TikTok continues to provide a platform for self-expression, learning, and entertainment, fostering a vibrant and dynamic community with food, beauty, education and DIY dominating 50% of South Africans For You feed. Daily life vlogging content on TikTok is experiencing steady growth as more South Africans share their personal and relatable journeys. This trend highlights the platform's ability to connect people through authentic storytelling. Creators on TikTok have excelled in providing solution-driven and entertaining content by tapping into the needs and interests of the audience, offering innovative hacks, valuable tips, and engaging tutorials. Johannesburg - Celebrating the power of learning, the #TikTokThatsHau hashtag has garnered 8.7M of views within the app in the first 5 days of launching. South African creators have shared valuable hacks to enhance daily life and navigate challenging times, such as loadshedding, which have resonated with users. The platform has also witnessed a growing interest in educational content, with users actively searching for various hacks in different categories, resulting in significant views on topics such as food, beauty, life hacks, DIY and education. TikTok, known for inspiring creativity and spreading joy, has become a hub for practical solutions and real-life challenges, captivating its community with innovative and locally relevant content. Boniswa Sidwaba, Head of Programming for Sub-Saharan Africa, commented on TikTok's potential to become a key search engine for learning in South Africa, stating, "We have observed fascinating trends on the platform, with users searching for hacks in various categories. Food and more specifically, recipes are the most searched hacks on the platform, with beauty being the next most popular type of content. This is driven by make-up tutorials and hair tutorials. Life Hacks, DIY as well as Book and Series recommendations are also very popular on the platform. This demonstrates …
Festival de Cannes 2023: TikTok Short Film Competition launch announcement
TikTok, the world's leading destination for short-form mobile videos, today announces the next chapter of its partnership with Festival de Cannes 2023 with the launch of the second edition of the #TikTokShortFilm competition. From March 6 to 29, 2023, TikTok invites creators* in Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world to register through the official form to create and share their own short-form films, using the hashtag #TikTokShortFilm. From 40 shortlisted videos with the highest number of views and engagement, a highly acclaimed jury will select winners across three categories: Grand Winner, Best Script, and Best Direction, and will be invited by TikTok to the 76th edition of the Festival de Cannes to present their work and receive their prize. The Grand Winner will receive a cash prize of €10,000, while winners of the Best Script and Best Direction categories will receive €5,000 each to support their next creative projects. Launched for the first time in 2022, the #TikTokShortFilm competition brought together emerging and experienced filmmakers as they showcased their skills through TikTok's wide range of creative tools and bringing their stories to life in new and authentic ways. Garnering almost 10 billion views, the first edition of #TikTokShortFilm highlighted four creators with very distinct styles, who embody the diversity of the TikTok community. Grand Prix: Kitte kitte iino?* (Japan) by Mabuta Motoki (@lang_pictures) Grand Prix: Love In Plane Sight (Slovenia) by Matej Rimanic (@rimanic), Slovenia Best Edit: Zero Gravity (New Zealand) by Tim Hamilton (@tim.diddle) Best Script: Modern Princess (France) by Claudia Cochet (@claudia_cochet) Claudia Cochet, the winner of the Best Script award with her activist film Modern Princess, which denounces violence against women, shares how joining the competition helped her find more opportunities across the industry. "Winning the "Best Script" award not only gave me confidence as a …
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Fired Up For a New Adventure: How One Person’s Dreams Just Got Bigger!
