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Marketing specialist Walter Pike has passed away, following a long battle with cancer. read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Daily Maverick publisher and CEO Styli Charalambous explains their recent pivot to a reader revenue model, and how you can further support their independent investigative journalism with the added bonus of free Uber trips...read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Top ad agencies share what they look for when hiring and how you can get to the top of the talent pool in 2019...read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Nando's' new ad highlights the ways in which South Africans typically stereotype one another and the inherent hypocrisy that comes with that, with uniquely local scenes of people pigeonholing one another...read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Packaging that lasts as long as it's needed, not longer... Read
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MAROEFAH SMITH
Rowan Fine came to the conclusion that he should pursue a career in the consumables market after he ran some numbers while ordering consumables for a restaurant he was working at in Johannesburg... Read
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Born between the early 1980s and 2000s, millennials are becoming a larger and more important part of South Africa's population... Read
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Coworking spaces are designed to be dynamic by offering functionality and flexibility and are particularly well-suited for companies and entrepreneurs who want to grow their businesses... Read
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JAKE WILLIS
The reality is that the "crappy, lame, I-didn't-study-for-so-long-to-end-up-here" job is better than sitting at home waiting for your perfect job to just come along and find you... Read
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Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Bulelani Magwanishe says government is on hand to create an enabling environment for entrepreneurs and small, medium micro enterprises (SMMEs) to thrive... Read
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JACQUES DU BRUYN
Communication is a fundamental pillar for the success of any business. Getting it wrong may set you up for failure from the very beginning... Read
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SINDY PETERS
SLJI is an NGO that aims to create economic opportunities for emerging jewellery businesses from historically disadvantaged communities... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Uri Levine, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Waze, spoke about disrupting inefficient markets and improving under-functioning services by focusing on solving big problems, at a breakfast event hosted by BusinessLive... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Jerusalem has seen an influx of entrepreneurs emerge over the past six years, especially in medical and biotechnology... Here, an overview of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and the 'rockstars' building the startup nation that is Israel... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
On the opening day of Start JLM 2018, Saul Singer, co-author of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle provided context into the local startup ecosystem, focusing on healthcare, the associated challenges and what he believes is the solution... Read
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LESTER PHILANDER
Lester Philander, an award-winning entrepreneur, shares a few considerations if you're thinking of becoming an entrepreneur... Read
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World markets are incredibly volatile at the moment, characterised by trade wars, increasing US interest rates, and the rise of populist parties in developed and developing markets alike... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
Data that disappears or expires is not just rude, Vodacom, it is also theft. So you get an Onion. And, no, it does not expire... Read
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BONGANI GOSA
Bongani Gosa sums up why he thinks black-owned agencies are so often excluded from lucrative requests for proposals(RFPs)... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
There is a type of silence that happens now and again that makes you smile. When this silence happens and you look around, the other people with you have exactly the same expression... Read
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Branding
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JEDD COKAYNE
As consumers start to think about their Christmas purchases and where they're going to find the additional money to buy those presents the kids wrote to Father Christmas about, retailers start to realise that this is their last ditch effort to make target for the year. That is surely a daunting task in the current economy - stuff nightmares are made of... Read
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NEIL PURSEY
While brands have come under increasing scrutiny for funding fake news sites, however inadvertently, it's not the only online reputational risk they face... Read
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CSI
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Kia Motors South Africa handed over a donation of R65,000 towards the Smile Foundation, in support of the organisation's #Ride4Smile initiative... Read
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ISSUED BY EXPONENTIAL
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
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Design
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Young artist, Ennock Mlangeni from the Free State has won the R30,000 first prize as winner of the 2018 Bic Art Master talent search... Read
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HANS ZACHAR
The rapid pace of digital change is re-writing the rule book and forcing companies to innovate... Read
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AIMEÉ SERRÃO
The saying 'content is king' could not be truer, especially in the marketing industry. With a highly competitive market, creating interesting, effective and high-quality content is imperative... Read
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CARMEN MURRAY
As the technology stack grows year on year, it's becoming increasingly challenging for businesses to invest in the right DMP (data management platform). According to the 2018 MarTech Landscape from 2011 to 2018, finding the signal from the noise is not just a challenge for consumers, but it seems for marketers, publishers and businesses too... Read
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Education
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Entrepreneurship
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Events & Conferencing
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"Tighter budgets and an increased expectation of value for money and return on investment have seen more and more South African companies looking for conference venues that offer everything that they need in one venue." Read
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Luke Dale-Roberts will present the inaugural Signature of Hope Gala Dinner on 16 December 2018, to mark the Day of Reconciliation... Read
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LUCY O'CONNELL, ISSUED BY WORX GROUP
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Film & Cinematography
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DISCOP Johannesburg played host to 487 independent film, television, digital and animated content producers from 35 Sub-Saharan African countries... Read
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Experienced journalists, industry experts to adjudicate submissions for 2019 Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards... Read
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The 2018 African Digital Media Awards finalists have been announced by WAN-IFRA ahead of the award ceremony on 23 November... Read
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Mobile
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Argility has launched AutoScan, a tool that enables car dealers to engage buyers with relevant content... Read
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Lesela, meaning cloth or fabric in Sesotho and Swahili, is a new mobile app that provides access to African fashion designers... Read
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Online Media
