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.

Episode 3 is the Energy Episode with special guests Kagiso Tshepe, executive creative director at Grid Worldwide, Roanna Williams, chief creative officer and co-founder of Boundless, Fran Luckin, chief creative officer of VML, Preetesh Sewraj, CEO of The Loeries and Brandon Govender, digital & integrated executive creative director at Joe Public.

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.

The 2015 South African MMA Standard Bank Smarties Awards took place on Thursday, 13 August, hosted at the Southern Sun Elangeni in Durban. The awards took place during Loeries Creative Week and are created specifically to recognise best-in-class mobile marketing campaigns from around the world.

The Loeries YFM Chairman's Party took place at Fiction Bar in Long Street on Friday night; 19 September.

The 36th annual Loerie Awards took place on 20 & 21 September at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Bizcommunity's BizTakeouts TV crew was on the Red Carpet to catch up with some of the big names in the advertising industry to find out more about creativity and what makes the Loerie Awards so special.

The Loeries 2014 Channel O after party took place on Sunday, 21 September at Shimmy Beach Club.

All the red carpet action for the 36th Annual Loerie Awards at the CTICC on Sunday, 21 September 2014.

All the red carpet action for the 36th Annual Loerie Awards at the CTICC on Saturday, 20 September 2014.

The culmination of the 2014 Loeries judging week happened at Era on the 18 September.

Scenes from the VIP Lounge after the Sunday night Loerie Awards.

The Loeries, DSTV Seminar of Creativity took place on 19 September at the Cape Town City Hall. Bizcommunity's BizTakeouts TV crew caught up with keynote speaker, Yaw Nsarkoh, MD, Unilever Nigeria, to chat about Afrocentricity, tailoring communication for Africa and the importance of mobile.

The Loeries, DSTV Seminar of Creativity took place on 19 September at the Cape Town City Hall. Bizcommunity's BizTakeouts TV crew caught up with keynote speaker, Stephen Doyle, Creative Director of Doyle Partners, NYC, to chat about design in communciation and how they work together, living in New York and what inspires him.