponsors of Brave' has been a resounding success with nominations pouring in and a phenomenal 10 overall inspirational nominees chosen. The nominees are all aspiring, current or recently graduated and community service healthcare students boldly and bravely changing the world around them. 8 Dec 2020 Read more

Honour the 'brave': Celebrating the next generation of healthcare professionals
Season 2 of 'Sponsors of Brave' is still open for nominations. So far, seven inspirational nominees have been chosen out of 10 and the campaign is calling all aspiring, current, or recently graduated and community service healthcare students who are boldly and bravely changing the world around them to enter. 17 Nov 2020 Read more

Honour the 'brave': Celebrating the next generation of healthcare professionals
Season 2 of 'Sponsors of Brave' is now open for nominations - calling all aspiring, current, or recently graduated and community service healthcare students boldly and bravely changing the world around them. 29 Sep 2020 Read more

Sponsors of Brave wins Best Native Advertising Campaign
Sponsors of Brave, a News24 and Adcock Ingram OTC partnership, walked away with top honours at the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers' (Wan-Ifra) 2020 African Digital Media Awards. 9 Sep 2020 Read more

News24 announces a new digital subscription service at R75/month
News24, South Africa's largest and most trusted news platform, has announced the launch of a new digital subscription service that will be available to readers from 8 August. 30 Jul 2020 Read more

Adcock Ingram OTC in partnership with News24 announce winners in the Sponsors of Brave campaign
Over the past five months, the Sponsors of Brave campaign, a partnership between Adcock Ingram OTC and News24, published 12 heartwarming stories of brave pharmacists, doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals. The featured stories were selected from almost 3,800 nominations made by readers all over South Africa. 6 Jul 2020 Read more

News24 is again South Africa's most trusted news brand, Reuters study finds
News24 is again South Africa's most trusted news brand, with over 85% of readers trusting the content they consume on the publication, according to a new report by the Reuters Institute. 19 Jun 2020 Read more

South Africans trust in news greater than ever amid worldwide #Covid-19 pandemic
The Edelman Trust Barometer released a special report on Covid-19 last week. It shows that currently the most relied upon source of information is mainstream news organisations. 30 Mar 2020 Read more

The Sponsors of Brave campaign - 4th nominee registered Nurse Dudu Ndlovu
Dudu Ndlovu is a registered nurse at Port Shepstone Regional Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal. She works predominantly in the Thuthuzela Care Centre unit of the hospital which deals with cases of rape victims. 27 Mar 2020 Read more

24.com wins Black Pixel for Best Digital Publisher at the IAB Bookmarks
24.com, the digital publishing business of Media24, was named joint best digital publisher at the IAB Bookmark Awards on Thursday. 20 Mar 2020 Read more

The Sponsors of Brave campaign - 2nd nominee Pharmacist Phillip Jordaan
Pharmacist Philip Jordaan saw the need and potential of bringing pharmacies to the townships and rural areas to help people get better and convenient access to medical assistance. 17 Mar 2020 Read more

The Sponsors of Brave campaign - 1st nominee of the week Dr Liana Roodt
Doctor Liana Roodt found her calling in changing the lives of breast cancer patients. After witnessing the saddening, stretched out and complicated hoops cancer patients in the public health sector had to jump through for treatment, Dr Roodt felt that something needed to be done to help these patients. This is when she founded the NGO Project Flamingo as a means to alleviate the waiting time and trauma of seeking cancer treatment in the public health sector. She aims to not only reduce the surgical waiting time for patients but also offer them psychological support during the treatment process. 10 Mar 2020 Read more

News24 launches brand new mobile app
News24, South Africa's largest digital publisher, has launched a new mobile app with personalised features and enhanced journalism. 18 Feb 2020 Read more

News24 launches The Sponsors of Brave in partnership with Adcock Ingram OTC
News24 in partnership with Adcock Ingram OTC is spearheading a campaign looking for the ordinary South African healthcare providers including pharmacists, nurses and doctors doing extraordinary work in their communities. The campaign aims to celebrate these unsung heroes of brave professionals who walk the extra mile attending to the medical and healthcare needs in their communities making a real impact. 17 Feb 2020 Read more

