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 | | Our correspondent Mikhaila Hunter filmed John Legend speaking at the The Goals House at Cannes Lions about his partnership with Pampers and their effort in addressing changing table inequality...read |
|  | LEIGH ANDREWS This #YouthMonth, we go behind the selfie with Simon Hill, presenter on Mansfield in the Morning, head of creative at Hot 91.9FM, and Liberty Radio Awards 2019 Bright Star, awarded to those with an intrinsic understanding and love for the medium, respects its past, but who also has great ideas about its future...read |
|  | KHANGELANI DZIBA PR practitioners should be the ones who are there when media buying strategies are being curated, sold to clients and engagements are taking place with media houses to negotiate further how brands can leverage that media spend for PR deliverables...read |
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 | Verusha Maharaj, senior manager, Customer and Marketing at Deloitte Consulting SA talks to Bizcommunity's roving reporter Ann Nurock live in Cannes... View |
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 | The Cannes Lions Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) shortlist has been released... Read |
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| |  | ODETTE FALING Whether you love or loathe the selfies, the "wokeness" and general thrust of Generation Z culture, the ideas, technologies and resultant change this vibrant populace of our era has ushered in, cannot be overstated... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY LOERIES As the Women's Decade 2010-2020 of the African Union draws to a close, women the world over are standing firm in their push for gender equality - and they want men to walk and work with them... Read |
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 | KAMO MOGASHOA At its root, data storytelling is about using the facts and numbers to craft stories that create a deeper connection with the real person at the end of the data... Read |
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 | Pick n Pay's Fresh Living magazine is now available in braille, making it the first supermarket in South Africa to offer this to its customers... Read |
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 | ONYI NWANERI, ISSUED BY MARKETING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS On Thursday, 27 June 2019, Afrika Tikkun will be speaking on purpose-led marketing at the Marketing Achievement Awards... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA Over the last five years Vicinity Media has grown into Africa's leading location-based mobile ad network and technology company... Read |
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 | Burn Media has revealed new site designs for Ventureburn and Memeburn, as well as redesigned newsletters for each... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Change is the name of the OOH media industry game, and with change comes opportunity and once again Lizelle McConnell has proven her value to Tractor Outdoor... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ORNICO The International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) held its annual global summit in Prague, The Czech Republic, from 21-23 May 2019... Read |
| Research |
 | Findings show that businesses are producing more videos than ever, average video length is down 33% while average viewer retention rate is up 13%... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH BMi Research has appointed Kevin Kruger its new chief executive officer... Read |
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 | ZUBEIDA GOOLAM With the continued increase of the prosumer, many brands are struggling to control messaging around who they are and what they offer. By having a savvy social media strategy, a brand is able to better communicate with and understand who their audience is, what it is they want and how to engage with them positively, while still building resonance... Read |
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 | GARETH MARSHALL As marketers, we're constantly looking for that 'sweet spot' to engage our consumers, but despite best efforts we know that consumers have a plethora of media at their disposal and attention is fragmented, or at best, minimal. My take on it? Get personal... Read |
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 | EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG AND BHEKINKOSI MOYO This century belongs to the African philanthropists whose capital, influence, local knowledge, and moral authority have the power to address pressing challenges that face the continent... Read |
 | ANDRE PASCAL KENGNE, ELVIS BANBOYE KIDZERU & MUKI SHEY Non-communicable diseases are the current leading cause of death worldwide. And the burden is increasingly shifting from developed to developing countries... Read |
 | The Namibian and 14 media organisations around the world have partnered with Forbidden Stories - to combat the deliberate silencing of journalists in various parts of the world... Read |
 | Infront Media seizes six-year Olympics TV rights agreement in sub-Saharan Africa... Read |
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 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Cryptocurrencies offer a financial lifeline to people excluded from the formal financial economy and to those living in oppressive political or economic regimes... Read |
 | JANNIE ROSSOUW Countries that use an inflation target to anchor monetary policy pay considerable attention to expectations of future inflation... Read |
 | A recent report reveals that 40% of South African consumers would give up their social media accounts to guarantee their data remains private for the rest of their life... Read |
 | ROGER WOODEND When we think of industries obsessed with customer experience, we often think about travel, retail or even retail banking... Read |
 | "Wi-Fi networks across commercial, government and communities, have continued to grow at a rapid pace across the continent." Read |
 | CHRISTO WESSELS Smartphones are critical devices for most people in their everyday lives... Read |
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