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| |  | ISSUED BY UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS This Women's Month, the UCT Graduate School of Business will be hosting several prominent events focussed on empowering and promoting women in business at all levels in the economy... Read |  | RUTH COOPER Sandy de Bruin, former owner of Country Living SA and winner of Miss South Africa in 1980, has recently turned her attention to the opening of No. 5 On Hudson, a new art gallery in Cape Town... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT Samantha Cowen, with over 20 years in breakfast radio, has made her comeback, joining Sasha Martinengo, John Walland and Simon Hill as of today, 1 August on Hot 91.9FM's breakfast show, weekdays from 6 to 9am... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY LOERIES Don't miss Ian Mackenzie, Executive Creative Director at FCB/SIX, Canada, at the DStv Seminar of Creativity... Read |
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 | Four WPP agencies have been appointed to Shell's eight-strong global "Creative Agency of the Future" roster... Read |
 | IDidTht's July SA Film Reel Monthly Craft Awards were judged by Molefi Thulo, creative director at Ogilvy Johannesburg, who selected Mercedes Benz Return to Chapman's Peak by Lourens van Rensburg from 7 Films for Best of Reel... Read |
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| Branding |
 | NICHOLAS KUHNE So, ABSA or Absa has had a long, long-awaited rebrand... Read |
 | The political alliance of BRICS nations has become a distinct global brand in its own right, research conducted by Brand South Africa shows... Read |
| CRM, CX, UX |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS In the first keynote session of the Customer Experience Management (CEM) Africa Summit 2018, Diane Magers of the CXPA explained how to build and execute a CX strategy in an ROI-driven world. Here's what you missed... Read |
| Education |
 | ISSUED BY VEGA SCHOOL Vega, a brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE), will host its next open day on Saturday, 4 August... Read |
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| Film & Cinematography |
 | TOM JACKSON Nigerian startup Festivilia has launched its film festival distribution platform, which enables filmmakers to submit to over 500 curated film festivals... Read |
 | The top 10 finalists for the 2018 "Don't Stop Wondering" Award at Jozi Film Festival have been selected and viewers will get a chance to decide the final winner... Read |
| Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY DUO MARKETING + COMMUNICATIONS DUO Marketing + Communications has launched a new Advisory Services Division to help tech companies optimise the gap between marketing activities and return on investment from their spend... Read |
| Media |
 | Government is working on a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy for the media sector in South Africa, says Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane... Read |
| Online Media |
 | LOUISE MARSLAND Reporters Without Borders has recommended that media organisations and journalists around the world strengthen training in digital security in the face of increasing cyberviolence... Read |
| Printing |
 | ISSUED BY SAPPI Sappi Limited has announced its inclusion in the FTSE/JSE Responsible Investment Index Top 30 index. Sappi has also been confirmed as a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index Series... Read |
| Research |
 | ISSUED BY KANTAR Despite broad research supporting the negative implications of long survey design in market research - order bias, respondent fatigue, interviewer bias and poor survey design is still very common in South Africa... Read |
 | Warc has released the results of its analysis of the 169 campaigns entered into the Cannes Creative Effectiveness Lions this year... Read |
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 | The MTV Shuga drama series has launched three new 'edutainment' campaigns to target its audience and educate them regarding HIV prevention and self-testing... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS This Women's Month, we go behind the selfie with Abigail van Zyl who decided two weeks before giving birth was the perfect time to start her own company. Two years later, she's managing director and founder of remote-based agency, The Digital Thread... Read |
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 | After months of collecting the stories of South African women at the forefront of some of the biggest impacts in the science, technology, engineering, and maths sectors, the #InspiringFiftySA winners have been announced... Read |
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 | Advertising Week, the world's largest annual gathering of marketing, media, and technology leaders, makes its long-anticipated debut in Africa on 14-19 February 2023, after the planned launch was delayed by the global pandemic. |
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 | Online food delivery service, Mr D Food, reached one million app downloads last week... Read |
