AI adoption starts with content governance, not algorithms

AI adoption starts with content governance, not algorithms

The Faranani DocTec stand at last year’s OpenText Summit. Content management and effective governance are critical foundations for AI adoption, with unmanaged data posing an organisational risk and undermining AI progress. This is according to Faranani DocTec, an OpenText Reseller Platinum Partner and Titanium Experience Partner of the upcoming OpenText Summit Africa 2026 in Johannesburg….

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X sunsets legacy revenue sharing, launches Content Rewards Programme

X sunsets legacy revenue sharing, launches Content Rewards Programme

X has stopped accepting applications for its legacy ad revenue-sharing system and will shut down the programme entirely after September 7. Replacing it is the new Original Content Rewards Programme, which compensates creators based on qualified impressions generated by authentic, original posts. Read: NASA’s Operation Big Bang extends Voyager 2’s science mission Eligible content includes…

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Canon showcases imaging innovation from content creation to cinema at Mediatech Africa

Canon showcases imaging innovation from content creation to cinema at Mediatech Africa

Gerald Langton, Business Development Manager at Canon South Africa, introduces Canon’s range of cameras and lenses to the media. Canon South Africa used its presence at Mediatech Africa 2026 to demonstrate how imaging technology is evolving to serve everyone from social media content creators to wildlife filmmakers and broadcasters, while highlighting the company’s long-term vision…

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TikTok SA cracks down on harmful content

TikTok SA cracks down on harmful content

TikTok SA took action against AI-generated and misleading content, removing thousands of videos. (Image created using ChatGPT) TikTok removed more than 1.1 million videos in South Africa during the fourth quarter of 2025 for violating its Community Guidelines, while also interrupting more than 188 000 live streaming rooms that breached its platform rules. The figures…

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Africa: Busting Clichés – IShowspeed and African Content Creators Go Beyond ‘Safaris and Suffering’

Africa: Busting Clichés – IShowspeed and African Content Creators Go Beyond ‘Safaris and Suffering’

IShowSpeed’s livestreamed Africa tour adds to the work that African digital influencers have been doing in recent years to capture the continent beyond clichéd images of poverty and conflict. Under the bronze gaze of the African Renaissance Monument in Dakar, the American content creator and travel influencer IShowSpeed laughed into his lapel mic as a…

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Africa: Canal+ Secures Long-Term Content Deal With Warner Bros

Africa: Canal+ Secures Long-Term Content Deal With Warner Bros

Canal+ and Warner Bros. Discovery have announced a major expansion of their long-standing strategic partnership, signing a new multi-year, multi-territory agreement that significantly strengthens their collaboration internationally. The expanded deal covers the distribution of HBO Max as well as the renewal of several Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) thematic television channels across multiple markets in Africa…

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Laserfiche is a Leader in Info-Tech Research Group’s Enterprise Content Management – Enterprise Data Quadrant

Laserfiche is a Leader in Info-Tech Research Group’s Enterprise Content Management – Enterprise Data Quadrant

Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation — is a Leader in the Enterprise Content Management – Enterprise Data Quadrant Report from Info-Tech Research Group. With the most reviews of any vendor and a composite score of 9.1, Laserfiche was positioned highest for Product Features and Satisfaction. “Laserfiche…

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