About Us
At Optimagmedia Online, we build your brand by delivering keenly targeted messages to customised audiences across online, video, mobile, social media and print platforms. Optimagmedia Online’s expertise uses the world’s most respected technology and data platforms from companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter and combine these online platforms with a huge input of activity, adding to a traditional, print media in-your-face personal magazine to create truly differentiated campaigns that deliver bottom line results. Our campaigns are personal, effective and play out in our audience’s daily lives, delivering your message and selling your product and/or service through targeted campaigns.
FROM THE DESK OF THE CEO
At Optimagmedia Online we partner with various stakeholders and agencies to bring you a perfect optimised conduit to get your brand in the face of your buyer. By combining media platforms like traditional print with online activity, social media and the like, we create the perfect vehicle for your brand or business. We operate globally in the tourism, hospitality and fashion markets with enormous success. Our South African initiative, Best Places to Stay in SA, combines local input with world class reach – giving your guest house, hotel or lodge primary exposure in the International Diplomatic channels, filling your beds with embassy staff, diplomats, ambassadors and their families. At Optimagmedia Online we are acutely aware of the fact that your hard earned budget needs to be invested in campaigns that increase your bottom line, bringing real world results to your business and returns that multiply the original budget. Our staff are professionals that hail from all the necessary walks of life and are recognised as leaders in their respective fields. From media analysts, graphic designers, editors and branding specialists to circulation masters – the individuals that make up the team at Optimagmedia Online are all simply the best. Guaranteeing you results on every campaign.
Participate in our campaigns and share in the prosperity.
Christopher Wren
Chief Executive Officer
Optimagmedia Online
Best Places to Stay in SA
South Africa’s Diplomatic Community hosts over 87000 International visitors every month – have you claimed your share of this pie?
There are two very specific areas in South Africa that are flooded by thousands of Diplomatic visitors, Ambassadors, Diplomats, Diplomatic staff and all their visiting families and business associates every month. The President, Deputy President and the Ministers make up the executive branch of the National Government and operate from the Union Buildings in Pretoria – in the midst of the Diplomatic Belt. The bicameral Parliament of South Africa makes up the legislative branch of the National Government, and operates from The Houses of Parliament in Cape Town. The busy flow of International visitors to these two regions demand a continuous supply of accommodation.
Diplomat SA Magazine cordially invites you to participate with your establishment in the official guide to the best accommodation in SA for our Diplomatic Community. BEST PLACES TO STAY IN SA 2020 is an annual supplement to Diplomat SA Magazine and the premier guide to SA’s top Guest Houses, Boutique Hotels and places to stay.
Launched in 2010 in conjunction with The Department of International Relations & Cooperation (SA Foreign Affairs), Diplomat SA Magazine reaches into the minds and homes of foreign representatives in South Africa and South African representatives abroad, pulling them together, delivering your message. Diplomat South Africa magazine is distributed to Embassies & High Commissions, Consulates & Consulate-Generals, Honorary Consuls & Honorary Consular Agencies, Liaison Officers, Non-Resident Accreditations and International Organisations. In fact, the entire Diplomatic Community in Southern Africa. In addition, Diplomat SA magazine enjoys a special circulation to all South Africa’s Embassies, Trade Missions and other representation on foreign soil.
BEST PLACES TO STAY IN SA 2020 will be bagged with the August 2020 and October 2020 editions of Diplomat SA magazine (Circulation 20037) and enjoy an added circulation of 80000 copies to the Tourism Boards and Authorities across the world. In addition, your feature in BEST PLACES TO STAY IN SA 2020 will be trumpeted across Diplomat SA’s online properties, as an HTML formatted Google AdWords linked feature, As an eMag and across the Social Media platforms of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
If you want to put diplomatic bums into your beds, if you want to link into a stream of over a million visitors annually, BEST PLACES TO STAY IN SA 2020 is the one place your property needs to be showcased.
Our Intrepid Photographers
At Best Places to Stay in SA, we are privileged to have the incredible talents of 11 leading photographers across Southern Africa! By far the busiest is our lead photographer, Gian Geyser! We caught him in action across the country – doing his magic like no other…
Incorporating drone photography and occasionally using a lodge’s airstrip to land in his plane, Eksteen Jacobsz is not your ordinary photographer! This talented photographer covers the Greater Kruger region for Best Places to Stay in SA and has been having an enormous amount of creative fun with some high profile participants like Bateleur Safari Camp, Klaserie Drift Safari Camps, Baobab Ridge, Kapama Private Game Reserve, Jaci’s Lodges & Jaci’s Sabi House, Geiger’s Camp, Motswari, Sabi Sabi, Ivory Wilderness, Makumu Safari Lodge, Mutsami Private Bush Lodge, Naledi Game Lodge, Ezulwini Billy’s Lodge, Senalala Safari Lodge, Lukimbi Safari Lodge, Toro Yaka Bush Lodge, Umlani Bushcamp and many, many more. Eksteen continually updates the editorial team in Bryanston, Johannesburg about his adventures and all the strange happenings that come with the job. The one note that all these wild destinations have in common? In Eksteen’s own words, “they’re all just such amazing people doing extraordinary things that contribute to SA in the most amazing way, everyday!”
At the 5 Star Munro Boutique Hotel overlooking the Northern Suburbs in Johannesburg
Enjoying a break whilst shooting the incredible Lukimbi in the Kruger National Park
Finding a brilliant angle in the bath at the exquisite Leopardsong Manor in Centurion
Gian and assistant Kayla photographing sunrise at Lion’s Rock, Hazyview
Shooting a sunset at Lindani Lodges in the Waterberg Biosphere
Sneaking a cuppa on shoot at Tinyiko Kruger Lodge in Marloth Park, KNP
With the rangers at Little Mongena in Dinokeng, north of Pretoria
Having a laugh with Darryll, Tented Adventures (Pilanesberg, Kruger National Park).
Heinrich Priem (Kapama Private Game Reserve), has a passion for SA’s wildlife!
With Loek Bleeker, owner of Lengau Lodge, one of many Europeans with a love for the bush who have planted their roots on the African sub-continent.
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Contact Details
Switchboard: +27(0)87 151 4758
Email: editor@optimagmedia.co.uk
Address: SAMRO Place, 20 De Korte Street
Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2017
Gauteng, South Africa
RSA Company Reg: # K2017088834
