Editor's column

Top company and news stories 12 March 2018 - 12 Mar 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

Juanita Pienaar chats to BBDO group CEO Boniswa Pezisa about their revert back to a one-agency-two-offices model, and Net#work BBDO's #SendMe ad aimed at President Ramaphosa

Pienaar also interviews Nickelodeon's Alexi Wheeler on entering the age of content

Memeburn's Andy Walker reports that Spotify may be launching in SA this week

Jessica Tennant chats to #Newsmaker Dave Nemeth on his new role as Designing Ways' editor in chief

#FairnessFirst: I unpack why Carling Black Label #NoExcuse used the [[https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/813/174641.html#topstory Soweto Derby and 1st for Women used Grey's Anatomy]] to fight to end women abuse, as well as why social media went purple for International #WomensDay

I also found out how to get into the consumers' brain with Richard Shotton's The Choice Factory

Karl Blom and Daniel Vale of Webber Wentzel write about understanding your legal rights after personal information leaks, while Aphelele Tapile explores whether it's legal for someone to record you without your knowledge

Quinton Jones explains the elephant in the room and the 'Big 5' threats to the media agency

SABC poaches Carte Blanche journalist Bongani Bingwa to bolster its news team

Toyota's 'Rami' comes out tops in the iDidTht.com Craft Awards February 2018

Victor Moreriane analyses the current crisis management related to the outbreak of listeriosis, while Bonnie Ramaila agrees that Enterprise should implement a watertight crisis management strategy or else it's history!

I went #BehindtheSelfie with Tshepang Molisana, self-employed freelance writer behind Taste Let's See

Read my latest #LoeriesRanking Q&A, with M&C Saatchi Abel on the power of creativity to change the world

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

Top company and news stories 5 March 2018 - 5 Mar 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

The IAB SA's fourth Digital Summit and 10th Bookmark Awards took place on 1 March. read more

Top company and news stories 26 February 2018 - 26 Feb 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

Network BBDO MD Gau Narayanan says, 'SA as a launchpad for talking to Africans in Africa'

Jon Ratcliffe, CEO of Engage Video Group, unpacks aspects of viral video success in 2018

Retail editor Lauren Hartzenberg talks to #Newsmaker Esther Hoogstad on steering Spree's CX

In this week's #FairnessFirst, see how #Sona2018 left SA's social media set hopeful of real change

Product of the Year 2018 awards SA's favourite consumer goods

Andy Walker of Memeburn explains why SA's #SaveWater mascot Splash is scarier than the drought

And my latest #LoeriesRanking Q&A is with Robroy Music

Leigh Andrews Editor-in-Chief: Marketing & Media SA P.S.: Click through to our Design Indaba special section for our comprehensive coverage of last week's Festival, and watch for our special edition newsletter, hitting your inbox today! read more

Top company and news stories 19 February 2018 - 19 Feb 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

In #FairnessFirst, I look at how we're transforming Hollywood and finally making modern movies in 2018 while also chatting to Nathan Reddy of Grid Worldwide about the Loeries' 40-year logo and branding refresh

Danette Breitenbach reports on impact of the integration of Y&R and Native VML, with comment on 'conducting the orchestra' from VML global CMO Beth Wade; shares insights from the first Publisher Audience Measure Survey (Pams) release by the Publisher Research Council and analyses ABC Q4 2017, with customs the biggest loser in magazines, and losses across the board for newspapers

Juanita Pienaar reports back with Olivier Robert-Murphy's key marketing, media and music trends for 2018 from the UMGB Africa launch

Jessica Tennant talks to Brent Spilkin about WTF, an exclusive new course running through Vega for freelancers; unpacks the launch of Fort Review's second edition, this time a nine-part video series; and interviews this week's #Newsmakers: Brendan Cooper of New Media's internal communications division; Masego Motsogi on being part of the magic at Grid; and TBWA's Carl Willoughby

Caxton and Independent Group have been fined for colluding on advertising prices

Creative Circle membership will now include freelancers and startup agencies

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

Top company and news stories 12 February 2018 - 12 Feb 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

Don't miss the full list of IAB #Bookmarks2018 finalists, announced across a record 74 categories

We also get nostalgic about the past decade of Bookmarks with IAB SA CEO, Josephine Buys

Johanna McDowell shares how she's bringing SA flair to the Women in Marketing Awards

SA wins 12 Midas Gold Ingots at the Midas Awards for the world's best financial advertising

I look at campaigning to #DefeatDayZero with King James Group and M&C Saatchi Abel

We go #BehindtheSelfie with Nina Pfeiffer, co-owner and executive producer at Tulips and Chimneys

#FairnessFirst: I explain why Trudeau will bounce back from #Peoplekind

Cannes Lions announces R/GA's Chloe Gottlieb as the new See It Be It ambassador and chair

#Loeries2018: CEO Andrew Human reflects on 40 years of Loeries

Jessica Tennant chats to #Newsmaker Mandi Fine (CEO of F/NE) on partnering with GlobalHealthPR

In #StartupStory, Tennant unpacks web-based creative procurement platform, Playbook

Tennant shares Google Kenya's Charles Murito's views on digital advertising and the age of assistance

Leigh Andrews Editor-in-Chief: Marketing & Media SA PS: Don't forget to click through to our #BizTrends2018 special section for the latest predictions for all aspects of the industry, as curated by Louise Marsland. read more

Top company and news stories 5 February 2018 - 5 Feb 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

#FairnessFirst: #SayYesToLove with Cosmo SA's Laverne Cox cover exclusive!

