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 | PEPE MARAIS One of the most sobering marketing tweets of 2018 was by Chris Botha, CEO of The Media Shop... read |
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 | LEIGH ANDREWS This week we go behind the selfie with Gillian Rightford, managing director of Adtherapy and a speaker at the upcoming 2019 Nedbank IMC Conference...read |
|  | JESSICA TENNANT The Odd Number has appointed Terry Mckenna as executive creative director with co-founder and former ECD Sibusiso "Sbu" Sitole moving into the role of chief creative officer...read |
|  | | PARIS, France - AdForum has released its second annual Business Creative Report, ranking the most successful campaigns and agencies in seven specific sectors, including Ogilvy South Africa, King James and TBWA\Hunt Lascaris...read |
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| The Lead Creative |
 | MICHELLE BEH The year 2018 was one of uncertainty and scandals rocked the world, South Africa and advertising - forcing changes to take place... Read |
 | BRADLEY ELLIOTT Customer centricity will be the raison d'être for digital leaders who authentically embrace this strategy. And those visionaries who fully embrace this strategy will leap ahead of the pack... Read |
 | TOPAZ BOOYSEN As consumers, we're enjoying unprecedented variety in shopping aisles that span continents and are more vocal, demanding and unforgiving of brands than ever before... Read |
 | LAMIN MOMODOU MANNEH This year, 2019, is a very promising year for the African continent: There is a lot of optimism about the return of the Africa rising sentiment... Read |
 | JOHAN WALTERS Marketing leaders should be wary of the marketing automation siren call and focus on building the foundations to enable real digital performance... Read |
| Branding |
 | ISSUED BY OFF THE SHELF MARKETING The home logo test confirms it! The news that you're expecting. In the months to come the cluster of pixels that is your logo-to-be, will be taking form. You will likely experience a variety of labour pains, but be warned fewer than five percent of logos actually arrive on their due date... Read |
 | RACHEL THOMPSON, ISSUED BY NIELSENIQ The Oxford Dictionaries chose 'toxic' as its annual "Word of the Year". For 2019, the winning brands in South Africa and the rest of the world will be those that work to restore consumers' trust in a toxic environment... Read |
| Education |
 | ISSUED BY VEGA SCHOOL Vega, a brand of the Independent Institute of Education (The IIE), shares a few reasons why jobseekers and employees in the digital age need to be shapeshifters in order to get ahead... Read |
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 | SHAMEELA SOOBRAMONEY The JSE is one of five exchanges in the world to be internationally recognised as a pioneer of a global initiative to enhance corporate transparency, performance on environmental, social and corporate governance... Read |
 | In response to an allegation published by TimesLive that Bosasa "appears" to have donated R100,000 to a crowdfunding campaign for the SABC 8 journalists, the South African National Editors' Forum would like to clarify the following... Read |
 | The so-called SABC 8 has outright rejected claims that it benefited from a R100,000 donation by state capture-implicated Bosasa to cover their living expenses while suspended by former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OLC THROUGH THE LINE COMMUNICATIONS "Humanability. It's a relatively new word that means doing more good things for the world. And, it appears that many consumers want - and expect - the humanability from brands." - Forbes... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING To match the upbeat pace of Joburg and its people, 947 likes to keep things exciting and fresh. They've decided to shake-up their weekday and weekend line-up by welcoming new presenters to the team... Read |
| Recruitment |
 | The Digital Skills Partnership is a strategic collaboration between key stakeholders in the digital industry committed to transforming the sector by redesigning the traditionally onerous employment pathways into jobs for unemployed youth... Read |
| Retail |
 | MARK SCHECH With two key retail periods - Black Friday and festive season - now behind us, retailers are looking for new ways to increase revenue, grow market share, and boost profits... Read |
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 | As South Africa is receiving the infrastructure necessary for fibre connectivity, the question that the average South African should be asking is: how does it compare to satellite... Read |
 | Liquid Telecom has appointed Susan M'kandawire Mulikita as CEO of Liquid Telecom Zambia... Read |
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