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South Africa’s Gugu Mthembu, the chief marketing officer for Telkom, has been named Cannes jury president for Creative Business Transformation (Image source: © Forbes Africa )

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El Broide, managing director, The Platinum Club, says collaborating with AI, not competing with it, is the PR power move for 2026 (Image supplied)

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Social media is now the arena in which discovery, trust-building, conversation and purchase coexist in a single motion; one uninterrupted swipe (Image supplied)

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The Loeries Official Rankings 2025 have been announced with Joe Public dominating the top spots (Image source: © Loeries)

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For Bradly Howland, CEO of Alkemi Collective, the takeaway from Switzerland isn't just about macroeconomic shifts. It’s about a fundamental change in the "social license to operate” (Image source: © 123rf )

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Scopen is celebrating a decade in South Africa with an invitation-only anniversary event in Johannesburg on 24 February 2026 (Image source: © 123rf )

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#BizTrends2026 | IAB SA’s Chris Borain: Continuous learning - digital marketing’s most powerful advantage

#BizTrends2026 | IAB SA’s Chris Borain: Continuous learning - digital marketing’s most powerful advantage

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AI-powered search will reshape the $595bn e-commerce industry by 2028

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27 Jan 2026

As generative AI platforms become mainstream discovery tools, digital commerce is undergoing a seismic transformation (Image source: © 123rf )

Gen AI platforms see e-commerce seismic transformation

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Kevin Welman 26 Jan 2026

Dr Pepper’s new ad shows why humans still matter in 2026

Dr Pepper’s new ad shows why humans still matter in 2026

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WPP has launched WPP Production, which brings together all its creative producers into a single global platform (Image source: © WPP )

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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has stated that he wants AI regulated before more people die (Image source: © Salesforce

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Provantage CEO Jacques du Preez gives five key OOH / DOOH trends to watch in 2026 (Image supplied)

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MakeReign appoints creative technology director to drive AI-led growth

MakeReign appoints creative technology director to drive AI-led growth

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3 ways mentorship drives leadership in marketing and media

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The CMO Council’s chief content officer Tom Kaneshige says the CMO role is being rewritten in real time to match a world that no longer behaves predictably (Image supplied)

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Tom Kaneshige 22 Jan 2026

PR Powerhouse’s Lebo Madiba says the start of 2026 has brought an unexpectedly loud soundtrack of the year 2016. What makes it interesting is what it reveals about the present (Image supplied)

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Scopen President, Cesar Vacchiano, gives four shifts that together créate a single underlying mandate for 2026: relearn the consumer map (Image supplied)

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The Agency Scope 2025 Survey shows an industry racing into AI while dreading the fallout (Image source: © 123rf )

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Publicis Groupe’s chief strategy & integration officer, Jonty Fisher says get ready for a much more synthetic world (Image supplied)

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Jaco Lintvelt is the MD of Incubeta Africa. Source: Supplied.

#BizTrends2026 | Incubeta Africa's Jaco Lintvelt: Don’t fall prey to the Arrival Fallacy

Jaco Lintvelt 20 Jan 2026

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