There are big questions about the longevity of TV alongside the competition of online media. Online video content has become so popular globally and in even in South Africa there seems to be a love for video content. Recently YouTube has broken into the top 5 most visited websites by South Africans. So the question [...]
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Looking at SEO for Youtube
Creating video material for YouTube is a great way to promote products and services through the internet. Video has become a primary way that people like to experience the internet. In fact in South Africa, YouTube is climbing the popularity charts and has recently become the 4th most visited website by South Africans. YouTube also [...]
How YouTube manages copyright
So YouTube has come under the big copyright question along with Facebook and Google. However, it seems that YouTube has finally come up with a solution to the copyright problems it experiences. What’s more interesting is that YouTube has been able to do this without simply blocking unauthorised videos. This video for TED provides some [...]
Forget teenagers! Generation X use social media in South Africa
Bizcommunity posted an interesting article the other day that spoke about the Friendship 2.0 study that was commissioned by MWEB. The study showed a very interesting statistic: The average age of Facebook users in South Africa is 33; MySpace is 32; Twitter and YouTube come in at 31; and the youngest in the survey is [...]
Pepsi steals 2010 from Coke with Social Media
Everyone knows that Coke is sponsoring the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. We are also aware that Pepsi is spending almost a third of it marketing budget on social media. Now how is this working out for Pepsi? Well Pepsi has just been able to attract half a million viewers and closely associate themselves [...]
Music meets Facebook in South Africa
I wanted to share a very interesting video with you. A local South African musician wrote a very unique song only using the content from Facebook updates. I love to see this type of creativity in people, especially when they use social media as their topic. You can visit Shannon Hope website here. Here CD [...]