Episode 83: Net Neutrality, Ushaidi & Payfast
In this week's episode we speak about Net Neutrality, Ushaidi and the recent Payfast purchase.
First up, Matthew Stone talks to us about the confusingly named concept of Net Neutrality. As Google and Verizon bring potential legislation to the Am... Download podcast
Episode 82: Tech4Africa Special Part 2
Tech4Africa is a new conference seeking to bring the cream of the international digital speaking circuit to Johannesburg. Organised by Gareth Knight and sponsored, this year, by FNB and Internet Solutions (among many others) the conference met its goals... Download podcast
Episode 82: Tech4Africa Special Part 1
Tech4Africa is a new conference seeking to bring the cream of the international digital speaking circuit to Johannesburg. Organised by Gareth Knight and sponsored, this year, by FNB and Internet Solutions (among many others) the conference met its goals... Download podcast
Episode 81: On-Demand TV, Creative Circle Awards & Creative Quirk
On this week's episode of The Digital Edge we speak about On-Demand TV on your cellphone, the new Creative Circle Awards for digital and finally a new creative addition at Quirk.
First up, Victor Borges from On-Demand talks about the newly relea... Download podcast
Episode 80: Communications Minister Shenanigans, Photocodes & Tech4Africa Speaker Alex Hunter
This week's episode of The Digital Edge looks at the latest fiasco at the Department of Telecommunications with Minister General Simphiwe Nyanda firing his Director General Mamodupi Mohlala for reasons unknown. Then we look at what on earth photocodes a... Download podcast
Episode 79: Return of the Seacom, DMMA Strikes Back & VAST 2.0: A New Hope For Video Advertising
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we take a look at the reputation nightmare behind the Seacom cable and how it was managed, take some questions from the audience at the DMMA paid content panel event and finally find out what on eart the VAST 2... Download podcast
Episode 78: 2Oceansvibe Radio, DMMA Paid Content Debate & Tech4Africa Speaker Rian Van Der Merwe
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we speak to blogger and entrepreneur Seth Rotherham as well as DJ Richard Hardiman to discuss their latest venture that they're putting together in the form of 2Oceansvibe Radio. We also get some snippets of th... Download podcast
Episode 77: Online Ad Growth & Nielsen World Cup Research
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we speak on the topic of online advertising in light of the recent announcement that banner advertising would hit R800 million a year. We also discuss the research done by Nielsen's about the World Cup and fina... Download podcast
Episode 76: Tech4Africa Speakers, Idea Bounty & Vodacom Colour
On this week's episode of The Digital Edge we speak to Steve Song to discuss his presentation at the Tech4Africa conference, chat with Daniel Neville of Idea Bounty about their latest crowdsourcing brief and finally speak to Tamaryn McPherson from Vodac... Download podcast
Episode 75: Yastic, Getclosure & Forrester Social Media
This week on The Digital Edge we speak to Richard Craib from SA startup Yastic, Richard Wright from Getclosure and finally Nate Elliot of Forrester Research to discuss social media.
Yastic is currently pulling apart the traditional auction syste... Download podcast
Episode 74: The News
With the World Cup and a public holiday in South Africa causing a productivity decline we at the Digital Edge decided to take a leaf out of the rest of the country and do as little as possible. Loathe to let down our adoring fans we thought we'd put tog... Download podcast
Episode 73: Google Streetview, iAfrica & Clicks2Customers
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we look at the newly launched South African version of Google Streetview, discuss the changes going on at iAfrica.com and this history of Clicks2Customers.
First up Julie Taylor joins us to discuss Stre... Download podcast
Episode 72: Mobile VOIP, The Anti-Porn Brigade and Inflight Wi-fi
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we take a look at Internet Solutions new Mobile VOIP offering launching this week, the newly drafted bill hoping to stop all Internet and mobile porn in the country and finally discuss details of the new inflig... Download podcast
Episode 71: DMMA Launch, Android vs. iPhone and Kagiso takes MSN
This week we bring you coverage of the relaunched OPA (Online Publishing Association), now known as the DMMA (Digital Media and Marketing Association). We also speak to Kagiso Media to find out about their recent coup in taking over MSN South Africa and... Download podcast
Episode 70: Netprophet, DSTV on Demand & Youtube SA
This week's episode of The Digital Edge highlights the Netprophet conference, the new DSTV on Demand service as well as the Youtube SA launch.