Chris Maroleng is the new COO of the SABC.

Makosha Maja-Rasethaba named new partner at M&C Saatchi Abel.

I go #BehindtheSelfie with Veli Ngubane, founding partner and chief creative officer at Avatar.

Read up on my latest #LoeriesRanking Q&A with King James Group.

Entries open for new-look Loeries, celebrating 40 years!

#Bookmarks2018 digital jury jabber with Native VML's Jade Amic - 'innovative engineers' chair.

#Newcampaigns: Joe Public United's Always campaign, story of a Standard Bank Protea with TBWA.

Leigh Andrews Editor-in-Chief: Marketing & Media SA PS: Don't forget to click through to our #BizTrends2018 special section for the latest predictions for all aspects of the industry, as curated by Louise Marsland. We've had 63 marketing- and media-specific trends-based thought leadership pieces alone, with 226 published across all the Bizcommunity industry portals this time around. read more

Top company and news stories 29 January 2018 - 29 Jan 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

In honouring Bob Rightford, daughter-in-law Gillian Rightford shares 10 lessons for agencies and marketers.
#Fairnessfirst: The #PresidentsClubDinner and #LarryNassar trial light up the WWW.
Qingqile 'Wingwing' Mdlulwa says the ad industry needs diversity to thrive.
Danette Breitenbach writes about Sanef's first brand refresh in 21 years and says media freedom is a right of all South Africans and not a limited mandate of editors and journalists. read more

Top company and news stories 22 January 2018 - 22 Jan 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

We kick off Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster's 'South African's guide to moving to and making it in Malta' series with an overview of the culture of connection, pertinent as Valletta takes on the mantle of the European Capital of Culture 2018.

IAB SA announces its Bookmarks 2018 jury president and chairs

Shelley Finch of Handcrafted Brands writes What the Zuck? How to adjust your digital marketing strategy after Facebook's bombshell announcement, while Natalia Rosa of Big Ambitions shares what travel marketers need to know about Facebook's News Feed change

Defying tradition: Defy appoints Liquorice as digital and social agency

My latest #LoeriesRanking Q&A is a catch-up with Black Bean Productions

Lastly, I'll be presenting Meltwater's January webinar, titled 'Winning the war on PR: How to write the perfect press release' from 11am this Friday, 26 January. It's free to attend - you just need an internet connection to join in. read more

Top company and news stories 15 January 2018 - 15 Jan 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

ICYMI last week, click through for the latest predictions for all aspects of the industry in our #BizTrends2018 special section. read more

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/778/171923.html - 8 Jan 2018

[Leigh Andrews]

Top company and news stories 8 January 2018

#BizTrends2018 launches today! Curated by Louise Marsland, we'll be featuring top predictions for all aspects of the industry throughout the month to help make 2018 your best business year yet.

Group CEO James Barty explains how King James - voted as Scopen agency of the year - is hitting the new year running.

House of Brave co-founder and ECD Vanessa Pearson explains the true definition of ROI: Return on Investment, Ideas, Insight and Innovation.

Jessica Bezuidenhout and Rebecca Davis highlight the 2017 Daily Maverick South African Persons of the Year: The Whistle-blowers.

Julia Breakey's 2017 in review series features the public mistakes you smashed on social; the heinous horrors that got you angry; and the year's absolute worst of the worst.

I also went #BehindtheSelfie with Ree Treweek, director at female-led animation studio Tulips and Chimneys; Zola Nene, resident chef on SABC3's Expresso and judge for Great SA Bake Off as well as the 2017 Galliova Awards for excellence in food and health writing; and Nthabiseng Lethoko, new associate creative director at Hellocomputer Cape Town.

Happy 2018! Leigh Andrews Editor-in-Chief: Marketing & Media SA read more

Top company and news stories 18 December 2017 - 18 Dec 2017

[Leigh Andrews]

Brett Morris, FCB Africa Group CEO and group CCO, shares 'six of the best' from the agency's 57-year strong brand relationship with Toyota.

I sit down with new #DesignIndaba2018 editor-in-chief Neo Maditla to discover her plans to make the Design Indaba website as popular as its annual festival.

