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All for accessible, inclusive creativityThis week we're all about enhancing your creativity. First up, Pasqua Heard finds out how Umuzi, creative academy and agency based in Johannesburg, will be expanding to Cape Town this year as it continues its mission to make South Africa's creative industry more accessible and inclusive. MD Gilbert Pooley and creative director Odendaal Esterhuyse share how agencies can contribute to diversity in the industry and what it takes to be recruited by Umuzi. Keeping things creative, M-Net's Local Entertainment representatives explain the power of writing good briefs and increasing collaboration with the agencies creating your powerful work in my Loeries Ranking feature. Beverley Klein also gets to know this week's #Newsmaker: Siya Metane AKA Slikour and MD at SlikourOnLife. He explains his new venture – SlikourOnLife, part of OnLife Networks, which serves as, “a place for brands to have the power, where stories are told, and which creates inventory for clients to buy.” Then, BrandsEye takes a deeper dive into how some creativity can be harmful with fake news is driving SA's political agendas, offering a word of caution against believing everything you see in the social media space. There's been a rise in the amount of fake profiles with just a letter or symbol difference from those of trustworthy sources, with many including the phrase “ parody account” in their Twitter bios. Be careful out there. We also have more of the latest #BizTrends2017 opinion and insights to spur you on this week. Comment online in our Ed's Column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Weekly top stories |
| | [Pasqua Heard] Continuing its mission to make South Africa's creative industry more accessible and inclusive, Umuzi, a creative academy and agency based in Johannesburg, will be expanding to Cape Town this year... read |
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On Friday 20 January 2017 the unwitting Twitter user may have been inclined to believe that respected South African journalists were suddenly squaring up against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan... Read | Leigh Andrews I chatted to some of the top ranked creatives post-2016 Loeries Rankings celebrations. Here, some of M-Net's Local Entertainment representatives share their views… Read | Beverley Klein Siya Metane, better known in the music industry as Slikour, is making waves with his new venture - SlikourOnLife, part of OnLife Networks... Read |
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| | | | Joshin Raghubar Customer engagement agency, iKineo sees three key trends emerging in 2017, according to Joshin Raghubar, executive chairman… read | | | Dawn Rowlands With the steadfast development of digital transformation, technology allows for more data opportunities from the increasing connected consumer, says Dawn Rowlands, … read | | | Tom Manners How do you create a powerful brand narrative in the age of the smartphone..? read | | | Pilira Mwambala It's imperative for the local digital advertising ecosystem to be unified so that knowledge sharing remains at the core of this cutting-edge industry… read | | | Lauren Hartzenberg The number of mobile phone users is expected to hit 4.8 billion in 2017 and 2,55 billion people are predicted to engage on social networks... read | | More trends... | | |
| Cannes Lions has announced that entries to its International Festival of Creativity have been simplified this year, with an entry process that ensures it is clear and easy to navigate... read | | |
| A new creative challenge saw 18 young, creative professionals participating in Nike's recent Sock Dart Creative Hub experience in Braamfontein... read | | Issued by Playmakers | | |
| The winners of the October/November/December Creative Circle Awards have been announced... read | | | Chad Otto Graphic design and UI trends: This appears to mainly be a continuation from 2016, with further refinements and a larger focus on ease of use... read | | | Judging for the 2017 IAB SA Bookmark Awards has kicked off, with industry leaders ready to pick the top contenders. The jury, led by John Dixon, features more diverse digital players than ever before... read | | Issued by FCB Africa | | Issued by Boomtown | | Issued by Exponential | | | Ryan Kh Paid social media advertising has been around for some time. Yet the concept of ‘pay to play' has only become particularly prominent in the last few months... read | | | Leigh Andrews Ogilvy SA's ‘twin peaks' of creativity and effectiveness continue hitting their mark says Pete Case, named among the top 10 creative heads in the world at the 2016 Directory Big Won Network Rankings. Here's why he says it's better to evolve at and with the speed of the consumer than to blindly follow trends… read | | |
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| Issued by HDI Youth Marketeers For over 14 years now, Pick n Pay and HDI Youth Marketeers have been running a platform that helps provide over 3,000 schools across South Africa with over 250 tons of brand-funded educational content... read | | |
