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TASTE’s Loadshedding Cookbook lights up London awards

Woolworths TASTE’s ingenious Loadshedding Cookbook took top honours at the International Content Marketing Awards in London, winning gold in the highly competitive Best Use of Print category. The standalone special edition, a cookbook designed to stop loadshedding from ruining your dinner, features smart cooking strategies and 89 recipes by TASTE favourites Abigail Donnelly, Khanya Mzongwana, […]

Food24 launches Food24 Baby, in collaboration with Parent Sense

New Media-owned Food24 has launched Food24 Baby, an online portal dedicated to helping parents navigate the challenges and joys of weaning. Together with Meg Faure and Kath Megaw, authors of the widely acclaimed Weaning Sense, Food24 will deliver the best in baby nutrition and parenting resources. From dietitian-approved recipes to informative articles, the new portal […]

Gold, gold and more gold for New Media in New York

New Media scored a trifecta at the prestigious 2023 Eddie & Ozzie Awards, taking top honours in three hotly contested categories. Tech Talk with Vodacom won Best Science or Technology Podcast, Woolworths TASTE won Best Social Media/Online Community in the Consumer category for its Instagram and TikTok presence, and long-standing TASTE food director Abigail Donnelly […]

VISI launches online interior design courses with BHC

New Media-owned VISI, South Africa’s most beautiful magazine, has partnered with the renowned BHC School of Design to create brand-new modular online courses in interior design. BHC is a highly respected, single-purpose provider of design education, accredited by the Department of Higher Education & Training, the South African Qualifications Authority and the Council of Higher […]

Woolworths TASTE: 20 years and still cooking!

Launched in 2003 by New Media on behalf of Woolworths, with the intention of becoming “the best food magazine in the world”, Woolworths TASTE celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. Woolworths TASTE has always been the highest selling and most commercially successful premium food magazine in SA, despite being a customer magazine. “In this area […]

New Media launches AI content solution for small businesses

New Media digital solutions division Swipe iX has developed a groundbreaking GPT-4-enabled tool that unlocks the creative potential of AI. StoryStation.ai harnesses the award-winning content marketing agency’s storytelling experience and tech expertise, empowering businesses with limited marketing budgets to generate their own high-quality content. Swipe iX CTO Deon Heunis says: “AI can’t replace a professional […]

Don’t let loadshedding ruin your dinner!

Woolworths TASTE publishes “The Loadshedding Cookbook”. Woolworths TASTE magazine, published by New Media, has unveiled a standalone special edition, a cookbook designed to stop loadshedding from ruining your dinner. The ingenious collection of 89 recipes will help you navigate those evening power cuts (and more) with smart cooking strategies in five chapters: Fast, Easy Assembly, […]

Supporting South Africa’s best digital bank

Case study: FNB Sync In line with FNB’s drive to fully digitise their business, New Media launched an enterprise social network for their employees, allowing FNBers to engage with content and drive two-way conversations. We began our journey with FNB in 2007, producing Roots magazine on behalf of the bank at a time when consumer magazines […]

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