I find out about M&N Brands' plans for a pan-African future from group CEO Zibusiso Mkhwanazi, while Jessica Tennant unpacks #Newsmaker Grant Sithole's new role as joint ECD at Avatar. read more

Top company and news stories 11 December 2017 - 11 Dec 2017

[Leigh Andrews]

Meet the Pantone #ColorOfTheYear for 2018: Ultra Violet
Time names sexual abuse 'Silence Breakers' as Person of the Year
Current Cannes Lions chairman Terry Savage will leave the Festival following the 2018 event
Chris Brewer asks whether digital advertising is worth all the hype
I discuss #LoeriesRanking with Grey Advertising and their chalk-and-cheese '300% improvement' over last year
I interview Jochem Wijnands, Dutch founder and CEO of TRVL, on the digital publisher rethink
I also find out why Demographica says to get to grips with CX and the customer journey now, or else...
Mike Stopforth reports back from #BCXDisrupt2017: "Social instability will get us long before AI does"
Kantar Millward Brown forecasts SEA changes in the digital advertising ecosystems in 2018
Seven SA judges selected for the 2018 One Show, with a further six SA-linked judges selected for NYF's grand jury
The Sabre Awards Africa are open for PR professionals
Jessica Tennant puts the spotlight on this week's #Newsmakers: Junior Mokoma on furthering his creative studies in Holland with Vega, FCB as well as Net#work's Brad Reilly on the multiple award-winning Vagina Varsity campaign, and Kerry Hibberd on how she plans to 'change the world' with 'goodvertising' and Vodacom
Tennant also investigates whether award shows really matter
Cari Coetzee chats to Ivana Naidoo, regional marketing manager for Minor Hotels in Southern Africa, about what it takes to market Minor Hotels
CareerJunction reports on what South Africans earn right now
Oredeetse Gill explains how to fight ad fraud with the IAB Ads.txt initiative
Red & Yellow becomes South Africa's first Creative School of Business

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

Top company and news stories 4 December 2017 - 4 Dec 2017

[Leigh Andrews]

Naspers says it won't force MultiChoice to take ANN7 off air
Latest news from the Loeries: Results are in from Kenya's APA Awards, read my next #LoeriesRanking interview with the Joe Publicans; and the hero edition of Migrate is released
Peter Veenstra of the Netherlands and the UK's Studio Swine duo have been announced as Design Indaba 2018 speakers
I interview Swati Bhattacharya, CCO of FCB Ulka in India, on the gender tradition-transforming power of advertising
Jessica Tennant chats to Dr Henk Pretorius, founder and CEO of Columinate, about SA's bank advertising and how it's either a hit or miss
#NewCampaigns this week: Tennant unpacks MTN's summer brand campaign by TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg; Cari Coetzee explores how Jeremy Clarkson introduces Emirates' new, game-changing first class suites
Tennant also chats to our latest #Newsmaker: Fort's Amr Singh on what makes a good director...
And I go #BehindtheSelfie with Andrew Brand, CEO of Ninety9c, awarded #FMAdFocus2017's 'partnership of the year' for their work with Checkers. read more

Top company and news stories 27 November 2017 - 27 Nov 2017

[Jessica Tennant]

Winners announced for the 2017 Financial Mail AdFocus Awards, Danette Breitenbach reports
Phumi Mashigo, MD of Ignitive succeeds Craig Page-Lee, founder of d-cifr, as AdFocus Awards chairperson for 2018-19
Brand Science joins Brand Union to form a dynamic new market offer; Doug de Villiers, CEO of Brand Science, will assume the role of vice chairman
Multi-sensory Design Indaba Conference announces first three confirmed speakers
The Creative Circle is taking steps towards its new purpose to accelerate transformation
Following the Mobile Marketing Association Forum in Johannesburg and Mobile Monday in Cape Town, I interview Adam Pattison, vice president, Americas & EMEA at BBM Messenger, on chat or dark social and how this is shaping the mobile economy
#Newsmakers this week included Michelle Dobson, Lumen's MD and Kriya Gangiah, 'info-tainment professional' and Jacaranda FM's digital lead
Juanita Pienaar interviews the three finalists in the student category of the AdFocus Awards
Leigh Andrews interviews Net#work BBDO's Mike Schalit and Emma Strydom on the Make a Life Foundation and how their t-shirt designs are "wearing it forward" as the ideal of "creativism" gains momentum
Andrews 'praat met' Pendoring Awards' ranked Abnormal Group, Joe Public United, Black Khaki and The Odd Number
And goes #BehindtheSelfie with... read more

Top company and news stories 20 November 2017 - 20 Nov 2017

[Leigh Andrews]

Winners announced for 2017 Epica Awards
Cannes Lions launches revamped 2018 Festival of Creativity
#Pendoring2017: Official ranking of the winners and finalists
SA's SJ Myeza presented with Young Guns 15 Creative Choice Award from New York's The One Club for Creativity
Liquorice wins Digital Company of the Year Award at National Business Awards
IAB Bookmarks 2018 - extended entry deadline, tips shared on crafting award-winning entries
Afrofuturist Sunu Gonera announced as speaker at Design Indaba 2018
Ask Afrika Orange Index: Feeling customer service - Danette Breitenbach reports
#LoeriesRankings2017 with... read more