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Safrea releases its freelance media industry 2026 Rates Report

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The Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA) Smarties South African winners for 2026 were announced last night. Picture: Ogilvy was awarded Best in Show for Audi TikTok Test Drive (Image supplied)

MMA Smarties South Africa 2026 winners announced

Heinz brings back the iconic glass bottle for limited time

Heinz brings back the iconic glass bottle for limited time

ABC Q1 2026 Magazines | Custom mags continued buoyancy lifts print growth

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ARB clears Wildebeest Brandewyn ad accused of promoting binge drinkingKarabo Ledwaba

ABC Q1 2026 Newspapers | A slow start as Free Newspapers steady the ship

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AAA School of Advertising’s Team So’ Réal made up of Zaiba Goolam (21), Joel Areington (22), and John Garside (21) recently won the South African leg of the L'Oréal Brandstorm 2026 competition (Image supplied)

AAA School of Advertising’s students qualify for Paris L'Oréal Brandstorm 2026 competition

Why creativity still matters when algorithms are marketing’s first audience

Why creativity still matters when algorithms are marketing’s first audience

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TikTok’s popular microdramas shrink TV into bite‑sized chunksJessica Maddox and Krysten Stein

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Safrea releases its freelance media industry 2026 Rates Report

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Why businesses are rethinking their CMS investments in 2026

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Consumers are loyal to benefits, not brands

Consumers are loyal to benefits, not brands

Caxton Media 8 Apr 2026

KitKat launched a tracker for consumers to find the stolen chocolates. Source: KitKat.

When supply chains fail, brands speak: The KitKat theft case study

Ernst van Biljon and Helen McIntee-Carlisle 8 Apr 2026

#Orchids&Onions: Metropolitan brings the drama, Subaru bores

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Oratile Papo explains what four years of running a social media agency actually taught her (Image source: © 123rf )

Social media is not a vending machine, it’s a relationship

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WATCH | Nutella goes viral after unexpected appearance on NASA mission

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Research consultancy Scopen has turned gratitude into action with the launch of a new bursary initiative linked to its flagship Agency Scope study in South Africa. Pictured: Khensani Nobanda CMO Nedbank, Omolemo Sehole bursary recipient, Johanna McDowell Scopenn Africa partner, Cesar Vacchiano CEO Scopen global (Image supplied)

Scopen Africa awards R90,000 inaugural bursaries

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Why relevance, not reach, is the real driver of email performance

Why relevance, not reach, is the real driver of email performance

Cristelle Snyman, Everlytic 7 Apr 2026

OpenAI’s CMO resigns for health reasons

OpenAI’s CMO resigns for health reasons

Karabo Ledwaba 7 Apr 2026

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Carlpool with Kfm 94.5: A welcome lift amid rising petrol prices

Primedia Broadcasting 7 Apr 2026

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Ashley Madison sheds “affair site” label in major rebrand

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Tshepo Sefotlhelo says climate change is reshaping how organisations are judged and you cannot communicate your way out of a credibility gap (Image source: @News24 )

Climate risk: A reputation test most organisations are failing

Tshepo Sefotlhelo 2 Apr 2026

New brand advisory firm breaks from traditional PR model

2 Apr 2026

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The Animation School is shortlisted for three student films at the New York Festivals Television and Film Awards (Image supplied)

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The Real Homemakers of South Africa: Unsung heroes who turn houses into homes

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OnPoint PR 2 Apr 2026

Multi-Media wins Best Sound Design at the Naledi Theatre Awards

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Howard Audio 2 Apr 2026

Gagasi FM unveils exciting new line-up

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AI projects are failing at alarming rates, and the problem started long before AI

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Boundless 1 Apr 2026

Bizcommunity repositions for the future

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The can you can't buy: Checkers Sixty60's surprise-and-delight strategy

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The influence era: Why creators are rewriting the rules of marketing

Michael Cost 1 Apr 2026

Back to basics: The retail fundamentals that drive real outcomes

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MDDA Board approves 32 community print and broadcast projects for grant funding

MDDA Board approves 32 community print and broadcast projects for grant funding

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Bridging the CIO and CFO divide: How South African business can approve AI with confidence

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The Animation School is shortlisted for three student films at the New York Festivals Television and Film Awards (Image supplied)

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Bizcommunity repositions for the future

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