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 | The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June with the 2019 Radio & Audio Lions announced during the Communication award ceremony, with SA once again roaring with metal! read |
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 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy Johannesburg has announced Lebo Madiba as the new Managing Partner: Public Relations & Influence at the agency...read |
|  | PAULA SARTINI Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring great benefits to businesses across various industries. Already companies such as Google and Microsoft have invested significantly in this technology and are benefiting from it...read |
|  | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Hosted by the ACA, the Apex Next Level of Thinking Masterclass will take place at a brand new venue, The Houghton in Johannesburg on 11 July...read |
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| Cannes Lions |
 | Our roving reporter Ann Nurock chats to Shukri Toefy, the only SA speaker at Cannes this year, about the SA ad industry in a global and Cannes Lions context... View |
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 | Our roving reporter Ann Nurock talks to co-founder of the Gerety Awards, Lucía Ongay, at Cannes Lions, who shares why she thinks there's a need for a new type of creative award show that elevates new female voices... View |
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 | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June, with the 2019 Mobile, Innovation and Creative Effectiveness winners announced during the Communication, Innovation and Impact award ceremonies... Read |
 | The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June with the 2019 Cannes Brand Experience & Activation and Creative e-Commerce winners announced during the Experience track award ceremony... Read |
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| |  | JENNI PENNACCHINI, ISSUED BY KLA As the African National Congress (ANC) celebrates its 2019 election victory, South Africans will now be turning their collective attention to President Cyril Ramaphosa to see if he can deliver on his party's promises... Read |
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| Digital |
 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL Advertising, communications and marketing agencies are the core of creativity for brands across the globe. Scopen's Agency Scope studies around the world show some 45% of potential clients visit an agency's website to see who they are... Read |
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 | BRUCE BORRIE, ISSUED BY ROCKETSEED If your business is just you, then maybe it's not the biggest decision you'll ever make, but if there's 50, 100 or 1,000 people in the business then suddenly the decision (and the risks) become bigger... Read |
| Education |
 | AIDAN VAN DEN HEEVER The University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Western Cape SABC signed a historic partnership agreement on Tuesday, 18 June 2019, which will see the provincial broadcaster assist the UWC Media Society in developing students' media and broadcasting skills... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | The sixth edition of the Bokeh SA International Lifestyle & Fashion Film Festival will be held at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town from 9 to 14 July 2019... Read |
| Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY INCUBETA South African consumers are becoming numbed by the constant barrage of mass content. A brand should aim to provide unique value, (be it educational, entertainment or meaningful time savings), at the appropriate time... Read |
| Media |
 | CHRIS MOERDYK It is astounding how many captains of industry in South Africa shy away from the media instead of realising the enormous benefits of creating direct personal relationships... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU Recognising the best creative, media and digital work across the continent, Dentsu Aegis Network SSA won 25 awards including the prestigious African Cristal Media Network of the Year Award for the second year running... Read |
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| Newspapers |
 | The Forum of Community Journalists (FCJ) has announced all the finalists for the 2019 FCJ Excellence Awards... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | LIESL SIMPSON There is always one question on the lips of everyone that I talk to about PR and it is; just why is PR so important anyway? Does PR really have that much of an impact on a business's bottom line? The answer is yes, it does. It can have a serious influence on whether people choose to conduct business with you... Read |
| Radio |
 | KEVIN FINE, ISSUED BY JACARANDA FM While I'm not a gambling man, it would have been great to take a bet on predictions for this year regarding radio in the 4th Industrial Revolution... Read |
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| The One Club of Creativity |
 | The One Club for Creativity has announced the jury for the Young Guns 17 program, celebrating international creative professionals age 30 or younger... Read |
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 | ABDHALAH ZIRABA The second largest Ebola virus disease outbreak on record is currently raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with over 2,000 cases and more than 1,400 deaths recorded... Read |
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 | President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his second State of the Nation Address this year, said that revising the National Health Insurance (NHI) detailed plan of implementation is at an advanced stage... Read |
 | Hosted by Womandla, nominations are open for the first Women in STEM Awards set for 17 August in Cape Town... Read |
 | The call for entries for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) will be closing on 30 June 2019... Read |
 | Non-profit youth organisation Activate! Change Drivers has compiled a book, Heroes, featuring some of the 3,400 youth 'activators' that have taken part in its leadership programme... Read |
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