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Herman Manson's profile on Bizcommunity

The inaugural Vodacom Social Media Journalist of the Year in 2011, Herman Manson (@marklives) is a business journalist and media commentator who edits industry news site www.marklives.com. His writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines locally and abroad, including Bizcommunity.com. He also co-founded Brand magazine.
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[Marketing & Media] MarkLives refused media accreditation to The Loerie Award shows (again)
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Posted 9 months ago | Like
SOUTH AFRICA
AwardsCandy - SA app start-up signing global award shows

[Herman Manson] Wallace Seggie, a South African creative director, has developed an iOS app that brings together in one place award-winning work from a number of the world's largest advertising festivals. Called AwardsCandy, it has even been awarded official Media Partner status for the 2012 Clios. (video)

Posted 1 year ago | Like
SOUTH AFRICA
Ninety9cents lands Capitec, sees 43% growth y/y

[Herman Manson] Cape Town headquartered agency, ninety9cents, has landed the ATL Capitec account* - probably the most exciting banking brand any agency can hope to work on. Capitec, it's estimated, spends R80-R100 million on advertising through a year.

Posted 1 year ago | Like (1)
SOUTH AFRICA
Press freedom, the commission and you

[Herman Manson] How wonderful that, in South Africa's high-volume politics, the chance to step back from the abyss still presents itself. The Press Freedom Commission report on media regulation seems to have created an opportunity for politicians to jump the puddle that would have sucked them and the rest of us down an acrimonious path to the Constitutional Court and a bareknuckle fight on our hard-fought right to know (the truth - and not just Jimmy Manyi's).

Posted 1 year ago | Like (1)
SOUTH AFRICA
Cell C drops King James, FoxP2 - retains Ogilvy

[Herman Manson] Cell C has decided to drop King James and FoxP2 as its advertising agencies. Cell C had announced in February 2012 that it had appointed FoxP2, King James, Prima Plus and Trigger/Isobar as its ad agencies. King James and FoxP2 were to replace Ogilvy Johannesburg. Ogilvy will now be retaining the Cell C business.

Posted 1 year ago | Like (2)
SOUTH AFRICA
Zando rockets into SA ecommerce space

[Herman Manson] Zando, a new online fashion ecommerce play funded by Germany-based Rocket Internet, launched three months ago and is literally aiming to rocket through the online retail market to be in the same league like services such as Kalahari.net and Takelot.com.

Posted 1 year ago | Like (2)
SOUTH AFRICA
140 BBDO finds new relevance, success

[Herman Manson] One year on and 140 BBDO, the agency formerly known as Net#work BBDO Cape Town, has found that its identity change and internal organisational behaviour shift is paying dividends. Of the three pitches it undertook in 2011, it won the two in which it was the incumbent and then scored one of the biggest accounts in Cape Town when it bagged the third in Metropolitan.

Posted 1 year ago | Like (2)
SOUTH AFRICA
Reputation boost for Ogilvy as ODMA shows success

[Herman Manson] The Ogilvy Digital Marketing Academy (ODMA), an educational initiative between Ogilvy and lecturer and digital strategist Dave Duarte, has celebrated its first year of contributing to the "geekification of the ad industry," as Duarte had joked it would do when the academy in its current form was first launched in early 2011.

Posted 1 year ago | Like (1)
SOUTH AFRICA
Cell C puts new agency decision on review

[Herman Manson] Cell C has put its new agency appointments, which was formally announced to the media and industry on 10 February 2012, under review. Cell C had announced the appointment of FoxP2, King James, Prima Plus and Trigger/Isobar as its ad agencies.

Posted 1 year ago | Like
SOUTH AFRICA
BA's High Life comes to South Africa

[Herman Manson] High Life, the much applauded inflight magazine of British Airways, is getting a localised edition for BA-operated Comair. The new magazine replaces Horizons - Comair's previous inflight title, published by Media24. The contract was awarded to Omnicom-owned content marketing firm Cedar Communications UK and the first edition appeared 1 April 2012.

Posted 1 year ago | Like (1)

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