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Empowering womxn in food with new conference FOOD XX
Empowering womxn in food with new conference FOOD XX

FOOD XX, a brand new food conference, brought to you by Studio H will be launching in Cape Town next year...

By Ruth Cooper 3 hours ago

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The rise of the internet class

Lately, I have been followed. The man who is following me has good hair and dead eyes. It would seem wherever I go on the internet, he pops up. He is young, very young, but is constantly telling me that he has the wisdom and the secret stuff that can help me...

By Damon Stapleton 5 hours ago

Q&A with Johannes Ferdinand about film The Recce
Q&A with Johannes Ferdinand about film The Recce

Writer-director Johannes Ferdinand 'Ferdi' van Zyl shares a few thoughts with Daniel Dercksen about his astounding film The Recce, a film that poignantly shows that without a past, there is no future...

By Daniel Dercksen 5 hours ago

Chris Moerdyk
A great new way of getting consumers to love your brand

Never before in the history of mankind has it been more difficult to get public attention as it is right now. And its driving brand managers to distraction...

By Chris Moerdyk, Issued by Chris Moerdyk 6 hours ago

General manager for the Middle East and Africa, Amanda Turnbull.
The evolution of Discovery in Africa

Discovery Inc talks about investment in the African broadcast content market through diversification and a multi-partner model...

By Louise Marsland 1 day ago

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#OrchidsandOnions: From Japan with love

Carmaker Toyota gets our heritage right with a giant bead ad, but Tonneau King's bakkie braaiers are just plain stupid...

By Brendan Seery 1 day ago

Recession hit your marketing budget? Here's how to do more with less
Recession hit your marketing budget? Here's how to do more with less

Stats SA's recession announcement in early September only served to confirm what we've all known for a long time: The South African economy is struggling. In those circumstances, companies are bound to start looking for places to tighten their belts...

By Shaune Jordaan 1 day ago

Presenting creative: Unpack your thinking first - or run 100 laps
Presenting creative: Unpack your thinking first - or run 100 laps

As creatives, we often face the daunting task of having to present our work to a client...

By Chélin Ramos 1 day ago

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Top 5 reasons why South Africans make memorable marketing: #HeritageDay

I recently gave a cause marketing presentation to Amasa in Cape Town at the Red and Yellow School and it struck me that there's a unique synergy between our diversity and our advertising. So, in honour of Heritage Month here are my top five reasons why South Africans make memorable marketing...

By Sheila McGillivray 2 days ago

Today's the day...
Today's the day...

How many brands sent out 'Happy Heritage Day' messages yesterday and what were they hoping to achieve by doing so?...

By Mick Shepard and Nick Liatos 2 days ago

Presentations: The marketing factor
Presentations: The marketing factor

Have you ever sat in a presentation or pitch wishing it would be over? The answer that I believe 99.9% of people will reply with is a resounding YES...

By Keenan Bouwer 21 Sep 2018

Cassandra Twala on this year's Sanlam Handmade Contemporary Fair
Cassandra Twala on this year's Sanlam Handmade Contemporary Fair

Jessica Tennant interviews fair curator Cassandra Twala to find out more about her involvement in the Sanlam Handmade Contemporary Fair over the years and what she's most excited about this year...

By Jessica Tennant 21 Sep 2018

How to future-proof Africa
How to future-proof Africa

Solutions to problems often require a change in behaviour, which in turn leads to other inventions. The result is a wheel that is spinning faster and faster, and one that is creating anxiety - more recently about jobs...

By Danette Breitenbach 21 Sep 2018

Chatbots are the future of customer communications
Chatbots are the future of customer communications

Two technologies that are set to have a particularly big impact on customer communication going forward are chatbots and machine learning...

By Brent Haumann 20 Sep 2018

#Newsmaker: Kia Johnson joins Smile 90.4FM
#Newsmaker: Kia Johnson joins Smile 90.4FM

Kia Johnson recently joined Smile 90.4FM, co-hosting the Saturday Smile Breakfast with JM Henning from 7am to 10am, and as the host of Smile Cape Town Classics from 9pm to 11pm on Saturdays. In addition to this, she also presents Women TV on DStv Channel 263...

