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 | There's no correct way to ensure your brand engages successfully with consumers on social media. However, as with most relationships, it's important to keep some key principles in mind like having a grasp of consumer insights, being fluent in internet culture, staying true to the brand and being tech savvy. Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH This year's overarching trend that came out of Cannes Lions is that of technology. However, technology on its own is nothing; it is the creative behind it that makes it meaningful in peoples' lives. Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Courage is most difficult to harness and deploy in advertising. These are the words of Andy Rice, who facilitated a panel at Ster-Kinekor and Cinemark's Cannes Lions Edit event, which showcased the best of Cannes 2016... Read |
 | DOMINIQUE PIENAAR There is a misnomer that delivering public relations (PR) services is easy - that it is the cheaper alternative to advertising and that determining its value is as simple as knowing what an Advertising Value Equivalent (AVE) is... Read |
 | International financial market data company Iress is buying INET BFA from Media24 for R149.6m. TMG sold INET to Naspers's (NPN) McGregor BFA in late 2013 for R113m... Read |
 | DESIREE GULLAN In traditional agencies, research is a nucleus - it's the alpha and omega of brand strategy. It means a deep, reverberating comprehension of products or services, the people who make them and the people buy them. It means crystallising strategy and campaign to align with this understanding... Read |
 | SunPark, Sun International's latest event and conferencing facility, which recently opened at Sun City, offers event organisers a space to host industry and lifestyle events of varying sizes... Read |
 | The dedicated block, launching on DStv channel 412, is an extension of Times Media's finance and news channel, Business Day TV. It follows the success of programmes like The Big Small Business Show, now in its fourth year... Read |
 | The SMME Opportunity Roadshow, held last week at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, offered approximately 250 Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) advice from key speakers about business growth... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Associated Media group CEO Julia Raphaely talks us through the collaborative benefit of shifting from silo structure and instead having creatives work with other creatives, as well as how they continue to innovate and shine despite market conditions on the downturn... Read |
 | Despite the country's well-developed market, less than 30% of low-income South African adults have any form of insurance... Read |
 | PwC has identified the Internet of Things alongside virtual reality and 3D printing... Read |
 | Brand Finance, a brand valuation and strategy consultancy that annually measures the world's most valuable brands, in partnership with Brand South Africa, has launched a table displaying the top 50 corporate brands in South Africa... Read |
 | Understanding that the future of online shopping lies in mobile devices, and seeing a constant increase in the contribution of mobile traffic to total traffic, Spree recently implemented a mobile app-first approach to improve the overall mobile user experience... Read |
 | The Direct Selling Association of South Africa (DSASA) has reassured South Africans that direct selling and multilevel marketing are neither pyramid nor Ponzi scheme, but to still be on guard against falling for "get rich quick" schemes... Read |
 | RICH HILLEBRECHT The engine of the global economy is increasingly transitioning towards digital services. Businesses are shifting focus... Read |