News24 goes green for Bokke Saturday!
News24, South Africa's largest news publication, will go green in support of the Springboks in Saturday's Rugby World Cup Final against England in Japan. 31 Oct 2019 Read more

24.com and The SpaceStation introduces SpaceStation Stories
Rich media is a powerful creative tool for mobile ad campaigns. The newly launched SpaceStation Stories are interactive and intuitive full screen rich media executions for mobile and app, served across the full 24.com network including News24, Fin24, Business Insider, Sport24, Channel24, Wheel24, Health24, Traveller24, Parent24 and W24. 8 Oct 2019 Read more

The Anthem Project wins Best Native Advertising Campaign
The Anthem Project in partnership with News24 and OUTsurance won the award for Best Native Advertising Campaign at the prestigious World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) 2019 African Digital Media Awards. 13 Sep 2019 Read more

Attention matters: How 24.com and The SpaceStation are helping brands solve social feed fatigue
While social media adoption continues to grow, brands are facing an increasing challenge: feed fatigue. The average user scrolls the height of the Empire State Building in a single day in social media feeds like Facebook and Instagram. 3 Jul 2019 Read more

News24 is the most trusted news brand in South Africa, study finds
News24, South Africa's biggest news website, has been named by the Reuters Institute as South Africa's most trusted source of news. 20 Jun 2019 Read more

Senior appointments at The SpaceStation
The SpaceStation recently made two new key appointments in their management team. Matt Wilke, previous Head of Performance at PHD, joins as Head of Programmatic, and Michael Allen, who hails from 365 Digital as Technical Director, is taking on the Head of Ad Tech role. 18 Jun 2019 Read more

24.com wins publisher of the year at 2019 Bookmarks Awards
24.com walked away with top honours at the prestigious IAB Bookmarks Awards, scooping eight awards across diverse categories. 2 Apr 2019 Read more

How effective is mobile advertising?
24.com and The SpaceStation recently launched the findings of their first mobile study at an industry event in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Detailed findings from this study have now been published in a white paper by 24.com's Head of Research and Analytics, Gareth Lloyd. (You can view the white paper, entitled Evaluating the Effect of Mobile Display Advertising in South Africa, here). 1 Apr 2019 Read more

The SpaceStation and 24.com launch Social Display, a product to drive brand engagement
On 1 March 2019, The SpaceStation officially launched Social Display, a product developed by technology partner Polar to drive brand engagement. In South Africa, it appears exclusively alongside trusted content published by 24.com, assuring brand safety. 8 Mar 2019 Read more

It's official: mobile advertising works
The SpaceStation and 24.com have released the findings from their mobile study, the first of its kind in South Africa. In collaboration with Brand Metrics, a Swedish research company with extensive experience working with publishers and big brands globally, 24.com set out to measure the brand lift achieved by mobile advertising, and thereby help advertisers optimise their mobile campaigns. 12 Feb 2019 Read more

The SpaceStation's viewability stats exceed market standard by 20%
Recent stats* released to The SpaceStation by Google Ad Manager show that their overall ad viewability sits at an impressive 71%, which is much higher than the South African market standard, over the same period, of 51%. 11 Dec 2018 Read more

News24 launches the Anthem Project with OUTsurance
News24 launched the Anthem Project in partnership with OUTsurance. 20 Nov 2018 Read more

The SpaceStation's Digital Trends workshop emphasises key industry considerations
The SpaceStation, South Africa's leading digital media sales company and 24.com's sales arm, hosted a series of presentations that culminated in a Digital Trends workshop in Durban in September. The aim of this industry roadshow was to unpack important considerations for digital media spend and strategy going into 2019. 25 Oct 2018 Read more

24.com launches innovative video solution with global partner Oovvuu
24.com and their media solutions division, The SpaceStation, have announced that they have partnered with global video supplier, Oovvuu. "Oovvuu's mission is to embed a relevant, trustworthy, broadcast quality video in every article and on every device," says Ricky Sutton, Oovvuu founder and CEO. This is made possible by using a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence and the cloud to match videos with breaking news and other content genres like sport, lifestyle, finance etc in real time. 13 Sep 2018 Read more