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A panel of expert judges has put a fleet of 39 vehicles under scrutiny as part of the testing phase for the fourth annual Cars.co.za Consumer Awards... Read
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PR & Communications
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MANUELA DIAS DE DEUS
The PR and sponsorship landscapes have changed, but with change comes creative thinking and new opportunities... Read
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Production
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Adrian Steirn is the recipient of the Conservation Award from Les Jeunes du Monde Unis Awards... Read
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Publishing
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JACQUI UYS, ISSUED BY EDUCOR HOLDINGS
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Tiso Blackstar Group's annual AMARA Recruitment Awards honoured recruitment industry professionals at a formal dinner held at the Park House of Events in Hyde Park, Gauteng... Read
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Research
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LULLU KRUGEL, CHRISTIE VILJOEN AND MAURA FEDDERSEN
With Black Friday in our midst, are South African consumers in a better financial position now compared to 2017? Read
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LULLU KRUGEL, CHRISTIE VILJOEN AND MAURA FEDDERSEN
The retail bonanza of Black Friday has traditionally been the start of the Christmas shopping season in the US. The day occurs on the fourth Friday of November following Thanksgiving Thursday... Read
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COLLEEN P. KIRK
Black Friday, the most celebrated shopping day of the year, abounds with tales of fistfights over discounted televisions or even stampedes as consumers rush to get that low-priced sweater they saw in an ad... Read
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TANYA LOGAN, ISSUED BY BLUE APPLE
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The holiday season starts earlier every year, as three major shopping holidays originating in the US and China, namely Black Friday, Singles' Day and Cyber Monday, are extending to the rest of the world... Read
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MARCUS 'THE MALTESE FALCON' BREWSTER
Although newsrooms are reporting at the sharp end of the wedge this month regarding Theresa May's epoch-making battles, other intriguing angles are developing at the story's ever-widening circumference. Amongst them, applications for Maltese citizenship filed by British nationals have almost doubled in number since the 2016 Brexit vote... Read
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Some of South Africa's top companies were celebrated at a gala dinner at Ask Afrika's inaugural Da Vinci Awards, held at Summer Place in Hyde Park, Sandton, on 21 November 2018... Read
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Retail
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Retailers and shoppers are gearing up for the biggest sale day on the retail calendar, Black Friday, taking place on 23 November this year... Read
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Social Media
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ZUBEIDA GOOLAM
We've seen a dramatic shift in power, with social media sometimes rendering other marketing platforms irrelevant... Read
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MICHAEL LEES-ROLFE, ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
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Pan-African Payments company, Celulant, has built the first augmented reality powered try-on experiences in Facebook Messenger... Read
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RILIND ELEZAJ
Social media marketing is the biggest marketing opportunity that the world has ever known... Read
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Sponsorship
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ROB GARDEN, ISSUED BY LEVERGY
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Streaming
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RUTH COOPER
South African Chef Ash Heeger, of restaurant Riverine Rabbit, recently competed in Netflix's new cooking show, The Final Table... Read
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LOUISE MARSLAND
The Africa Video Forum at #AfricaCom 2018, this year grappled with funding models for original content on the continent and the disruption that mobile brings... Read
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TV
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The Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC)'s will launch a Tanzania Safari Channel in December... Read
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Local television manufacturers have called for government to impose heavy import duties on cheap imported decoders and TV sets, in order to grow the local electronic industry and accelerate the implementation of the broadcast digital migration project... Read
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Multichoice will be airing the All Africa Music Awards live on DStv and GOtv on 21-24 November... Read
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MTV Base announced as Video Entertainment Brand Of The Year, wins five golds at PromaxBDA Africa Awards... Read
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JACQUES BENTLEY
Jacques Bentley from Skyworth writes about what the overdue digital migration means for South Africans... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Carl Wastie, 32-year-old voice-over artist, MC and host of the KFM 94.5 drive-time show Flash Drive with Carl Wastie and their Coca-Cola Top40 SA CT... Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Xolisa Dyeshana, CCO at Joe Public United and Chantal Sombonos-Van Tonder, MD of Chicken Licken, explain the fire and spice of their award-winning work together... Read
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One Show Awards
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The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement announced the 10 winners of their joint Next Creative Leaders global awards program for 2018 at this year's 3% Conference in Chicago... Read
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One year after disappearance, CPJ calls for credible investigation into Tanzanian journalist Azory Gwanda's fate... Read
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Alcoholic beverages giant Diageo is selling 19 of its non-priority brands, positioned in the lower-end segment of the US drinks market, to US firm Sazerac for $550m... Read
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COLIN THORNTON
On the surface of our tech-dependent lives, all appears to be wonderfully beneficial and benign... Read
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially signed the new - and up till now, much-criticised - National Minimum Wage Bill into law... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
You can now earn Pick n Pay Smart Shopper points at BP service stations across the country... Read
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday induce a fever-pitched spending frenzy across shopping centres and online platforms countrywide. On these two days, the average spend... Read
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JAYSON O'REILLY
The 2018 Data Threat Report from Thales and 451 Research found that only 13% of organisations will not be impacted by privacy regulations... Read
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Following the Reserve Bank's announcement of an interest rate hike on Thursday, 22 November, BetterBond CEO Rudi Botha has advised homeowners to watch their Black Friday and Christmas spending... Read
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To stay ahead in a competitive landscape, organisations are increasingly focused on investment into new technologies, emerging markets and business models... Read
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THOMAS VOLLRATH
According to the annual Sanlam Benchmark Survey, 51% of South Africans cannot make ends meet after retirement... Read
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The champions of the South African economy were named at the 16th annual National Business Awards gala ceremony in Johannesburg late last week... Read
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The Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards recently unveiled the list of 2018's best restaurants in South Africa at GrandWest in Cape Town... Read
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