Kevin Bierman, Issued by Moving Tactics | | | Leigh Andrews The new year has kicked off with an exciting change at Wunderman, with former consultant Haydn Townsend appointed as group chief executive in SA. He shares how he'll use his cross-functional marketing skills to oversee operations at Wunderman-owned companies like Aqua, Applogix, Base Two and Cerebra... read | | | Emma Glover As an English girl living in South Africa for the last year, I have noticed stark differences in the ways brands and their audiences behave online. Not only are the content themes noticeably different to the European way of thinking... read | | |
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| Issued by Zinto Activation Group A number of businesses in the private sector and NGOs joined together to stage a business-readiness springboard and employment doorway, The Business Warm-Up, to confront head-on the economic challenges facing SA's youth... read | | Issued by Topco Media | | | "These improved conditions should provide a more solid platform for local SMEs to grow and pursue their objectives in their respective sectors..." read | | |
| Jessica Tennant The National Film and Video Foundation held a media breakfast on Thursday, 26 January to formally announce the changes it's made to the 11th edition of the South African Film and Television Awards. read | | | Beaulah du Toit When clients create a request for a proposal (RFP) or a tender for events management, it is vital that they understand that the nature and scope of work that an experienced events management team can offer far outweighs... read | | |
| The Association of African Exhibition Organisers (AAXO) hosted the first ROAR Organiser and Exhibitor Awards on 26 January 2017 at the Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg... read | | |
| Louise Marsland A week in politics can indeed change the world, bringing us “alternative facts”, “black ops” war rooms and social media resistance fighters… read | | Issued by SAFREA | | | Chris Brewer I think it's a fair assumption to make that writers (rather like media planners) should know what their target market and/or readers is/are... read | |
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| Warc research suggests a growing proportion of online social activity is ‘dark', driven by the rise of chat or mobile-focused messenger apps, such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Line and WeChat... read | | Issued by 24.com | |
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| Daniel Munslow When an organisation faces a crisis, you expect it to act quickly to mitigate the reputational risk through strategic business communication tactics... read | | | Leigh Andrews This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Nic Simmonds, executive director at Johannesburg-based communications agency, Clockwork Media… read | | |
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| Sindy Peters While the SDGs are wide-ranging, said Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, a keynote speaker at the recently concluded World Sustainability Forum, "it is striking how closely they speak to critical problems for the African continent"... read | | Issued by Insight Survey | | Issued by delvv.io | | |
| Jennifer Human Although one of the younger social media platforms amongst the giants, Instagram is steadily making its way to the front of the line in capturing audiences of varying ages and interests... read | | | Leigh Andrews There's no denying mobile has changed the way we live and work – but it's not all for good. Here's why having a portable media device in your pocket, just begging you to check in, comment and show you're up-to-date can be detrimental... read | | | | As part of its 2017 Media Awards, Warc has announced the Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in the Effective Channel Integration category... read | | | The Midas Awards for the World's Best Financial Advertising have been announced, with FP7/DXB (part of McCann Worldgroup) and MediaVest Spark earning the Midas Award for Innovation for ‘The AC Vests' for client Emirates NBD... read | | More International | |
| In this episode, we talk to Mike Oelschig, Head of Strategy @ Cerebra about the importance of crisis communication on social media. - View/Rate | | | Who says art and science can't blend? Here is brand DNA brought to visual life - with mathematical accuracy! Join Giles Shepherd of Brand Alive and Guy Martin of Blu Prints in Episode 7 of With or Without Sugar as they chat about an exciting, unique way of crystallising, expressing and empowering brands - with real, demonstrable business performance as a result. - View/Rate | |
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Born from the brand's innovation laboratory, Raw Research II embodies the latest efforts to explore the unlimited possibilities of denim. The Raw Research lab experiments with product design by clashing tradition and innovation, and symbolises an endeavour to find new ways of crafting denim through the process of exploration, curiosity, and experimentation. The Raw Research capsule collection introduces the brand's latest denim innovations as prototypes, functioning as the blueprints for the following main collection and representing the G-Star RAW design philosophy in its purest form. | More noticeboards Submit a Noticeboard | |
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