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World PR Day 2026: Trust is PR’s greatest currency in the age of the prosumer

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#Effies2025 | Halo and Pineapple: 100% sustained results

#Effies2025 | Ogilvy and VW: Creating campaigns for societal change

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Lamine Yamal and his little bro gave Spain the kind of PR money can't buyKarabo Ledwaba

Non-official Fifa brands score with reverse ambush marketing

Non-official Fifa brands score with reverse ambush marketingTerry Levin

The evidence behind the applause

The evidence behind the applauseMarc Dhalluin, TruthsetsOnline.com

The Interactive Advertising Bureau South Africa (IAB SA) has announced the finalists for the 2026 Bookmark Awards (Image supplied)

#Bookmarks2026 | All the IAB South Africa 2026 Bookmark Awards finalists

Jung Kook for Graff. Source: Graff.

Graff leans on BTS star Jung Kook to boost global brand reach

The Creative Circle Full Circle 2026, in partnership with Ster-Kinekor, takes place this July and August and hosts a selection of Cannes jury members

#Cannes2026 | Creative Circle’s Full Circle event is back

#WPRD2026 | The Golden age of PR reminds us that the P stands for Public

#WPRD2026 | The Golden age of PR reminds us that the P stands for PublicLebo Madiba

How South Africa's youth are rewriting the marketing playbook

How South Africa's youth are rewriting the marketing playbookSthando Msweli, Matte BLK

Danette Breitenbach (second left) at the PRCA conference 2025.

It’s #WPRD2026. So what?Danette Breitenbach

The model did not fail. You applied it in the wrong market.

The model did not fail. You applied it in the wrong market.Wayne Tigere, Dentsu

From traditional sponsorship visibility to an immersive experience

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What football taught me about purposeful procurementVicki Scheffel

Ascent Africa advances African expansion through strategic Clarence AI engagement in Namibia

Ascent Africa advances African expansion through strategic Clarence AI engagement in NamibiaAscent Africa

The WPP staff cuts are part of CEO Cindy Rose's Elevate28 strategy

WPP £500m savings drive sees hundreds of employees let go

Customers buy the reflection of themselves, not just the car. Orange sells the dream. Silver sells the tech, writes Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa head of marketing Tarryn Knight (Image supplied)

Ford's Tarryn Knight: "Silver is sensible, but Orange sells the dream"Tarryn Knight

Why African marketing is moving beyond reach and demographics

Why African marketing is moving beyond reach and demographicsDentsu

Non-official Fifa brands score with reverse ambush marketing

Non-official Fifa brands score with reverse ambush marketing

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The evidence behind the applause

The evidence behind the applause

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Sanra, backed by the Mastercard Foundation have granted about $9.3m in loans and grants to creative businesses in Kenya (Image @ Impact Newswire

Kenya backs creative economy with $9.3m funding

8 Jul 2026

Why experience marketing matters more than ever

Why experience marketing matters more than ever

Thato Matlhabegoane, Duma Collective 8 Jul 2026

Compliance is not a marketing strategy, trust is, says Irene Gregory, CEO of the IMM Institute (Image supplied)

Compliance is not a marketing strategy; trust is - just ask the ARB

Irene Gregory 7 Jul 2026

#WPRD2026 | Human connection is the ultimate competitive advantage

#WPRD2026 | Human connection is the ultimate competitive advantage

Kisha Reader-Bain 7 Jul 2026

The skincare line The Ordinary leads all beauty brands with a 7% AI citation share, followed by CeraVe (6%), Sephora (5.5%), La Roche-Posay (5%), and Charlotte Tilbury (4.5%). Image credit:

The Ordinary leads AI beauty rankings as Chanel and other legacy brands lose ground

7 Jul 2026

South Africa’s best emails take the spotlight in the 2026 You Mailed It Awards

South Africa’s best emails take the spotlight in the 2026 You Mailed It Awards

Everlytic 7 Jul 2026

HKLM spearheads purpose-led rebrand for iconic SA game reserves

HKLM spearheads purpose-led rebrand for iconic SA game reserves

HKLM 7 Jul 2026

The dashboard is not the problem. Our definition of success Is

The dashboard is not the problem. Our definition of success Is

Wayne Tigere, Dentsu 7 Jul 2026

Liezel Malherbe: Why humour is a South African marketer’s secret weapon

Liezel Malherbe: Why humour is a South African marketer’s secret weapon

Lumico 7 Jul 2026

Adidas has shifted its $512m global media agency business to the Omnicom Media Group (Image@ Think Marketing )