#WomensMonth: The automation of ad ops - why it has become essential
With the rapid growth of digital ad sales and the ever-increasing range of products on offer, the manual process of campaign management has become, well, complex. It was becoming clear that we had to find a way to offer a more sophisticated tool that would equip our sales, ops and business intelligence teams to manage multifaceted campaigns more effectively. 1 Aug 2018 Read more

Industry-leading audience data workshop highlights key learnings for brands
24.com in association with its sales team from The SpaceStation, South Africa's leading digital media sales company, hosted an industry-leading workshop on Thursday, 31 May, to explore how data and audience segments can assist marketers and advertisers address a range of marketing challenges, as well as looking at international trends in data. 6 Jun 2018 Read more

The winning Business Insider and Fin24 combination gives advertisers access to 4.5 million targeted users
Fin24 and Business Insider have taken the first and second spots (respectively) within the financial sector in South Africa according to Effective Measure's released April 2018 results. 8 May 2018 Read more

24.com and The SpaceStation tee-up for the future
With an ever-changing digital landscape continuing to evolve at a rapid pace in South Africa, 24.com has made some strategic changes to its organisational structure - integrating its sales division, The SpaceStation, with its publishing business unit, and establishing a new commercial unit focusing on data-driven sales technology. 19 Apr 2018 Read more

The SpaceStation innovates with social ads across 24.com digital properties
The SpaceStation, one of the largest digital media solutions companies in sub-Saharan Africa, has announced they are accelerating the distribution of social brand content in their web and mobile environments. This innovative solution offers more effective distribution of branded content enabling brands' social messages to be published in ad slots across the 24.com network of digital publications. In partnership with technology provider Polar, The SpaceStation can deliver campaigns faster with several workflow automation features and creative optimisation that dynamically finds the best performing headlines and thumbnails. 14 Mar 2018 Read more

The SpaceStation to exclusively handle sales for Business Insider South Africa
The SpaceStation, SA's leading digital media solutions company, will be exclusively handling the ad sales for the much-anticipated Business Insider South Africa. 27 Feb 2018 Read more

24.com shines at the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Africa Awards
24.com took multiple accolades at the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) Digital Media Africa Awards 2017 on Tuesday, 12 December. These prestigious awards recognise and reward publishers who have adopted digital media and mobile strategies as part of their total product offering to adapt to the major changes in how people consume news and information. 15 Dec 2017 Read more

The Spacestation - First African publisher to offer programmatic page takeovers
The SpaceStation is the first publisher in Africa to offer page takeovers and transitional ads (between the page ads) programmatically. "We approached DoubleClick a few months ago to discuss how we can make our page takeovers available programmatically; and when they began testing Programmatic Guaranteed with Custom Creatives, The SpaceStation became one of their selected global test partners," says Farah Thompson, GM of Ad Operations at The SpaceStation. 16 Nov 2017 Read more

Insights into a digital future at The SpaceStation's 2017 Digital Salt
The SpaceStation hosted their second annual Digital Salt conference on Thursday 21 September in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. Digital Salt is a coming together of the top minds in digital in South Africa to unpack trends, insights, solutions and innovations. The 2017 event did not disappoint, with a packed house, a trending hashtag (#DigitalSalt2017), loads of networking and a stellar line up of speakers and panellists. 27 Sep 2017 Read more

Amnet Synergy industry first partnership with Amnet programmatic specialist and The SpaceStation
In a South African digital media first, Amnet, the programmatic experts for Dentsu Aegis Network, and digital media owner The SpaceStation have formed an innovative partnership to drive increased efficiencies, effectiveness and efficacy in their programmatic buying relationship to benefit the Amnet client set. 26 Sep 2017 Read more

Exchange-based allocation takes centre stage in SA
Exchange-based dynamic allocation (EBDA) is Google's brand-new solution to all the issues around header bidding. This new product means that regardless of what platform the bid comes from, it is awarded solely based on price, which is a game changer for publishers. This product has been highly anticipated in the international market, and we have been working with Google for a while to test and launch this in sub-Saharan Africa. This solution is a server to server integration, so nothing gets done in the website source code or on the website - all the heavy lifting gets done by the technology companies and clients can plug in index exchange. 30 Jun 2017 Read more

South African sports fans go mobile
The IAB in partnership with Effective Measure recently polled their web and mobile publisher base to gain an understanding of their users' online sports habits, and a total of 5,900 users responded. 15 May 2017 Read more

