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Leigh Andrews The Cannes Film Festival is usually filled with chatter about the winning work and those impressive evening gowns the celebs wear. Comments following the 2018 version are proving more substantial than usual, as diversity was front and foremost at the 71st Cannes Film Festival...read |
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The IAB SA has kick-started a campaign for all South Africans to have free basic access to the internet...read | 
Marthinus Van Loggerenberg and Tuelo Lechuti In some ways, Gen Z could be compared to a butterfly. Some are in a state of metamorphosis and some are already spreading their wings. On a more profound level, as they not only go through radical transformation but also radically transform the world that they affect...read | 
Louise Marsland Africa is a hot bed of opportunities. If you look for that opportunity you will find it, says Robyn de Villiers, vice chair of APRA and chair and CEO of Burson Cohn & Wolfe Africa...read |
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 | Ann Nurock In an exclusive interview, Ann Nurock talks to Fernando Machado, head of brand marketing for Burger King. Winner of the coveted Penta Pencil and Client of the Year at the recent One Show awards... read |
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 | The New York Festivals' executive jury convened in New York City to judge the 2018 NYF International Advertising Awards and provided interesting perspectives on the process of judging and the matrix judging system... read |
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 | After a long and rigorous review process where some of the biggest names in the industry competed for the opportunity to work on the Wimpy account, The Odd Number today announced its appointment as the lead agency for the brand... read |
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 | Avatar Cape Town has won the integrated 2018 campaign for H&M, marking the global retail giant's first locally produced campaign, including ATL, digital, social, BTL and PR... read |
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 | Nam Do of Lycoming College, Pennsylvania has won the 2018 Young Global Award... read |
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 | Brendan Seery Beer is, for the most part, a product for men. They are, by far, the majority of its consumers and, therefore, the advertising is generally directed at them. And over the years, beer advertising as a genre has generated some good ads and some shockers... read |
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Issued By Dentsu Aegis Network |
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 | The Festival of Media has announced the winners of the Festival of Media Global Awards 2018... read |
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 | Damon Stapleton I will get to the accompanying picture a bit later. First, let me give you a scenario: Imagine there is a job you have dreamed of your whole life. It is all you have ever wanted to do. You spend every day trying to make it happen. You are passionate and diligent. You work hard. This job is all you care about... read |
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 | Nescafé has unveiled a new crafting process and packaging design for its popular Gold range of instant coffees... read |
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 | Maroefah Smith What do you get when you take two creative brands, a shared love of bananas, and a desire to do some good? The Missibaba x Mami Wata Bananananananas custom surfboard bag... read |
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 | Brendon Williamson From the moment they click onto an e-commerce site, customers develop a lasting impression of your brand... read |
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 | E van Tonder and DJ Petzer In a dynamic business world, characterised by shorter product life cycles, growing customer demands and intense competitive rivalry, innovation is increasingly being considered a key element in a business's strategy to attract and maintain customers. read |
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 | McCann Worldgroup Johannesburg, Picture Tree and the TEARS Foundation are together working on a collaborative campaign... read |
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 | Marking the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, the 2018 SleepOut Movement is presenting several new opportunities... read |
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 | The Tecnológico de Monterrey new Main Library has been recognised in the Library Interior Design Awards 2018 as "The Best Academic Library in the World" in the over 30,000ft2 category... read |
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 | Terry Levin The recently opened Norval Foundation in the Cape Town suburb of Steenberg offers a proud, new public resource and new levels of excellence in the curation and display of South African and African visual art. read |
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 | Rob Richardson From the grunge metal singer in your local bar to the CEO of a fortune 500 company, tattoos have become commonplace in modern society, but have you ever stopped to think about who owns the copyright to your inked art...? read |
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 | AI continues to be the buzzword du jour to describe a host of "intelligent" features aiming to augment the functions performed by marketers in their everyday jobs... read |
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 | The National Arts Festival will be launching a new programme for the inaugural Creativate Digital Arts Festival, taking place between 28 June to 1 July 2018 in Grahamstown... read |
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 | Tracey Cohen Wi-Fi advertising offers tremendous advantages for advertisers that place a premium on highly-segmented, location-specific platforms that eliminate ad spend wastage and which can be remotely updated in a flash... read |
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 | The Internet Society and the African Union Commission launched new personal data protection guidelines for Africa at the Africa Internet Summit held in Dakar, Senegal this week... read |
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 | Athan Tashobya As disruptive technologies continue to emerge in Rwanda and across the African market in general, young innovators have been challenged to create digital innovations that can help tackle health epidemics such as HIV and Aids... read |
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 | To address the chronic shortage of programmers and drive transformation, FCB Africa's digital agency, Hellocomputer, has partnered with Umuzi to establish a creative programmer learnership... read |
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Nick Sarnadas Issued By Madex |
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 | Sbusiso Leope, better known as DJ Sbu, has partnered with the 3Sixty Financial Services Group with the aim to develop the minds and ability of young hustlers in South Africa with his own learning institution - The Hustlers Academy... read |
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 | "We have moved from position 186 to 113 globally, while also improving our ranking in Africa from position five to two. Now our team is aiming for a position in the top 100 globally in 2018..." read |
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 | The Best Managed Companies in a host of sectors were announced last week at the 2nd annual Top 500 Awards, hosted at Inanda Club's Polo Room in the heart of Sandton... read |
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Angelique Shekleton Issued By Multi-Media |
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 | Jessica Tennant Ads24 launched its annual Food for Thought event last year and will be hosting the next one later this month... read |
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 | 9th Durban FilmMart announces Official Project Selection for 2018 edition, including 16 films and documentaries from Africa... read |
