 | Poetry launches it's Autumn/Winter 2018 collection.    
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA  Flanked by his wife Tabitha, Alistair King is inducted into the Creative Circle Hall of Fame. Image provided. Ogilvy took top honours last night at the Creative Circle's Annual Awards. Ogilvy Johannesburg won the Creative Circle's Annual Individual Agency Award and the Ogilvy Group the Overall Group Award... |
| LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Ruth Cooper] We chat with Studio H founder Hannerie Visser about how they are using food to design brand experiences and create memorable campaigns for their clients... |
 | RETAIL
[Lauren Hartzenberg] Toys 'R' Us Inc. is going out of business, shutting all of its 735 toy stores and Babies 'R' Us stores in the US after a failed turnaround... |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Ilse Burger] About 30 minutes out of Cape Town en route to Tulbagh, I look in the rearview mirror and see my sister's face, happily stuck between my two nephews on either side of her. But, we all know these moments don't last very long... |
| RETAIL
[Lauren Hartzenberg] The proliferation of e-commerce essentially means that retailers are now more than ever competing in a global marketplace... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  Chris Querido of Sonar Studios. Sonar Studios owner, composer, sound designer and creative director Chris Querido let us in on his successes on the local and global award track over the past year... |
 | RETAIL
[Maroefah Smith] Artificial intelligence doesn't have to induce a Hollywood sci-fi dystopian nightmare in which robots take over the world. It may instead offer an exciting opportunity to connect consumers to your brand... |
| FINANCE & INSURANCE
[Danette Breitenbach] Interoperability is the key to achieving blockchain adoption at scale, even though this creates competition between currencies... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Craig Hannabus] With a focus on revolutionary technologies and the way that society perceives them, the Havas Prosumer Report, iLife, provides some interesting insights into how the world is changing... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Gil Sperling] Gil Sperling writes that marketers need a fundamental shift in outlook to remain relevant... |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Daniel Dercksen] Meerkat Maantuig, Marrowbone, Tomb Raider and Goodbye Christopher Robin open at cinemas this week. |
| AUTOMOTIVE
[Ilse Burger] With even the top performance and luxury brands like Jaguar, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Rolls-Royce verging into the SUV market, it's evident that the demand for SUVs and crossovers is growing... |
| RETAIL
[Maroefah Smith] Tapping into the potential of data to provide insight into consumers' thinking and behaviour may translate into an enhanced customer experience strategy... |
| [Music] Veranda Panda release the music video for latest single Smile. To make the music video for Smile, Veranda Panda wanted to include their fans and friends, in association with 5FM they launched a campaign on Hamman Time asking fans to tag them in photos of what makes them smile, using the hashtag #thismakesmesmile. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Paballo Molahlehi] Being black, female, and disruptive to the status quo is almost always met with hostility. Being all three of these things poses a threat to the environment where white male patriarchy continues to thrive... |
 | AUTOMOTIVE
[Trevor Hill] As digital advancements transform the driving experience, they are also fundamentally changing how society engages with the vehicle in the retail environment... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Leigh Andrews] On Friday, 9 March, I attended the Columinate research presentation on the measure of tomorrow, where I learned that up to 90% of consumers' decision-making is non-conscious. Here's further proof why your brand needs to tap into consumers' non-conscious decisions... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Jessica Tennant] Marc du Plessis, joint CEO of Spark Media and head of the Publisher Council of the IAB, gave a keynote address at Future Ad Africa in Johannesburg yesterday on the subject of brand safety, trust and supporting the independent press... |
