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Big winners on the final night of #CannesLions2018!

#CannesLions2018: Good, Film and Impact Lions winners!

The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity concluded on 22 June, with the 2018 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Lions, Creative Effectiveness Lions, Film Lions and the associated Young Lions, Glass Lions, Titanium Lions and overall Grand Prix for Good announced during the final Cannes Lions award ceremony...

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#CannesLions2018: Good, Film and Impact Lions winners!

Cause marketing for millennials

As marketers, we have long championed cause marketing programs as an impactful way for brands and companies to get involved, but our programs can go further by evolving them from "nice-to-dos" to "must-dos." Fundamentally, we should strive to create long-term, purpose-driven programs that allow brands and companies to do well while doing good...

By mamahlatse marokane 3 days ago

#CannesLions2018: SDG Lions shortlist

The Cannes Lions Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Lions shortlist has been released, with an SA entry making the grade...

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Building the Shared Value ecosystem in Africa - Insights from 2018 Africa Shared Value Summit

One of the strongest themes of the 2018 Africa Shared Value was the importance of businesses investing in the creation of sustainable Shared Value ecosystems for long-term success...

Issued by Shift Social Development 18 Jun 2018

#CannesLions2018: Glass Lions shortlist

The Cannes Lions Glass Lions for change shortlist has been released, with SA seeing a single entry make it to the final round at Cannes Lions 2018!

18 Jun 2018

Publicis Johannesburg's Kaylee Germann and Prince Zwane, leaving for Cannes to take part in the global Young Lions film challege.

#CannesLions2018: Ready to roar with SA pride!

Prince Zwane and Kaylee Germann of Publicis Johannesburg were selected as the winning team in Cinemark's Young Lions competition held earlier this year. As a result, they're now flying out to Cannes to represent the country in a week of creative inspiration....

15 Jun 2018

Thank you, Western Cape!

Heart FM paid homage to the youth of the Western Cape with its 16 Days For Youth initiative to uplift and lend a hand in communities where help is most needed...

Issued by Heart FM 13 Jun 2018

34° opens up the conversation around mental illness and depression

Mental illness and depression is sadly something that still carries a lot of stigma and in South Africa this is especially true with many cultural taboos being prevalent...

Issued by 34° 13 Jun 2018

Mike Sharman, Retroviral co-founder, CEO and chief creative strategist and Shaka Sisulu, entrepreneur and founder of digital and social media agency Plum. Image supplied.

Shaka Sisulu acquires 51% stake in Retroviral Digital Communications

Entrepreneur, Shaka Sisulu has announced that he has acquired a 51% stake in Retroviral Digital Communications...

13 Jun 2018

Global inequalities and the digital future dissected by media

This week around 2,000 guests from 100 countries will discuss various aspects of 'Global Inequalities' at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (GMF) in Bonn, Germany...

12 Jun 2018

African Development Bank launches Coding for Employment programme

The African Development Bank, together with partners, launched the Coding for Employment programme at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda...

12 Jun 2018

#NewCampaign: Cosmopolitan SA petitions to end tampon tax

Cosmopolitan South Africa has launched a petition to end tampon tax, calling all women to campaign against period poverty in South Africa...

By Jessica Tennant 12 Jun 2018

#Newsmaker: Sarah Browning-de Villiers joins Publicis Machine

Sarah Browning-de Villiers, former deputy editor at Cosmopolitan SA and the gal behind its #TamponTaxMustFall campaign, recently joined Publicis Machine as chief content officer in the narrative content marketing team...

By Jessica Tennant 12 Jun 2018

Is Siri sexist?

We rely heavily on systems and tools that are fed by data collected and collated by humans...

By Megan Sayle 8 Jun 2018

Going green... and other marketing trends discussed at Madex 2018

Going green is one of the major trends that marketers are seeing in the retail space, and part of a changing marketing landscape...

Issued by Madex 8 Jun 2018

100 trees, 100 schools, 100 years

In an exciting initiative this World Environment Day, East Coast Radio presenter Damon Beard has been helped deliver 100 trees to around 100 schools across KwaZulu-Natal...

Issued by East Coast Radio 7 Jun 2018

Temitope Iluyemi, associate director, global government relations, Procter & Gamble.

Brands need to lead gender equality in Africa

Gender equality is a powerful driver for change and prosperity on the African continent, but brands need to take a leadership role...

By Temitope Iluyemi 7 Jun 2018

How to balls-up a brand with blatant misogyny (Updated)

If you're someone who loves a bit of stereotypical gender bashing you're in for a real treat. If not, buckle up for this sexist, crass, offensive bottled misogyny featuring Vale Bru - a lekker microbrewery with really kiff okes running rampant while calling themselves brewers...

By Shae Leigh 6 Jun 2018

Riverbed disrupts responsible drinking PSA category

The much-anticipated Aware 'Choices' campaign by Riverbed presents a more positive persuasion by giving context to the notion that, when you drink, you should drink like there is a tomorrow...

Issued by Riverbed 6 Jun 2018

Alliance Media joins the mission to help bring clean water to communities in need

663 million people in the world live without clean water. That's nearly one in 10 people worldwide. For people in developing countries, clean water can change everything...

Issued by Alliance Media 6 Jun 2018

Deputy minister of Department of Social Development, Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu and Ingrid Louw, CEO of Aware.org. Image supplied.

Aware.org launches responsible drinking campaign

The new consumer campaign of the Association for Alcohol Responsibility and Education (Aware.org) turns the saying "drink like there's no tomorrow" on its head...

By Danette Breitenbach 1 Jun 2018

Heart FM closes its doors to lend a helping hand

As Youth Month kicks off, Heart FM will be paying homage to the youth of the Western Cape with its 16 Days For Youth initiative to uplift and lend a hand in communities where help is most needed...

Issued by Heart FM 1 Jun 2018

The One Club and MullenLowe launch Fight Gunfire With Fire, inspired by student activism

MullenLowe CCO Mark Wenneker and The One Club CEO Kevin Swanepoel team with programme founding partners Susan Hoffman at Wieden+Kennedy and Ida Woldemichael at Everytown for Gun Safety along with Psyop, Exile and others to transform student creative work into public campaigns...

1 Jun 2018

Stand up against gun violence, this Friday

The people of KwaZulu-Natal are urged to wear orange on Friday, 1 June 2018, to stand up against gun violence and show their support for victims of gun violence...

Issued by East Coast Radio 31 May 2018

The 'Uber of volunteering' has arrived in the Mother City

After launching in Johannesburg almost a year ago, MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet and Better SA have announced...

31 May 2018

Future-proofing events - one eventuality you can expect

While future-proofing can seem quite daunting - how can you foresee new services such as Airbnb and Uber which disrupt whole industries? - there is one increasingly obvious future concern that the events industry (and other industries, too) can acknowledge and start adapting for now...

Issued by Scan Display 31 May 2018

#NewBiz: The Odd Number to launch Stadio's Multiversity concept

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