MARKETING & MEDIA Advertising effectiveness has been captured by ‘liking'Cienpies Design © – 123RF.com | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Business of Design speaker Q&A: Jeremy Stewart[Jessica Tennant] Business of Design (BoD) is back with a speaker lineup of note. The two-day seminar is held annually in Cape Town and Johannesburg during October and doesn't just focus on design in itself but has a much broader vision for the field in all areas of business... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Graham Lang on leaving the SA creative industry in good handsImage © Jan Verboom, photographer at Roodebloem Studio. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT #OnTheBigScreen: Blade Runner, My Little Pony and Inconvenient Truth[Daniel Dercksen] Blade Runner 2049, Good Time, My Little Pony: The Movie, The Big Sick, Wish Upon, An Inconvenient Truth Sequel: Truth To Power and Canaletto & the Art of Venice open at local cinemas this week. | |
Ruth Cooper | Bastille Cape Town 2017Bastille kicked off their first SA tour at the Grand Arena, GrandWest in Cape Town last night, 3 October. |
MARKETING & MEDIA #NewCampaign: TBWA, Joburg Ballet launch series of little ballets inspired by big social storiesRui Alves | |
ENERGY & MINING Things are looking up for commodities revenues, or are they?[Danette Breitenbach] Commodities revenues have remained fairly consistent, with a bit of an increase here and there, but no substantial increase... | |
Angie Lawrence | [Advertising] Chicken Licken has just launched their brand-new offering, the Double Chick'n Boerie Burger, which is a chicken patty infused with special boerewors flavouring. To advertise this new product to the country, brand and communications agency Joe Public United took it all the way from the south of sunny Africa to the north of icy Iceland. Shot in a documentary style, the new TV commercial and integrated campaign tell the story of an Icelandic boy who starts displaying characteristics that seem all too familiar to South Africans. |
Ruth Cooper | [Music] Fokofpolisiekar release the lyric video for Dis in my bloed, baby, the first track off new Selfmedikasie album. |
Angie Lawrence | [Production] Buitenkant (The Outside), a South African short film by William Nicholson, racked up over 100k views in 48 hours after being selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick this week. "Buitenkant" (The Outside) | Short Film from Africa.film on Vimeo. |
MARKETING & MEDIA It's not you against “the blacks,” it's just us!© rawpixel - 123RF.com | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS #EntrepreneurMonth: Persistence propels businesses forward[Ilse Burger] Sabelo Sibanda and Thulisile Volwana are the founders of Millbug, an electronics manufacturing company, as well as Tuse, an Android app that tackles connectivity issues... | |
Ruth Cooper | Men's Health Menswear Collection 2017Last week Men's Health hosted the 10th anniversary of Men's Health Menswear Collection fashion show brought to you by Montblanc Legend Night EDP. The exclusive event was held at the eighteenth-century inspired Old Park Station in Newtown Johannesburg. |
Ruth Cooper | [BizTakeouts Radio Show & Podcasts] Hein Kaiser from Mix 93.8 FM chats to Phillip Britz, Client Service Director at Demographica about billing on outcomes versus hours and Tracey Swanepoel, Business strategy and creativity consultant at Thinkspiration about leadership and story telling, on his latest Marketing & Media show. |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Invoking debate - Q&A with Zeitz MOCAA curator Mark Coetzee[Ruth Cooper] The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art has seen well over the estimated amount of visitors stream through its doors since opening this past Heritage Weekend and executive director and chief curator Mark Coetzee predicts that interest and traffic will only increase. | |
ENTREPRENEURSHIP #BehindtheSelfie with... Carissa Rapolthy“I’m a mom, a wife and an entrepreneur, I'm a superwoman!” | |
MARKETING & MEDIA AI is already here - we just call them Transformers!© Josef Kubeš - 123RF.com | |
MARKETING & MEDIA The ‘Write' Emotion© lassedesignen - 123RF.com | |
Ruth Cooper | Flying Fish Beer Yoga eventThe first ever Flying Fish Beer Yoga Long Chill event, hosted by Khabonina and DJ Fix, took place at Urban Yard in Bryanston on 1 October. |