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MTN Business and Cloudflare expand partnership to deliver managed security across South Africa

MTN Business and Cloudflare expand partnership to deliver managed security across South Africa

9 Jul 2025

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World News Day 2025 will take place on 28 September (Image supplied)

World News Day 2025: Journalism makes a difference

The New York Festivals Advertising Awards (NYFA) 2025 winners have been announced (Image supplied)

Dentsu Digital Inc. awarded New York Festivals 2025 Best of Show Award

13 Jun 2025

Introducing the Effie Lions Foundation: Building a marketing industry for everyone

Introducing the Effie Lions Foundation: Building a marketing industry for everyone

13 Jun 2025

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Cybersecurity company Surfshark’s Naked People campaign in London raised awareness about social media security practices and the exploitation of user data (Image supplied)

Surfshark’s Naked People campaign calls out top social media companies for privacy invasions

2 Oct 2024

(Image supplied) Virgin Active's global Leave the cult, Join the club campaign has premiered this September

Virgin Active’s new campaign Leave the cult, Join the club cuts through wellness fiction

25 Sep 2024

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The One Show 2025 unveils new categories and entry deadlines

25 Sep 2024

Source: © VOA News Meta will ban RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads

Meta bans Russia state media across all platforms as “covert influence” operations threaten US election

Danette Breitenbach 17 Sep 2024

Source: © Campaign Live Troy Ruhanen is the global CEO of the newly formed Omnicom Advertising Group (OAG)

Omnicom forms OAG with Troy Ruhanen as global CEO

29 Aug 2024

Source: © 123rf South Africa's ad market is expected to see 6.0% this year says Warc

Warc: SA's admarket to grow 6%, as global ad investment more than doubles

22 Aug 2024

This year a new campaign, Choose Truth, created by South Africa's Daily Maverick, will be featured for World News Day (Image supplied)

South Africa's Daily Maverick's Choose Truth campaign for World News Day

12 Aug 2024

Source: © Econoimic Times L’Oréal International Distribution has appointed Wavemaker as its EMEA media agency

Wavemaker appointed L’Oréal International Distribution's EMEA media agency

1 Aug 2024

Source: © 123rf As customer journeys become more complex, creating a more personalised two-way interaction with customers is an increasingly important requirement for brands

Messaging the preferred method for customers to interact with brands says research

9 Jul 2024

Source: © Cannes Lions the Cannes Lions 2024 has released its first shortlists

#Cannes2024 : Innovation, Glass and Titanium Shortlists released

Danette Breitenbach 4 Jun 2024

Image supplied. Three South African agencies - Promise, Accenture Song and LePub - have been named in the NYF 2024 shortlist

3 SA agencies named in New York Festivals 2024 shortlist

3 Jun 2024

Image supplied. Wan-Ifra announced the 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide winners with SA’s Food For Mzansi Group, wining the 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide Best Podcast category

SA's Food For Mzansi Group wins Wan-Ifra 2024 Digital Media Awards Podcast category

28 May 2024

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Updated: D&AD Awards 2024: SA brings home 8 Pencils

27 May 2024

Image supplied. The final and full shortlist for the D&AD Awards has been released and the 62nd D&AD Awards ceremony takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 22 May in London

Full D&AD shortlist revealed

21 May 2024

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Iraqi man arrested for broadcasting pornography on major advertising screen

22 Aug 2023

Facebook puts an end to live shopping feature

Facebook puts an end to live shopping feature

5 Aug 2022

Source: REUTERS. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

WHO ranked the most influential UN-recognised body on Twitter

17 Jun 2022

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Twitter buys minority stake in Aleph

13 Jan 2022

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$617m ad value makes Nike most marketed sports brand on social media

5 Jan 2022

Instagram global VP of Marketing, Melissa Water

Melissa Waters latest exec to exit Meta

17 Dec 2021

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TikTok hits one billion users

9 Dec 2021

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2 Twitter executives step down as restructuring starts

6 Dec 2021

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D&AD 2021 social media trends

Ashleigh Burton 14 Jun 2021

Newsmaker: Qondisa Ngwenya, Wunderman Thompson's Prism Sport + Entertainment MD

Newsmaker: Qondisa Ngwenya, Wunderman Thompson's Prism Sport + Entertainment MD

Jessica Tennant 13 Nov 2020

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Wan-Ifra's World Digital Media Awards 2020 winners announced

22 Oct 2020

Warc releases the 2020 Effective Social Strategy Report

Warc releases the 2020 Effective Social Strategy Report

21 Jul 2020

Why social-ready packaging should be a priority in retail

Why social-ready packaging should be a priority in retail

20 Feb 2020

Meet the Kru & Co crew, from L to R: Lanie Krugel, Johan Krugel, Stephen Minnaar, Mike Joubert, Roy Ingle.

#StartupStory: Kru & Co on 'going viral', why TikTok is the future of social media

Leigh Andrews 14 Feb 2020

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Social media trends for 2020

Tito Ribeiro 31 Dec 2019

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SA's VMLY&R wins Silver at 2019 Epica Awards

22 Nov 2019

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