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RATE CARD 2018

To sponsor an upcoming monthly theme, focus report or Bizcommunity's coverage of an industry event, contact moc.ytinummoczib@selas.

	JANUARY	FEBRUARY	MARCH
FOCUS REPORT	BIZTRENDS2018 Annual Bizcommunity.com focus on trends for the coming year.		HR/Workplace & Recruitment Trends Creative skills will differentiate employees in a future AI-dominated world. We look at how employers need to brand themselves for the future.
INDUSTRY EVENTS		SA BUDGET SPEECH Opinion and content around corporate planning for 2018 INVESTING IN MINING INDABA 5-8 Feb DESIGN INDABA FESTIVAL (CPT) 21-24 Feb Media partner to Design Indaba for the 12th year, top industry coverage, interviews and design events.	THE BOOKMARKS AWARDS 1 Mar CAREER INDABA 15-17 March
	APRIL	MAY	JUNE
CONTENT THEME		AFRICA MONTH Key brands, finance, investors, organisations, industries and personalities making a difference in Africa across 18 industries.
FOCUS REPORT		Focus on Africa: The Business of Africa 25 May is Africa Day and the Focus on Agencies/Brands doing business in Africa will go live on this day.
INDUSTRY EVENTS	LIBERTY RADIO AWARDS 14 April AFRICA TRAVEL WEEK & WORLD TRAVEL MARKET 18-20 April D&AD AWARDS/FESTIVAL 24-26 April	THE PRISM AWARDS May THE ONE SHOW & CREATIVE WEEK 7-11 May AFRICA'S TRAVEL INDABA 8-10 May MARKETING INDABA CT 16-17 May / JHB 30-31 May NEW YORK FESTIVALS ADVERTISING AWARDS 17 May INMA Global Conference 21-23 May	MARKEX 6-7 June SUSTAINABILITY WEEK 5-7 June EDUCATION WEEK 15-16 June CANNES LIONS FESTIVAL 18-22 June
	JULY	AUGUST	SEPTEMBER
CONTENT THEME	CSI MONTH How the different industry sectors meet and prioritise sustainability in their social, environmental and economic goals.	WOMEN IN BUSINESS Multi-industry initiative profiling women and women's issues in leadership and business.
FOCUS REPORT	Content Marketing Storytelling is the future of marketing communications. We look at the latest trends in Content Marketing.		Digital Marketing Is there such a thing as digital marketing when everything is now integrated with digital? We interrogate the latest marketing trends.
INDUSTRY EVENTS	APEX AWARDS TBC MANDELA DAY 18-July	LOERIES CREATIVE WEEK AND AWARDS TBC TOP WOMEN AWARDS 23 August PAMRO Conference TBC	BUSINESS WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARDS TBC
	OCTOBER	NOVEMBER	DECEMBER
CONTENT THEME	ENTREPRENEUR MONTH The most promising entrepreneurs in Africa, mentoring, investing, strategy, success stories and more.		YEARLY ROUNDUP ARTICLES Newsmakers and stories that turned the most engagement in 2018.
FOCUS REPORT	Africa Week: Towards Agenda 2030 The United Nations focuses on Africa in Africa Week in October. The African Union has also declared 2018-2017 as the 'African Decade for Technical, Professional and Entrepreneurial Training and Youth Employment'.
INDUSTRY EVENTS	PENDORING ADVERTISING AWARDS TBC SA CONSTRUCTION AWARDS TBC GREEN BUILDING CONVENTION TBC EDUTECH AFRICA 9-10 October	ADFOCUS AWARDS TBC AFRICACOM 13-15 November AFRICAN AGRI INVESTMENT INDABA 26 - 28 November

Sponsor a focus report or event

To sponsor an upcoming monthly theme, focus report or Bizcommunity's coverage of an industry event, contact moc.ytinummoczib@selas.

*Contributing Editor and industry trendspotter, Louise Marsland, will continue to produce in-depth Special Focus Reports for Bizcommunity.com across the Media & Marketing and Retail portals. These will be expanded to the other business-to-business industry verticals in time.

BIZTRENDS2018

HR/Workplace & Recruitment Trends

AFRICA MONTH

Focus on Africa: The Business of Africa

CSI MONTH

WOMEN IN BUSINESS

Content Marketing

Digital Marketing

ENTREPRENEUR MONTH

YEARLY ROUNDUP ARTICLES

Africa Week: Towards Agenda 2030