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#FairnessFirst: Welcome the most diverse emoji set yet
Call them emojis or emoticons, you're sure to see even more of those colourful little symbols in all forms of digital communication, with the Unicode Consortium confirming featuring we'll have at least 230 new emojis to choose from in 2019 when different skin tones and genders are included...
Leigh Andrews 3 days ago
#WorldRadioDay: John Maytham on radio's role in 2019
On 13 February - World Radio Day - media veteran John Maytham shared memories, insights and impersonations from his radio career in a full-to-the-rafters lunchtime lecture held at Red & Yellow School...
Leigh Andrews 13 Feb 2019
4 CRM marketing trends to ignite 2019
Never has the emphasis on customer centricity been more rampant than it is in the era of the connected customer who, thanks to technology, has become more powerful and vocal than ever before, marking only the beginning of an era where failure to listen equals a rapid demise of your brand...
Sugeshni Subroyen 12 Feb 2019
Microsoft CMO on the transformation of digital marketing
Jessica Tennant interviews Peter DeBenedictis, chief marketing officer for Microsoft in the Middle East and Africa on his recent business trip to South Africa...
Jessica Tennant 5 Feb 2019
#BizTrends2019: Bizcommunity hosts #BizTrendsLIVE!, an overview
Bizcommunity invited contributors to join its vision for Africa (with over 230 industry trend contributions making up the 2019 report) at BizTrendsLIVE!, which took place at Ster-Kinekor Sandton City in Johannesburg on Thursday, 31 January.
Jessica Tennant 1 Feb 2019
#BizTrends2019: Melissa Attree's top content marketing trends for right now
Those that fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Luckily, in the January 2019 Meltwater webinar, Ogilvy Cape Town's creative director Melissa Attree explained how to evolve your content marketing strategy for success in 2019...
Leigh Andrews 31 Jan 2019
3 business non-negotiables for 2019
Value in the form of quality interactions and ethics are the biggest priority for consumers in 2019, and this will shape how companies design solutions, deliver services and communicate...
Leigh Whiting 31 Jan 2019
#BizTrends2019: 9 Africa Trends for 2019
Bizcommunity.Africa has curated our business-to-business outlook for Africa for this year...
Louise Marsland 31 Jan 2019
#BizTrends2019: Convergence, connections and trust
Jessica Tennant reports back on Charles Stuart's analysis of the annual 'Entertainment Media Outlook: An African Perspective', specifically with regard to three key trends in the entertainment and media space...
Jessica Tennant 31 Jan 2019
#BizTrends2019: Speaking of things yet to come
Whilst it is exciting to think of the future and to guess what may or may not come to pass, it is also an undertaking that requires deep reflection...
Sizakele Marutlulle 31 Jan 2019
#BizTrends2019: These are tumultuous times. These are tremendous times
In psychology, there's a term known as post-traumatic growth. If you haven't already worked it out, it talks to the idea of rising from the ashes. Or, to use a phrase coined by Nassim Taleb, being 'antifragile'. What didn't kill us, made us stronger...
Mike Beukes 31 Jan 2019
#BizTrends2019: 3D design goes mainstream
While virtual reality, augmented reality and 360-degree video and photography become the norm within advertising, filmmaking, and content production, their applications across a range of other industries and sectors are also set to exponentially increase...
Lara Utian-Preston 31 Jan 2019
#BizTrends2019: 5 tech trends that will disappoint in 2019
Beyond the lip service, I feel like we are in a trough of disillusionment on so many pivotal technologies. In particular, there are five emerging fields which have garnered tremendous excitement...
Rob Stokes 30 Jan 2019
#BizTrends2019: Measuring ROI on offline advertising - you can and you should!
For far too long now, South African brands have been buying digital advertising space based on return on investment (ROI) data, but have been throwing good money after television advertising without tracking its performance...
Irina Herf 30 Jan 2019