South Africa's multilingual reality can get lost when local languages present a challenge for developing language technology. Venelize de Lange from media update considers what it means when the language we use does not fit the systems built to understand it. 

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced that The Philipstown WireCar Foundation was named Digital Brand of the Year at the 2026 Bookmark Awards, the result of a dominant run that saw its work claim the black pixel, South African digital marketing's highest honour, in category after category.

Sanofi and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have partnered to improve access to childhood immunisation in three Eastern Cape districts, focusing on children who have not received, or not completed, their routine vaccines.

The Unlimited Child and Ackermans have marked a milestone in their long-standing partnership with the opening of The Unlimited Child's flagship satellite office and Centre of Excellence at the Ackermans Distribution Centre in Hammarsdale KZN.

For too long, the dominant narrative about climate change has been one of apocalypse: collapsing ice shelves, parched earth, species extinctions, bleached coral, catastrophic storms and even the current northern hemisphere heatwaves, conjure up fears of irreversible environmental calamity, says Willem Steenkamp, Senior Writer and Editor at Flow Communications.

media update's Venelize de Lange talks to Tarri Parffit about how the Smile Foundation communicates humanitarian influence and keeps people at the heart of the cause. 

Cape Town-based PR and marketing agency Hook, Line & Sinker (HLS) has been named Best Integrated Agency in South Africa 2026 at the African Excellence Awards.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) South Africa's Education Council has announced 15 delegates to its Front Row Youth Industry Programme for 2026.

Heineken and Ster-Kinekor have partnered together to challenge young South African creatives to put their ideas, collaboration skills and creative thinking to the test at the 2026 Cannes Young Lions competition.

Dentsu School of Influence winner, in partnership with CSA, turns standout performance into two career-defining opportunities, demonstrating how South Africa's creator economy is creating genuine pathways into employment.