• AVIF: The Future of Digital Image Formats

    The growth of the world wide web is closely tied to the proliferation of image-based data. As the internet evolves, the demand for faster, more efficient, and high-quality digital image formats continues to grow. Enter AVIF (AV1 Image File Format), a revolutionary image format that is shaping the future of ... Read / View all
  • Mocha Mousse is the 2025 Colour of the Year

    Every year since 2000, the Pantone Color Institute announces a Color of the Year to capture global trends and emotions, influencing industries from fashion to digital design. Pantone, renowned for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), offers a universal color language that ensures consistency across branding, advertising, and web design. Their ... Read / View all
  • C2PA: certifying digital media’s authenticity

    In a world where misinformation, deepfakes, and unauthorised editing of digital media are rising, maintaining content authenticity has become critical. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) is an alliance created to address this growing need, providing a universal standard for certifying digital media’s authenticity. Let’s dive into what ... Read / View all
  • The Current Landscape of AI Models: A Comparative Guide

    The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced a variety of models with distinct capabilities, each tailored to specific tasks and applications. Here, we’ll explore some of the most prominent AI models, their creators, unique selling points, and limitations. ChatGPT by OpenAI View website Conversational AI that can handle ... Read / View all
  • Types of Digital Advertising & Their Unique Benefits

    In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to connect with their target audiences. Digital advertising has emerged as one of the most effective tools for driving brand awareness, generating leads, and boosting sales. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or a business owner exploring your options, understanding ... Read / View all
  • Digital Business Cards

    The Future of Networking is in the Palm of Your Hand Upgrade to the future of business cards today. Open your digital card on your phone with a single click. By simply scanning a QR code, your contact details open directly on another phone, ready to be saved to that ... Read / View all
  • Frequently Asked Questions

    Getting Started on your Digital Journey If you're thinking of setting up a new website, or considering to advertise your digital or brick-and-mortar business online, you've come to the right place. We've tried to address most of the questions clients may have (and have had) at the outset of their ... Read / View all
  • Opt Out from Online Brand Ambassadors marketing

    Mailing List You may be subscribed to our mailing list and receive marketing emails from Online Brand Ambassadors if you're a client, if you have shown an interest in us, or if you have consented to receiving marketing communication from us. Removing yourself from our mailing list is easy: click ... Read / View all
  • Unveiling the Power of AI in Digital Marketing: Revolutionising Strategies

    In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, staying ahead of the curve is imperative for businesses to thrive. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), marketers now have a powerful ally to enhance their strategies, streamline processes, and deliver personalised experiences to consumers. From optimising ad campaigns to analysing vast ... Read / View all
  • SEO or Pay-per-Click?

    Discover which digital advertising strategy, SEO or Pay-per-Click, will best propel your business forward. Explore their benefits and differences. While all digital advertising campaigns share a common objective, how they go about attaining this objective can be roughly distinguished in "organic" and "pay-per-click" strategies. Organic strategies play the long game. ... Read / View all
  • The Difference between Data Privacy and Data Protection

    The terms data privacy and data protection are often used interchangeably. But while they share overlapping concepts, they are not identical. It is important to distinguish data privacy and data protection, because not all data that deserves protection is private, and not all private data deserves protection. Before we look ... Read / View all
  • What makes digital advertising special

    Advertisers craft and distribute messages with a specific purpose: to grab the attention of particular audiences in order to create awareness, or to persuade them to act in a particular way, or to accept a particular belief – like buying a product or service, or embracing a brand.   The ... Read / View all
  • Why you should respect people’s right to data privacy

    You may be thinking: "To hell with data privacy, what about my profits?" or "I have nothing to hide". Surely, there is money to be made from people's private information. Why shouldn't we exchange private data for services and products we desire? And why should companies care about my data? ... Read / View all
  • Client Terms and Conditions

    Company Jeroen Arthur Seynhaeve trades as a sole proprietorship under the name of Online Brand Ambassadors. We are registered for tax in South Africa, but not registered for VAT. Services & Qualifications We specialise in the development and management of digital marketing strategies, including websites, digital advertising and social media ... Read / View all
  • Shop Terms of Use

    In a nutshell The "Website" OnlineBrandAmbassadors.com is owned and managed by Jeroen Seynhaeve T/A Online Brand Ambassadors, based and registered in Cape Town in South Africa, and governed by South African statutory law, including the Consumer Protection Act, 68 of 2008 ("CPA"). We sell globally. We are not registered for ... Read / View all
  • Website Terms of Use

    Contact information displayed on our website is personal information in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act, and may not be incorporated into any filing system for any purpose. Our agreement with you These Terms of Use set out your Agreement with us, to which you consent when accessing ... Read / View all
  • Privacy Statement

    In a nutshell – When you contact us, or order products or services from us, you may be sharing personal information about you and your company. When you do business with us, we need to collect and store this information for the day-to-day running of our business. Some of this ... Read / View all
  • POPIA / PAIA Manual

      Download PAIA / POPIA manual   PAIA : Access to Information In terms of your constitutional right of access to information and the Promotion of Access to Information Act (2 of 2000), you may request access to any information held by Online Brand Ambassadors, only if:- You comply with ... Read / View all
  • Cookie Use Policy

    We only use cookies to record your interaction with our website, and to restrict some of its content. We never use this information to build an identifiable profile about you, or to link this information with other identifiable information.   Cookies are small text files that websites place on your ... Read / View all
  • What can online marketing do for your business?

