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Leigh Andrews Toyota formally announced earlier today that it is continuing its "exceptionally good, regularly measured" relationship with "the best of the best", FCB Africa. Brett Morris, FCB Africa Group CEO and group CCO shares their perspective of the love story that's endured over five decades and counting...read | 
Charl Bassil Despite a sobering picture of South Africa's competitiveness, showing performance in the 2017-2018 World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index to have slipped 14 positions from the 2016-2017 results, there are some bright spots - notably on the innovation front...read | 
Leigh Andrews To many 'Design Indaba' is simply founder Ravi Naidoo, but there's a huge team behind the scenes. Meet Neo Maditla, Design Indaba's new editor-in-chief. With her hard-news background and passion for purpose-led design, she's the tough cookie looking to make the Design Indaba website as popular as its annual Festival...read |
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 | Brendan Seery Perhaps it's because we are sliding into the silly season, but I really have not seen anything this week which has irked me enough to hand out an Onion. And, I'd rather not devalue my critical currency, the Onion, by handing it out just because you expect me to be bitchy... read |
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 | Damon Stapleton I have been a creative for 25 years. It is all I have ever done to make a living. First as a photographer, and then as a creative in advertising. So, after a quarter of a century, I thought this would be a good time to write to my younger creative self about what I believe are the rules for successful creative living... read |
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 | New York Festivals' AME Awards for the World's Best Advertising and Marketing Effectiveness has announced the 2018 grand jury... read |
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 | IDidTht's November SA Film Reel Monthly Craft Awards were judged by Jenny Glover, ECD at TBWA\Hunt Lascaris, who selected Carling Black Label's 'No Excuse' for Best of Reel... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant It was announced earlier this week that Grant Sithole, a former creative partner at Bakone, has been appointed to join Avatar as joint ECD alongside Brett Wild... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Havas recently appointed Mandy Leontakianakis as chief strategy officer to lead from Havas Johannesburg and across the group in Southern Africa, including Havas Boondoggle in Cape Town... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Havas Johannesburg has announced chief creative officer Eoin Welsh's resignation, and the promotion of Fiona O'Connor and Tumi Sethebe as joint executive creative directors, effective 2 January 2018... read |
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 | This festive season Gautengers will descend on a drought-ravaged Mother City, putting more strain on water supply. They will be encouraged to exchange five kilos of their on-flight baggage allowance for five litres of water... read |
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 | SME Survey 2018 will highlight the levels of digital transformation in the small business sector... read |
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 | Issued By WeFuse WeFuse, a digitally innovative and creative agency, recently relaunched its website, revealing the new business direction which the company has taken... read |
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 | Marc Gower Forget about digital transformation until you have addressed how you plan to reinvent your business model to address the fundamental and irreversible shift in the way customers make purchasing decisions... read |
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 | Google has announced the results of its 2017 Year in Search, offering a unique perspective on the year's major moments and top trends based on searches conducted in South Africa... read |
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 | Digitata Insights and Sunlight have together embarked on a water saving awareness campaign with the aim of... read |
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 | Fourie Rossouw How to take your digital marketing activities from small-town to uptown... read |
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 | Burger Kings across the world settled into the festive spirit by 'gifting' its main competitor, McDonald's, with gas braais to flame-grill their burgers... read |
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 | Candice Goodman Issued By Mobitainment |
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 | Nick Hedley Five years ago, Warren Buffett famously bought a handful of newspapers in a move that went against the generally accepted idea that print media was facing a painful death... read |
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 | This year the majority of the Africa digital media winners at Wan-Ifra's Digital Media Awards were from South Africa and Kenya... read |
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 | Nick Hedley Naspers was taking measures to reduce its stock's significant discount to fair value, largely the result of capital outflows from SA, CEO Bob van Dijk told investors in New York on Tuesday... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant TMI Media was founded by Quinton Jones and Peter Brooke-Sumner, director of TMI (The Media Image), in October 2016 as a joint venture with a fully integrated digital offering, specially focused on data and analytics... read |
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 | The media has been so captured by the celebrity culture that an endorsement by a famous person or respected source lends credence to a product or cause which has no scientific backing... read |
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 | A record number of journalists remain imprisoned throughout the world for their work, the annual census by the Committee to Protect Journalists finds. In Africa, Egypt and Eritrea top the list... read |
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 | NEWSWATCH: The Mail & Guardian reports that it has been acquired by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). Former publisher Trevor Ncube has also left the company... read |