Adidas shifts $512m global media account to new agency

6 Jul 2026

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Intellectual property and contract law: Lessons from Fifa's clean stadium rule

Herman Blignaut 6 Jul 2026

South African marketers enter a new era of social media as AI becomes business as usual

South African marketers enter a new era of social media as AI becomes business as usual

Ornico 3 Jul 2026

Bukelwa Monqo, founder and managing director, Old Boys Club PR examines the shift to Creators at Cannes and what this means for trust (Image source: © 123rf )

#Cannes2026 | The shift to creators, but who do communities actually trust?

Bukelwa Monqo 3 Jul 2026

The Nedbank IMC 2026 agenda is live

The Nedbank IMC 2026 agenda is live

IMC Conference 3 Jul 2026

Publicis Groupe Africa has announced the appointment of Gideon Khobane as managing director: Rest of Africa (excluding West Africa) (Image supplied)

Publicis Groupe Africa appoints managing director: Rest of Africa

2 Jul 2026

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Lego and McDonald’s tap into collectable culture to win the 2026 Fifa World Cup

Maroefah Smith 2 Jul 2026

CMO Council and MartechTribe have revealed a data-driven framework to transform
fragmented stacks into predictive business growth platforms (Image source: © 123rf )

How CMOs can move from martech mayhem to measurable business value

2 Jul 2026

The Digital News Transformation Fund’s second funding round backs newsrooms across seven provinces (Image source: © 123rf )

R15,8m grants for data journalism, AI-assisted workflows and vernacular content

2 Jul 2026

Packard Bell’s Daytona G16 Pro campaign is a fully AI-generated advertising campaign, from concept development and scriptwriting to visuals, audio, and motion graphics (Image@ Tech Financials

Packard Bell launches with industry-first AI-generated campaign

2 Jul 2026

Your SEO is working. But you’re still missing most of the opportunity

Your SEO is working. But you’re still missing most of the opportunity

Straider.ai 2 Jul 2026

Madelain Roscher, founder and CEO, PR Worx and Public Relations Institute of SA (Prisa) member, examines how AI Search has made PR the most powerful discipline in business (Image supplied)

#WPRD2026 | The quiet revolution that just made PR the most powerful discipline in business

Madelain Roscher 1 Jul 2026

IMA has acquired VF! Source: Supplied.

IMA bets on South African retail marketing with VF! deal

1 Jul 2026

Every year, on 16 July, communications professionals around the world celebrate World PR Day (#WPRD) and Bizcommunity also dedicates the month of July to PR (Image @Bizcommunity)

#WPRD2026 | The Golden Age of Strategic PR is here. Join the organisations defining it.

1 Jul 2026

L’Oréal South Africa expands in-game brand experiences across Maybelline, Garnier and CeraVe

Reach Players 1 Jul 2026

Dentsu X partners with Africa Creative Agency on WAV Festival 2027 and Africa House

Dentsu X partners with Africa Creative Agency on WAV Festival 2027 and Africa House

Dentsu 1 Jul 2026

Nhlanhla Ngcobo (left) and Theo Ferreira (right) have been promoted to group executive creative directors at VML (Images supplied, Image composite by Lesley Svenson @ Bizcommunity)

VML promotes Cannes-winning ECDs

29 Jun 2026

Your dashboard is lying to you: Why brands keep missing the 1 trillion rands township economy

Your dashboard is lying to you: Why brands keep missing the 1 trillion rands township economy

Kabelo Kale, The Media Krate 29 Jun 2026

Fandom as algorithmic fuel: How AI is killing traditional marketing

Fandom as algorithmic fuel: How AI is killing traditional marketing

Mathabatha Sexwale, Brave Group 29 Jun 2026

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The hidden burnout crisis facing social media marketers

Kelly Cours Anderson, Ashley Hass and Breanne A. Mertz 26 Jun 2026

AI is accelerating almost everything in B2B marketing, except the one thing that actually matters: the decision, says Nicky Turnbull, strategy director at VML South Africa (Image source: © 123rf )

B2B marketing: You don’t win deals where you think you do

Nicky Turnbull 26 Jun 2026

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