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AFCON 2012: Samsung launch interactive, online events

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:25:00 +0200

Samsung Electronics, the long-time supporter of African football, is rallying fans across the continent to show their passion for the game by launching a series of interactive live and online events for fans to gather and share the excitement of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations 2012, taking place in Gabon-Equatorial Guinea.
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2012 Tabbie Awards open for nominations

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:40:00 +0200

CLEVELAND, US: The 2012 Tabbies call for entries is now available at the TABPI website (www.tabpi.org), allowing all B2B magazine editors, publishers and art directors the opportunity to have their best work judged by their peers. Tabbies' partners include South Africa's SAFREA, and MPASA. [video]
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[2012 trends] Whoosh! The year in which nothing happens

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:18:00 +0200

Time magazine named the protester as its 2011 man of the year. The protester using the power he/she obtained from a new media landscape in social-media-enabled grass roots protest movements.
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[2012 trends] With apologies to Cindy Lauper: boys and girls just wanna have fun

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:27:00 +0200

It's been a trying time aboard the good ship GFC (Global Financial Crisis). But like all sailors on the sea of life, if rough becomes the new normal, the seasickness begins to ebb and we can start moving away from being "bent-double" over the side of the boat and assume steadier footing through these turbulent waters.
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PocketMedia produces new Maputo City Guide

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:22:00 +0200

PocketMedia Solutions, having already produced four runs of the eight-panel Z-Card, Maputo City Guide, has rolled out another pocket-sized guide ahead of the festive season, to ensure that tourists can find their way around the city with ease
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Deck the halls with vinyl reindeer

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:49:00 +0200

So it's silly season again and I suddenly realised that there are few, if any, Christmas carols which those in the advertising industry can relate to. Agencies are usually sweating out piles of retail offerings and staring at huge deadlines at this time of year, hardly the warm, joyful scenes that we hear of in Jingle Bells and O Holy Night.
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Mother City retains Loeries, Creative Week to expand

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:24:00 +0200

In a four-way pitch against Ballito in KwaZulu-Natal, Johannesburg and Sun City, Cape Town has emerged triumphant to retain The Loerie Awards in the Mother City. The Loeries Judging Week and Seminars will also move from Johannesburg to Cape Town, so that judging will take place during Creative Week in the days leading up to the awards ceremonies.
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CNN International launches pan-EMEA brand campaign

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:52:00 +0200

ABU DHABI, UAE / JOHANNESBURG, SA: CNN International is launching a pan-EMEA advertising campaign designed to underline its claim to be the world's leading international news channel. The campaign seeks to build the profiles of its individual anchors, cementing their relationships with existing viewers and growing the channel's core audience.
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Continental Outdoor appoints new MD: Africa division

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:00 +0200

Julieah Muthama has been appointed as managing director of Continental Outdoor Media's Rest of Africa operation, which includes 13 sub-Saharan African countries, excluding South Africa.
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SA memorial service for Alan McClarty this week

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:34:00 +0200

The South African memorial service for the late Alan McClarty, who died from complications caused by cerebral malaria beginning of November 2011, will be held this Wednesday evening, 16 November, at the offices of Primedia Unlimited in Sandton, Johannesburg.
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