|  | [Walter Pike] General Motors (GM), the third biggest advertising spender in the US, has announced that it would no longer be allocating any budget to Facebook advertising because paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers' car purchases, according to a GM official. This news has had the web buzzing with wildly differing views. Here's my take. |
| [Paul Vecchiatto] Staff of the country's largest English language publishing group Independent News & Media SA (INMSA) remains fretful over possible job cuts despite an opaque denial by CEO Tony Howard. |
 | NEWSWATCH: The SABC has announced that it has guaranteed the coverage of national soccer matches for the next three years, reports Business Day. |
 | [Charisse Nel] Retainer has become an ugly word... say the word "retainer" in a client meeting and you feel the temperature drop, eyes are averted and you know you just said something wrong. Once retainers were the only ways that agencies operated; now it seems that fewer and fewer clients are willing to commit themselves to one agency for an extended period of time. |
   NEW YORK, US: The awards evening for the winners of the 2012 CLIO Awards, one of the world's most recognised awards competitions honouring excellence in advertising, design and communications, was held last night. Among the winners - out of more than 11 000 submissions from around the world, were a number of South African entries. 16 May 2012 12:31 To provide a bridge between capped and uncapped services, @lantic is offering its Uncapped Bolt-On package, an after-hours uncapped service for its capped ADSL customers. It complements the recently launched ADSL 626 ADSL top-up package, which offers a once-off 10 GB package valid for three months. 16 May 2012 12:13NEW YORK, US: South African individual and group agencies that won in the print, radio, TV, posters, innovative marketing, integrated branding, design and interactive categories at the One Club Show 2012 have been announced. 16 May 2012 11:48 CNBC Africa, the pan-African financial and business channel, will celebrate five years of continental business broadcasting across Africa on 1 June 2012. 16 May 2012 11:42 The 2012 MDDA/Sanlam Local Media Awards will be handed out this Friday, 18 May 2012, at a gala dinner at the Coastlands Umhlanga Hotel, Durban. 16 May 2012 11:27News from Biz Company Press Offices Random House Struik [Ian Mann] Say goodbye to boring annual strategy retreats and pointless strategy documents that fail to grasp the uniqueness of your organisation. With the help of Strategy that Works, your strategy will become your organisation's culture - applicable, accessible and implementable by all. 16 May 2012 11:56 NATIVEDo you remember the days when you would search through the job section of the newspaper? Are these days gone? Are online job posts on advertising career websites still effective in attracting the right talent? Should HR professionals be educating themselves on the new buzz words - social recruiting? 16 May 2012 10:51 Expo Solutions The industry pulled it together last week and delivered a knock out Tourism Indaba, this despite the build-up time being shortened by one day for stand contractors and two full days for the Expo Solutions team. 16 May 2012 10:05 EtiketEtiket, a multi-award winning, Irene-based advertising agency, will this year again be responsible for the audiovisual production of the industry's illustrious Pendoring Advertising Awards held for the first time - since its inception in 1994 - in Cape Town. 16 May 2012 09:25 The Learning TheatreTo many managers, managing people is one of the most problematic areas in their skills set to acquire. And in South Africa with our diversity of people and cultures a manager needs to have hair on his, or her, teeth to cross the cultural minefield without stepping on toes or alienating half the workforce and causing a riot or a strike through some inadvertent remark. 16 May 2012 09:19 Front FootCommunity business leaders can access the knowledge and experience of world-renowned leaders by attending the 2012 Satellite Chick-fil-A Leadercast at The Forum in Johannesburg, CTICC in Cape Town, Sibaya Casino and Entertainment Kingdom in Durban and Summerstrand Hotel in Port Elizabeth. 16 May 2012 06:46 ADreach With just a few weeks left until the 31 May entry deadline, ADreach is fully behind this year's Loerie entrants, sponsoring both the Street Pole Ad category and Integrated Campaign category. 16 May 2012 06:40 Latest jobs| Featured jobs |  | Marketing Manager - Cayenne, Kyalami Join a leading multi-franchise motorcycle dealership and manage facets of the marketing diverse business. | |  | Operations Manager - Cayenne, Kyalami Energetic with a passion for sales and marketing. | |
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