 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Leigh Andrews] Kantar TNS presented research titled: ‘Throwing bones and singing praise songs, drawing inspiration from African culture to develop locally relevant projective techniques'. |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Ruth Cooper] “My girlfriend left me for Justin Bieber, can I get a hug?” reads the sign a gangly teen holds. Seems like this strat is working, he has already amassed a queue of young nubiles waiting to get a cuddle and take a selfie with him. |
 | TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
[Danette Breitenbach] "Tourism is the new currency that ignites and unites our continent. We are looking forward to exciting times ahead for this industry on our continent.” |
 | RETAIL
[Lauren Hartzenberg] Millennials have exceptional trendsetting power and businesses are competing to capture their attention and a share of their wallets... |
| [Music] We Are Charlie release the new single and music video for Starting to Stop. |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Daniel Dercksen] Alien: Covenant, The Founder, The Resurrection Of Gavin Stone, Ozzy and Eugene Onegin open on the big screen this weekend. |
 | AUTOMOTIVE
[Ilse Burger] General Motors has announced that it is transforming its business globally. For SA, this means the phasing out of the manufacturing and sales of Chevrolet vehicles... [video] |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Juanita Pienaar] Speakers at the CMO2020 event debated the role and relevance of marketers in a data-driven, technological world, leading up to 2020... |
| Justin Bieber, with support from local act Sketchy Bongo, played to an adoring crowd last night, 17 May at the Cape Town Stadium.    
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| MARKETING & MEDIA  Engage Joe Public MD, Keri-Ann Stanton The 2017 Prism Awards took place at a ceremony at The Park House of Events on 6 May 2017 and I chatted to some of the gold winners... |
 | ESG & SUSTAINABILITY  Justin Friedman, founder of For the Love of Water (FLOW) Justin Friedman, founder of For the Love of Water (FLOW), chaired and opened the keynote session on the second day of the 2017 African Utility Week... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA  Adam Howard, owner of Howard Audio. I spoke to some of the people responsible for SA's recent One Show-winning work, behind the scenes. Next up is Adam Howard, owner of Howard Audio... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Leigh Andrews] In the second punch presentation of the day, Kate Niemöller of IQ Business spoke eloquently on the topic of fact-phobia vs credible data: The war between truth and propaganda in one of the most interesting sessions of the first day of Samra's 2017 conference... |
| AUTOMOTIVE
[Ilse Burger] Nampo is not a word unfamiliar to me. As a student at NWU, my friends and I used to frequent this (then not-so-big) agri festival almost every year, funnily enough.... |
| TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
[Danette Breitenbach] The annual Travel Indaba has rebranded to Africa's Travel Indaba, reflecting its evolution from a locally-orientated event to one that is representative of the African continent... |
 | HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT
[Iza Grek] No doubt, technology has changed the way we work and its capacity to take over the function of the human being is starkly felt, with many deeply concerned about their future in the workplace... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA  Samra CEO Leonie Vorster opening the two-day annual Samra conference. The 38th Samra conference got underway with a strong focus on the value of marketing research and whether we should perhaps reframe it as an insights industry... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Leigh Andrews] The research industry was 'the man' over the last 70 years. Now, it is lying on its death bed. Do you have the courage to resuscitate it? Bérengère Parouty and Heather Tluczek of Kantar TNS unpacked this topic in a research paper presentation at Samra 2017 on how market research agencies will remain relevant in the future: Through symbiosis, evolution or extinction... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Leigh Andrews] Elna Pretorius, co-founder of Columinate touched on the topics of memes and how to make marketing research sexy again... |