By Jessica Tennant 20 Sep 2018

The biggest lessons brands can learn from music artists
The biggest lessons brands can learn from music artists

Siphiwe Mpeta tackles the topic of personal branding by using music as a frame of reference...

By Siphiwe Mpeta 19 Sep 2018

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#OrchidsandOnions: Nike's Caster Semenya ad just does it

Great marketing is one thing, poor customer service and incompetence is another - and that's why Telkom gets both an Orchid and an Onion this week...

By Brendan Seery 18 Sep 2018

6 top tips for effective customer engagement on mobile
6 top tips for effective customer engagement on mobile

Speaking at this year's annual PriceCheck Awards ceremony, CEO Kevin Tucker noted that the Tech and E-commerce Awards are more important than ever before...

By Lynette Hundermark 18 Sep 2018

Progressive companies should turn CX into a competitive advantage
Progressive companies should turn CX into a competitive advantage

Decision-makers need to understand that to use Customer Experience (CX) for competitive advantage, their customer-facing staff must be ready to switch hats on the fly and do so flawlessly...

By Chantel Troskie 17 Sep 2018

A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: Everything's coming up roses
A South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta: Everything's coming up roses

One of the charming oddities of living on a Mediterranean island is that a facet of national identity and indeed islander mentality manifests in how news is reported...

By Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 14 Sep 2018

Keeping within the boundaries: Ethical marketing automation
Keeping within the boundaries: Ethical marketing automation

Marketing Automation Systems (MAS) might seem like good software to have in order to send out bulk email and/or SMS campaigns. However, it should be so much more...

By Gareth Mountain 14 Sep 2018

The Citizen photographer, Jacques Nelles, named Upcoming/Rising Star. © Danette Breitenbach.
#SBSJA18: A celebration of verified journalism

This year's Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards celebrated journalism and its contribution to the country's society and democracy with the Gupta Leaks articles awarded the prestigious South African Story of the Year...

By Danette Breitenbach 14 Sep 2018

Joe Public founders named 2018 Medium Business Entrepreneur of the Year
Joe Public founders named 2018 Medium Business Entrepreneur of the Year

Joe Public founders Pepe Marais and Gareth Leck were announced as 2018 Medium Business Entrepreneur of the Year at this year's Entrepreneur of the Year competition sponsored by Sanlam and Business/Partners. This just off the back of being announced Loeries 2018 Agency of the Year...

By Jessica Tennant 14 Sep 2018

Website automation: The beginning of the end?
Website automation: The beginning of the end?

In today's world, everyone needs an online presence for their company or brand, for those that say otherwise I say good luck to you...

By Keenan Bouwer 13 Sep 2018

Happy 20th Birthday, Google!
Happy 20th Birthday, Google!

September 2018 marks the celebration of 20 years of Google...

By Evan-Lee Courie 13 Sep 2018

#Newsmaker: Trevor Ndhlovu positioned to kick off Black River FC 2.0
#Newsmaker: Trevor Ndhlovu positioned to kick off Black River FC 2.0

Trevor Ndhlovu was promoted to MD of Black River FC less than a year after joining the agency, having played an important part to date in the acquisition of new clients...

By Jessica Tennant 13 Sep 2018

Can Nikes really help you run faster?
Can Nikes really help you run faster?

A new study on branding has a surprising answer...

By Doron Malka 13 Sep 2018

The audience at the Heavy Chef Sextech event of which the first part was presented by Heidi Patmore. Image: Heavy Chef.
#Sextech: Chatbots, sex robots and impact on society (Part 2)

Heavy Chef invited Heidi Patmore, to talk about an incendiary topic: sextech, and how it is irrevocably impacting our lives...

By Juanita Pienaar 12 Sep 2018

The tango of Donald Trump and Nike
The tango of Donald Trump and Nike

Outrage. Hatred. These are not normally words you would say are the way forward for a brand. In the past, a brand has always tried to have a position that was not controversial. A position where you attacked your competitors and nobody else. You stayed in your lane. Stuck to your knitting...

By Damon Stapleton 12 Sep 2018

Remember to remember me - making advertising stick
Remember to remember me - making advertising stick

Louise Hefer shares five rules to keep in mind when trying to build lasting impressions in advertising...

By Louise Hefer 12 Sep 2018

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