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JESSICA TENNANT
"Times like these," "more than ever," "home," "family," "here for you," "we've always been there for you," "we may be apart, but we can stay connected," "we'll get through this together." A universal brand message of solidarity, accompanied by sombre piano music and B-roll footage of empty public spaces. It's all the same. read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Deen Schroeder, Commercial Digital Executive at Primedia Broadcasting, shares three key ways brands can use podcasts to attract and engage audiences...read
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Wan-Ifra has announced the winners of the European Digital Media Awards, with 7 out of 9 of winners coming from Denmark, Norway or Sweden...read
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VISTA KALIPA, ISSUED BY ONPOINT PR
As the Covid-19 pandemic made landfall in South Africa, fake news ramped up on just about every platform, causing widespread panic and paranoia...read
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People around the world are listening to more radio as social distancing changes behaviour, and South Africa is no different. Surveys conducted by some of the country's biggest commercial radio stations show an increase in listening time... Read
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ALLETA LIEBENBERG
Brands are under tremendous pressure to balance their need to use their messaging to show extraordinary empathy for their customers and employees, while pivoting their business model and maintaining momentum to make sure they survive the crisis... Read
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
SaSalutes, an initiative driven by Mediclinic and the Dentsu Aegis Network, is a platform created for the public to share their thank you's with all South Africa's healthcare teams on the frontline every night... Read
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MAXINE TWADDLE
There's no doubt that creativity is crucial to our job. Which is to get people to do exactly what we want them to do, to persuade them to change their behaviour in a way that benefits our clients. But campaigns cannot live on creativity alone. It's time that effectiveness stops coming second-best to fame... Read
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Branding
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ISSUED BY EATBIGFISH
When it comes to destination brands, especially in relation to tourism, the everyday normal is to make the link with the role they play in attracting foreign visitors. While this is certainly a key objective of South African Tourism, this Challenger company also stimulates local travel and the economic ecosystems that surround it... Read
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Digital
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ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA
Business and Arts South Africa NPC (Basa) encourages projects between creatives and businesses, with a focus on online collaborations, to submit expressions of interest to be considered for grant support... Read
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Media
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CANDY DEMPERS, ISSUED BY MEDIAHEADS 360
From the way local social media has exploded with home remedies, private deliveries of all sorts and what could be best described as illicit trading, it is also obvious to see what is not generally considered to be an essential service... Read
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ISSUED BY INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Independent Media calls on each and every South African to stand and sing the national anthem... Read
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Radio
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SASKIA HICKEY, ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING
KFM 94.5, a Primedia Broadcasting regional radio station in the Western Cape, celebrates a big birthday this month. KFM 94.5 's African penguin called Rocket celebrates his second birthday on 25 April 2020... Read
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The Baxter Theatre Centre has introduced Baxter Radio in light of the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa... Read
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ISSUED BY SABC
Year after year, awards after awards, SABC Radio remains the indomitable force of the South Africa airwaves - A force to be reckoned with to be exact... Read
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Retail
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CECIL UNGERER
The lockdown in South Africa and many other countries around the world to limit the spread of the Covid-19 virus will put significant pressure on an already-strained global economy... Read
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ISSUED BY SHOWMAX
The Guptagate documentary How To Steal A Country is now streaming first on Showmax, just in time for the Freedom Day long weekend, with early reviews calling it "An excellent documentary, one of the best ever made in our country"... Read
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ARNOUX MARE
Time management is perhaps the most essential tool for companies right now as they battle against the lockdown and the uncertainty Covid-19 is having on the economy... Read
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As part of a phased easing of country's lockdown strategy based on risk assessment, South Africa will move from its current level 5 to level 4 on 1 May 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced last night... Read
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In his announcement last night on easing South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown from level 5 to level 4 on 1 May 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa painted a broad strokes picture of how the country will return to work... Read
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Businesses can use Uber Direct to move their goods within their supply chain, and between locations to better balance supply and demand, ensuring customers receive their orders when required... Read
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