Latest newsThe Spark Media team is still riding high following our win at the Most Awards earlier this month, where we walked away with the Media Owner: Print Award. This is the fourth time that Spark Media has won a Most Award. 28 Oct 2025 Read more What are South Africans spending their money on? Which are their favourite retail stores? And how are visionary new brands disrupting South Africa’s consumer status quo? All these questions and more are answered in Roots 8.1, the latest installment of South Africa’s longest running and most comprehensive independent local consumer research survey. 3 Oct 2025 Read more South African women are highly active print consumers, reading local newspapers and readily engaging with advertising and printed inserts in their local paper. Brand new Roots research shows that local women are more connected than ever, ranking print highly on their list of preferred media. 6 Aug 2025 Read more Local media advertisers in the Pretoria area now have access to print advertising solutions spanning the entire local market from Spark Media following the launch of a new partnership between the Caxton and NisMedia groups. 8 Jul 2025 Read more With more South African consumers getting online via smartphones, and digital advertising increasing in response, brands often question the relevance of print advertising. Growing bodies of research point to the fact that print ads are still a vital part of the advertising mix, especially for retailers, where recent European research showed that removing printed retail catalogues had a detrimental impact on consumer store visits. 12 Jun 2025 Read more There has been a significant shift in consumer expectations: consumers want brands to acknowledge and even reflect their unique local communities. This once again highlights the importance of relevant local advertising, and the power it wields when done correctly to drive trust, engagement, and action. 23 May 2025 Read more Although online shopping has been available in South Africa for the past 26 years, consumers' use of online shopping channels increased significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. Four years on, and the majority of South African consumers have returned to predominantly shopping in-store, combined with a small amount of online shopping as required. 24 Feb 2025 Read more Despite some national print titles being under pressure, local media still enjoys strong support. 27 Jun 2024 Read more Spark Media, South Africa’s leading media sales company providing hyperlocal advertising solutions, recently launched its new digital media sales arm with an entertaining brand video featuring local comedian, Themba Robin. 14 May 2024 Read more Spark Media, South Africa’s leading print media sales company providing hyperlocal advertising solutions, has launched a new digital media sales arm. 29 Feb 2024 Read more How is load shedding impacting economically active South Africans when it comes to the main meal of the day? Are they putting different items into their shopping baskets to help them prepare load shedding-friendly meals, or are they changing what, when and how they eat to deal with this ongoing challenge? 30 Jan 2024 Read more We're delighted to announce that Spark Media was named the overall winner in the newspaper category of the 2023 Most Awards... 19 Sep 2023 Read more As media owners, we are often on the receiving end of comments like 'This is a global directive' or 'South Africa is so far behind the State's and Europe'. So, we sent two of our intrepid explorers off to New York City for a few days to find out what's really happening in retail. 8 Mar 2023 Read more Despite tough economic pressure, local media continues to outperform daily, weekly and weekend newspapers. 1 Mar 2023 Read more Statistics show that when it comes to reaching consumers across South Africa, the local media segment outshines daily, weekly and weekend newspapers. 22 Nov 2022 Read more The Pan African Media Research Organisation (Pamro) is hosting its much anticipated 23rd annual conference. Pamro 2022 is being hosted in Cape Town at the Radisson Blu Waterfront Conference Centre, Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 October. They have invited Borderless Access to present a paper - the same team that partnered with Spark Media to conduct their 8th edition of Roots research. 20 Oct 2022 Read more We are very excited to be able to bring the 'future-proofed' Roots to market in October 2022. 20 Sep 2022 Read more Spark Media is pleased to announce a new addition to our leadership team. Chris Halstead, previously a business unit head in our team, has been promoted to head of sales, a significant addition to our leadership. 15 Sep 2022 Read more Local newspapers as a category continue to be the dominant force in the print media landscape accounting for 84% of all audited newspapers. 25 Aug 2022 Read more Hive has partnered with Think Wi-Fi to offer our clients the ability to build positive brand awareness and strong brand equity in never before reached markets (with a combined spending power of R26bn). 18 Jul 2022 Read more
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