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[Loeries 2015] Unilever's Justin Apsey on purpose-driven marketing
[Ann Nurock] Ann Nurock spoke to Justin Apsey, Vice President of Brand Building Home & Surface Care at Unilever during the Loeries Creative Week Durban. Unilever won one gold, three silver and seven bronze at the awards on Saturday and Sunday night... read more>>

Nicework by day, Bright Nights after lights out

Leigh Andrews

The Bright Night project is an exhibition of some of South Africa's most talented photographers and illustrators. What makes this one stand out though is that it's crowdfunded and will be held completely in the dark, lit by a clever solar-powered lamp, all inspired by a talk at Design Indaba 2014...

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[TrendTalk] Dear brands, stop stuffing up social!

Louise Marsland

Brands need to seriously get their social media act together. Last week went down as another week of #brandfails that could have been totally avoided with basic social media training...

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Hitting the tweet spot with Twitter

Dries Badenhorst

The question that arises most with regards to tweeting relates to the frequency of tweeting. How many times is acceptable and how many times is too much...

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Loeries Creative Week Durban
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris\Jhb celebrates double Loeries Gold

Issued by TBWA

Seven Loerie Awards, including two Golds and two Silver, have confirmed the position of TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris\Johannesburg among South Africa's top creative advertising agencies... read more>>
Biz Takeouts
[Biz Takeouts Podcast] 145: Insights from the Gartner CIO Africa Agenda 2015 survey results
On the latest Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show, host Warren Harding interviewed Mbula Schoen, Senior Research Analyst at Gartner... read more>>
Marketing
POPI's impact on marketing particularly SMS, emails
Although some limited sections of the POPI Act came into effect last year, it is speculated that the end of 2015 will see the full Act come into effect. This gives marketing companies the opportunity... read more>>
Heating up the local marketing perspective - literally

Leigh Andrews

The only scientific thing about marketing is the measurement aspect, say some. Not so, says Atomic Marketing, with their new, highly scientific activation for Vanish... read more>>
Why programmatic buying should be a core part of your marketing strategy

Andre Steenekamp, Issued by 25AM

Programmatic buying is becoming a big business as advertisers work to drive more value from their ad spending and leverage customer data more effectively... read more>>

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Advertising
AFSTEREO leaps forward with real-time monitoring
Real-time monitoring of- and reporting on- radio and television content has taken a giant leap forward... read more>>
Branding
When last did your brand have a check-up?

Rolf Akermann

As humans we do go for regular health check-ups, but what about Brands? Companies have yearly check-ups (audits). Why not Brands?... read more>>
Education
Raising the bar: UCT Advanced courses are setting students a part from the rest

Issued by GetSmarter

The new advanced course portfolio presented by The University of Cape Town in partnership with GetSmarter, is enabling workers to take big leaps in their careers... read more>>
M-Net showcases career opportunities in the broadcasting industry to 7,200 high school learners

Issued by M-Net Magic in Motion

In KwaZulu-Natal, M-Net has partnered with the KZN Science Centre at Transnet Maritime School of Excellence to host the MiM Career Expo... read more>>
Events & Conferencing
Ndalo Media launches Athari

Issued by Ndalo Media

The brainchild of media maven and Ndalo Media CEO, Khanyi Dhlomo, Athari Concepts & Events aims to create unforgettable luxury experiences that live beyond the event... read more>>
Media
New approaches to media planning required to keep pace with a multitasking customer

Richard Taylor

It's near-impossible to capture the undivided attention of today's consumers, who routinely multitask across a number of devices, media and channels during the course of a given day... read more>>
OOH
Provantage amplifies OOH with Hollard bus shelters

Issued by Provantage Media Group

Through the highly innovative use of old bus shelters, M&C Saatchi Abel created a concept that illustrates the type of living spaces that Hollard insurance can insure... read more>>
Telkom makes a digital call with Primedia Outdoor Super LED

