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MICK SHEPARD AND NICK LIATOS
How many brands sent out 'Happy Heritage Day' messages yesterday and what were they hoping to achieve by doing so?... read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
In light of the annual WEF Gender Gap Report, Ayanda Seboni, group executive of brand, marketing and communications at PPS, shares ways for females to stay relevant and effectively future-proof their careers...read
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KEENAN BOUWER
Have you ever sat in a presentation or pitch wishing it would be over? The answer that I believe 99.9% of people will reply with is a resounding YES...read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Solutions to problems often require a change in behaviour, which in turn leads to other inventions. The result is a wheel that is spinning faster and faster, and one that is creating anxiety - more recently about jobs...read
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Advertising
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While Nando's appreciates the enthusiasm of fans who create ads in support of the brand, they say you've got to make sure it's fired up!... Read
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IDidTht's August SA Film Reel Monthly Craft Awards were judged by Kabelo Moshapalo, ECD at TBWA\ Johannesburg, who selected 'MTN Sounds the Call: The Os du Randt Story' by Ross Garrett from Darling Films for Best of Reel... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
Great marketing is one thing, poor customer service and incompetence is another - and that's why Telkom gets both an Orchid and an Onion this week... Read
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SIPHIWE MPETA
Siphiwe Mpeta tackles the topic of personal branding by using music as a frame of reference... Read
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Branding
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NICHOLAS KUHNE
The third and latest rebrand of Uber has removed all references to taxis and transport. It is a completely generic corporate identity and Nicholas Kuhne says he thinks this has been done very strategically... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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BRENT HAUMANN
Two technologies that are set to have a particularly big impact on customer communication going forward are chatbots and machine learning... Read
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Gartner analysts discuss best practices and pitfalls of the customer experience journey... Read
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CHANTEL TROSKIE
Decision-makers need to understand that to use Customer Experience (CX) for competitive advantage, their customer-facing staff must be ready to switch hats on the fly and do so flawlessly... Read
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Meropa Communications, as part of its pro-bono work, has developed and produced an ambitious fundraising campaign to raise R1m for non-profit organisation, Blind SA... Read
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CSI
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The 30% Club has announced this year's recipients of the premier Gender Mainstreaming Awards... Read
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Design
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F5 Networks unveiled EMEA's Future of Multi-Cloud (FOMC) report, highlighting game-changing trends... Read
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GEORGE WYNGAARDT
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, George Wyngaardt shares how his wife, Jade Wyngaardt started a digital marketing agency while fighting stage 3 breast cancer... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
In order to drive innovation at scale in the next phase of digital transformation, businesses must "shape, shift and share"... Read
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ERENS TLOBORO
SEO continues to lead as a digital marketing tool that has proven its success rates and effectiveness over a long period of time... Read
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BELINDA KAYTON
We've all heard about chatbots. Some of us might even have interacted with one without knowing it! But what are they all about and what is the potential of this artificial intelligence for brands?... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Digital business transformation is upon us. Enterprises, small and large, have recognised the power of tech to transform their ability to deliver value. But where do we go from here? Read
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Direct Marketing
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LOUISE ROBINSON
Two months since GDPR was implemented, thousands of sources have published their "expert" advice about the law and how it applies to email marketing. However, much of that is causing a lot of misunderstanding and confusion... Read
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Education
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ISSUED BY VEGA SCHOOL
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ISSUED BY STELLENBOSCH ACADEMY OF DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY
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Entrepreneurship
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Events & Conferencing
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Exhibitions
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JESSICA TENNANT
Jessica Tennant interviews fair curator Cassandra Twala to find out more about her involvement in the Sanlam Handmade Contemporary Fair over the years and what she's most excited about this year... Read
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ISSUED BY UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
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Film & Cinematography
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The 2018 Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (CTIFMF) will screen 61 short films across 10 programmes at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town from 10-19 October 2018... Read
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ISSUED BY DISNEY AFRICA MEDIA SALES AND PARTNERSHIPS
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Magazines
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The winners of the 2018 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards will be announced at GrandWest in Cape Town on Sunday 18 November... Read
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Marketing
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Marketing agency value management company, AdOps's Angelika Kempe is teaming up with Nolundi Magqaza, a senior procurement consultant in an initiative to connect 100% black-owned advertising, communications and marketing agencies with corporate clients... Read
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SHEILA MCGILLIVRAY
I recently gave a cause marketing presentation to Amasa in Cape Town at the Red and Yellow School and it struck me that there's a unique synergy between our diversity and our advertising. So, in honour of Heritage Month here are my top five reasons why South Africans make memorable marketing... Read
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In this video, Nyiko Chauke of Marketing Fridays says that in the age of content marketing, those with the ability to tell engaging stories are going to win at the content game... Read
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Media
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ISSUED BY RED CHERRY INTERACTIVE
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Communications Deputy Minister Pinky Kekana says the draft Film and Publication Board's (FPB) Classification Guidelines seek to determine the extent to which media content is reflective of the public's values and expectations... Read
