WARNING: Graphic content. Yesterday morning, the Citizen newspaper decided to run a front page image of the bomb blast that killed eight South Africans in Afghanistan, but they manipulated the image. The image depicted above is the image that the Citizen ran on their front page. However, the image had been digitally manipulated, despite concerns […]
It looks like everyone is having a booze-fuelled pool party tonight.. Check out the trailer..
The Clifton Shores ladies are back tonight with episode four of the series. Click through for the teaser!
Hey, you know those chicks that we gave Cape Town language lessons to? Here’s the teaser for the third episode, coming up tonight.
2oceansvibe is proud to present the young man, Cameron Van Der Burgh, who represented our country so well at the London Olympics. He’ll be making an appearance on The Bailey Schneider Show between 14h00 and 15h00 today! The 100m breaststroke gold medalist secured South Africa’s first gold medal at the London Olympics and broke the world record […]
Are you one of the tens of thousands of readers joining us every day from the UK? We know the ex-pat vibe is strong, so we thought we would give you a heads up on the TECH REPORT, a show featuring Seth Rotherham – now available in the UK! Click for times..
But it’s not that bad. South African daily newspaper circulation has been declining by roughly five per cent year on year since 2008, and the second quarter of 2012 has proven this is still happening, but not as badly as some may have thought. There have been a few publications that have bucked the trend.
Ouch! A Playboy Playmate was arrested after she tried to smuggle a man into America from Canada. Colleen Shannon is currently in jail after being charged with violating a federal statute prohibiting “bringing in and harboring aliens”. The alien is believed to be her Canadian boyfriend.
Dreaming of conquering the skies as an SAA pilot? Well, it’s time to get your head out of clouds if you’re a white male because SAA are no longer accepting any more cadet pilot training applications from that particular demographic.
Share price is a fallin’, advertisers are a ballin’. So what’s next for Facebook? Forcing large, unwanted adverts in your face, that’s what.
There is another mad scramble for tickets online, as Wednesday’s Powerball lottery sits on a jackpot prize of R2.5 Billion ($305 million). It’s so big that even high-brow publications like the Washington Post are talking about it! This is what they had to say: The Powerball jackpot has grown to $305 million for Wednesday’s drawing. The […]
It emerged overnight that three Independent Newspapers executives will sue Noseweek in the Western Cape High Court, claiming a collective R1 million for defamation.
The eNews Channel announced today that it will soon broadcast on the Sky digital satellite platform across the UK as part of an initiative to broaden the channel’s scope.
The Sekunjalo Consortium has made a multi-billion rand bid to buy Independent Newspapers, but they might want to knock off R1 million from that bid for the “kickback” Independent took from Auction Alliance last year.
On the back of yet more rumoured newspaper circulation figure declines in 2012, South Africa’s leading business and financial publication, Business Day, has today launched an aggressive online strategy.
Rebekah Brooks and former Downing Street spin doctor, Andy Coulson, are among eight people who have finally been officially charged in relation to phone hacking, the British Crown Prosecution Service has today confirmed.
John John Florence is one of the most exciting surfers to emerge on the professional surfing scene in recent years. Kai Linder got the young Hawaiian into the 2oceansVibe Radio studio in Cape Town to find out what he’s been up while he’s been in South Africa.
Here’s another strong case for why models should have their cellphones taken away: Tricia Evans. Not shortly after the Batman premiere shooting in Colorado, the model took to social network Twitter with the following tweet:
The recent sale of Microsoft’s shares in MSNBC indicated a price of $12 per unique reader. This is consistent with the value given to Huffington Post when they sold (at slightly more – $12.60 per unique reader).
If there is one typo you never, ever want to make, it’s typing Nelson Mandela’s name incorrectly. On his birthday. What makes this more than astounding, is that the production of a banner like that typically goes from copywriter, to designer, to management sign-off, to campaign management, and then it would go live. And not a single […]
According to Google Analytics, 2oceansvibe News has posted record figures for the last month, with the 11 June to 11 July 30 day period showing 252,602 unique readers. Click for more..
One of the longest running commercial interweb relationships has ended. Microsoft and NBC have finalised their online divorce and will both go at it alone.
The debate over whether Independent Newspapers took a money-received “discount” from Auction Alliance as part of a property auction last year left the media as quickly as it entered it.
Independent News and Media, the country’s largest newspaper group, may be up for sale. Of course, the first question that gets raised when these kind of things happen, which they don’t really, is are there politically connected buyers lining up to bid for the group?
This is a great story, of a web comic author whose work was stolen by another website, who didn’t credit him. He took it personally. He’s also won the Internet.
Following the online trend of videos to do with ‘Shit People Say,’ came the video ‘Sh*t People Say About Investing,’ featuring local people using local investing slang. The video has already been watched some 115,000 times, prompting a response from FNB. Quite surprising for a big corporate to play in this kind of space – […]
Have you ever heard of Doug Pitt? No, we didn’t think so. But we’ll give Doug this: he’s the second most famous Pitt in his family. Unlike his famous brother, Brad, Doug Pitt has never been the star of anything. So, Virgin Mobile have decided to make things fairer in the Pitt family. This is Doug’s first non-celebrity endorsement deal. Doug has quite a vibe going on.
Grammy Award winning Band “Switchfoot” will perform in South Africa for the first time in August, and 2oceansVibe Radio is proud to announce we’re on board as a partner! Switchfoot are all-round nice guys who love to surf, have sold millions of records, and are known for their incredible energetic live performances during their sold-out […]
Hipsters take note, there is a new smartphone personal assistant on its way: Google Now. It’s a search-centric, voice-powered digital assistant for the upcoming version of Android that launches mid-July.
Here at 2oceansVibe we’re rather fond of “Eastbound and Down”. We cried big tears when we heard it was to be no more, but fear not! Kenny Powers is set to return to HBO for a fourth season of the comedy series. Why? Because he’s Kenny fucking Powers, that’s why.