Issued by Primedia Outdoor

1.7 million motorists commuting between Johannesburg and Pretoria will most certainly have noticed the latest Primedia Outdoor Super LED billboard, lighting up the Danie Joubert freeway, since the big switch-on in July... read more>>



Printing
Canon's award-winning Océ ColorWave 700 has landed in SA

Issued by Canon SA

Canon South Africa has announced that the first award-winning Océ ColorWave 700 printers have landed in South Africa... read more>>
Sappi sells Cape Kraft recycled packaging mill to Golden Era Group

Issued by Sappi

Following on Sappi's recent announcement of the sale of its Enstra Mill and recycled packaging business, Sappi announces the sale of its Cape Kraft recycled packaging paper Mill to the Golden Era Group... read more>>
Radio
M-Net stars Algoa FM's Power Couple

Issued by Algoa FM

Algoa FM's Power Couple, Juran Banfield and Juanita De Andrade, will star in M-Net's new prime time reality show that starts on Thursday, 10 September on M-Net Channel 101... read more>>
TV
The Win A Home show is back

Issued by Private Property

The Win A Home show is proudly brought to you once again by Private Property, South Africa's favourite property website... read more>>
Women's Month
The media and the fairer sex

Issued by Janine Lazarus Media Consultancy

What role does the media need to play in driving the women empowerment agenda? Join Janine Lazarus when she sinks her teeth into this issue at 9am this Sunday, 23 August, on 104-107FM.... read more>>


International
Twitter shares tumble back to IPO price
NEW YORK, USA: Twitter shares sank to an all-time low on Thursday before closing at their initial public offering price from 2013, as growth concerns intensified over the one-to-many messaging platform... read more>>
Five tips to leverage business directory listing to the benefit of the business

Boris Dzhingarov

In the era of the internet, it can be safe to derive that local SEO and local businesses have been built for each other. There are several people that are making the most of the perks local business has to offer... read more>>
More International
Business
Choosing your business' fiscal year

Sophie Baker

When starting a business, you will need to elect when your fiscal year starts and ends... read more>>
New business
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Paid Search Executive - Cape Town
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New events to diarise
Successful business writing skills
PRISA - 24 Aug 2015 to 26 Aug 2015, Johannesburg

Case Studies from Cannes
26 Aug 2015, Cape Town | 10 Sep 2015, Johannesburg

App ideation workshop
Traction - 26 Aug 2015, Rustenburg

2015 All Africa Business Leaders Awards
ABN Productions - 26 Aug 2015, Lagos | 17 Sep 2015, Nairobi | 1 Oct 2015, Johannesburg | 13 Nov 2015, Johannesburg

Cape Homemakers Expo
Cape Homemakers Expo - 27 Aug 2015 to 30 Aug 2015, Cape Town

Free Digital Marketing Workshops
28 Aug 2015, Johannesburg

Practical Facebook workshop
Threesixoh - 2 Sep 2015, Pretoria

Vila Kasi Expo Festival
Vilakasi Holdings (PTY) LTD - 24 Sep 2015 to 27 Sep 2015, Johannesburg

rAge - really Awesome gaming expo
Wild Blue Media - 9 Oct 2015 to 11 Oct 2015, Johannesburg

The Business Excellence Forum and Awards
ActionCOACH SA - 5 Nov 2015 to 6 Nov 2015, Johannesburg

Upcoming events
Stokvelex Gauteng 2015 - 22 Aug 2015 to 23 Aug 2015, Johannesburg
Stokvelex Gauteng 2015This exciting exhibition seeks to foster and formalise relationships between stokvel clubs, cooperatives and various service providers. Exciting new opportunities to interact with one another! Read more >>

Adobe Creative Cloud
Multidimensions - 24 Aug 2015 to 25 Aug 2015, Johannesburg

Essentials of digital media management
Sol Plaatje Institute, Rhodes University - 24 Aug 2015 to 28 Aug 2015, Grahamstown

Essentials of digital media management
Sol Plaatje Institute - 24 Aug 2015 to 28 Aug 2015, Grahamstown

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