The SpaceStation's News24 wins prestigious publisher award
24.com's digital news platform, News24, one of the platforms proudly represented by The SpaceStation, was recognised as Best Publisher at the annual Bookmarks Awards, held in Johannesburg last week. There were 16 winners in The SpaceStation's network, including News24, Netwerk24, W24, Daily Sun and NetNuus. 22 Mar 2017 Read more

The SpaceStation adds The Huffington Post premium ad inventory to their network
The SpaceStation (24.com's digital media sales arm) will represent The Huffington Post South Africa's premium ad inventory across web and mobile web, making them custodians of some of the most anticipated internet traffic this year. 14 Nov 2016 Read more

Craig Nicholson new sales director for The SpaceStation
Today The SpaceStation announced that industry stalwart Craig Nicholson will be joining the team as Sales Director on 1 December. Craig comes to The SpaceStation from Media24's print division where he is currently General Manager Advertising of Media24 Lifestyle, a position he was appointed to last year. 2 Nov 2016 Read more

The SpaceStation purchases SouthernX
SouthernX will be fully integrated into The SpaceStation as of 1 November to form a wholly publisher-owned private media marketplace within Media24. This move will mean that The SpaceStation will be the only media sales house with expertise in both premium (including native) and programmatic, with the breadth and depth of inventory to back it up. Gustav Goosen, CEO of The SpaceStation, says: "We are thrilled to have SouthernX on board and cannot wait to see the benefits of our range of programmatic offers roll out for our clients." 21 Oct 2016 Read more

The SpaceStation welcomes Helene Siepman to their business development team
With a gravitas filled background that includes Associated Media Publishing, the SABC, Independent Newspapers and Associated Magazines (as it was formerly known), The SpaceStation team are excited to welcome Helene as a business development manager on the lifestyle portfolio. 29 Sep 2016 Read more

The SpaceStation launches new digital creative unit called Spixel
South Africa's largest digital media sales company has launched a new boutique creative unit offering bespoke, highly creative, hands-on digital campaign solutions. 17 Aug 2016 Read more

Unlocking the online parent audience in South Africa
The IAB recently polled over 5,000 parents across their publisher base on both web and mobile devices in order to get a better understanding of the parenting market as a premium display audience. The result is an in-depth analysis into the needs and behaviours of parents online. 19 Jul 2016 Read more

The SpaceStation reaching millennial women with all-new W24
Women24 has rebranded and repositioned itself to speak to millennial women. The new platform is known as W24 and has a boldly female, younger focus with both a local and international take on content, coupled with a fresh new look and mobile-first approach. 11 Jul 2016 Read more

The SpaceStation sponsors the MOST Media Agency Rising Star Award for the third year in a row
The SpaceStation, Southern Africa's leading digital media sales house, is once again the sponsor of the MOST Media Agency Rising Star Award for media agencies. 5 Jul 2016 Read more

The SpaceStation gazes into the future with pioneering industry event
Last week, in Cape Town and Johannesburg, The SpaceStation, South Africa's premium digital media sales company, hosted Digital Salt, focusing on digital publishing and advertising. 1 Jul 2016 Read more

Native advertising - what you need to know
Native advertising is the golden child of digital advertising at the moment. It attracts phenomenal, valuable results beyond CTRs (think page views, high levels of engagement, brand lift and web traffic). If done correctly it speaks to an audience need for trust, integrity and relevance and it generates reams of content (which online audiences cannot get enough of). 9 Jun 2016 Read more

Integrated advertising solutions taken to a new level by The SpaceStation
In a pioneering move, The SpaceStation has become the first South African digital media sales company to offer in-stream mobile advertising as part of its already extensive standard and rich media mobile product offering. 2 Jun 2016 Read more

The SpaceStation announces new partnership with SouthernX
In line with international market trends, The SpaceStation and SouthernX have announced a partnership that gives the digital media sales house direct access to programmatic buying solutions through SouthernX. The partnership enables The SpaceStation's sales team to offer clients highly advanced programmatic sales solutions - in-house. 23 May 2016 Read more

