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|  | [Leigh Andrews] Exclusive interview with Alistair King, founding creative partner of King James, into how one of SA's top ranked creative agencies won the advertising account of one of the country's top five advertising brands... read
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Sarah Heuer I've given up the fight against 'verb-ing', as you can see. I've accepted that language evolves, is dynamic, and that these are good things... Read | This week, our 'Biz Online Insights' section explores whether the South African online population pays attention to trends forecasts... Read | Leigh Andrews The scoop from Turner Africa: How they provide local platforms with quality international productions and insights into the average African TV viewer... Read | Stephen Sandmann I have the continued privilege of working with some of the best minds in the digital marketing industry. While doing so, I've picked up a few things that I believe are worth noting for the year ahead... Read | | |
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| | |  | Gillian Rightford There will be an increased focus on integration from a marketer's point of view which means collaboration from an agency's point of view... read | |  | Brian Mitchell and Evan Mitchell You watch, say, Blade Runner again (and make sure you do, before the remake). Or the early, seminal Star Wars. Cherished movies. Still, it's difficult not to be struck by how quaint, and at times down-right wrong, their implicit predictions about the future are... read | |  | Melissa Attree I'll take a bet that most people are sick of seeing the words 'Content Marketing'. It's a term that reached its peak during 2015 and its growth on the communication scene is set to increase this year... read | |  | Gareth Lessing We're likely to see a few trends shaping the industry in 2016, from the shift in agency models - which is one of our main reasons for being - to the challenge of finding the best medium to engage consumers in a world of multiple mixed platforms. read | | |
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 | Issued by Design Indaba Li Edelkoort will be in both Cape Town and Johannesburg this year to deliver her 2016 seminars, "The Emancipation of Everything" and "Turning in Circles"... read | | |
 | The jury heads for Health & Wellness Lions and Pharma Lions have been announced. They are Josh Prince, of the CDM Group, heading up the Health & Wellness jury, and Alexandra von Plato of Publicis Healthcare, heading up the Pharma jury... read | |  | Issued by Spitfire Films Convincing people to donate blood is a never-ending emergency. And when you have an emergency, Spitfire has Markstry... read | |
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 | If you're in the business of selling products and services, a content and loyal customer is gold. However, as technology-enhanced, real-time communication grows, a dissatisfied customer is a ticking time bomb that can do significant damage to your reputation... read | |  | Mareli Smit We've all been there, it's nothing new, but what gets to me is that we, as consumers, accept 'it' even though we all agree it is wrong. And by not saying anything, companies and brands will continue with it - this crazy thing called 'bad service'... read | | |
 | Dee Stephens There is a misunderstanding about how social media and SEO work together, whilst we know that social media does affect the search rank, nobody seems to understand how... read | |  | Issued by IAB South Africa South Africa's premier digital marketing showcase, the IAB Bookmark Awards, being held in Johannesburg on 3 March, has received a record number of entries for this year's event... read | |
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 | Daniel Munslow Leaders realise that to successfully run their companies, they need a clear business strategy that meets strategic challenges and drives the organisation forward... read | | |
 | Cari Van Wyk Revolutionary micro-jobbing platform, M4JAM, provides companies, brands, etc. with real-time data and consumer insights and contributes to the growing data economy... read | |
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 | PARIS - People cannot have 1,000 real friends on Facebook. Nor 500. In fact, anything over 200 starts seeming unlikely, an unusual study asserted on Wednesday... read | |
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 | AJ+, a network of digital properties owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, producing and distributing content natively for digital audiences, has launched a new digital experience on Apple TV... read | |  | Lynette Dicey, Issued by The Redzone Netflix's January launch in South Africa is part of the service's global expansion plan to be available in almost every country worldwide by the end of 2016. However, it's not clear whether South Africans will be rushing to subscribe... read | | |  | NEW YORK - Nielsen has reached agreement with Facebook to improve how it measures the social media impact of TV shows, a useful means of assessing the size of an audience, the global information company announced on Wednesday... read | |  | LONDON - Web surfers will be able to peek into the gilded interiors of Queen Elizabeth II's home in a new virtual reality tour, launched by Google on Wednesday... read | | | | | | | More International | |
|  | Qwilt and three6five have announced a technology partnership to improve over-the-top (OTT) streaming video strategies for service providers in Africa... read | |  | Short or feature films from any Nigerian filmmaker can be submitted for the fourth edition of the NollywoodWeek Paris Film Festival. The deadline for entries is 12 February 2016. The official selection will be announced in March 2016... read | |  | The Women in News (WiN) initiative, an editorial leadership programme for African women working in media, launched its sixth year in 2016... read | |  | The African Innovation Foundation (AIF), in a joint collaborative effort with the government of Botswana, represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology and the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH), has announced that the next Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) will be held in Gaborone, Botswana in June 2016... read | |  | Through the Directorate of Conference Management and Publications (DCMP), the African Union Commission has launched the newly devised DCMP e-conferencing system, which will greatly facilitate the work of the AU by providing easy access to documents and reducing paper consumption... read | | | More Africa | |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Long gone are the days when technology was the IT guys' problem. Today technology and IT have risen in importance in companies and if they are not in the boardroom... read | |
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