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Apple is the world’s first trillion dollar brand in the 2024 Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable Global Brands

Kantar 12 Jun 2024

Africa's creative future: Leading the world through innovation and collaboration

Advertising

Africa's creative future: Leading the world through innovation and collaboration

Dawn Rowlands, Dentsu 12 Jun 2024

Source: © LinkedIn Dentsu’s Carat has been appointed to Pernod Ricard's €100m EMEA media planning and buying account

Marketing & Media

Dentsu’s Carat wins Pernod Ricard's €100m EMEA media planning and buying account

7 Jun 2024

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

Cannes Lions

#Cannes2024 : Innovation, Glass and Titanium Shortlists released

Danette Breitenbach 4 Jun 2024

Source: © 123rf The UK Parliament has passed the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

Media

UK passes Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

3 Jun 2024

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

Advertising

3 SA agencies named in New York Festivals 2024 shortlist

3 Jun 2024

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Media Freedom

Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro awarded Wan-Ifra's Golden Pen of Freedom

31 May 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

Online Media

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

28 May 2024

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D&AD Awards

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

27 May 2024

Source: © 123rf A CMO study has found that chief marketing officers appear clear, confident, and intentional in where Gen AI integration and application will deliver the best results in marketing process improvement and execution in 2024

Marketing

A clear and confident shift in marketing technology as CMOs embrace AI

22 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

D&AD Awards

Full D&AD shortlist revealed

21 May 2024

The 62nd annual D&AD Awards’ first shortlist has been announced

D&AD Awards

D&AD Awards announce first shortlist

21 May 2024

Source: © Witness Media Lab Many people have been targeted by deep fakes

Digital

WPP CEO Mark Read targeted by deep fake AI scam

15 May 2024

Image supplied. Levergy, South Africa, Creative Edge, Kenya and VML, Tunisia are among the shortlisted agencies in the Warc Awards for Effectiveness 2024, in association with the Cannes Lions

Marketing

3 African agencies on Warc Awards for Effectiveness 2024 shortlist

14 May 2024

Index Hotels SA takes over management of the C Resort & Residences in Prampram, Ghana

Tourism

Index Hotels SA takes over management of the C Resort & Residences in Prampram, Ghana

Index Hotels 7 May 2024

Plants are displayed at the booth of American multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil during the LNG 2023 energy trade show in Vancouver. Source: Reuters/Chris Helgren

Coal, Oil & Gas

$1.3bn Exxon Nigeria asset sale could be approved

Camillus Eboh and Isaac Anyaogu 3 May 2024

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

Trends

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

Raymond Langa 24 Apr 2024

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MICE

ATM 2024 to explore transformative innovation, entrepreneurship in global travel

23 Apr 2024

West Africa’s fashion designers are world leaders when it comes to producing sustainable clothes

Design & Manufacturing

West Africa’s fashion designers are world leaders when it comes to producing sustainable clothes

Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie 17 Apr 2024

Nigeria suffered 46 grid collapses between 2017 and 2023

Energy

Nigeria suffers 5th grid collapse of 2024

Isaac Anyaogu 15 Apr 2024

Farmers work at a cocoa farm in Daloa, Ivory Coast, 3 October 2023. Reuters/Ange Aboa/File Photo

ESG & Sustainability

EU will not delay deforestation law, environment chief says on Ivory Coast visit

Ange Aboa 8 Apr 2024

Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, sits as he waits to face prosecution for tax evasion and money laundering at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria, 4 April 2024. Reuters/ Abraham Achirga

Corporate & Commercial Law

Detained Binance executive in court on Nigerian tax, money laundering charges

Camillus Eboh 4 Apr 2024

Chris Wulf-Caesar returns to Unilever Ghana as CEO

FMCG

Chris Wulf-Caesar returns to Unilever Ghana as CEO

28 Mar 2024

SA’s fashion industry yields highest sales in sub-Saharan Africa of $11bn

Fashion & Homeware

SA’s fashion industry yields highest sales in sub-Saharan Africa of $11bn

26 Mar 2024

Somali pirates' return adds to crisis for global shipping companies

Shipping

Somali pirates' return adds to crisis for global shipping companies

22 Mar 2024

The subsea cable damage on West Africa could take 5 weeks to repair

Internet

5 week restoration for damaged subsea cables

Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 18 Mar 2024

The Cellusys team: (from left) Dan Fletcher, Scott Fairnington, Chris Daly, Iyad Al-Shihabi, Rebecca Parkin, Luanna Sena and Nick Redmayne

Telecoms & Networks

Cellusys African odyssey uncovers Spotify data fraud along the way

Lindsey Schutters 7 Mar 2024

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Public Health

South Korea: Junior doctors strike amid concerns over low doctor-to-patient ratio

Katja Hamilton 4 Mar 2024

Technology

Nigeria cracks down on crypto, Binance execs caught in crossfire

Mehnaz Yasmin 29 Feb 2024

Source: Supplied. Michael K. Obeng, chief executive officer and founder of Miko Pharma.

Pharmaceuticals

Miko Pharma drives $50m investment push to set up pharmaceutical plant in Ghana

29 Feb 2024