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Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane has expressed strong opposition to possible retrenchments at the SABC... Read
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Registration for the prestigious 2018 African Digital Media Awards has opened... Read
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ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING
The greatest accolades are the ones that we receive from our clients. This is why Primedia Broadcasting is elated to have won the 2018 MOST Awards Media Owner Radio Award... Read
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Emirates has launched its own food and wine channels comprising a behind-the-scenes look at how it creates its onboard menus... Read
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Registration is now open for a free Wits Online Course on African Media Policy in our digital world... Read
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Mobile
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LYNETTE HUNDERMARK
Speaking at this year's annual PriceCheck Awards ceremony, CEO Kevin Tucker noted that the Tech and E-commerce Awards are more important than ever before... Read
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Newspapers
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The eight finalists for the Sunday Times Lifestyle Gin Awards have been announced, whittled down by the judging panel from 74 local and international entries... Read
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PR & Communications
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Printing
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Wan-Ifra has announced the winners of its first Print Innovation Awards. The prize for innovations of newspapers and magazines will be presented on the first exhibition day of the Ifra World Publishing Expo on 9 October 2018, in Berlin... Read
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Production
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ISSUED BY THE STAR FILM COMPANY
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Radio
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JESSICA TENNANT
Kia Johnson recently joined Smile 90.4FM, co-hosting the Saturday Smile Breakfast with JM Henning from 7am to 10am, and as the host of Smile Cape Town Classics from 9pm to 11pm on Saturdays. In addition to this, she also presents Women TV on DStv Channel 263... Read
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ISSUED BY KAYA FM 95.9
Kaya FM managing director, Greg Maloka, was honoured at the prestigious 10th MOST Awards that took place at the Wanderers Club in Illovo... Read
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Research
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LEIGH ANDREWS
At Spark Media's annual event, a top marketing scientist from the Australia-based Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, Dr Virginia Beal got attendees thinking and rethinking the role of memory in reaching consumers. While there's no one-size-fits-all approach, you'll do well to factor in light media buyers and light media users... Read
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According to PwC's 'Entertainment and media outlook: 2018 - 2022: An African perspective', Africa's entertainment and media industry has entered a dynamic new phase - a third wave of convergence... Read
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Warc has released the Effective Innovation Report 2018, highlighting key trends of the world's most original marketing thinking... Read
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ISSUED BY NIELSEN
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SUE UNERMAN, ISSUED BY MEDIACOM
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Retail
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South Africans are under financial pressure, as indicated by the latest consumer confidence data... Read
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JASON PALLANT
Many predictions about the future of retailing have been made. These range from the supposed dominance of certain technologies, to increased use of data and analytics... Read
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Social Media
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ELENA PROTULIS
Viral content stems from dark social, the place where you send to your tight network. It's content that's controversial, inspiring, entertaining and not necessarily what you want to be sharing in the broad daylight of your traditional social media channels... Read
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Social Media Week - Durban, an annual global conference will be launched from 14 - 16 November 2018... Read
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JOSH DA COSTA, ISSUED BY R-SQUARED DIGITAL SA
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Sponsorship
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ISSUED BY GRID WORLDWIDE
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Streaming
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TV
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New African Heritage TV channel AfrikayaTV to launch on Heritage Day... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
#Newswatch: It's not necessarily a death knell. There's speculation on potential positive outcomes following Naspers's announcement that it will unbundle MultiChoice to shareholders early next year and separately list the company on the JSE... Read
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JASON SNYMAN
Cash-strapped SABC has put plans in motion to hike up the price of the annual TV Licence, as well as implementing stricter penalties for non-compliance... Read
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Youth Marketing
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CUMA PANTSHWA, ISSUED BY HDI YOUTH CONSULTANCY
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we got behind the selfie with SA export Damon Stapleton, now chief creative officer at DDB New Zealand... Read
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D&AD Awards
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D&AD launches its 56th Annual, a collection of the best in creative work across the design and advertising industry, which marks the end of Steve Vranakis' run as D&AD president... Read
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Kenyan sports reporter Eric Njiru wins Rugby Africa Gold Cup Photo Award... Read
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BENJAMIN LAWRENCE
Cashiers asking customers to donate small sums to charity while they're at cash registers is becoming a big business... Read
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South Africa's renowned car competition gets a new title sponsor... Read
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Tigo launches 4G+ Network in Tanzania, offering customers the best and most reliable digital experience at no additional cost... Read
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VAUGHAN ROWSELL
When you think about artificial intelligence and how it will impact our daily life, what are the images you conjure up? Intelligent robot companions that clean and cook and keep you company? A disembodied voice that controls your car... Read
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Stephen King "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Alphonse Karr "Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." Euripides "Silence is true wisdom's best reply." Albert Camus "Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken." Marcus Aurelius "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." |
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