Study shows mobile or web only campaigns are over
The latest poll of over 5,000 respondents surveyed across the IAB SA publisher network has given the industry a deep level of understanding of the premium mobile audience, and it clearly shows that mobile doesn't offer advertisers just one small window of opportunity to view, but rather multiple opportunities on an ongoing basis. Mobile devices have become ubiquitous, and are now involved in almost every micro downtime moment that people have in their days. 21 Jan 2016 Read more

Who is the online South African woman?
The IAB SA and Effective Measure recently conducted an online survey asking: Who is the online South African woman? Over 5,000 respondents answered questions about content consumption online, finances, beauty, fashion and clothing, shopping behaviour and a variety of lifestyle questions. Using the results, The SpaceStation developed an infographic for the IAB SA and has expanded the findings by comparing it to relevant AMPS data, offering their advertising clients deeper insights to this audience segment. 2 Dec 2015 Read more

The SpaceStation is once again Digital Category winner at MOST Awards
The SpaceStation, the leading digital media sales company in South Africa, were once again named best in Digital at the MOST Awards held in Johannesburg last night. This is the sixth time the company has taken a Digital category award. 10 Sep 2015 Read more

Relaunched Parent24 website takes YourParenting.co.za on board
Parent24, the biggest parenting website in South Africa, has just announced that they have incorporated YourParenting.co.za, the website of Your Pregnancy and Your Baby magazines, into their online fold. This move joins the magazine content into the new Parent24, bolstering South Africa's largest and strongest parenting brand. 3 Sep 2015 Read more

The automotive industry moves online - polling shows
Consumers are officially using the internet to make more automotive-related decisions. Last year the IAB SA conducted an online poll into automotive purchasing behaviour, and the results showed that online is definitely the most favoured platform of people who own, use and maintain vehicles. The SpaceStation has added data from other sources to contextualise these insights further for advertisers in the automotive sector. 15 Jul 2015 Read more

The SpaceStation explores digital advertising to travellers
The IAB South Africa and Effective Measure have been conducting polls on various online sectors in South Africa, with their most recent survey being about holidays and travel. The SpaceStation have added research from other data sources to further reveal insights into the South African holidaymaker. 11 May 2015 Read more

Digital advertising insights into investment and savings growth
The IAB South Africa and Effective Measure conducted a reader survey in late 2014 into online behaviour related to investment and savings. In an effort to gain a more in-depth understanding of this market, The SpaceStation explored the investments and savings market further by incorporating other external research including AMPS data. Their results show a very strong case for the use of digital advertising, specifically premium display, in the investments and savings market. 16 Apr 2015 Read more

Media24 news digital joins The SpaceStation's network
The SpaceStation, one of Africa's largest digital media sales networks, have been appointed by Media24 to handle the digital media sales for Netwerk24, Daily Sun and Die Son. These three platforms represent the majority of Media24's digital newspaper platforms. 14 Apr 2015 Read more

Open house for The SpaceStation and Property24
The SpaceStation has officially become the digital sales partner for Property24, the number one property portal in South Africa. This is a brand new advertising opportunity for relevant brands in the property, finance, bond originator and décor industries. 25 Mar 2015 Read more

The SpaceStation and 24.com cooks online with the Ultimate Braai Master
Africa's leading network of digital publishing brands and online services, 24.com, and its digital media sales agency, The SpaceStation, have developed a fully bespoke, integrated digital solution for the third season of Cooked In Africa Films' Ultimate Braai Master. 15 Sep 2014 Read more

The SpaceStation, once again, takes top Digital Media Sales Team honours at MOST Awards
Thursday night's MOST Awards in Johannesburg saw The SpaceStation taking top honours in the Digital Media Sales Team category - for the fifth time. They also took third place in the Best Media Owner category, which is a huge achievement for a digital sales team working in an industry still dominated by more traditional platforms. 8 Sep 2014 Read more

Channel24 reaches the million mark
Channel24, South Africa's top online entertainment news platforms, reached over a million unique browsers in May, further cementing its position as the number one entertainment website in the country. 30 Jun 2014 Read more

The SpaceStation appoints Mike van Eck as Client Lead
The SpaceStation, South Africa's top digital media sales agency, has just announced the appointment of Mike van Eck. 4 Jun 2014 Read more

