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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.

Melusi Mhlungu, We Are Bizarre's founder & chief creative officer, says all he has wanted to do in his career is be a sponge in the world and then come back to South Africa and wring out all that he has absorbed.

This episode of The Lead Creative examines Cannes in terms of cultural nuance and global impact with Xolisa Dyeshana, chief creative officer of Joe Public, and the 2025 Cannes Lions Audio & Radio jury president, together with gold-winning agency Bananas, and its founder and chief creative officer, Saf Sindhi.

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

Afro-optimism, or more specifically, the African growth mindset is a greater sense of optimism that, despite challenges such as electricity and water that the continent faces, is in stark contrast to a growing Western degrowth mindset of pessimism about the future, and Africa.

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 11th annual South African Film and Television Awards was held at Sun City, Johannesburg. The awards recognise those in the local film and television industry doing exceptional work.

National Geographic has partnered with Academy award-winning executive producer, James Marsh and Tigress Productions on a three-part special based on unseen footage of the gorilla researcher, Dian Fossey. Dian Fossey: Gorillas in the Mist will be narrated by Sigourney Weaver who played Fossey in the 1988 film, Gorillas in the Mist.

Nat Geo Wild has announced the release of the six-part drama, Savage Kingdom, airing on 4 December. The documentary, which looks at animal clans battling for survival in a dry African region, will be narrated by Charles Dance, from Game of Thrones fame. Watch the trailer here..

Community Media Trust (CMT) launched the SABC1 TV series, JAB, and announced the official opening of their media production company, Off the Ground Media. The launch took place at The Space Bar, Cape Town.

e.tv and Openview HD's preview of the upcoming shows this Summer.

Michelle Obama inspires young people in SA and the USA at the MTV Base Meets Michelle Obama taping.