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It's all about handing over the baton. Drawing talent into the industry is key to ensuring its future. The Loeries plays a role in this through its recognition of young talent in the Student Award and the Young Creative and Young Directors Awards.

Kenya is well represented at the Loeries, with a number of campaign finalists as well as 18 judges across 20 categories. Dentsu Creative's chief creative officer, Maxwell Ngari, talks about how the country's creative industry has evolved.

In this episode of VML Birdwatching at the Loeries, Preetesh Sewraj, the Loeries CEO, talks about all things Creative Week and offers insight into the real work of The Loeries. "The Loeries is a non-profit organisation, and every cent it brings in is spent on bettering the industry.".

The Loeries radio jury member and executive for brand, marketing and digital at Pick n Pay, Katherine Madley, chatted to VML Birdwatching at the Loeries with Bizcommunity on the state of retail.

The Loeries 2025 in-person jury judging session took place on Monday and Tuesday, 6 and 7 October, in Cape Town. VML Birdwatching at the Loeries with Bizcommunity caught up with some of the jury presidents to glean some of the highlights of the entries and what constitutes a winning entry.

This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on agentic AI and how it is revolutionising business, especially on the continent.

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 2 is the Emotion Episode and features special guests Neo Segola, head of creative at Le Pub, part of the Publicis Group, Sharleen James, chair of the ACA and marketing practice lead at Accenture Song, Tebogo Skwambane, WPP country manager, Terry McKenna, executive creative director of The Odd Number and rounding it off Carl Willoughby, chief creative officer of TBWA / Hunt Lascaris.

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 1 focuses on that five percent difference, with special guests Wayne Naidoo, CEO of the Duke Group, Marc Algranti from Algranti Music and Nkanyezi Masango, chief creative officer from Dentsu Creative.

Bizcommunity.com's managing editor Simone Puterman (@SimoneBiz) was in the thick of things at the United We Stand parade for Bafana Bafana in Sandton last week, tweeting up a storm in between Vodacom network outages.