Top company and news stories 19 November 2018 - 19 Nov 2018

By Leigh Andrews

I find out how to run a social performance ad agency

Apply for the SA press ombud position

The Ventureburn 2018 Startup Survey results are out

One Show 2019 selects five SA creatives as judges

The 2018 Epica Awards results are announced

Trade, Industry Committee adopts copyright bills

The Black Twitter Awards return

Gartner releases the CMO Spend Survey 2018/19

November is #EntrepreneurMonth, and we're sharing the success stories of startups and self-starters:

Shan Radcliffe chats to 'Trusted Interns'

Evan Courie writes that RentMyRide owns the adventure

Bogosi Motshegwa tells Juanita Pienaar why quitting his job was the best thing

Pienaar shares the best and worst of times for journalism

The Open News team tell me they love it when chance meetings roll into 'you're hired'

You can now go to jail for sending these social media messages

Angela Quintal lets us in on her nasty encounter with Tanzanian repression

I report back from Africacom2018: What's really chewing up your data; leapfrog when improving CX

Evan Courie reveals the changing telco strategy for 4IR

And in #FairnessFirst, I share how Africa's digital divide is being diminished, one innovation at a time

I kick off my #LoeriesBrandRankings feature and reveal how Sanlam took top spot - again

Contributor Carmen Murray shares the power of the podcast

Contributor Paul Mitchell explains how blockchain will disrupt the media industry

Contributor Andy Walker reports: Malusi Gigaba taunts Ndlozi with his little finger in Parliament

I also go #BehindtheSelfie with Boni Mchunu, GM for East Coast Radio

Leigh Andrews
Editor-in-Chief: Marketing & Media SA

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Leigh Andrews

Andrews was on the inaugural Marketer of the Year (MOTY) jury for the 2019 Marketing Achievement Awards (MAA) as well as an #Inspiring50 2018 nominee herself, and judged over 500 entries for the most recent Epica Awards - the only creative prize awarded by journalists working for marketing and communications magazines around the world. She's also serving on the IAB (SA)'s #Bookmarks2020 Publisher panel.

Responsible for keeping a finger on the pulse of the latest happenings in the marketing and media industry, this is an almost 24/7 role that involves keeping one eye on your inbox with the other on your social media feed, to write breaking news stories and interviewing key people in the B2B space.

All made easier by 13 years of working for companies such as Microsoft, Kagiso Media, Fleet Street Publications, the Mail & Guardian Online, Caxton Community Newspapers and Newsclip's media, marketing and PR publications.

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Top company and news stories 19 November 2018 - 19 Nov 2018

Leigh Andrews