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Effie 2026 call for entries announced

Effie 2026 call for entries announced

Association for Communication and Advertising 6 hours

Zahra Mirza (left) has been appointed group managing director and Nigel Matthews (right) as executive creative director for Boomtown (Image by Lesey Svenson @ Bizcommunity)

Dual leadership appointments sets agency up for its most ambitious chapter yet

3 days

#BizTrends2026 | Reach Africa’s Leslie Adams: 5 streaming trends for 2026

#BizTrends2026 | Reach Africa’s Leslie Adams: 5 streaming trends for 2026

Leslie Adams 3 days

How are leading brands harnessing trust and AI to drive growth, create value, and deliver meaningful impact? (Image source: © 123rf )

5 lessons: How leading brands are harnessing trust and AI

3 days

Bibi Bonnecwe, Executive Creative Director at Brave Group looks at why in 2026 human truths matter more than marketing trends (Image supplied)

#BizTrends2026 | Brave Group’s Bibi Bonnecwe: Why human truths matter more than marketing trends

Bibi Bonnecwe 5 Feb 2026

Spain announced at the World Governments Summit in Dubai that it plans to join the global push to ban children under 16 from using social media. (Source: )

No TikTok for teens? Spain plans social media ban for under-16s

5 Feb 2026

#BizTrends2026 | Up & Up Group’s Jacques Cilliers: AI is everywhere. Taste is our advantage.

#BizTrends2026 | Up & Up Group’s Jacques Cilliers: AI is everywhere. Taste is our advantage.

Jacques Cilliers 4 Feb 2026

South Africa’s Gugu Mthembu, the chief marketing officer for Telkom, has been named Cannes jury president for Creative Business Transformation (Image source: © Forbes Africa )

#CannesLions2026 | Gugu Mthembu named jury president

4 Feb 2026

Launched by the Digital News Transformation Fund, a new grant programme, Ignite, provides R100,000 grants to early-stage publishers (Image source: © 123rf )

DNTF's new grant provides R100,000 to early-stage publishers

4 Feb 2026

“This isn’t the Wild West anymore”

“This isn’t the Wild West anymore”

TDMC 4 Feb 2026

El Broide, managing director, The Platinum Club, says collaborating with AI, not competing with it, is the PR power move for 2026 (Image supplied)

#BizTrends2026 | The Platinum Club’s El Broide: Collaborating with AI is the PR power move for 2026

El Broide 3 Feb 2026

Social media is now the arena in which discovery, trust-building, conversation and purchase coexist in a single motion; one uninterrupted swipe (Image supplied)

One uninterrupted swipe: Social media more than the top of the funnel

3 Feb 2026

Ogilvy leads South Africa at the TikTok METAP Awards 2025

Ogilvy leads South Africa at the TikTok METAP Awards 2025

Ogilvy South Africa 3 Feb 2026

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