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Celebrating SA's One Show pencil winsWith an eye on global industry trends, Louise Marsland's latest [TrendTalk] column investigates whether brands can truly unlock the sharing economy, as explored in PricewaterhouseCoopers' ground-breaking research into this recent economic phenomenon. Bringing the focus back home, South African advertising agencies have lots to smile about, having garnered 10 One Show pencils at the One Show awards late last week. Tony Koenderman looks specifically at Ogilvy's unmatched creative dominance, listing its accolades stretching as far back as 2011. Still in that awards mindset, the [Loeries 2015] are looking beyond advertising by including a category for every business, with ' service design', which covers every form of customer interaction - a global advertising awards first... Comment 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 African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@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 |
|  | [Louise Marsland] Can current business models unlock opportunities within 'the sharing economy', which is a real threat to businesses within the industries in which sharing models are gaining favour?... read more>>
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Crack open the bubbly - seven South African agencies took home 10 One Show Pencils, including four Silver and six Bronze Pencils... Read more >> | Tony Koenderman Not since the heyday of Hunt Lascaris in the early Nineties has an ad agency been so creatively dominant as Ogilvy South Africa is right now... Read more >> | Leigh Andrews A Loerie Awards category that's NOT for advertising campaigns? Yes, that would be Loeries 2015's new 'Service Design' category... Read more >> |
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 | Entrepreneurs and innovators with innovative, pro-poor products and services are invited to enter for the SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards 2015 which carries a first prize of R1m... read more>> | | |
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 | Issued by The SpaceStation The IAB South Africa and Effective Measure have been conducting polls on various online sectors in South Africa, with their most recent survey being about holidays and travel. read more>> | |  | Issued by The Media Image After a passionate debate amongst the judges, The Media Image emerged with not just one but four shortlists for the inaugural Drum Search Awards... read more>> | | |
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 | Sherry Zameer There are more than seven billion mobile phones worldwide. Always on and accessible everywhere, mobile devices have become central to people's lives. read more>> | | |
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 | Lutz Blaeser The problem is that the IoT is connecting places that were never originally designed to be connected to the internet... read more>> | | |
 | There has been massive digital migration of newspaper titles to News24 and Netwerk24 online platforms, with the move of 11 English and 14 Afrikaans newspaper titles... read more>> | | |
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 | Issued by The Riverbed Agency Integrated communications agency Riverbed has been appointed as PPC's PR agency of choice and will oversee PPC's corporate and brand communications in South Africa and in other key markets across Africa... read more>> | | |
 | Emily Keyes, Issued by The Talent Boom Today, the ad world is extremely competitive and there are two big problems when it comes to talent: finding talent and keeping talent... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by Columinate Columinate's annual Internet Banking SITEisfaction survey has been released. The survey is a measure of customer satisfaction with online banking services in South Africa and the significant changes the banks are undergoing... read more>> | | |
 | Alesia Hsiao You'll be happy to know that rarely is a lack of shares indicative of a lack of quality. There's probably nothing wrong with your article content wise... read more>> | |  | Leigh Andrews On 8 May, Visa launched a digital campaign with the long-term goal of changing the way the world sees South Africa and how South Africans see themselves... read more>> | | |  | NEW YORK, USA: The New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has opened entries for advertising creatives and students to judge the World's Best Advertising competition... read more>> | |  | James White The worst thing that can happen to an ad is nothing. Nobody sees it, and if they do, they don't remember it. It can be tricky to create an ad that's both memorable and original, but who's to say that you can't do some recycling?... read more>> | |  | LONDON, ENGLAND: The London School of Marketing has published a free template to help marketers measure ROI of their marketing campaigns... read more>> | | | | | More International | |
|  | PRETORIA: Growth and development of tourism in the African continent is at the top of the agenda during the African Tourism Ministers roundtable discussion on the eve of the official opening of the Tourism Indaba in Durban on Friday... read more>> | | | More Government news | |
|  | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor Chevrolet's likeable Cruze family sedan has been prettied up and given a few appealing new features including a snazzy infotainment system and a six-speed automatic transmission for its flagship 1.4T LS sedan... read more>> | | | More Motoring news | |
|  | Cape Town Tourism currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced sales and commercial manager. Applications close: 22 May 2015 Read more >> |
 | Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced administrative officer (sales representative: radio) - corporate marketing (Ref. MFM124/0415). Applications close: 18 May 2015 Read more >> |
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