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Celebrating digital innovation Welcome to February! It's #DesignMonth on Biz, so expect a good few weeks of content around this always relevant theme. We kick off with congratulations for Havas Johannesburg's CCO Eoin Welsh, who joins the New York Festivals' 2017 grand jury. The awards honour the world's finest creative advertising, with the gala event taking place mid-May this year. Shifting the focus back to our shores, IAB SA has announced its Diamond partnership with digital innovator Accenture Interactive for the third annual IAB Digital Summit, taking place on 16 March in Sandton. Click through to find out which corporates are lined up as Platinum and Gold partners. Keeping things digitally minded, Serena Seunarain explores the topic of digital marketing trendsetting in 2017 and beyond. She says keeping ahead of these trends will ensure brands have the luxury of time to test the theories these trends bring, with the opportunity of being trendsetters in the industry and leading by example. She also shares tips for your 2017 digital strategy. Rounding out the thought leadership, Glasshouse Communication Management's ( GHCM) new MD Nkhensani Moyane shares the lessons learned from former MD Bridget Von Holdt that they'll continue to use, as well as her personal drive for mentorship and inspiring confidence in the youth as they enter the job market. Lastly, though Loeries Creative Week Durban is still months away, we have the latest news: Entries are now open! I also talk all things #LoeriesRankings-related with a handful of Red & Yellow School's Loerie-winning graduates, as well as their lecturers for insights into how they'll replicate their success in the 2017 rendition. PS: ICYMI last week, Andy Walker investigates why Beyonce's preggy picture is now Instagram's most-liked snap ever. We hope you have a successful week! Comment online in our Ed's Column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
|  | The New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has invited Eoin Welsh, chief creative officer for Havas Johannesburg, to join its 2017 grand jury... read |
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IAB SA has announced its partnership with digital agency network Accenture Interactive for the third annual IAB Digital Summit on 16 March at The Galleria in Sandton... Read | Serena Seunarain If you want to stay ahead of the pack, there are six top trends to keep an eye on in the digital and social marketing realm as 2017 sets off from the starting blocks… Read | Leigh Andrews Glasshouse Communication Management's (GHCM) new MD Nkhensani Moyane shares her personal drive for mentorship and inspiring confidence in the youth as they enter the job market... Read |
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 | Lions Innovation, now in its third year, today announced the presidents for 2017... read | | |
 | Leigh Andrews I chatted to some of the top-ranked creatives post-2016 Loeries Rankings celebrations. Here, some of the Red & Yellow School's lecturers and Loerie Award-winning graduates share their views… read | | |
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|  | Ruth Cooper Zana products have become increasingly recognisable and desirable, both locally and internationally. We chat to Melissa Lawrence, marketing, PR and social media manager, at Zana for #DesignMonth. read | |
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 | Primedia Unlimited has partnered with Dublin based Bionic, a Facebook marketing partner, in its first entry into the African market... read | | |
 | Jeremy Maggs Agencies are having to do more with fewer resources, and there's more staff burn-out and pressure to transform... read | |  | The Gunn Report, the global index of creative excellence in advertising, has released its 2016 report summarising the overall performance of the advertising industry in the year January to December 2016 based on the results of 45 global, regional and national creative award contests... read | |
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 | The Cape Town International Animation Festival (CTIAF), presented by Animation South Africa, takes place 3-5 March 2017 at The River Club in Observatory, Cape Town... read | | |
 | Simon Orgill, Issued by DQ&A Media Group When Google introduced the TrueView function to their DSP, DBM, nobody knew just what the implications would be... read | | |
 | Voting has opened for the Nickelodeon 2017 Kids' Choice Awards, a live event where kids' votes count and the biggest stars of the day line up to get slimed... read | | |
 | Issued by Scan Display Scan Display received six awards and its partner company, Synergy Business Events, received one at the EXSA and AAXO joint industry awards evening on 26 January... read | | |
 | Twenty-two digital projects have been awarded $1m in seed grants and technology support to tackle issues as diverse as fake news and frontline war reporting, as well as innovative ways for watchdog media to use bots... read | |  | Journalists from South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria can win a fully paid study tour to major US newsrooms as part of a new impactAFRICA reporting contest... read | | |
| Promoted content |  | Issued by Vicinity Media February is a going to be a busy month for Vicinity Media. The growing mobile advertising network recently opened its third regional office in Cape Town (after Johannesburg and Dubai). The office will be run by CEO and co-founder Daryl van Arkel and co-founder Charles Talbot... read |
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 | Hadlee Simons Snap Inc. filed a confidential initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission last year, leaving many to wonder about the details. But now, the house of Snapchat has raised the curtain on aspects of the deal... read | | | Unhealthy foods must include negative labelling in IsraelIsrael has issued new rules on the marketing of unhealthy foods, with stringent packaging and marketing rules to take effect in 2018.
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•Red warning markers must be placed on the packaging of foods that are high in sugar, salt, or fat
•Product packaging must be marked with spoons that show the amount of sugar contained in the product
•Unhealthy foods may not be marketed to children
The rules will take effect over three years, starting in January 2018, with the requirements for red warning markers becoming more stringent each year. read | |  | WASHINGTON - Home-sharing giant Airbnb injected a surprise political message during the Super Bowl on Sunday with a television spot highlighting multiculturalism and the hashtag #WeAccept... read | | | More International | |
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 | A new app by Sanlam allows South Africans and tourists to now have access to instant accident cover on demand via their smart phones... read | |  | A lack of understanding about generics costs consumers and medical aids millions of rands each year... read | |
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