First up we speak to RAMP group head and Netprophet MC Rob Gilmour for his highlights of the conferenc... Download podcast
Episode 69: Webby Awards, 24.com & SA Twitter Stats
This week's Digital Edge looks at judging the Webby Awards, the growth of 24.com and the SA Twitter stats report.
To kick off the show, Pete Case joins us to discuss his recent judging of the international Webby awards. These awards look at inte... Download podcast
Episode 68: Branded Content & Flash Vs HTML 5
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we look at a new branded entertainment campaign, Scotland From Home, with Jason Xenopoulos. We then speak about the topic of Flash vs HTML 5 and whether digital agencies with hordes of Flash developers should b... Download podcast
Episode 67: Pick n Pay 2.0
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge, in celebration of the newly launched Pick n Pay we take a look at the site and what it takes to put together a corporate website the size of the Pick n Pay site.
Large South African brands have pondere... Download podcast
Episode 66: Ning goes paid for, Malema brand value and Tech4Africa
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we look at the Ning social network moving from Freemium to paid only model, the brand value of Julius Malema online and finally speak about the upcoming Tech4Africa conference.
First up, U.S. based auth... Download podcast
Episode 65: Memeburn, OPA Results and the Digital Economy Bill
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we speak about South Africa's latest tech startup site, the growth on the Internet in South Africa according to the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and look at the Digital Economy Bill in the UK.
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Episode 64: Mxit and the iPad
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we go a little bit iPad insane as we get Talk Radio 702's traffic and tech journalist Aki Anastasiou into our studio to discuss his brand new iPad. We've also got reknown journalist, acadamic and commentator An... Download podcast
Episode 63: Google, Uncapped and Digital Agencies
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we look at the situation between Google and China, discuss whether uncapped ADSL is good for the industry and finally take a listen to Pete Case discuss the state of digital agencies in South Africa.
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Episode 62: Paypal, Internet Access and Paid Content
In our sixty second episode of The Digital Edge we speak on the topics of Paypal in South Africa, Internet Access findings as well as a final look at paid content in South Africa.
Our first guest is FNB CEO Michael Jordaan who discusses the deta... Download podcast
Episode 61: Ebooks, OPA Changes and SXSW
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we look at the topics of the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, the changes at the OPA and South African e-book sellers.
With local online retailer Kalahari.net moving into the e-book arena we spoke ... Download podcast
Episode 60: Influence, Crowdfunding and Paid Content
In this week's episode The Digital Edge gets a lick of paint and some botox to take on a new, more newsy format.
We're joined on the show by Clive Simpkins, a speaker and presenter to discuss the topic of Influence in South Africa. This segment ... Download podcast
Episode 59: Lunch with The Digital Edge
This week we bring you something slightly different with a double episode where we take Justin Spratt, Nevo Hadas and Steven Ambrose to lunch at Metro in Benmore with our very own Jarred Cinman.
Join us as we discuss new media and the business m... Download podcast
Episode 58: Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs
This week The Digital Edge takes a trip down to the Silicon Cape to speak to five local entrepreneurs that are blazing a path for the South African digital space. With issues like funding, securing talent and taking an idea international being issues fo... Download podcast
Episode 57: Online Media Buying
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we tackle to topic of online media buying in South Africa. With the total amount spent online in 2009 being around four hundred million, it is rumoured that a similar amount was spent on Google adverts that are... Download podcast
Episode 56: Heavy Lifting
In this week’s episode of The Digital Edge we take a look behind the beautiful flash work done by the countries digital agencies to see what web application developers are building and how they’re putting together some world-class applicatio... Download podcast
Episode 55: Online Brand Monitoring
This week's Digital Edge takes a look at the topic of online brand monitoring. As more and more people are able to influence their friends and peers over social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, finding out what people are saying about your brand b... Download podcast
Episode 54: The Reconstructed Living Labs
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we take a very special look at the Reconstructed Living Labs run by Marlon Parker in the Western Cape. Marlon and his team tirelessly work to uplift their community through the use of technology. In the drug ad... Download podcast
Episode 53: Geek Retreat 2.0
This week we take a look at the second Geek Retreat that took place over the weekend of the 15th to the 17th of January in scenic Stanford Valley in the Western Cape. The first Retreat yielded a fair amount of controversy for being exclusively "A-lister... Download podcast
Episode 52: Chick Clicks
For this week's Digital Edge we follow up our episode in 2009 where we looked at black entrepreneurs in the social media space. This week we take a look at women in the digital space in South Africa. We speak to women in the marketing and business side ... Download podcast
Episode 51: 2010 Trends
In the first episode of The Digital Edge for 2010 we take a look at what our guests predict will be big in 2010. Sadly we're not living in a world of flying cars, missions to Mars and food pellets but 2010 still promises to be a fast paced, rapidly chan... Download podcast
Episode 50: The Best Until Now
In our 50th and final episode for the year we take a short retrospective at the last six months of our favourite episodes.