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 | Issued By Bizcommunity.com Location, location, location - a real estate term used to describe the benefits of a property investment is as relevant in the online media space... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar The OMC's Road measurement system update gives an overview of the methodology used, fieldwork efficiencies and innovation, insight and benchmarks as well as the benefits to media planners, media strategists and advertisers... read |
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 | Issued By Naija Writers' Coach Today there are various methods - which keep increasing by the day - to promote your business, whether you're on a budget or not... read |
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 | Heather Baker Nowadays, all manner of marketing services are available, from advertising to inbound to content marketing to SEO. So, where, in this new media mix does PR fit? And is it still important?... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Bryce 'DJ Ankletap' Clarke has moved back to the YFM breakfast show from his 6-9pm slot... read |
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 | Lumen proves that the actual viewing of, as opposed to potential exposure to adverts (no matter the reading platform of digital or print) leads to almost 9 times more sales... read |
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 | A research study showed that although our dreams of a rainbow utopia have faded to a more realistic pallor, South Africans are a resilient nation who remain proudly South African (84%) with an infallible sense of optimism for a bright future for all races... read |
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 | Franck Celhay If wine brands want to signify their differences and tell a story, be it real or fictional, about their product, they do so primarily through label design... read |
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 | Jainita Khatri Retailers and consumers, door deals and online marketing, geo-tracking, real-time parking deals and refreshments for physical shoppers. Black Friday has evolved into a complex sales phenomenon... read |
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 | NEWSWATCH: Swedish comedian PewDiePie was not included in YouTube's Rewind this year, for the first time since his debut appearance in the 2013 round-up... read |
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 | UberEats SA share tips to educate people on how to take a good food photograph... read |
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 | Facebook on Thursday moved to bolster its appeal and money-making potential as an online platform for viewing video similar to YouTube. read |
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 | Tali Babes joins Suzelle from SuzelleDIY in new video, How To Make A DIY Wedding Cake but the two of them don't get on. At all... read |
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 | Julia Breakey Netflix doesn't like giving out numbers - we still don't know exactly how many South Africans are on the platform, for example. But the company has revealed that in 2017, users around the world were watching over 140-million hours of content a day... read |
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 | Streaming media is changing the face of broadcasting: people are turning to streaming video platforms, and increasingly, consuming their media and entertainment via their mobile phones... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Earlier this month, I chatted to e.tv MD Marlon Davids about their growth over the past two decades as SA's fifth terrestrial television channel and biggest independent one, as well as the channel's new #OurWorldIsRed campaign... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews In this era of multi-channel marketing, success is no longer measured by the advert, but rather the full viewer package. Debbie Brady, commercial director for Discovery Networks Africa, lets us in on the importance of commercial partnerships to generate revenue and increase brand awareness... read |
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 | Calling it the "Netflix of jazz," legendary producer Quincy Jones is rolling out Qwest TV, a first global platform dedicated to on-demand jazz videos... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This week, we go behind the selfie with Rhodé Marshall, #Trending co-editor at City Press... read |
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 | Cannes Lions honours brothers Piyush and Prasoon Pandey with the Lion of St Mark, the award for outstanding contribution to the creative industry... read |
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 | The One Club for Creativity has announced nine creative leaders who will serve as jury chairs for the prestigious ADC 97th Annual Awards... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar The Prism Awards are once again searching for 11 of the best young minds seeking the title of Prisms Young Judge for the 2018 awards... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Earlier this week, it was announced that M&N Brands has acquired Mela Events. Here, M&N Brands Group CEO Zibusiso Mkhwanazi and Mela Events' owners, Tiziana Tucci and Enelra Booth, let us in on what the acquisition foretells of M&N Brands' pan-African future... read |
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 | Earlier this week the nominations for the 75th Golden Globe Awards were announced of which Times Media Films represents ten, including the forerunner for nominations... read |
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 | Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox shares were in the spotlight on Wednesday amid reports the two media-entertainment powerhouses were readying a major deal for some of Fox's prized television and film assets... read |
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 | A new study shows how marketers use video to generate return on attention (ROA) by socialising business narratives rather than broadcasting them... read |
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Leonardo da Vinci "Learning never exhausts the mind." Henry James "Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself." Laura Ingalls Wilder "Home is the nicest word there is." George Bernard Shaw "Syllables govern the world." Sophocles "Wisdom outweighs any wealth." |
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