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Media Between craft and code: the human dilemma in AI-driven marketing automation Media experts comment on how marketing automation is eroding media skills and why human insight still matters.MarkLives MEDIA19 August 2025
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Media Big data, small thinking. How an industry obsession with numbers misses the point Ryan Sauer of Redwood Analytics warns that marketers are misusing big data by overlooking the importance of structure and context,…MarkLives MEDIA5 August 2025
Media Mind the (generation) gap: why age still matters in media planning By Rakhee Naik. South Africans may share ad fatigue, but their expectations differ sharply by age. New research shows how Gen…MarkLives MEDIA29 July 2025
Media “We just continue to evolve” – Julio Rodrigues on OMD Managing director Julio Rodrigues on the agency’s evolution from media buying to strategic powerhouse.MarkLives MEDIA22 July 2025
Media Gen Z SA: The hustle generation brands can’t afford to ignore Student Village's research into South Africa's 18-30 year olds reveals a generation that's financially savvy, digitally native, and transactional in…MarkLives MEDIA15 July 2025
Media From guesswork to guidance: inside the rise of predictive media buying Agencies are learning to use predictive tools as guides, not gospel, and seeing better results for it.MarkLives MEDIA8 July 2025
Media New name, new rules: WPP Media SA takes shape GroupM’s rebrand brings EssenceMediacom, Mindshare and Wavemaker under one structure, aiming to simplify, integrate and sharpen how teams work.MarkLives MEDIA1 July 2025