Marketing & Media, Advertising, Branding, Cinema, CRM, CSI, Design, Digital, Direct Marketing, Education & Training, Events & Conferencing, Exhibitions, Magazines, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Newspapers, Online Media, OOH, PR & Communications, Printing, Production, Promotions, Publishing, Radio, Recruitment, Research, Retail, Sales, Sponsorship, TEDxCapeTown, Trends, TV, Youth Marketing |
 | Today's top stories |
| At last night's award ceremony for Media, Mobile and Outdoor, South Africa was honoured with one Gold Lion, two Silver Lions, and seven Bronze Lions in the Media and Outdoor categories. (video) Read more >>
|
|
Tess Sulaman Not too long ago, I came across the concept of quantum entanglement, which if you like is a kind of romance at a particle level, which translates into lifelong attachment by particles. Read more >> | Thomas Oosthuizen When you buy a Nespresso coffee machine, you do not buy a coffee machine. You buy into a system of consumer benefits. Or what I would call an "ecosystem "of related offers. Read more >> | With South Africa making the cut in four of the five categories, herewith the Cyber, Design, Product Design, Press and Radio shortlists. Winners in these categories will be announced tonight, Wednesday, 18 June 2014. (video) Read more >> |
|
| | |
 | Tune in to the Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show on Thursday, 19 June from 9am-10am as we chat to Mike Saunders, CEO of Digitlab. [twitterfall] Read more >>
| |
 | The deadline for application for the Loeries Creative Future Scholarship is 20 June and the deadline for entries to the Adams & Adams Young Creatives Award is 30 June 2014. Read more >>
| | |
 | Issued by Platypus Platypus Productions' director, Ian Chuter, has had his busiest start to a year yet, cementing his position as one of South Africa's leading food specialists with back-to-back campaigns for the likes of McDonalds, Royco Africa, Snowflake, and Woolworths. Read more >>
|  | Issued by June15 Brand Movement When ArcelorMittal South Africa approached June15 to develop a through-the-line campaign for the company's remarkable skills development program, the challenge to the agency was to come up with an insight that rings true in the South African context. Read more >>
|  | Issued by Mortimer Harvey Mortimer Harvey has announced the appointment of three new directors to its board of directors. Read more >>
| |
 | Sanlam has revealed its reinvigorated brand and new positioning. The refresh includes a new pay-off line, Wealthsmiths, updated logo and simplified brand architecture. Read more >>
|
|
|
 | Alexis Azzie, Issued by Amorphous CSR is a business buzzword for some, but it should be made more commonplace amongst all business owners. CSR is predominantly responsible for ensuring that a business is beneficial to the economic, social and environmental context within which it operates. Read more >>
| |
 | Graeme Wilson Most stereotypes are absolute hogwash. Some, however, are born from some small seed of truth. Read more >>
|  | Issued by Bizcommunity.com Following on the positively received 2013 site design changes, today sees the launch of an improved masthead interface for Bizcommunity, designed to offer easier access to content across its 20 industry news portals. Read more >>
| |
 | Arthur Goldstuck Few technology topics generate as much noise as wearables, mostly to do with brands known for their consumer products, such as Samsung, Sony and Apple. Read more >>
|  | Issued by Hellocomputer A better understanding of exactly when a brand's potential audience is online and most receptive and responsive to content - gained through access to and better analysis of data - would go a long way to assisting social media managers combat the dwindling organic reach figures coming out of Facebook. Read more >>
|  | Issued by World Wide Creative On 24 June, Heavy Chef, the practical learning initiative by digital agency World Wide Creative will host Unradio's founder, President Gareth Cliff. Read more >>
| |
 | Following the success of its inaugural webinar, Adapt To Change will hold another free webinar on 26 June 2014 from 7pm - 8:30pm, entitled 'Leading to Succeed'. Read more >>
|
|
 | Issued by GetSmarter The University of Cape Town (UCT), in partnership with online education company, GetSmarter, has launched the continent's first two postgraduate diplomas to be delivered online, in blended learning format. Read more >>
| |
 | Issued by Grind Mobile Coffee Grind Mobile Experience was once again on the ground at Markex in the Sandton Convention Centre last week, bringing a new product to the market. Read more >>
