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JESSICA TENNANT
Executive producer Simoné Bosman recently founded creative production company, Osu, lending her son's name of Japanese origin which means to push, persevere or strive. read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Professional African women have been underrepresented on the internet until now. This international women's month, Dove, Getty Images and Girlgaze launched the project #ShowUs stock image library, aimed at shattering beauty stereotypes, while Ellipsis and Picha collaborated to create their #MelaninModern stock images of professional African women. Here's why media and advertising alike need to get in on the action...read
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HLUMELO NDONI
Woolies recently struck gold and landed its brand in the ever so elusive club of brands going viral, their response to catching lighting in a bottle (pun intended) was amazing and showed exactly how brands should embrace content creators in the digital space...read
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NATALIE MCCRAE
I have a question for you: Is it enough for businesses to believe that as long as they are acquiring customers, retention will take care of itself? And at what point do you begin to put measures into place to avoid "best intentions and poor execution" becoming a yoke around your business's neck?...read
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Advertising
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
Harnessing the power of creativity and innovation is crucial if we want to stay competitive, says CEO of DAN Mozambique, João dos Santos... Read
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Branding
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SARAH DEXTER
There appears to be an increasing focus amongst brands these days on delivering short-term results - a desire to deliver the "right" bottom line for this month/quarter/cycle, despite numerous studies suggesting that this is detrimental to the long-term health of a brand... Read
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Education
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GLENN GILLIS
Thanks to accelerated technological change, no company can hope to survive if it doesn't properly equip its employees to deal with the challenges of the contemporary workplace. Workplace education is no longer a nice-to-have, it's a necessity... Read
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Entrepreneurship
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The application process for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) is now officially open to African entrepreneurs from all sectors, age groups, and countries in Africa... Read
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ISSUED BY ENTERPRISES UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
The aim of this short course is to equip individuals working in the creative sector or creative industries with the necessary entrepreneurship skills and knowledge to develop their respective entrepreneurial ventures... Read
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Exhibitions
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The third annual South African International Tattoo Convention (SAITC) will be held at The Lookout at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town from 29-31 March 2019... Read
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Film & Cinematography
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ISSUED BY AFDA
AFDA has announced the selection of three AFDA 2018 graduation films as candidates for the Student Academy Awards 2019... Read
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The Bokeh South African International Lifestyle and Fashion Film Festival is inviting all aspirant creative talents to enter the Emerging Creative Talent competition and stand a chance to win R50,000... Read
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Marketing
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ISSUED BY FLOW COMMUNICATIONS
Due to numerous requests, the 2019 Marketing Achievement Awards ceremony and Marketing Achievement Summit will now be taking place on 26 and 27 June 2019 at Sun City... Read
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Media
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ISSUED BY AMASA
Do you have what takes to become part of the next generation of excellence in the advertising media industry?.. Read
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Mobile
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ISSUED BY THE SPACESTATION
24.com and The SpaceStation recently launched the findings of their first mobile study at an industry event in Johannesburg and Cape Town... Read
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OOH
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ISSUED BY OASIS OUTDOOR MEDIA
After nine years, this site became available in January 2019, after ABSA's agency decided not to renew it. This created an opportunity for Johnny Walker to snap up the site... Read
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PR & Communications
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KELLI MATTHEWS
Here's what a company needs to do to restore the public's trust... Read
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Radio
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ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING
Kfm 94.5's head of programming, Steve Werner, dreamt of career as a film-maker when the radio bug bit in his early 20s during a stint as producer for talk radio sister station, CapeTalk... Read
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Research
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The 2019 USC Annenberg Global Communications Report released findings that examined the impact of technology on society and the communication industry... Read
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One Show Awards
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"Bixby Voice Forever" certainly hit the right emotional notes with Anthony Chelvanathan, SVP, CD of Leo Burnett Toronto and ADC 98th Annual Awards Advertising judge... Read
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AKINWALE GOODLUCK
Mobile money has changed the face of financial services forever. It has driven significantly greater financial inclusion in emerging markets around the world, positively impacting whole communities and economies... Read
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Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster, is expanding its activities in Ethiopia... Read
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Sales Summit - 11 Apr 2019, Sandton | 25 Apr 2019, Cape Town Sales Summit is a full-day training session/sales conference open to all industries/businesses. Our programme/content will spark new creative ways to approach sales/re-think sales methods. Read more >> |
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