Mike Stopforth

links for 2008-12-20

Cherryflava: South African Old School ads: Making even more sense 20 years on
Jon Cherry takes us back to the 80's and some scary-ass ads, which, sadly enough, have some learnings for modern advertisers.
(tags: marketing branding advertising Cherryflava cigarette)

Cherryflava: Best South African ad of 2008
Jon Cherry takes a look at the cream of SA's TV ad [...]

Kate Ashleigh Stopforth

This morning, at 07h08, Kate Ashleigh Stopforth joined our family.

The moment I walked into the ward at sparrow’s fart this morning the memories began to flood back. Ethan was born in the same hospital, same surgery, almost four years ago. It’s amazing how quickly you forget the sites, smells and sounds – and [...]

My ClassicFM Internet Economy Interview With Reuben Goldberg

I was privileged enough to receive an invite from Reuben Goldberg to join him on an episode of his popular talk show The Internet Economy which airs every Friday night from 7-8 on ClassicFM.
We spoke about the broad subject of social media in South Africa, the article I wrote the other day (the Next Step [...]

The Difference Four Years Can Make

Four years doesn’t feel like a long time. But my goodness, a lot can happen in four years.
3 years and 10 months ago my son Ethan was born. It was a big day. I know that’s a cliched thing to say – but there’s just something earth-shatteringly amazing about experiencing the birth [...]

Lightning Never Strikes Twice In The Same Place

Or at least that’s what my neighbour, Jacques, will be hoping. Early this morning Wendy woke me up asking me to unplug the computers, modem and phone lines because of a serious electrical storm that had set in (we get some pretty mean lightning where we are so this is a fairly regular occurence).
Stumbling [...]

The Next Step For Social Media

The honeymoon is over. Much of the hype and noise surrounding social media and its meteoric rise (especially in the USA) has abated. Perhaps owing to the global economic crisis, arguably due to the apparent lack of sustainable business models and possibly as a result of some semblance of reasonable thinking, we’re no longer reading [...]

The Way To A Man’s Heart…

…is only sometimes through his stomach. The way to this man’s heart, at least, is through a 6,27 litre naturally-aspirated V8 engine under the hood of one of the scariest ‘passenger vehicles’ on the road today.
You know I’m an Audi fan – let’s state this up front, and having just invested in a shiny [...]

The Hope iThemba Pregnancy Crisis Center Needs Your Help…

I think everybody complains. Especially South Africans. Complaining is our 12th official language. Some complain and do nothing to fix what they’re complaining about. But others – the select few – seek to change whats wrong with the world with invaluable random acts of kindess (stolen from Evan Almighty).
Two such people are very [...]

Afrigator Launches Adgator Blog Ad Network

Big news from the Afrigator team today is the launch of AdGator – Africa’s first blogging ad network.

We always envisioned Afrigator being a platform that bloggers could not only use to ‘market’ their content but also a source of revenue for them, and finally we have a model that allows us to do just that. [...]