Partnerships can rectify school sanitation horrors

[Peter Cowan] A recent exposé published in a South African daily newspaper and featured on the front page as "School Toilets of Shame", revealed the horrific truth about sanitation in Gauteng schools - in most cases there isn't any...

[Loeries 2015] Agency expectations with... FCB Joburg

[Leigh Andrews] In our feature running until Loeries Creative Week in Durban this August (yes, August, not September and Durban, not Cape Town!), we find out what Jonathan Deeb, ECD at FCB Joburg, expects...

Latest from the research front

[Chris Brewer] The latest release of the All Media and Products Survey (AMPS), released today by the South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF), shows overall stability of the media...

Trends impacting 2015 and beyond

[David Smythe] FCB Cape Town's Strategic Planning Director, David Smythe, has identified 20 trends that will change how marketers think and act in 2015 and beyond...

SAARF AMPS 2014B shows smooth sailing for most media

[Leigh Andrews] The SAARF AMPS 2014B data covered January to December 2014. Here's what you missed if you simply read the release...

The sum of the parts: Creating value with holistic segmentation

[Riona Naidu] Over the last few years, segmentation has been down-played in some industry circles...

Surprising jump in new vehicle exports

[Henrie Geyser] The consumer-driven new car market dropped by 3% in March compared to March last year but new vehicle exports shot up by a surprising 38.5% compared to last year...

You can dish it out to VW's Touareg

[Henrie Geyser] Local motorists who are on the market for a spacious, classy, comfortable SUV with a pleasantly sporty character have a fine selection of smart variants to choose from, most of them requiring a fairly bulging wallet...

An ultimate Cinderella for all ages

[Daniel Dercksen] Cinderella bursts into glorious life on the big screen and it's an enchanting masterwork from legendary filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.

[Behind the Selfie] with... Mike Wronski

[Leigh Andrews] This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Mike Wronski, managing director of Fuseware...

Practical finance plan may put land reform on track

[Derick van der Walt] The Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz) and the Banking Association South Africa's (Banking Association) model to finance land reform is currently in the spotlight...

[NewsMaker] Scott Cundill

[Louise Burgers] Marketing technology is one of the fastest growing areas of high tech today and South African internet communication company, Majestic Interactive, is expanding to Europe to market its software solutions...

Upping the ante on social media

[Grace Belger] "Noah #itsAXhosaThing" vs. "#Israel @StandWithUs" and the Twitter war is on...

The wonderful design whimsy of Wonderland

[Leigh Andrews] Wondering why you haven't heard Wonderland's name at any local award shows (yet)? There's a perfectly good reason...

Content marketing lessons from Unilever

[Joseph Neusu] Content marketing has now gone mainstream as it features at the nucleus of the marketing mix of all the leading brands...

[Orchids & Onions] Justify it with real figures for it all to add up

[Brendan Seery] I often get breathlessly excited news releases from digital agencies puffing out their chests about some clever campaign. What is often absent from these announcements is figures...

[Death to PowerPoint!] Part 3: Creative replacements for slides

[Douglas Kruger] Sometimes it's not the smoking that you miss. It's the act of playing with the cigarette...

[Earth Focus] Light at the end of the tunnel

[Roger Metcalfe] Walking down those endless shopping mall tunnels to the restrooms, I was suddenly plunged into total darkness - so black I could not even see my hands before my eyes...

Retail design, impacting bottom line

[Callie van der Merwe] While most people would think that one's core focus in retail and hospitality design is on design, it is actually the last element to be considered in the process of developing solutions...

Avoid the April time crunch

[Louise Robinson] Easter is just around the corner, so businesses of all sizes and from all sectors should be preparing to meet another business slowdown head-on...