First up, we listen to our quiz show to hear the chaos and madness that was the quiz show. That episode we were join... Download podcast
Episode 49: 2009 In Review
With 2009 coming to a very rapid end we at The Digital Edge decided to take a look back into the year that was and get some of the biggest web celebrities in the country to tell us what they thought was big in 2009. We also ask them what news stories sh... Download podcast
Episode 48: Online Dating
This week we take a totally amorous view of the world of online dating. As 18 hour work days become more and more common, finding time to go to bars or on blind dates that were organised by your grandmother becomes less and less possible. The solution f... Download podcast
Episode 47: The MMORPG
Chances are if you've spent any time online in the past few years you've heard of games such as "World of Warcraft" and "Second Life". These online worlds are known as Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games or "MMORPG's". This week on The Digit... Download podcast
Episode 46: Eskom Reputation Management
This week on The Digital Edge we team up with investigative journalist Mandy De Waal from Marklives.com as well as the newly launched Mandylives.com sites to tackle the topic of relationship management online, specifically focussing on the fallout aroun... Download podcast
Episode 45: The Bookmarks
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we take a special look into last weeks Bookmarks Awards.
First, we speak to Online Publishers Association Head of Creative, Ben Wagner on why the awards are important in the South African space and ...
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Episode 44: Alternate Reality Games
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we look at the phenomenon of Alternate Reality Games (ARG). By blurring the boundaries between real world and online space, an ARG creates an immersive game experience that you need to experience to truly under... Download podcast
Episode 43: Social Media Agencies
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we look into the phenomenon of social media agencies to see whether having one on retainer is necessary for your brand. With hushed talks of agencies charging excessive amounts to create a fan page on free serv... Download podcast
Episode 42: Digital Agency Review
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we take a look at South African Digital Agencies to see how they are doing with winning international awards.
We're joined by Pete Case of agency Gloo, Ben Wagner of Stonewall and Peter Stewart of Cl...
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Episode 41: Privacy Online
The Internet is a haven for all things weird and wonderful and to be honest, who hasn't used the Internet to search for something illicit or disturbing? However, wouldn't you hate that search to be used against you in the future when trying to find a jo... Download podcast
Episode 40: Email Marketing
In this week’s episode of The Digital Edge we take a look at the contentious topic of email marketing. Studies show that ninety percent of all email’s sent are considered spam due to their nature of being unsolicited even if they are relevan... Download podcast
Episode 39: Travel and Tourism
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we take a look to see what is being done to promote South African tourism online. While internal marketing for South Africa tends to be done on radio, print and T.V. adverts there is a strong push international... Download podcast
Episode 38: The Loeries Extravaganza
The 31st annual Loeries was held for the first time in Cape Town over the weekend of the 25th to the 27th of September. These advertising "Mad Men" certainly have a reputation for raucous behaviour and this year was no different. With multiple parties t... Download podcast
Episode 37: The Future of Media
In this week's episode we take a look at the future of entertainment media. In the follow up to our episode on piracy we cast our gaze forward to see what is going to happen with the entertainment industry now that piracy is such an entrenched concept.<... Download podcast
Episode 36: Piracy
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we investigate the issue of piracy online. It's hard to find a person these days that does not pirate either music, movies or T.V. shows and as access grows, it gets easier and easier to pirate content.
