the Advertising community of Southern Africa

Loeries exhibition to visit Namibia

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:31:00 +0200

The Loerie Awards Travelling Exhibition will be hosted at the DV8 Saatchi & Saatchi office in Windhoek, Namibia, from 4 - 13 April 2009. The expo, which showcases 2008 winners, is making its way around southern Africa, visiting educational institutions, agencies and festivals along the way.
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A glance at the Mozambican ad industry

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:37:00 +0200

The Mozambique advertising industry has, over the last ten years, undergone very significant change both in qualitative and quantitative terms. The current overall volume of advertising business in Mozambique is valued at approximately $US120 million annually.
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Flickr community's photos now distributed by Gallo Images

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:11:00 +0200

The popular user-generated content, online photo site, Flickr, has joined forces with Getty Images in a recent deal with Yahoo! giving creative professionals access to original, authentic and uniquely personal images for commercial use.
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Zim: Internet survives fall in media demand

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0200

The internet survived a slump in patronage or visibility that affected all the other media in Zimbabwe from Q4 2007 to Q4 2008, the Zimbabwe All Media Products and Services (ZAMPS) survey has revealed.
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The 4th Maputo International Advertising Festival - fact sheet

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:40:00 +0200

Golo (Mozambique), Joe Public (South Africa), LV Ogilvy (Reunion-France), Executive Center and Orion (both from Angola), sabiOne.com (England) and McCann Ericksson (Portugal) were the agencies to inform the organisation of their interest in taking part in the 4th Maputo International Advertising Festival, which will take place on 25, 26 and 27 May this year, promoted by AMEP - the Mozambican Association of Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations companies.
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Top agencies partake in Maputo Ad Festival

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:26:00 +0200

MAPUTO: LV Ogilvy (Reunion-France), Executive Center and Orion (both from Angola), sabiOne.com (England) and McCann Ericksson (Portugal) are the first agencies to inform the organising committee of their interest in taking part in the 4th Maputo International Advertising Festival.
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Call to enter Maputo International Advertising Festival 2009

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:24:00 +0200

MAPUTO: AMEP, the event organiser of the Maputo International Advertising Festival, is calling for entries to the fourth annual festival, which recognises advertising agencies, producers and communication companies worldwide, especially from the southern Africa and Indian Ocean regions.
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The US president Barack Obama has undoubtedly inspired art, street art and fashion

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:17:00 +0200

The Getty Images Creative Research team finds how a politician is influencing marketing and advertising and how his look is becoming a visual reference.
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Zimbabwe: Ad agency in dire straits

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:46:00 +0200

One of the country's biggest advertising agencies, Imago Young & Rubicam (IY&R), has fallen in trouble after failing to pay for President Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign advertisements.
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New head for ZARF

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:05:00 +0200

The Zimbabwe Advertising Research Foundation (ZARF) has appointed Major Tikiwa as its new chairman.
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