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Accelerated enterprise demand leads WPP’s AI-driven transformation unit

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

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

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

MO Agency releases SA's most extensive AI Visibility study of LLM band recommendations by industry

MO Agency releases SA's most extensive AI Visibility study of LLM band recommendations by industry

MO Agency 1 Jul 2026

Why ChatGPT ads could become the most important advertising channel since Google

Why ChatGPT ads could become the most important advertising channel since Google

PRNews OU 30 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

WPP Enterprise Solutions has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to operationalise agentic AI for brands (Image source: © 123rf )

Delivering AI systems at the speed and scale to meet consumer demand

25 Jun 2026

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Sam Swaine 23 Jun 2026

WPP will become the first advertising partner to pilot Meta's new creative solution. Source: Supplied.

WPP and Meta expand partnership with new creative AI pilot

23 Jun 2026

Got award-winning work? Deadlines fast approaching for 14th annual WesBank New Generation Awards

Got award-winning work? Deadlines fast approaching for 14th annual WesBank New Generation Awards

New Generation Awards 23 Jun 2026

African creatives discuss the importance of Cannes to Africa. Picture l to r: Yusuf Adejumo, creative director, TBWA\Concept Nigeria, Audrey Quaye creative director Innova DDB Ghana, Alex van Niekerk, executive creative director at TBWA\Ascent, Graham Cruikshanks, director of Africa operations at TBWA, Eric Mununuzi, chief creative Officer at TBWA\Uganda (Images supplied, composite by Ruth Cooper @ Bizcommunity)

#Cannes2026 | Should Africa care about the Cannes Lions?

Danette Breitenbach 22 Jun 2026

Change management is not the issue, poor execution is

Change management is not the issue, poor execution is

Laurelle Simonetti, Dentsu 22 Jun 2026

#BehindtheIMC | VML’s Jarred Cinman: Caring is the industry’s real superpower

#BehindtheIMC | VML’s Jarred Cinman: Caring is the industry’s real superpower

19 Jun 2026

The Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, will deliver the keynote address for the 2026 Social Media Summit for Government (Image supplied)

Communications and Digital Technologies minister to deliver Social Media Summit keynote

19 Jun 2026

AI, risk and leadership in Africa: Responsible adoption is the real advantage

AI, risk and leadership in Africa: Responsible adoption is the real advantage

Dentsu 19 Jun 2026

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More than chatbots: why business AI agents are Big Tech’s next product battleground

Guy Bate 19 Jun 2026

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Real or AI? 6 ways to tell who’s behind the screen

18 Jun 2026

Singularity Summit South Africa 2026 deepens the conversation on quantum computing, AI and human potential

Singularity Summit South Africa 2026 deepens the conversation on quantum computing, AI and human potential

Mann Made 18 Jun 2026

The UK government announced that it will ban social media platforms from offering services to under-16s (Image source: © 123rf )

UK government draws a line in the sand with social media ban

17 Jun 2026

Publicity For Good founder Heather Holmes has been named the PRNews 2026 Top Women in PR & Communications Honouree (Image supplied)

PR award recognises PFG CEO

17 Jun 2026

Connect COO Scott Reinders to join global industry leaders on WARC Podcast at Cannes Lions Festival

Connect COO Scott Reinders to join global industry leaders on WARC Podcast at Cannes Lions Festival

The Up&Up Group 17 Jun 2026

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Is it time for CMOs to demand outcomes, not activity, from their agencies?

Jaco Lintvelt, Incubeta 17 Jun 2026

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The advice gap: why young South Africans stopped asking professionals what to do

Pedri Reyneke 15 Jun 2026

Irene Auma, Regional Head of Fraud Risk Management for Sub-Saharan Africa at Visa. Image supplied

Visa Study: 77% South Africans use AI to shop, but trust is key at checkout

Irene Auma 12 Jun 2026

Pierre Cassuto, Humanz’ global chief marketing officer, says the most costly habit in marketing right now isn’t bad creative. It relates to the campaign itself (Image source: © 123rf )

A campaign is a fiction - the algorithm needs continuity

pierre cassuto 12 Jun 2026

Fifa World Cup sees surge in search for Bafana Bafana

Fifa World Cup sees surge in search for Bafana Bafana

11 Jun 2026

WPP has launched Hex, the company’s frontier studio built for the era of AI. The talent for Hex is sourced from WPP’s Creative Tech Apprenticeship programme (Source@ WPP

WPP launches Hex, the frontier studio built for the era of AI

11 Jun 2026

The distinctiveness crisis: The tools are equal, the thinking is not

9 Jun 2026

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