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Havas expands Africa push with Roxana Ravjee as regional CEO

Havas expands Africa push with Roxana Ravjee as regional CEO

The Clio Awards rankings are out now. Source: Clio Awards.

South African ad talent earns top spots in Clio Africa & ME rankings

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In a first, the Best Digital agency Award at Bookmarks was shared between two agencies: Accenture Song (pictured) and Ogilvy (Image: @Bizcommunity)

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The Partnership Agency celebrate on stage at Cannes Lions 2026. Source: LinkedIn.

#CannesLions | Africa’s winning roundup

Karabo Ledwaba 29 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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Tanzanian duo win H&M Foundation’s 2026 Global Change Award

18 Jun 2026

Jim Stengel has been named as the Cannes inaugural Lions Laureate for Marketing. (Image source: @ Lia )

#Cannes2026 | Former P&G marketing officer named inaugural Lions Laureate for Marketing

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

Effie Worldwide has released the 2025 Effie Index (Image supplied)

Global Effie Index: 2025’s most effective marketers, brands and agencies

17 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

Why keeping your customers is now the smartest growth strategy

Why keeping your customers is now the smartest growth strategy

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One Club Creative Hall of Fame 2026 inductees named

9 Jun 2026

#BehindtheIMC | MENAT Publicis Groupe’s Tahaab Rais: Marketers are the observers of humanity

#BehindtheIMC | MENAT Publicis Groupe’s Tahaab Rais: Marketers are the observers of humanity

Danette Breitenbach 5 Jun 2026

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With generative AI surging, Africa’s agile creators narrow Hollywood’s gap

Garon Campbell 26 May 2026

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#AfricaMonth: The Case for Africanising AI in public relations

Phozisa Mkele 20 May 2026

Ogilvy South Africa Cape Town is the 2026 One Show ME & Africa Agency of the Year, and Promise Johannesburg ME & Africa Independent Agency of the Year (Image supplied)

Ogilvy and Promise top One Show ME & Africa rankings

19 May 2026

The Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable Global Brands 2026

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Kantar 14 May 2026

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Botswana public broadcaster opens airwaves to international ads

6 May 2026

CMO Council's Marketing’s Power Partners: AI and the Human Essence report explains why AI alone doesn’t deliver growth (Image source: © 123rf )

Why AI alone doesn’t deliver growth - it needs human marketers

29 Apr 2026

"Consistent organic growth remains our North Star. While it will take time to outpace historical losses, our Q1 results are in line with expectations and ahead of Q4 2025," says Cindy Rose, WPP CEO (Image source: @ WPP

No surprises in WPP Q1 results

28 Apr 2026

Google Earth AI integration bridges the gap between digital marketing and physical reality

Google Earth AI integration bridges the gap between digital marketing and physical reality

23 Apr 2026

(Source: @Meet Frank Publicis has announced its Q1 2026 results

Publicis outperforms industry, confirms growth guidance for 2026

14 Apr 2026

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The Pitcher Awards 2026 unveils dynamic jury

14 Apr 2026

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2026 applications open for MTN’s Pan-African journalism programme

8 Apr 2026

Why relevance, not reach, is the real driver of email performance

Why relevance, not reach, is the real driver of email performance

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All the International Tourism Film Festival Africa finalists

2 Apr 2026

The Animation School is shortlisted for three student films at the New York Festivals Television and Film Awards (Image supplied)

New York Film Awards: SA school shortlisted

2 Apr 2026

The fifa World Cup 2026 is predicted to drive $10.5 billion surge in ad spend but ad impact has diminished amid a shifting media landscape (Image supplied)

Fifa World Cup 2026 drives $10.5bn ad surge, but with diminshed impact

26 Mar 2026

With reports that Formula One race organisers are considering scrapping or relocating several Middle Eastern races this year due to heightened security concerns, the events industry is once again confronting the reality of operating in an unpredictable world (Image source: @ Scuderia Ferrari Club https://sfcriga.com/ Scuderia Ferrari Club]])

Event organisers need a mindset of resilience as global instability shapes the events landscape

23 Mar 2026

Musk drives Tesla’s sustainability brand value down by over $7.7bn

20 Mar 2026

CMOs must bridge the gap between the spreadsheet and the story… or become extinct

Pieter Geyser 20 Mar 2026

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African finalists shine in Wan-Ifra's 2026 Digital Media Awards

20 Mar 2026

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