26 years ago, South Africa signed into action its current Constitution. A constitution made to liberate and serve the people, propelling the freedoms we so richly deserve today. To recognize the importance of the constitution, and to highlight the sense of community and diversity enshrined within it, Nando’s launched the “Make the Table Bigger'' campaign, supported by a competition that saw South Africans exploring the breadths of our beautiful country. Today, we are thrilled to announce that the freedom promoted by the captivating ‘we the people’ preamble to the constitution, has made one deserving winner’s dream a reality. ‘Make the Table Bigger’ encouraged young consumers to venture to Nando’s outlets outside their districts, hometowns and even provinces. The “chase” prompted them to download the Nando’s app and visit as many different Nando’s locations as possible, collecting “passport stamps” and enjoying Mzansi’s most loved flame-grilled chicken in different settings, with people from all across the country. The winner, with the most collected stamps, would win the ultimate dream trip to the loud and proud US of A, to rep South Ah and the locally born brand as it expands even further afield. The campaign started with an Amazing Race-like passport chase in July, which took the participating teams to different iconic sites around Johannesburg, including Constitutional Hill, The exercise was implemented as a means to showcase the beauty and diversity of Egoli, as a mere taste of what would follow for participating consumers. The youth-focused campaign drew a lot of attention and entries as our local born-frees vied to win a coveted spot on the seven-day all-expenses paid trip to Washington DC and Texas. Joburg-based Khwezi Madlala pipped the competition in a rather spectacular way, coming out tops ahead of second runner up, Lerato Thaole. Together, the two banked a staggering 20,000 kilometres travelled across the country. Khwezi alone visited 53 …
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Nando’s Tips Tricks – How to Survive to Festive Season
Hacks: How to make the most of the Festive season It’s called the silly season for a reason. Disappearing relatives who show up after Christmas Day, a three-digit bank balance at a blink of an eye and living it up like every day is the weekend. Mariah Carey belting her Christmas anthem at shopping centres everywhere and suddenly you’re more popular than Beyonce with your events calendar filling up pretty quickly. South Africans wait on December like a long-lost love and while the holidays are cause for great celebration, they can also bring anxiety and financial stress along with it. Families may have high expectations at this time of year, and we often feel pressured into spending money we don’t have or overindulging in some way. Nando’s has come up with tips to effectively navigate the holidays and come out the other side unscathed. Don’t Overspend We know that this is easier said than done. It’s difficult to resist the temptation to splurge and spoil yourself and your loved ones during the festive season. South Africans are notorious big spenders come December, collectively spending more than R200billion during the season (according to a Wonga 2021 spending survey). Financial advisors everywhere will tell you to set a budget and stick to it. Look for sales and promotions on gifting or groceries and only buy what you need. Rather do “Secret Santa” gifting with friends, so you’re not expected to buy 10 different gifts. Consider getting a Nando’s gift card which you can personalize with a special message and design. The festive spirit is strong, but you must be stronger. Plan Ahead Whether it’s your travel arrangements or meal preparation. Plan ahead to avoid overworking or spending more money than you have to. Schedule in the times you need to allocate to family and friends. It sounds like a chore but will make sure nobody is left feeling disappointed. Make mealtimes stress-free by planning your menus and shopping lists accordingly. And if you don’t …
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Clap your chicken wings, it’s load shedding!
Let’s face it, we’re going through the most. From petrol prices higher than a 100m flag pole to leadership being investigated waya waya and not to mention our national treasure, load shedding. But you can relax. Your fave has a way to help shed the load. When you purchase a full chicken via the Nando’s app or website, you can choose free sides depending on the stage of load shedding we are on as a country. Let’s make it simple, Stage 2 load shedding gets you two free sides. Stage 3, gets you three free sides and so on. We bet you can’t wait for stage four now. Rejoice! There’s no need to go digging under game farm mattresses or starting a flag company to make some extra cash. With Nando’s Brightside we save you the trouble of saving so you can focus on getting hold of some matches or a torch. We’ll have you excited for load shedding. You know the saying, there’s a bright side to everything and that includes load shedding. Now imagine if we ran the country. So the next time the lights go off, light a candle and get ready to dig in! *Set number of orders per day, we wouldn’t want you finishing all the chicken for your neighbours. **Please note Nando’s Bright Side promotion is an exclusive offer for orders placed on our app and website for a limited time only. Download the Nando’s app on Android, iOS and Huawei to order from Nando’s directly. CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za. …