The SpaceStation takes on ad sales for Media24 Magazines Digital brands
The SpaceStation and Media24 Magazines Digital have announced that as from 1 June 2014 all digital advertising sales, campaign management and invoicing for all Media24 Magazines Digital brands will be conducted by The SpaceStation. 15 May 2014 Read more

Survey shows South Africans are turning to online platforms for their financial advice
Online sources of financial information and news are highly trusted and well used, according to a recent Fin24 survey, conducted on the website. A massive 78% of the readers surveyed chose to turn to Fin24 for financial guidance and, even more interestingly, will do so three times more often than turning to the financial supplements in the weekly newspapers. 12 May 2014 Read more

PriceCheck appoints The SpaceStation as its exclusive digital media sales agency
PriceCheck, South Africa's leading price comparison website, has appointed The SpaceStation to handle its digital media sales portfolio. This addition to The SpaceStation's network takes their footprint up to 9 million local and 17 million international Unique Browsers a month and gives them access to a very tech savvy consumer who opts to research and shop online. 18 Mar 2014 Read more

Digital leading the sporting fan race
A recent survey by The SpaceStation into the habits of the SuperSport.com readers reveal that they are highly engaged sporting fans across multiple technology platforms. 10 Mar 2014 Read more

Reaping the rewards of tailor-made platforms
In a cluttered media environment, the online marketing industry has shown that innovation and targeted messaging are what yield results. With this in mind, the growing trends of custom content and native advertising have been making waves internationally. And locally, the adoption of these trends can clearly be seen through the pioneering microsite concept that was introduced by 24.com and The SpaceStation. 25 Feb 2014 Read more

Survey reveals how parents feel about tech and internet
Parent24, a leading parenting website, recently conducted a survey with their readers and discovered that a whopping 90% of them believe that high tech devices provide a learning opportunity for their child's development. 95% of the readers also feel that the internet can benefit their child's education. 11 Dec 2013 Read more

Food24 traffic reveals that it is still top of the food chain
Food24 is still South Africa's biggest go-to website for all things related to food, as recently revealed in the latest Effective Measure stats. "As the most visited food website in the country, Food24 is perfectly positioned to provide an interactive platform for those passionate about food," says Food24 editor Caro de Waal. 21 Nov 2013 Read more

Online sporting enthusiasts are highly engaged online and embrace multi-screen viewing
The SpaceStation has released its latest survey results on the online behaviour of Sport24 browsers, and they show clearly that they are avid multi-screen users - with 52% of them using their smartphones while viewing sport on TV. Further to this, 24% of them are on their laptops and PCs while watching TV, and 16% of them are using their tablets. 19 Nov 2013 Read more

The SpaceStation refocuses their sport offering
Leading digital media sales agency, The SpaceStation, has confirmed that, effective 1 October 2013, they will no longer represent ESPN digital properties in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. The decision was reached after a mutual agreement with both parties. 10 Oct 2013 Read more

The SpaceStation Loeries party was out-of-this-world
This year The SpaceStation, along with News24, sponsored the Loerie Awards digital categories. To celebrate this, and their recent MOST Awards win, The SpaceStation hosted a successful space-themed party for clients and staff on Thursday, 19 September. 1 Oct 2013 Read more

Interview with Gustav Goosen, CEO of The SpaceStation
This year the Loeries has seen a record number of entries in its digital categories. We spoke to Gustav Goosen, the CEO of digital media sales agency, The SpaceStation about online advertising, his thoughts on the growth of digital in SA and the international trends we are likely to see repeated locally. 9 Sep 2013 Read more

The SpaceStation takes top honours at this year's MOST Awards
The SpaceStation has walked away with the Overall Media Owner of the Year award at this year's MOST Awards, held on Tuesday evening (3 September) in Johannesburg. This is the first time in the history of the awards the overall media owner winner has come from the digital category, proving, once again, that digital is well and truly establishing itself as a mainstream channel. 5 Sep 2013 Read more

Health24 survey shows that health savvy people use the web as a vital tool for healthy well-being
Health24 recently surveyed over 2000 of its readers to get a sense of who they are and what makes them tick. The results showed that health websites are a vital part of daily life with a whopping 92% of the respondents using them to source information that helps them lead a healthy lifestyle. 4 Sep 2013 Read more

