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Leigh Andrews The Unstereotype Alliance launched at Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity last year and has just joined Twitter. The World Federation of Advertisers has also released a guide that makes the social and business case for 'unstereotyping' ads. Here's why you need to download, absorb and implement it, now...read |
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Bonga Mpungose Smanga Bonga Mpungose identifies the top 3 urban "internet artists" he believes brands need to work with if they want to engage with 18-24 afro millennials on campaigns...read | 
Megan Sayle We rely heavily on systems and tools that are fed by data collected and collated by humans, and due to our history, probably a very specific human demographic. It's therefore important to acknowledge and account for the bias that might exist in these tools and data sets when using them...read | 
Minnie-lee Tagwirei Most people do not know where to draw the line between PR and marketing hence I have constantly found myself trying to distinguish the not so obvious differences between PR and marketing...read |
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 | Graham Black Graham Black lists a few reasons why Durban might be the better option when scouting for locations for shooting commercials... read |
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 | Unathi Dyani Unathi Dyani contemplates what it really means to be a creative in the advertising industry... read |
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 | Ogilvy has announced the agency's re-founding and new mission to serve as an integrated creative network that Makes Brands Matter... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Having recently attended the AdForum Worldwide Summit in New York, Johanna McDowell of the IAS, presented a detailed and in-depth report with case studies on global trends and up-to-date information on agencies at a masterclass session... read |
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 | The Warc Awards has announced the 2018 winners of the Effective Social Strategy category... read |
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 | IDidTht's May SA Film Reel Monthly Craft Awards were judged by Nicola Wielopolski, CD at DDB South Africa, who selected WAIF Repertoire by Aadil Dhalech from Patriot Films for Direction Craft... read |
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 | Brendan Seery As far as government agencies or parastatals that we "love to hate" go, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) is right up there with Eskom... read |
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 | Shae Leigh If you're someone who loves a bit of stereotypical gender bashing you're in for a real treat. If not, buckle up for this sexist, crass, offensive bottled misogyny featuring Vale Bru - a lekker microbrewery with really kiff okes running rampant while calling themselves brewers... read |
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 | "With our Sheraton transformation plan, we've put together all of the pieces of the equation to work cooperatively with our owners to set this iconic brand on a new, disciplined and successful path. We are ready, our vision is clear and the energy is robust for Sheraton." read |
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 | Temitope Iluyemi Gender equality is a powerful driver for change and prosperity on the African continent, but brands need to take a leadership role... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg Puma and MIT Design Lab have been collaborating on a research project that looks at how bacteria can be used within sportswear design to improve performance and sustainability... read |
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 | From 12 to 17 June 2018, SFA Advisory and Southern Guild will present a unique project by renowned South African artist Porky Hefer at Design Miami/Basel. read |
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 | #Newswatch: On 24 May Publicis Groupe unveiled Marcel, its AI-powered solution that will accelerate transforming the organisation from a holding company to a platform, and has since faced a deluge of questions from staff and clients... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Hoorah is the latest independent digital media agency on the block, bringing together ex-founders of Saatchi Syngerize and Liquorice, Shaune Jordaan and Jay Thomson respectively, as well as Tasmin Kingma and Neil Pursey... read |
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 | MultiChoice has appointed The Media Shop as its new media agency, to manage its media buying, planning and strategy, as well as other media-related services... read |
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 | Gary Meyer The General Data Protection Regulation legislation is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. As the international resident's compliance deadline was 25 May 2018, there is more emphasis than ever on using and storing data responsibly... read |
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 | Bryan Hamman Global and local legislation imposes severe penalties for firms that fail to protect their networks from DDoS attacks... read |
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 | Mercy Mpinganjira Africa's growing digital economy is fast changing how business is done on the continent. Trading of goods and services online, for example, is estimated to be worth $24bn... read |
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 | Applications are open for the 2019 Stanford Seed Transformation Programme - Southern Africa, with entries closing for this highly competitive programme on 1 July 2018... read |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster In November this year, some 4,000 delegates are expected to descend on "the rock" for the first Malta Blockchain Summit... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Jessica Tennant interviews Cape Town-based filmmaker Ian Morgan on his return from the Sundance Film Festival in London, where he premiered his award-winning short film Good Mourning... read |
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 | The first-ever Usiba Creative and Cultural Industries Awards honoured film producer Anant Singh on Thursday night (31 May) at the Emperors Palace in Johannesburg... read |
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 | Shaune Jordaan Shaune Jordaan argues that, in order to produce real business results, marketing needs to be data-driven, creative, and (most importantly) people-based. read |
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 | Beloved former media analyst Ian Snelling has passed away... read |
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 | Warc has announced that entries are now open for the Warc Media Awards 2018... read |
