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Today, Thursday, 10 December 2009, sees the launch of the first session of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council Advisory Board Caucus. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
 Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) hosted Soccerex '09, one of the leading events for the global football industry, for the third consecutive year from 28 November to 2 December. With just six months to go before the FIFA 2010 event, soccer excitement was in full swing among enthusiasts from all over the world. Read more >>Advertising
Fire Tree Design and Goldswain Global Advertising have joined forces and will operate out of new offices at Westway Office Park in Westville, Durban. Both entities, whilst sharing premises, will initially run as individual units to allow amalgamation of skills and resources to take their natural course over a period. Read more >>Advertisement: Evalu8ing, which is said to provide an accurate summary of the current perceptions, level of communication and performance within and between the client and its agencies, is being released in South Africa through the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company (IAS). Read more >> Checkers' National Supplier of the Year in the Service Provider category has been won by ad agency, ninety9cents, beating three other nominees. Read more >>Branding | | Idea Engineers will grow your brand, reputation & business. | |  |
 [Naseem Javed] Suddenly some explosively positive and futuristically pragmatic policies about the Internet and global e-commerce are creating amazing galaxies of business naming. With already 1.7 billion online users and 1 billion more on its way, the new business naming capabilities befitting advance and intricate platforms of global cyber branding provide mega opportunities. Read more >>Cinema
Earlier this week saw the South African première of Clint Eastwood's Invictus, starring Academy Award winners Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The South African cast includes Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng, Matt Stern, Leleti Khumalo and Marguerite Wheatley as Francois Pienaar's wife. Read more >>Education and Training
 The six winners of the ‘Milk My Mind' creative campaign are Busisiwe Cindi, Werner Griesel and Kyle Brinkmann, who won three days with an industry expert of their choice, whether film, animation or audio engineering, and Katlego Mfolo, Ben Sondlane and Candice Lind, who have each been awarded bursaries worth R25 000. Read more >>Eventing |  |
 [Daniel Janks] When's the last time you heard a really good speech? I don't just mean a speech that didn't make you want kill yourself with the nearest table-spoon, but a really good speech that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, or one that made your heart beat faster. Read more >>Magazines |  |
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] It has been a difficult year for print, particularly magazines, which nevertheless displayed an amazing resilience… some titles succumbed, but the vast majority survived, albeit bruised. Bizcommunity.com caught up with Jonathan Harris, CEO and co-founder of Thought24, publisher of True Love, Move and Move Parent, to find out how his ‘brood' had survived the storm. Read more >>Media | | Recruitment - Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Media Sales | |  |
NEWSWATCH: A newly formed body claiming to represent black electronic component manufacturers wants half of the decoder manufacturing chain - or else, reports Business Report. Read more >>Radio |  |
Double beauty at Miss South Africa pageantMiss South Africa beauty pageant, which will be broadcast live on SABC3 this Sunday from 7.30pm, will have two well-known hosts, former Miss South Africa and Top Billing presenter Jo-Ann Strauss and Metro FM's Penny Lebyane. Lebyane's primary duty is to provide behind the scenes insight at what it takes to be a Miss SA finalist.Recruitment | | Recruitment - Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Media Sales | |  |
Digital, marketing recruitment from ITOIT recruitment specialists ITO Resources has launched a dedicated division specialising in digital and marketing positions, it announced on Wednesday, 9 December 2009. Run by Natalie Gordon, it will focus on new media positions such as digital marketers, mobile marketers and related positions.Research
Archives send plea to ministerThe Archival Platform, a non-profit networking, advocacy and research initiative in South Africa, has sent an appeal to arts and culture minister Lulu Xingwana over issues surrounding South Africa's archives and heritage. Its latest campaign, ‘Letters to Lulu,' emphasises issues such as a lack of strategic thinking about the sector, under-funding and understaffing of archives and an inconsistent approach among officials to applying heritage laws and digitising heritage records. The Archival Platform is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies. For more, go to www.archivalplatform.org, follow it on Twitter at @The_archive and become a fan on Facebook. Sponsorship
A partnership between BBC Lifestyle and Checkers will be running for a period of 10 weeks, it was announced yesterday Wednesday 9 December 2009. Checkers will sponsor the programme's Full on Food stand, which features enticing new gastronomic series from popular chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver and Heston Blumenthal. Read more >>Marketing
When Strats Inc opened its doors ten years ago, who in the industry would have predicted it would grow into one of South Africa's most prestigious strategic marketing companies? Philip Hendrickse, MD, looks back at the highlights of a decade's journey. Read more >>Advertising
 The year-long legal battle between Alberto-Culver SA and Procter & Gamble SA has finally come to a conclusion, in the Final Appeal Committee of the ASA, on 30 November, with the ruling that TRESemme hair products advertisements were not misleading. Read more >>Branding
 [Michael Gullan] The media landscape is becoming more fragmented while communications agencies are becoming more specialised. The result? A greater rift between disciplines. Read more >>For better or worse, Kevin Kleynhans (Kong Kuan Fu) is back in South Africa after a year-long sojourn in Shanghai as 360 degree creative director for all Unilever brands at Ogilvy China. Read more >>Digital | | Your source of digital advertising | |  |
 On hearing that the children from the Ram Kamp settlement outside of Kleinfontein were in need of Christmas presents, Sisha.com Systems stepped in and spread the Christmas cheer. Read more >>Advertisement:  When people online write stuff about you, you should know about it fast enough to be able to respond - especially if it's negative stuff. Why is this important? Here are four damn good reasons... Read more >>Education and Training
 The 5th Annual Broadband Summit will be taking place on the 29-31 March 2010. Every year, the summit provides insight into the latest regulatory, technology and business developments within the broadband sphere. Read more >>Eventing
 The month of November has been exciting for Attica, as they have been lucky to be involved in several excellent and prestigious events: the international golf competition Gary Player Invitational, Samsung's new phone launch, as well as the Von Zipper industry party. Read more >> Flying Pigs added another dimension and created extra traffic through Afripack stand at the recent Packaging Expo at Nasrec. They did this by getting two gorgeous girls, putting them in skimpy bikinis and painting the Afripack logo onto their nubile bodies. Read more >>Online Media | | Online Media section proudly sponsored by | |  |
Acceleration Media has been appointed the exclusive Radian6 strategic partner for South Africa. Read more >>Out Of Home |  |
 SP Media recently completed 23 fully wrapped Metrobuses with the new Visa “Go Fans” campaign creative in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Read more >>Production
 This week, in the Mojave Desert just north of Los Angeles, history is being made with the roll-out of SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial, passenger-carrying spaceship. Here in Johannesburg it may seem like distant news, but there is an unexpected connection to local commercial production company Terraplane. Read more >>
 [Ruth Cooper] Unfortunately Sunday night's Killers concert at the Val Di Vie Polo Estate in Franshoek was greatly marred by bad organisation and ridiculous traffic issues and after having a look at some post reviews on other sites it seems that there are quite a few disappointed and angry people out there. Quite understandable considering that R269 - R526 needed to be forked out on a ticket , a good few km's needed to be walked to get to the venue, many who on arrival found the band to have started, drink queues to be almost as daunting as the traffic queues, or were told that no alcohol would be served during the performance (if lucky enough to score entrance to the VIP bar).
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Featured jobs Leading brand Getaway is offering a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional Adsales Executive to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate must have relevant media sales experience. Read more >>
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Boutique online marketing company with fantastic skills and proven ability in delivering results have a vacancy for a Pay Per Click campaign manager to join our Cape Town team. Read more >>
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