Wheels24 survey shows the power of online to influence purchase decisions
A recent survey of 1,000 Wheels24 readers has shown that that the Internet, and in particular specialised websites like Wheels24, play a very important role in influencing vehicle purchasing decisions. 70% of the readers surveyed go online first when seeking information to help them buy a new car, while 48% turn to online reviews to help them make a decision about what car to buy or to purchase a car related product. And a massive 81% of purchase decisions were influenced by product reviews. 19 Aug 2013 Read more

Women24 survey reveals highly engaged online behaviour of South African women
A recent survey was conducted on Women24 with 2000 of the site's readers. The aim of the survey was to help marketers and ad agencies find out what makes South African women tick and what their online behaviour is. 1 Aug 2013 Read more

The SpaceStation tees off with the ABF
The SpaceStation, a long-time supporter of the Advertising Benevolent Fund (ABF), was proud to participate in the Fund's President's Cup Golf Day held at Wanderers in Johannesburg this year. The company sponsored a four-ball and a drinks table. 19 Jun 2013 Read more

Myles Brown lifts off with The Spacestation
The SpaceStation, one of South Africa's top digital media sales agencies, has just announced the appointment of Myles Brown as the new dedicated channel sales manager for the ESPN brands, GoMetro, Kalahari and Mweb. 6 Jun 2013 Read more

Food24 survey gives key foodie insight
The SpaceStation and Food24 recently conducted an online survey with 2,000 respondents. They have just released the results showing some interesting insights into the habits of their readers. 2 May 2013 Read more

GoMetro mobisite makes a real difference for commuters
GoMetro (www.gometro.co.za), the mobile transit website and app for South African Metrorail users, has made a marked difference in the lives of the rail's 3,000,000 daily commuters and has the numbers and growth to prove it. 25 Apr 2013 Read more

Health24 rejuvenated with new website launch
Launched over a decade ago, Health24 has always been a trusted source of health information and is the "go-to" portal for nearly a million monthly unique browsers (January 2013 international Effective Measure stats). This month, it received a re-launch facelift to provide additional editorial tools, multimedia and a focus on interactive elements for users. 4 Mar 2013 Read more

The SpaceStation to represent ESPN Digital Media in Africa
The SpaceStation, the leading digital media sales agency in the country, has been appointed to represent ESPN as its sales agency in sub-Saharan Africa. This makes them the biggest provider of digital advertising sales to a sporting audience in SA. 28 Feb 2013 Read more

News24 outstrips competitors with breaking Valentine's Day news
With the tragic shooting at Oscar Pistorius's house and President Zuma's State of the Nation address, Valentine's Day 2013 was quite likely one of the biggest expected and unexpected news days South Africans will experience this year. 20 Feb 2013 Read more

New CEO confirmed for The SpaceStation
The SpaceStation, the leading digital media sales company in SA, has just announced that Gustav Goosen will officially be taking the lead as the company's new CEO. 18 Feb 2013 Read more

Massive mobile commuter engagement made possible with GoMetro
Advertisers now have access to over three million Western Cape and Gauteng train commuters through banner advertising on mobile phones with GoMetro and The SpaceStation. 15 Feb 2013 Read more

A recent survey, conducted by The SpaceStation on behalf of News24 Travel and GoTravel24 found that an astounding 93% of travellers surveyed use the Internet to source their travel information. 12 Feb 2013 Read more

New channel manager at The SpaceStation
Vicki Steenkamp is the latest exciting addition to The SpaceStation team. As the new channel manager for the Food24, Women24 and Channel24 platforms, Vicki's extensive publishing and ad sales skill set promises a continuation of the performance of these top-ranking online platforms. 17 Jan 2013 Read more

Entertainment news readers go mobile
Channel24 survey reveals the habits of online entertainment readers 29 Nov 2012 Read more

The annual Bookmarks awards held in Cape Town at the Artscape Theatre last night recognised the best in digital marketing and publishing. With the increased entries and high standard of this year's nominees, The SpaceStation team is very proud of 14 accolades won by the platforms on their network. 2 Nov 2012 Read more

The SpaceStation network ranks top with mobi-site users
The latest Effective Measure stats show that m.news24.com and mobi.supersport.com are the top two performing mobi-sites in South Africa. Both sites are exclusively represented by digital media sales house, The SpaceStation who also provide the service to Sport24 and Channel24 - which came in fifth and sixth place in the top 10 mobi sites respectively. 19 Oct 2012 Read more