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 | Ads24 won the Inma Global Awards, "Best in Africa" for "Ads24 Presents Food for Thought" at an Award ceremony held on Monday, 4 June, before more than 400 participants attending the Inma World Congress of News Media... read |
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 | Stephen Timm The Burn Media Group, a media stable with publications that include Ventureburn and Memeburn, has broken away from M&C Saatchi Abel's digital agency Creative Spark and has embarked upon a new "aggressive" growth curve, says Burn Media's founder Matthew Buckland... read |
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 | The International Out of Home Association Fepe International has announced the winners of its 2018 Awards, presented at its annual Congress in Sorrento on 7 June... read |
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 | Dominique Pienaar Dominique Pienaar unpacks the importance of PR during uncertain and challenging economic times... read |
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 | Linden Birns Crisis communications, reputation and brand value retention are increasingly recognised by risk managers, lawyers and insurers as crucial to an airline, airport, hotel or other travel and tourism organisation's recovery and ability to continue doing business during and after a crisis event... read |
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 | The guide is essential for travellers and food lovers and features signature recipes from South Africa's top chefs... read |
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 | Growth marketing company DCMN conducted a survey to find out more about how many South Africans will follow the Soccer World Cup and the impact the tournament will have on media consumption and brand perception... read |
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 | Traditionally, marketers work with a larger number of creative agencies, but maintain longer relationships with media agencies, though recently these trends are not always true, this is according to the Scopen Agency Scope South Africa 2017/18... read |
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 | A new Wan-Ifra report examines how publishers around the world are now joining advertising alliances to grow revenues.... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant With the Soccer World Cup just around the corner, Barry Collins from Twitter's EMEA HQ in Dublin shares some interesting stats about the football conversation on Twitter... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar CNN has confirmed the death of American chef, author, and television personality, Anthony Bourdain, who was 61 years of age... read |
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 | Irina Herf There is a general conception in South Africa that TV campaigns can only be used by big brands wanting to embark on expensive brand building campaigns. This is a myth that needs to be debunked... read |
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 | Issued By Bizcommunity.com Bizcommunity in association with Cinemark, will be bringing you the leading news from the world's biggest festival for the creative, marketing communications, entertainment, design and tech industries, which will take place 18-22 June... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews With seven work days to go before the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity begins, the first of SA's seven jurors - Jason Xenopoulos, global chief vision officer and EMEA CCO at VML - explains his role this year as Cannes Titanium Lions juror... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews George Low, creative director at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, shares insights into his role this year as Cannes Lions Film shortlist juror... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews I chatted to the international jury presidents ahead of the upcoming Loeries Creative Week. Kicking off the series is creative problem solver Nicolas Courant, executive creative director at Ogilvy Singapore and this year's digital jury president... read |
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 | Millennials use apps to buy transport, food, accommodation, fashion and beauty, and consequently, expect the same technology-driven convenience when it comes to customer service and communication from their bank... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Young workers often struggle with work-life balance. You're looking to prove yourself as you're literally the new kid on the block at work, but that doesn't have to result in endless overtime - even in the creative industries... read |
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 | Artscape will host innovative programmes during the month of June to celebrate, support and develop South Africa's youth. read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This #YouthMonth, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Dan Corder, 24-year-old weekday breakfast radio host at Good Hope FM - that makes him the youngest breakfast show host of a commercial station in South Africa... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Dane Prinsloo, director of marketing and sponsorship at Jigsaw Agency, explains the power of choosing to do the right thing every single day and the importance of building trust with clients so they take the leap with unconventional event experiences... read |
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 | Cathy Ibal Data and content will be the two factors that continue to drive innovation for African brands across the continent... read |
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 | Preparations for an Intra-African Trade Fair in Cairo in December 2018 are underway... read |
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 | Kate Mollett The imminent arrival of two Microsoft Azure data centres on local shores means organisations across industry sectors are re-evaluating their availability strategies... read |
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 | In a statement, Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has emphasised that the public consultation session on airport renaming held at Cape Town International Airport on Monday evening was ultimately properly concluded in spite of demonstrations that disrupted proceedings for a period... read |
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 | Rob Lith Thanks to the fourth industrial revolution, businesses today have more tools than ever at their disposal. From the power of the cloud, giving flexibility and scalability to organisations both big and small; to IoT, effortlessly merging the digital world with our everyday lives... read |
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 | Africa has 20% of the world's population but only 4% of its internet data access. This "digital divide", with low internet connectivity reach, particularly in rural areas, is both economic and geographic in nature. read |
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