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.

BizTakeout's host, Warren Harding, was backstage at the Loeries to interview the winners. He spoke to Y&R SA who won a massive 17 awards during the Saturday night awards ceremony. They won four Gold awards from both the Johannesburg and Cape Town office across a wide variety of categories.

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Smarties Awards took place on 13 August 2015 at the Maharani Hotel, Durban. Bizcommunity interviewed Miles Murphy, CEO, Liquorice.

The DStv Seminar of Creativity took place on 14 August 2015 at the Durban ICC as part of Loeries Creative Week. Bizcommunity interviewed Ross Chowles, Creative Director, The Jupiter Drawing Room.

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Smarties Awards took place on 13 August 2015 at the Maharani Hotel, Durban, as part of Loeries Creative Week. Bizcommunity interviewed Candice Goodman, CEO of Mobitainment.

All the red carpet action for the 37th Annual Loerie Awards at the Durban ICC on Sunday, 16 August 2015.

Unilever South Africa hosted its annual informal networking brunch as associate sponsor of the 2015 Loeries Creative Week since 2013, this time around on Saturday, 15 August at California Dreaming Restaurant on Durban's beachfront.

On Friday, 14 August, some of the country's best marketing and advertising minds met at the Durban Convention Centre to attend the DStv Seminar of Creativity, long a highlight of Loeries Creative Week.

The Chairman's Party hosted by YFM took place on Friday 14, August 2015 at Tokio in Durban.

Egg Films hosted an invite-only party on the beach during Loeries Creative Week Durban.

All the red carpet action for the 37th Annual Loerie Awards at the Durban ICC on Saturday,15 August 2015.