Episode 35: FNB Live
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we took a drive down to the FNB Conference center to present to the marketers of FNB at their internal digital conference. The event was presented in a panel style and featured Digital Edge host, Saul Kropman a... Download podcast
Episode 34: 2010 Online
This week The Digital Edge takes a look at what companies are doing to promote the 2010 World Cup online. With less than three hundred days left till the world cup the excitement in South Africa is at a fever pitch. While drumming up support locally is ... Download podcast
Episode 33: The White Boys Club
In a country still challenged by racial divide great strides have been made to integrate both black and white employees into the workplace. The Digital space however, seems to be struggling more than most to arrive in the New South Africa. At the recent... Download podcast
Episode 32: Bloggerati
As the amount of Internet connections in South Africa slowly grows, more and more interest groups are coming online and publishing their content for all to see. Blogging provides a voice for these people and allows them to promote their opinions, servic... Download podcast
Episode 31: The Quiz Show
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we feature some local web celebrities in an exciting new quiz format. The quiz features different guests from the web, marketing and PR world answering questions on the digital world.
The quiz features ... Download podcast
Episode 30: A Day In The Life Of
To celebrate the thirtieth episode of The Digital Edge, we decided to take an introspective look at the company that puts the show together. We’ve also had a lot of people ask who these Cambrient people are, what do we do in our day jobs, and what... Download podcast
Episode 29: The Digital Loeries
Despite years of isolation, South African advetising has always been a powerful force with exceptional and uniquely South African creative work. With our digital disability though, we've only recently been bombarded by companies that work purely in the ... Download podcast
Episode 28: Online PR
In this weeks episode we look at the phenomenon of Online PR. It only takes a customary look in an online directory to see that there are roughly three PR agencies in South Africa for every member of the population. With the "dime a dozen" nature of the... Download podcast
Episode 27: Sports Online
When the Internet was first created it was the preserve of the garden variety, pocket protector toting Nerd. In recent years these nerds have had their space invaded by the jocks of the world checking their sporting news online. Sport information sites ... Download podcast
Episode 26: Religion Online
In this weeks episode we dive head first into the sticky topic of religion online. We look into the phenomenon of religion online to see what exactly it is that religions are doing to promote their brands and how they hope to appeal to a wider range of ... Download podcast
Episode 25: The Geek Retreat
On the weekend of the 19th to the 21st of June, a group of some of the greatest Internet minds in the country got together at the picturesque Elephant Sanctuary, nestled in the Magaliesburg mountains. The aim was to talk about what would make the South ... Download podcast
Episode 24: Digital Acquisition
With massive media conglomerates such as Publicis and WPP having spent a good part of the last ten years acquiring digital agencies for obscene amounts of money we decided to take a look at local digital agencies that have been acquired by larger media ... Download podcast
Episode 23: The Digital Edge Greatest Hits
In this week's episode we look back at the work achieved by The Digital Edge in such a short time. We take a trip down memory lane to see how far The Digital Edge has come. With twenty-two episodes of audio magic, we've trawled through the archives to d... Download podcast
Episode 22: Digital Branded Entertainment
In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we revisit the world of Branded Entertainment with a digital slant. With the aim of Branded Entertainment being to positively associate your product with other, innocuous forms of entertainment, Digital is a pr... Download podcast
Episode 21: Bandwidth Cometh
With bandwidth in South Africa being a consistently sticky point for many South African's, the winds of change are coming. Internationally a 50 Mbps connection which also pipes in 1000 television channels is fairly standard. Locally 4Mbps is the fastest... Download podcast
The Digital Edge 27 Dinner Special Edition
In a brief special edition we bring you the talk given by Jarred and Saul at this month's 27 Dinner held in Johanneburg. For those not in the know the 27 Dinners have fast become a staple entry in the calendars of South Africa's smartest, funkiest and m... Download podcast
Episode 20: The Branded Entertainment Episode
In celebrating the achievement of twenty episodes we have a bumper edition of The Digital Edge this week.
