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No sex please - we're Metro FM
Well, perhaps not necessarily no sex talk at all, but there was one sex talk that got Metro FM all hot and bothered... The station this week banished drive time presenter T-BO Touch and his team to the naughty corner, after their interview with sex educator Jade Zwane left management squirming. 24 May 2013 10:03
Triggerfish plans to take on Disney
[Sindy Peters] All part of a 20-year plan, Triggerfish Animation aims to eventually displace Disney, announced the company's CEO Stuart Forrest at yesterday's Net Prophet conference in Cape Town. Laying the animation studio's cards on the table, his talk followed on the inspirational thread that ran through all the talks at the annual event. 24 May 2013 08:15
Decoding the creative brief
[Vanita 'Bezi Phiri] For as long as I have been working, I have heard moans and tantrums about briefs from creatives who just want to deliver fantastic results - without wasting time practising some wizardry in guessing what the brief may be entailing. 24 May 2013 05:23
Loeries announce Africa, Middle East judges, 2013 scholarship applications open
Entries to Loeries close Friday, 31 May, so get in now, as the Loeries announce the two judges from Africa and Middle East who are preparing to judge their peers. R30 of every entry into the Loeries will go towards the funding of the Creative Future Scholarship. 24 May 2013 09:30
Digital publishing paywalls to cause casualties
[Styli Charalambous] Earlier this month, one of South Africa's leading publishing houses announced its online content would be going behind a paywall. But not just any paywall: one priced so high that the walls of Jericho would struggle to compete. Time will tell whether BDFM has overestimated the South African market, and itself. 24 May 2013 07:02
Gov wants a mouthpiece? Never!
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The "government outfit vying for the Independent Group has laughed off concerns it wants a state mouthpiece," reports Mail & Guardian. So that's all right then... Not. 24 May 2013 09:12
No news is bad news
[Janine Lazarus] I recently received a petition calling for the review of the Secrecy Bill. I didn't need to read any further before adding my name - and a strong comment - to the spiraling number of citizens of this country who are entirely against a Bill that threatens fundamental rights like the freedom of speech. 24 May 2013 06:12
AdReview winners announced
The AdReview winners was announced on Thursday, 16 May 2013, and Joe Public saw its efforts rewarded with the AdReview Agency of the Year award. 23 May 2013 22:02
Mindshare South Africa wins Purple Head award
[Issued by Mindshare] Mindshare South Africa has been named Office of the Year 2012 for the EMEA region, recognising our continued financial growth and commitment to fostering talent in the media industry locally. 24 May 2013 10:45
Wild Island receives a brand and packaging upgrade
[Issued by Red Crown Design] South African beverage manufacturer, The Ceres Beverage Company, approached Cape Town-based strategic design agency, Red Crown, to evaluate and to upgrade their existing Wild Island range of concentrated fruit juice blends. 24 May 2013 11:01
Remaining relevant as a PR/communication agency in a tech-driven world
[Marie Yossava, Issued by Grapevine Communications] Grapevine was registered in the mid-1990s, and as such, experienced the advent of the internet and South Africa's transformation into a democracy. 24 May 2013 11:36
Hyundai South Africa partners with World Wide Creative to launch new website
[Issued by World Wide Creative] World Wide Creative, integrated digital marketing agency and part of JSE-listed Sekunjalo Investments Limited, recently launched Hyundai's new website for the South African region. 24 May 2013 08:18
AMASA looks at client agency relationships
[Issued by AMASA] On Wednesday, 5 June, the Advertising Media Association tackles the topic "client and agency relationships" to discuss whether businesses are geared for multiple agency partnerships. 24 May 2013 12:04
Nominations for Women in the Media broadens categories
The August issue of The Media magazine will feature the 2013 Women in Media awards and this year the categories have been extended to encourage more nominations of women who have changed the roles and status of women around them, influenced business plans, content and legislation. 24 May 2013 09:55
Looking back at Africa's biggest travel trade show - Indaba 2013
[Anélia Marais, Issued by GL events Oasys] Indaba is one of the largest tourism marketing events on the African calendar and one of the top three 'must visit' events of its kind on the global calendar. 24 May 2013 09:39

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DOHA, UAE: Al-Jazeera is the Middle East and North Africa's most-watched Arabic-language television channel, according to an independent survey, the Qatar-based broadcaster said earlier this week. 24 May 2013 10:13


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Côte D'Ivoire may be one of the few places where birther conspiracies run hotter than in America. For decades, opponents of the president, Alassane Ouattara, have accused him of hailing from neighboring Burkina Faso. They successfully exploited the controversy to keep him off the ballot in the 1995 and 2000 presidential elections. When he triumphed in the 2010 election, supporters of the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, blamed their man's defeat on hordes of "non-Ivorian" Ouattara voters. 24 May 2013 12:03


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