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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.

“We can talk about AI all we want to, but the foundations of AI are about how you can harness the power of digital to transform the continent in the way we want it to transform.”.

At the recent Effies SA, hosted by the Association for Communication & Advertising (ACA), the Grand Effie was awarded to Halo, for its campaign for its client, Pineapple.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with Ndeye Diagne, the managing director West, East and Central Africa at Kantar.

The AICP Awards has enlisted the world’s most obsessive crafter to highlight the importance of craft and how the AICP Awards has celebrated craft in advertising. The film was conceived by a creative team at R/GA in New York and directed by Matt Piedmont at the US and UK-based production company PRETTYBIRD. AICP Awards has opened entries for the 2020 competitions – which includes The AICP Show, The AICP Post Awards and The AICP Next Awards. The deadline to enter is 14 February 2020....

The AICP Awards has enlisted the world’s most obsessive crafter to highlight the importance of craft and how the AICP Awards has celebrated craft in advertising. The film was conceived by a creative team at R/GA in New York and directed by Matt Piedmont at the US and UK-based production company PRETTYBIRD. AICP Awards has opened entries for the 2020 competitions – which includes The AICP Show, The AICP Post Awards and The AICP Next Awards. The deadline to enter is 14 February 2020....

After winning Der Spiegel account, Serviceplan has unveiled the magazine’s new brand campaign – which includes Spiegel Online’s name change to Der Spiegel. The campaign was conceived by Serviceplan Campaign Hamburg and will be used online, in social media, in the cinema, in print and out of home. In a clever double entendre, the campaign plays on the meaning of ‘Spiegel’ (Mirror), by mirroring major news stories visually....

On 1 December 2019, TBWA\WorldHealth unveiled its interactive calendar for the holiday season. The calendar was aimed at addressing the growing crisis of loneliness in the UK and US. TBWA\WorldHealth began opening calendar doors each day to reveal a simple action or gesture anyone can do to reach out to lonely people around them. Staff, clients and the public were all invited to take part by following the campaign on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn – where the doors will remain open for all to participate at their own pace....

Pick n Pay’s new festive season advert is all about giving. Titled ‘Give’, the film sees several South Africans sharing the ways they give back. Renowned jazz trumpeter Roy Sokuyeka gives of his experience to mentor up-and-coming musicians. Photographer Adrian Steirn gives some thought to the future through a moving exhibition to raise awareness around the most trafficked and endangered mammal in the world, the Pangolin. Thousands give their support to take a stand against gender-based violence and give their voice to say #enoughisengough. The Wildfire Volunteer Services team give a lot as they battle the summer fire season in the Western Cape....

Along with the US Consulate General in Cape Town, female members of the US diplomatic corps joined the USA Men’s Rugby Seven’s team took on gender-based violence (GBV) – ahead of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens final in Cape Town. They produced a video message campaign – which promotes women’s empowerment and equality. The video campaign highlights the US government’s commitment to standing with South Africa to eradicate GBV, rape and femicide....

M&C Saatchi Abel enlisted satirist, comedian and writer Lesego Tlhabi for Takealot.com’s new Christmas ad. The Jingle Kelz Christmas advertisement sees Coconut Kelz in her upmarket Johannesburg home while having a 'white' Christmas in SA.

Tops at Spar recently launched a new campaign aimed at highlighting the life-changing consequences of drinking and driving. The ‘Aftertaste’ campaign – which will run during December – asks consumers to make responsible choices, be aware of their alcohol consumption and to use alternative modes of transport if necessary. The ‘after-effects’ of drinking and driving, or ‘aftertaste’, including grief, remorse and eternal mourning were ‘bottled’. Through graphic imagery, three thought-provoking television adverts supported by social media, and in-store assets, the campaign shows creatively labelled bottles filled with vile-tasting alcohol in three varieties....

Hardware manufacturing company Ryobi has enlisted the help of South Africa's top female enduro racer Kirsten Landman for its new ad campaign. Landman is the first African female to qualify for The Dakar Rally's motorbike classification. She survived a life-threatening injury a few years ago where she was catapulted off her bike, ruptured her spleen and eventually had to learn how to walk again. Ryobi has been documenting Landman's Road to Dakar – which is hosted in Saudi Arabia from 5 to 17 January 2020 – via a monthly Facebook documentary series. Check out her story in 60 seconds, shot on location where she trains in KwaZulu-Natal....

Nando’s has just released a new food-for-thought advert. The new ad centres around a family playing a new South African-themed, Monopoly-style board game, Mzansipoli. Mzansipoli has South African specifics: e-tolls, repossessed land, Eskom, a racecard and white privilege.