And awards season for the advertising and media industries continues to roll on. To mention but a few, recently in Johannesburg we've had the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards, the SAPOA Property Journalist Awards, the inaugural Lilly MDR-TB Partnership/Red Cross Annual TB media award, the AdVantage AdMags and the inaugural MTN Radio Awards; we're in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival; and still to come are ADC and Clios in New York and Apex Awards in Johannesburg (go Trillion Dollar go!), CNN Multichoice African Journalists Awards in Uganda, D&AD in London, Cannes Lions in Cannes, the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards in London, 1st for Women Insurance Women in The Media Awards in Joburg. And there's still the Loeries and Pendoring awards to come later on in the year, not to mention the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards! Bizcommunity.com congratulates all the winners but, as Marion Scher blogs today, beware of the Internet - it's not as big a world as you think. Don't plagiarise; you will be caught out. Once again, Johanna McDowell of the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company will be blogging exclusively for Bizcommunity, this time from the AdForum World Summit in Copenhagen, so look out for her posts this week. Twenty four days and counting until kickoff (pesky @theashcloud, stay away)! Simone Puterman (@SimoneBiz) PS In this week's Ornico Ad Showcase, we feature TV ads for Danone Delight, Clorets Eliminator, Nissan Qashqai, Virgin Money and Nando's, and radio ads for Listerine, FNB, TopTV, Wimpy and Renault.
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