The first Successful Online Strategies Conference, to be held on 5 September 2008 in Johannesburg, aims to create a high-value conference at which delegates will learn from and engage with prominent local and global speakers. 29 Jul 2008
Newsstands are crowded with successful magazines aimed at teenage girls, but there are few, if any, general interest magazines for teenage boys, and yet there are over 4.75 million young men in this demographic in South Africa. With this in mind, DevAd Publishing & Promotions is launching Boyz Only magazine, targeted at young men between the ages of 10 and 18. 28 Jul 2008
Ogilvy South Africa was enormously proud when Volkswagen SA sales and marketing director, Mike Glendinning, walked off with the Loeries Marketing Excellence and Innovation Award on Saturday night, 26 July 2008, in Margate. The award, introduced last year, recognises outstanding innovation in marketing and is given to an individual in recognition of his/her achievements over an extended period of time. 28 Jul 2008
The Ogilvy South Africa group is definitely still celebrating today, the morning after the 30th annual Loeries festival weekend. Its exceptional performance at the 2008 Loerie Awards resulted in the group's agencies garnering a total of 47 awards, including two Golds, four Gold Craft Certificates, 16 Silvers, 24 Bronze Loeries and 34 honours for campaign elements. Not only that, VW SA group sales and marketing director Mike Glendinning won the Loeries Marketing Excellence and Innovation award, which is the second consecutive year this award has been bestowed on an Ogilvy client. 28 Jul 2008
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI: Business-to-business editors are facing similar issues globally: the relentless pull towards digital editions, fear of print products being cannibalised by online brands, squeezed revenues, shrinking newsrooms and an increasing fight to assert the rights of editorial expertise versus mass content aggregation online. 28 Jul 2008
Pretoria - South African President Thabo Mbeki will on Tuesday hold bilateral political, economic and trade discussions with his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak. 28 Jul 2008
The CIO Challenge, powered by Deloitte and hosted by Topco Media, to be held at The Campus, The Forum, Bryanston on 10th and 11th September, is a conference targeting individuals involved in the IT industry. 28 Jul 2008
The Loeries Awards have come a long way and have grown in leaps and bounds to become the annual industry event. At the still youthful age of 30, this year the Loeries aimed to make mom proud but, unfortunately, there were incidents that definitely must have disappointed her as much as they did the chairman of Draftfcb Nkwenkwe Nkomo. 28 Jul 2008
TNS Research Surveys (Pty) Ltd, South Africa's leading marketing and social insights company, has released their Market Sentiment Index (MSI) results for metropolitan adults for June 2008 (the study was conducted from 5 to 15 June). 28 Jul 2008
Subscribers on the Uganda Telecom network can now send and receive picture messages, following the upgrading of its network to third generation (3G). 28 Jul 2008
Research shows over the last nine months, five out of every seven new subscribers to satellite television chose GTV, according to a recent report by Balancing Act, an African research company specialising in the media and communications sectors. 28 Jul 2008
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on the government of Burundi to adopt a set of guidelines to improve its puny economy but also commended its poverty reduction efforts. 28 Jul 2008
The Loeries weekend is officially over but it didn't go off without a few shenanigans here and there. While it may be very funny to name and shame the drunk and disorderly, we're not going to. We're rather going to post their pics up on Facebook and poke fun at them that way. We've also handed out a few awards of our own. 28 Jul 2008
New bill has controversial clauses omitted; critics believed they were designed to muzzle the media. 28 Jul 2008
Billed as South Africa's first cross-platform “minisoap”, M-Net youth channel GO's Seduction 101 is a series of downloadable podcasts and streaming video via the web and WAP. It is also the first mobile series to be distributed via MXiT. An extensive social media and mobile marketing campaign supports the cross-platform distribution strategy. 28 Jul 2008
Specialist community marketing company ComutaNet has secured the expertise and considerable sales and network experience of Trevor Ormerod, executive chairman, Cinema and Print Division, Primedia, as acting CEO, it was announced on Friday, 25 July 2008. 28 Jul 2008
The European Commission has adopted an updated list of banned airlines - carriers that are banned from flying in European airspace - and a number of African airlines are on the list. 28 Jul 2008
Engen Petroleum Limited recently hosted a gala dinner and awards ceremony evening at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West. The event took place on Thursday, 17 July and Rashid Yusof, Engen CEO, and his wife Aminah Yusof were present, as well as Wayne Hartmann, GM: International Business Development for Engen and his wife Sarah. 28 Jul 2008
Tonight, Sunday, 27 July 2008 at the 30th anniversary of the Loerie Awards in Margate, a total of 112 Loeries were handed out, of which only two were Grands Prix: King James in TV & Cinema Commercials for Alan Gray ‘Beautiful', and Net#work BBDO and Gloo Digital Design in Experiential Digital Mixed-Media Campaign for ‘Youngblood5'. 27 Jul 2008
While the atmosphere on the last day of Loeries 2008 turned out to be rather mellow, it seems most people agreed that something was missing this year as the energetic vibe just wasn't here, with most of the daily activities either cancelled or not quite as entertaining as they ought to have been. 27 Jul 2008
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