ABOUT

A production company that speaks brand.

Homestead Media is the commercial arm of Homestead Productions, a Cape Town production house making TV and digital content for South Africa's major broadcasters.

Our story

Homestead started in 2022 with a simple idea: make honest, warm, human television that people actually want to watch.

Along the way we noticed something. Brands wanted in, but the usual route was messy, with an agency selling a slot, a producer squeezing it in and nobody owning the result. So we built Homestead Media to do it properly. One team sells the idea, makes the content and stands behind the numbers.

We're based in Cape Town and work across the country, in English and Afrikaans.

THE TEAM

Johan Ackerman

Founder & Managing Director

TV producer with more than 15 years making entertainment and reality formats for kykNET, VIA, SABC, e.tv and ITV UK. Johan has spent his career where creative production meets commercial deal-making, structuring sponsorship, AFP and barter partnerships that work for the brand and the show.

Bobby van Jaarsveld

Founding Partner

Bobby has spent 20 years in front of South African audiences as a recording artist, TV personality and actor. He's sold platinum, won SAMA and Ghoema awards, coached on The Voice South Africa and appeared across a long list of TV shows. He has also worked with many brands as an ambassador, so he knows both sides of a partnership: what a brand needs from a campaign, and what an audience will actually believe. At Homestead Media he sits in the room with brands from the first meeting to launch day and, where it fits, fronts the work on screen.

Real people over polish.
Say what it costs.
Brand in the story, not on it.

Got a brand with a story to tell?

Let's talk about where it belongs. Coffee's on us.

Book a coffeejohan@homesteadmedia.co.za