It has just been announced that Mike Luscombe, the CEO of The SpaceStation has decided to stretch his legs with a move to Johannesburg and a position at Microsoft. 6 Jul 2012 Read more

The success of a recent survey conducted on SA's biggest financial website, Fin24.com, by the deVere Group SA has confirmed that South Africans are not only willing to engage online but that companies can gain valuable insights by strategically utilising polls and surveys on matched demographic platforms. 21 Jun 2012 Read more

Following a Silver Pixel win in the Specialist Publisher category at this year's Bookmarks Awards, BandwidthBlog has won the award for the Best Science & Technology Blog at the SA Blog Awards 2011. The Awards took place at the Crystal Towers Hotel in Cape Town on Saturday 10th December. 19 Dec 2011 Read more

Sport has always had massive appeal for South Africans and this is perfectly reflected in the astounding number of browsers that Sport24 and SuperSport.com (both channels of The SpaceStation) have been attracting. 19 Dec 2011 Read more

The Female Nation Survey, conducted annually by 24.com in partnership with The SpaceStation, is a survey intended to shed light on who the typical female online user is. The survey aim is to assist the digital publisher and its brands to understand their visitors and strategically meet their online needs. This year's survey was designed to group the users into clusters and from there, to generate female Internet user archetypes. 29 Nov 2011 Read more

The SpaceStation Teams bring the spirit to Durban and Johannesburg ABF Golf Days!
On 13 October and 16 November, The SpaceStation team took part in the Durban and Johannesburg ABF Golf Days. 24 Nov 2011 Read more

Industry peer award survey ranks The SpaceStation as tops. 6 Sep 2011 Read more

New look for The SpaceStation website
South Africa's leading digital media sales company, The SpaceStation has just launched its new and improved website. 23 Aug 2011 Read more

The SpaceStation, SA's leading digital media sales company, has just announced the launch of a premium international digital advertising format. A first for South Africa, the Portrait Ad is a large format, fully interactive, highly customisable advert that offers massive brand engagement and an enhanced user experience. 10 Aug 2011 Read more

The SpaceStation sponsors successful ABF Ten Pin Bowling Evening in Durbs
This year's annual Advertising Benevolent Fund (ABF) Ten Pin Bowling evening was held on 26 May at Durban's Gateway Ten Pin Bowling arena. 7 Jun 2011 Read more

The SpaceStation receives its second accolade at MOST Awards
At this year's MOST Awards, held on 1 September at The Venue in Melrose Arch, The SpaceStation walked away with the award for Best Digital Sales and Marketing Team. 16 Sep 2010 Read more

At last year's Loerie Awards the Internet Advertising Category was sponsored by South Africa's leading digital media sales company, The SpaceStation. In addition to great prizes for their offices, the winning agency was also awarded a hefty R50 000 worth of online media space on The SpaceStation's network of websites - a network that targets a combined audience of four million South Africans each month. 13 Aug 2010 Read more

Mobile content sites SuperSport.mobi and m.24.com rapidly increased their popularity among news- and sport-hungry South Africans during the festive season break leading them to claim the country's top two mobile destination spots in January 2010. This is according to Nielsen's Online Ranking Report which was released on 1 February, 2010. 10 Feb 2010 Read more

24.com today introduced Letterdash (www.letterdash.com) the new name for its free make-your-own-blog service, the most popular blogging platform in South Africa. The new name reflects added functionality to make it easier to build customised blogs, post updates and interact with other bloggers across the 24.com network. 22 Jul 2009 Read more

News24 - South Africa's leading digital news destination and the largest website in THE SPACESTATION network - begins the second half of 2009 with a new-look website and a fresh approach to news consumption and distribution. 29 May 2009 Read more

Women24.com newly-launched annual Female Nation Survey is expected to reveal South African women's unique perspectives on everything from recycling, the credit crunch and social networking to marriage, careers, hobbies, sex and parenting. 28 May 2009 Read more

News24 - South Africa's leading digital news destination and the largest website in THE SPACESTATION network - today launched a free downloadable application for iPhone users to view and share breaking news, financial headlines, sports updates and entertainment snippets. 6 Apr 2009 Read more