Imagine yourself watching the latest action movie featuring Brad Pitt. In the scene Pitt is involved in a high speed car chase with three p... Download podcast
Episode 19: The Online Porn Episode
Pornography is always a contentious issue and never more so with the introduction of easily accessible, anonymous online porn that one can now get piped anonymously into ones house. The numbers are boggling: in America the porn industry makes over twelv... Download podcast
Episode 18: The Twepisode
In this weeks episode we look at the phenomenon of Twitter, a microblogging service that is growing at the phenomenal rate of over 700% per year. With around 6 million users and rapidly growing, the service is the third biggest social network behind Fac... Download podcast
Episode 17: The Mobile Marketing Edition
In the second part of our discussion on mobile we take a look at how the mobile is used for marketing and advertising purposes. With around 44 million mobiles in South Africa, mobile marketing is something to be taken very seriously. Admob, the world's ... Download podcast
Episode 16: The Mobile Tech Edition
This weeks episode is part one of a two part series where we take a look at the humble cellphone. First up we look at the technology and processes required to create a mobile service. We debate the difference between a mobile application over a mobile s... Download podcast
Episode 15: Web 2.0 Startups
In this weeks episode we take a look at Web 2.0 in South Africa to see where we are in comparison to the rest of the world. Web 2.0 is a very rough definition for the new breed of websites online which ascribe to the ethos of "You make the content, we k... Download podcast
Episode 14: E-commerce in South Africa
In this week's episode we delve into the South African E-commerce industry to see where they've come in the past ten or so years. Ten years ago the buzz was all about virtual reality malls and how we would all be traversing these malls with VR glasses. ... Download podcast
Episode 13: Podcasting about Podcasting
In this weeks episode we take a look at a medium very dear to our hearts and talk about Podcasting. Both locally and internationally Podcasting seems to be the unloved cousin of blogging and Twitter, a fact we obviously find dissapointing. This week we ... Download podcast
Episode 12: Reprobates and bloggers
With the South African Blog Awards coming to a conclusion this Friday we decided to take a look at the South African blogosphere to see what was really happening. We take a look at the persona of a blogger and try understand what makes them put the deta... Download podcast
Episode 11: SEO Smackdown
A few weeks ago we threw the gauntlet down by speaking poorly about Search Engine Optimisation. Rob Stokes, head honcho of SEO Company "Quirk" felt that our comments were unfair. To get a better understand of SEO we decided to take a look at it from two... Download podcast
Episode 10: Political Interference
This week’s action packed, special episode is just in time for the elections in 37 days. Following the success of the Obama campaign in using the Internet for rallying voters we take a critical look at what South Africa’s biggest political p... Download podcast
Episode 9: A Musical Masterpiece
For this weeks episode we take a look at the creation, distribution and consumption of music in a digital world. This episode we are fortunate to have some amazing guests as well as a scoop on some local news.
We are joined this week all the way... Download podcast
Episode 8: Designing the Indaba
This week we bring you a SPECIAL EDITION direct from Cape Town. We spent a few days at the Design Indaba Conference and Expo and bring you some of the highlights of these few days. Saul Kropman gives us an audio tour through his time at the confe... Download podcast
Episode 7: The Nomadic Marketing Episode
This past week we had the pleasure of being invited to the Nomadic Marketing Conference at the Michelangelo in Sandton City, Johannesburg. This is the first time the Executive Education course, facilitated by Dave Duarte, was hosted in Johannesburg. The... Download podcast
Episode 6: Digital Godzilla
This week we speak to representatives from the three largest media houses in the country to see where they think their traditional media offerings are going and what threat digital might pose. We get the views of Toby Shapshak from Avusa, Tim Spira from... Download podcast
Episode 5: Creativity in a can
This week we've got a bumper edition of The Digital Edge. Our theme for the week is how a Creative Director approaches the world of digital and, for this segment we speak to Mike Shalit from Network BBDO. Mike is one of the top Creative Directors in the... Download podcast
Episode 4: Traditional Strikes Back
This week we return to the topic of how traditional agencies view the world of digital marketing and see how the likes of a massive advertising conglomerate such as Y&R view the topic. We hear from Yossi Schwartz, the Group Chief Executive Office fo... Download podcast
Episode 3: Traditional vs Digital Smackdown
We’ve made it to Episode 3 and to celebrate, we’ve gone traditional. Joining us this week is the founder of The Jupiter Drawing Room, Graham Warsop. Graham gives us his opinion of where traditional agencies are going to move towards in the f... Download podcast
Episode 2 : A plethora of predictions
Episode 2 of the "The Digital Edge" brings us to the second round of predictions for 2009. This week we are joined in studio by the Portfolio Manager for Social Media at Vodacom, Vincent Maher. He gives us his predictions for 2009 with a specific look a... Download podcast
Episode 1: Welcome to The Digital Edge
In our maiden podcast hear the Top 10 tech events of 2008, find out what some industry experts think is going to happen in the digital space in 2009 and learn what The Digital Edge is all about, and why you should click that little "subscribe" link.
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