    Where to start with online marketing: 1.Establish credibility and trust with a professional website that is easy to access on any device 2. Sell your services and products via your website 3. Advertise to potential customers when they are searching for services and products similar to yours 4. Connect with ... Read / View all
  • Email security

    Just like the security of any digital data, managing the security of your email is not a simple matter of flipping a switch or installing an app. Rather, it is a combination of measures on both sides of the data traffic – sender and recipient. While you may have no ... Read / View all
  • Introduction to “The Ethics of Data Privacy”

    "The Ethics of Data Privacy" explores the concept, significance, and challenges of data privacy in the context of modern information and communication technology (ICT). The author argues that traditional understandings of privacy need updating due to the ways ICT has changed our relationship with personal data. Seynhaeve critiques harm-based arguments ... Read / View all
  • How we work

    Establishing and maintaining a trusting, understanding relationship with you is central to delivering our best work. Client goals, philosophy, and operations Understanding your company and establishing a trusted relationship with you are central to delivering our best work. The first step is therefore for us to get a grasp of ... Read / View all
  • Why online advertising?

    Why should you advertise a business online? What can online advertising do for your business? Establish credibility and trust with a professional website that is easy to access on any device Sell your services and products via your website Advertise to potential customers when they are searching for services and ... Read / View all
  • Data Privacy Resources

    Data privacy is protected by means of a wide web of international, national, regional and industry-specific regulations. In South Africa, the most important reference for data protection is the Protection of Personal Information Act ("POPIA"). Like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), POPIA regulates how personal information may ... Read / View all
  • The Golden Ratio

    Not much is known about the old Greek philosophers with much certainty. Some of them decided not to write anything down, while most of the works of those that decided otherwise have been destroyed, distorted, or forged in times that followed. Pythagoras, for example, did not record any of his ... Read / View all
  • Ethical Advertising

    We choose to advertise ethically, by leaving it up to our target audiences to decide (and remain in control of) which personal data they wish to share with us. This allows us to build trusted, direct relationships and long-term value with your customers.   Advertising is all about persuading people... ... Read / View all
  • iPhone website icon

    1. Open Safari on your iPhone and browse to your website. Select 2. Select Add to Home Screen 3. Add a name for your icon, and select Add For more help, check out macrumors.com | Back to OBA Client Zone Read / View all
  • Two Factor Authentication

    To help protect our websites from bots and abusive traffic, we secure the admin login of all our websites by means of two factor authentication (2FA) and Google's reCaptcha. 2FA generates a six-digit code via the Authenticator app on your phone in addition to username and password. reCaptcha does not ... Read / View all
  • The Ethics of Data Privacy

    Download from : Stellenbosch University Download from : PhilPapers The content in this book was presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy Applied Ethics Cum Laude in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, December 2022.   Technology, and ... Read / View all
  • Elevate your advertising and video projects with Jerome Arthur music

    Captivate Your Audience with Imaginative Soundscapes. Our library offers a diverse range of high-quality tracks to perfectly complement your commercial and creative projects. From stirring cinematic scores to catchy jingles and everything in between, find the ideal soundscape to hook viewers and leave a lasting impression. "Ethereal trip-hop strip teases, ... Read / View all
  • The Law on Cookies

    Cookies are small pieces of programming code that are downloaded to your device's internet browser when you visit a website. Some cookies are only installed for as long as you visit the website and expire once you close your browser ("session cookies"), while others remain installed until you manually remove ... Read / View all
  • Section 18 Notification

    Transparency about which information is being collected, who collects and gets access to the information, and for what purpose it will be used, is one of the most important principles of POPIA compliance. In fact, an entire section of POPIA is devoted to the notification obligation: Section 18. If personal ... Read / View all
  • POPIA and Direct marketing

    When you contact people in person, or by mail, or by any form of electronic communication (including automatic calling machines, fax, SMS, or email) to promote a product or service, POPIA's special "direct marketing" rules apply. In broad terms, you may electronically market your services and products to people that ... Read / View all
  • Introduction to PAIA

    The Promotion of Access to Information Act in a nutshell Download PAIA Additional resources PAIA regulates the constitutional right of 'access to information' held by public and private institutions, and stipulates conditions for how one may request access to this information.   "Everyone has the right of access to - ... Read / View all
  • Introduction to POPIA

    The Protection of Personal Information Act in a nutshell Download POPIA Additional resources POPIA is South Africa's answer to a global call for the protection of information by means of which people may be identified. Like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), POPIA regulates how that information may ... Read / View all
  • How to share personal information

    If the information you're about to share with us, is personal information (*), please add evidence of your compliance with the following. EU citizens Article 13 GDPR : Download GDPR You must notify the person you share data about, of:- your identity, your data protection officer and contact details the ... Read / View all
  • WinelandsWeb is offline

    winelandsweb.co.za was an online Cape Winelands events calendar managed by onlinebrandambassadors.com from 2010 to 2020. winelandsweb.co.za is offline until further notice Read / View all