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 | Realness Africa screenwriter's residency 2018 participants announced at Cannes Film festival... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach "Showcase our Indaba and take it to more than 80 countries here for the next three days." This year's theme is Africa's Stories, Your Success and focuses on a united goal to deliver authentic stories to increase tourism to Africa sustainably... read |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster Malta's media landscape is surreal - a cornucopia of competition completely disproportionate to the archipelago's 460,000 population size... read |
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 | Andy Walker In a not-all-that-exciting update, WhatsApp has tweaked the way groups work on its platform... read |
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 | Issued By Vicinity Media The digital media industry's latest obsessions are brand safety and viewability - two closely linked topics born out of the controversial practice of programmatic advertising... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Following on from Mother's Day, I thought it fitting to chat to mother and daughter, Paola Chellew and Lia Mundell (respectively) who launched their PR business in March this year... read |
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 | Hugh Tyrrell The International Social and Behaviour Change Communication Summit held recently in Bali drew over 1,000 delegates from more than 90 countries, including a strong South African contingent... read |
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 | Cape Town Tourism has released the latest in their "Love Cape Town Neighbourhoods" video series focusing on the Mitchells Plain neighbourhood. read |
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 | The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlists for the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, have been announced... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant As Nicholas Lawrence won Best Breakfast Presenter at the Liberty Radio Awards this year and has only worked in radio for just over a year now, I interviewed him to find out what this win means to him and what it says about loving what you do and doing what you love well... read |
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 | Giant digital shopping destinations now account for more than 50% of the nearly $500 billion spent by North American consumers online... read |
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 | Joint study reveals marketers are spending more time in meetings about collaboration than growing relationships with customers looking to more deeply engage with brands... read |
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 | This year a number of brands used Mother's Day as an opportunity to win over the hearts and cash of consumers looks to lavish their mums. But who stood out though?... read |
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 | Mark Thomson Over the last decade, the retail industry has seen a shift in how it operates. The exponential increase in online shopping has had a significant impact on how we buy our products... read |
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 | Mpho Mpofu How do we provide front row seats for clients into consumer lives? Well, WhatsApp is a great way to start... read |
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 | Gil Sperling The right to user privacy and respect for personal information on the internet continued to make news headlines last month as the Facebook data breach saga headed to Washington, where Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questions from US senators... read |
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 | Louise Marsland The new general manager and vice president of Fox Networks Group Africa, Evert van der Veer, will focus on the expansion of Fox Sports and local content production... read |
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 | Jared Molko It's Africa Month, which is a great time to reflect on where we are as a connected society and what role we as African digital citizens have to play in the near future... read |
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 | Natasha Omokhodion-Banda Global business is sitting up and taking notice of Africa in its new capacity of 'influencer', rather than just 'consumer'... read |
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 | Brett St Clair Are African businesses ready to become disruptors? Disruption is a trendy term - but disruption has been around since the big bang, and we've seen it operating through time at different scales... read |
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 | Natalia Rosa One of the strengths of marketing travel to Africa is that its destinations offer so much diversity. How would an African Tourism Board even begin to market the continent as one brand when there are so many cultures, ethnicities, landscapes and languages that comprise the continent? read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This #AfricaMonth, we go behind the selfie with Lorraine Maisel, founder and director of Styling Concepts in Johannesburg and Press Room in Cape Town... read |
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 | Four of the world's top creative leaders will guide over 160 judges in the process of selecting the best of brand communication from across Africa and the Middle East... read |
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 | CPJ, along with 64 other global non-governmental organisations, has written to Tanzanian President John Magufuli to express concern about a worrying decline in human rights and freedom of expression... read |
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 | Colin Thornton As part of the city's efforts to save water, remote working solutions can play a key role... read |
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 | Joanne Shields Africa is a diverse continent with unique market conditions. Home to seven of the fastest growing economies and seven of the world's megacities, and with millions of young people entering the labour force each year, Africa is fertile ground... read |
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 | Colin Thornton In a digitally driven world, cybersecurity has become a highly lucrative sphere of modern business. Today, experts around the world are clawing for a piece of the estimated $8.5bn cyberthreat intelligence industry pie... read |
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 | Employers have an obligation to ensure their employees are skilled to adapt to the displacement being triggered by the fourth industrial revolution... read |
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Lao Tzu "Nature is not human hearted." Lee Lacocca "Trouble shared is trouble halved." Josh Billings "Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words." John Gay "Shadow owes its birth to light." Hosea Ballou "Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." |
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 | Oxford University Press currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced technology project manager (Ref. OUPSA150518). Applications close 28 May 2018. Read more >> |
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 With guest speakers; seasoned MC and radio talk show host, Ashraf Garda, and editor, foreign correspondent, former communications executive, Rich Mkhondo, the 'Janine Lazarus Media Masterclass' is a must-attend. Read more >>Media Law and EthicsIAJ - Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - 22 May 2018 to 23 May 2018, Johannesburg Digital brand strategy short courseVega School - 23 May 2018 to 8 Aug 2018, Cape Town | 29 May 2018 to 14 Aug 2018, Pretoria | 29 May 2018 to 21 Aug 2018, Johannesburg | 4 Jul 2018 to 1 Aug 2018, Durban | 14 Aug 2018 to 30 Oct 2018, Cape Town | 14 Aug 2018 to 6 Nov 2018, Johannesburg |
 Join business thought leaders and trailblazers from across Africa at the 2018 Africa Shared Value Summit, taking place 24-25 May 2018 at the Maslow Conference Centre in Sandton, Johannesburg. Read more >>
 There isn't a more effective way to capture an audience than with a well-structured narrative. Next Friday, join Meltwater for a Webinar on the Art of Social Storytelling. Read more >>
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