| |
 | Issued by Thebe Reed Exhibitions The retirement age is not what it used to be; cronuts are the new cupcake and we're moving towards a gender-free world. These are just a few of the lifestyle trends to be picked up on by Dion Chang of Flux Trends at the Caesarstone Design and Trend Forecast at Decorex Joburg in August this year. Read more >>
| |
 | Issued by iShack Digital Consultancy Wouldn't it be great if we could get an app tailored to our business needs? iShack Digital Consultancy is a game-changer in innovative mobile and tablet business solutions through the development of applications, which has revolutionised businesses that benefit from such apps. Read more >>
|  | Issued by Mobile Marketing Association The MMA has released an interactive creative framework on how to build and execute the most effective mobile campaigns. The insights included are the result of an in-depth analysis of over 450 global mobile campaigns, including the winners in the MMA's annual Smarties Global Mobile Awards Program. Read more >>
| | |
 | Ned Brody, Issued by Apurimac Over the past year, Yahoo has reinvented nearly all of its products to be more visually stunning and effortless for audiences, and the company has always believed that the advertising experience should be just as beautiful and engaging. Read more >>
| |
 | Issued by TNS South Africa TNS took Gold and Silver, as well as Best First Time Speakers, at the annual South African Marketing Research Association (SAMRA) conference award ceremony on Friday night. Read more >>
|
|  | OTTAWA, CANADA: Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry announced the release of new "enhanced security" for its popular BBM messaging service, aiming to win back corporate users with high security needs such as banks. Read more >>
|  | MUMBAI, INDIA: Thousands of Indians have joined an online campaign aiming to clean Facebook of content they consider offensive, raising fears they are trying to "morally police" the social networking site. Read more >>
|  | PARIS, FRANCE: Domino's Pizza refused to cave in to a €30,000 extortion demand by hackers who claimed they had stolen the personal data of 600,000 of its customers. Read more >>
|  | WASHINGTON, USA: Facebook released a new instant messaging app that enables users to send photos or video to selected friends who will only be able to see or view them once they send an image back. Read more >>
|
More International
|
|  | The Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry welcomed President Zuma's commitment to a growth rate of 5% by 2019 and improved service delivery but has concerns about how this is to be achieved. Read more >>
|  | The University of Cape Town is the only South African university in the Top 10 universities in the Brics economic bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Read more >>
|  | Several of Zuma's Cabinet colleagues comment on the president's State of The Nation Address to the nation last night. Read more >>
| | |
More Government news
|
| - SV Agency appoints new promotions head - more info
- Isiko Media appoints business manager - more info
|
More people Submit a Person
|
|  | Mark 1, a cutting edge digital media business has an exciting opportunity for a motivated sales executive to join their dynamic, ever-expanding team. Read more >> |
We are looking for a young, dynamic person to join our team in working on exciting sponsorship properties. Read more >>
| |
| AdForumFuture Group - 27 Jun 2014 Johannesburg |
|  Our first IMM Friday Session for 2014 in Durban.Three of South Africa's top marketers and strategists will challenge and stimulate you to do things smarter. Read more >>Source AfricaSource Africa - 18 Jun 2014 to 20 Jun 2014 Cape Town | |
| Victoria Holt "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." |
More quotes Submit a Quote
|
|
 | Print any item in this newsletter. |
 | Email any item in this newsletter. |
 | Comment on any item in this newsletter. |
|
|
| The following companies have opened press offices on Bizcommunity.com! Vicinity Media is Africa's first true Premium location based ad network. An Android-based desktop replacement that delivers the rich environment of Android, and any Windows applications you need. Access to both Business and Personal Apps within Google's PlayStore, with over 1 Million applications. We are a through the line agency that understands the moods, languages and idiosyncrasies of South Africa and Africa. For us, consumers are people we like to have conversations with by creating successful campaigns.
|
|
