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SA roars at Cannes LionsOK, we've said it before, and we'll say it again... When it comes to creativity, SA is second to none. Cannes Lions 2014 has announced the final winners and South African entries featured. Our congratulations to all our entrants, finalists, and winners. You've done us proud. Less overwhelmed is Tiffany Markman, who is somewhat underwhelmed by PowerPoint. She (and husband Daniel) reckon PowerPoint needs more power. Finally, one of our US contributors, Henry Buell, reports on a new entrant to the South African direct sales sector and says mynt is redefining direct sales to reach Generation CComment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your South African marketing and media news and event invitations to marketingnews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-marketing@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
| The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity announced the final winners of the 2014 awards on Saturday, 21 June 2014. South African agencies Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg and Net#work BBDO each walked away with a Bronze Lion. (video) Read more >>
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Tiffany Markman Yup, that's right. You heard us*. PowerPoint - mostly - stinks. And it's time to take back your PowerPoint power, because Microsoft is trying to take it away from you. Read more >> | Henry Buell RIXEYVILLE, US: The direct sales industry has changed very little over the last few decades, incorporating new technologies as they have developed, rather than evolving their business practices to capitalise further on existing markets. Read more >> | Craig Steyn Marketers and businesses have long been using Facebook to promote their products and services, but... Read more >> |
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 | Stephen Doyle of New York-based agency, Doyle Partners, has been appointed as the Communication Design jury chairman for the 2014 Loeries. Read more >>
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 | Hando Sinisalu, Best Marketing International South Africa's 'Street Store' entry brought home Gold for SA in this year's Cannes Lions. Read more >>
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 | Johnnie Walker has come up with a Flavour Profiler, which takes whisky aficionados through a series of flavours, scents and sounds, to create a profile of their unique whisky preferences based on their current mood. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Boomtown The inaugural Lions Health awards in Cannes celebrated creativity in healthcare communications. Boomtown took home a Silver award for their Stethoscope radio ad for Africa Health Placements (AHP) which draws graduate doctors from the US and Europe to Africa. Read more >>
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 | Issued by FCB South Africa Coca-Cola South Africa's #RainbowNation Celebration of Freedom Day has won the recognition and admiration of the world's marketing and advertising fraternities to bring home five awards from the Cannes International Advertising Festival in France. Read more >>
|  | Issued by Fresh Eye Films Fresh Eye Films director Bevan Cullinan emerged as one of the big winners at the 2014 International PromaxBDA awards in New York where he won Gold in the General Channel Image Spot for M-Net's GaryNet campaign. Read more >>
|  | Kevin Kleynhans, Issued by The Mouse that Roared You hear about them all the time: small agencies that are picking up business and going from strength to strength. Agencies with names like Fox P2, Quirk, Black River and Machine, more often than not are founded and captained by award-winning ex-creative directors of the old big five agencies. Read more >>
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 | Andrew Cook In its truest form, a democratic country is ruled by public opinion. This is as true of governmental elections as it is of determining which retail companies will trump others or which banks will take the largest chunks of the customer pie graph. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Universal Church of the Kingdom of God Marking Youth Day on 16 June, 15,000 young people, dressed in their school uniforms, attended an event organised by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in all nine provinces. Read more >>
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 | The Future of Media and Advertising conference, taking place on 30 July 2014, has a video headline interview with media magnate, Koos Bekker, speaking for the first time after stepping down as CEO of Naspers earlier this year. Read more >>
|  | Issued by ECHO Events and Conferences Zakes Bantwini and his epic line-up of special guest artists - the legendary Judith Sephuma, Khaya Mthethwa, iFani, Bucie and Liquideep's Ziyon - wowed the audience of this year's Upfront with Zakes Bantwini. Read more >>
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 | Nilesh Talaviya Implementing an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system is one of the most costly, time taking and tedious tasks for an IT department. Read more >>
|  | Issued by PriceCheck PriceCheck CEO, André de Wet, and MTN Group Chief Commercial Officer, Pieter Verkade, have jointly announced a second co-branded app deal, this time for Nigeria. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Habari Media Habari Media has announced the addition of etv.co.za and eNCA.com to its growing portfolio of leading web properties and mobile advertising platforms. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Janine Lazarus Media Consultancy Janine Lazarus will be joining a host of specialists in their fields at a media and public relations summit at Cedar Park Hotel in Woodmead today, where they will share their survival strategies to assist you in stepping up your media relations. Read more >>
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 | Issued by e.tv eNCA's advertising agency, Brandlab, took Gold in the News/Information Campaign category at the prestigious Promaxbda Global Excellence Awards in LA on Thursday, 12 June. They beat the likes of CNN and Sky to take top honours. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Student Brands Margaret Dittberner, better known as Mags, has joined Student Brands' young and vibrant sales team. Read more >>
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 | Issued by BMW The new BMW 4 Series Gran Coupé is the first four-door coupé in the premium mid-size class that represents a consistent extension of the model range. Read more >> |
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|  | WASHINGTON, USA: Google and Microsoft plan to join Apple in introducing theft-deterring "kill switches" in their smartphone operating systems, as part of an agreement with mayors and police agencies. Read more >>
|  | The days of being able to lie to an unwanted telephone caller: "Sorry, I can't talk, I'm in the car" are about to end. Read more >>
|  | WASHINGTON, USA: Two arch rival US newspapers, the Washington Post and New York Times, agreed to work together to find ways to improve interaction with readers online. Read more >>
|  | WASHINGTON, US Google's Nest Labs said that it was buying video monitoring start-up Dropcam for a reported $555 million in cash. Read more >>
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|  | Jan-Jan Joubert Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has published policy proposals requiring commercial farmers to hand over half their farms to farmworkers. Read more >>
|  | University attendance for black South Africans remains low, says Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). Read more >>
|  | Kanayo F. Nwanze Judging from the daily outpouring of commentary, opinions and reports, you would think that there were two African continents. Read more >>
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The Department of the Premier at Western Cape Government, seeks a suitably qualified communications officer (photography) in Cape Town. Read more >>The award-winning Pretoria/Centurion-based experiential and advertising agency, Etiket, is looking for a junior/mid graphic designer to be part of our lively and extremely unique creative team. Read more >>
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|  Get the chance to network extensively with both the speakers and other social media decision-makers at the Social Media Summit 2014. Read more >>SEO StrategyAAA School of Advertising - 21 Jul 2014 to 25 Aug 2014 Cape Town | 
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| Demystifying SEO, AdWords and Analytics in just three days. This course is an absolute must for an website owner or marketer. Read more >> Attend this half-day event on Wednesday 25 June 2014 and update yourself with the latest facts and trends around stokvels, based on the most recent research from African Response. Read more >>Get the chance to network extensively with both the speakers and other social media decision-makers at the Social Media Summit 2014. Read more >>Strategy in a day - 26 Jun 2014 to 23 Jul 2014 Cape Town,Port Elizabeth,Johannesburg,Durban Strategy in a Day. Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and PE. It takes just one day to get to grips with strategy, if you're serious about being more strategic. Read more >> | |
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| Popcorn Advertising has opened a press office on Bizcommunity.com! Popcorn handles advertising sales for Nu Metro Theatres and some of SA's larger Independent exhibitors, delivering six of the Top-10 complexes to advertisers. Popcorn represents 255 screens, including over 70 digital screens.
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