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Source: © Joy Online Johnnie Walker’span-African The Ones Who…Keep Walking has won a Grand Prix and a Gold at the World Media Awards

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Image supplied. Imraan Christian, a director and artist at Arcade in Cape Town, has been named a winner in The One Club for Creativity’s Young Guns 20 competition

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Source: © Fauxels Independent Agency Search & Selection Company and Eley Consulting have formed a partnership offering media assurance auditing

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Source: © Twitter Recently named the 2022 Loeries Young Creative of the Year, Raphael Janan Kuppasamy is an art director at Joe Public

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Source © Paul Skorupskas The fifth wave of the Agency Scope study is on track in South Africa with fieldwork on the study beginning in May 2023

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Uber announces new advertising plans

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Source © Ford Forld headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, US

Wieden & Kennedy gains Ford global ad account

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Connected creativity and radical collaboration underpin an exciting new chapter for M&C Saatchi Group South Africa

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Tesco takes the top prize at the 2022 UK Effie Awards

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