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|  | DANETTE BREITENBACH In Q4 of the ABC, custom magazines were once again the shining stars... read |
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| Cannes Lions |
 | France is the Cannes Lions 2026 Creative Country of the Year Award... Read |
| The Lead Creative |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH In the latest episode of The Lead Creative, Nomfundo Ndlangisa, head of Stellenbosch Business School and Pareen Shah, head of data and analytics at Rogerwilco, examine client agency partnerships that deliver... read |
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| |  | OCTAVIUS PHUKUBYE Octavius Phukubye, executive director Mr Price Foundation, says there has been a structural change in how brands, consumers and social impact intersect… Read |  | ZANELE KABANE Zanele Kabane, M&C Saatchi Abel creative director, says it’s out with the new and in with the old… Read |  | THANDO MXOSA Penquin’s Strategy Director Thando Mxosa says in 2026 marketing success lies in the ‘why,’ not the ‘what’… Read |  | NATHAN REDDY Nathan Reddy, founder and chairman of Grid Worldwide says when it comes to creativity, meaning matters… Read |  | SUHANA GORDHAN Suhana Gordhan, Love Song’s chief creative officer, takes a trip 10 years into the future in this article... Read |  | CHAEN LEW Heineken South Africa's growth and innovation manager, Chaen Lew, believes alcohol-free beverages are here to stay... Read |  | NIC RIEMER Nic Riemer, CEO and co-founder of the Invigilator App, looks at trends impacting proctoring and assessment monitoring in online education... Read |  | |
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| |  | COURTNEY CHAPPLE, ISSUED BY BRAVE GROUP The narrative dominating advertising’s industry conversations is relentlessly bleak: agencies are racing to the bottom, fighting for lower compensation on ever-tighter timelines. In this desperate scramble, generative AI has been cast as a saviour... Read |
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| Loeries |
 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC Joe Public has once again affirmed its position as one of Africa and the Middle East’s most formidable creative agencies, sweeping the 2025 Loeries Rankings with 11 Number One positions, a rare achievement that reflects both exceptional individual talent and sustained client success... Read |
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| Advertising |
 | Netflix has stepped into its ad-funded era, with advertising now contributing 3% of its full-year revenue while subscriptions remain its core income stream... Read |
 | Sven Huberts joins LePub as global president to lead next phase of growth... Read |
 | ILAYARAJA SUBRAMANIAN In many ways, ads based on our interactions with AI aren’t such a big leap from the kinds of targeted advertising that already dominate... Read |
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| Artificial Intelligence |
 | EMMANUEL NAIDOO, ISSUED BY IGNITION GROUP AI hasn’t replaced designers, but it is reshaping how they think, make decisions, and create value... Read |
 | MELUSI TSHABALALA Melusi Tshabalala, executive creative director at VML South Africa, says AI isa great equaliser in creative agencies.... Read |
 | LOUISE POLDERS For many people, the idea of AI-simulated humans is something only seen in science fiction media... Read |
| Branding |
 | The country’s first-ever TourismX Brand Rankings have been released... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ICANDI CQ Most companies still believe brand love and loyalty start with a campaign. A sharper tagline. A refreshed visual identity. A new employee value proposition with bigger words and bigger promises... Read |
 | Kagiso Media Radio has rebranded to Kagiso Connect... Read |
| Design |
 | Création Africa 2 represents France’s continued commitment to cultural cooperation and economic support through arts and creativity, an approach that celebrates artistic originality and positions cultural entrepreneurship as a strategic pillar for sustainable development... Read |
| Digital |
 | ISSUED BY CELERITY.CHAT Architects block out hours for client consultations. Lawyers reserve diary space for billable meetings. Doctors prepare rooms, staff and schedules around patient bookings... Read |
| Education |
 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC Africa’s leading independent agency, Joe Public, and its non-profit organisation, One School at a Time (OSAAT), proudly celebrate yet another milestone in their long-standing mission to transform township education... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA With the clock ticking on South Africa’s carbon tax deadlines and the looming reality of climate-driven economic shifts, Topco Media is proud to announce that Heineken Beverages is returning as a Gold official partner for the Future of Sustainability Conference 2026... Read |
| Magazines |
 | Condé Nast has announced that Adam Baidawi is the new global editorial director of GQ... Read |
| Marketing |
 | Ngari becomes Dentsu SSA’s most senior creative leader in the region... read |
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 | ISSUED BY KANTAR Kantar’s latest study shows how brands should approach sustainable marketing as global geopolitical tensions rise... Read |
 | BONITA CHRISTIE Publicis Commerce Experiential's Bonita Christie says Q1 is the perfect time for brands to do experiential marketing... Read |
 | PATRICIA HOEKSEMA The conversations surfaced a perspective gaining traction across the industry: that the rush to automate creative production may be creating its own backlash... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BRAVE GROUP As the marketing sector races to adopt generative AI tools, Courtney Chapple, artificial intelligence director at Forge, warns that speed without taste delivers ‘efficient mediocrity’... Read |
 | ISSUED BY INDRIVE In South Africa, unpredictability is part of everyday life, from traffic and weather to month-end budgets. InDrive South Africa launched its recent campaign, “You can’t choose life’s surprises, but you can choose your price for a ride” against this unique backdrop... Read |
| Media |
 | ISSUED BY THOTBOX(PTY) LTD The persistent perception that community media is “cheap” is not a reflection of its value. It is a reflection of the industry’s misunderstanding and, often, its unconscious bias... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MEDIA DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSITY AGENCY On Saturday, 21 February 2026, the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) will join the global community in commemorating International Mother Language Day... Read |
 | CHRIS BOTHAT, ISSUED BY ADVERTISING MEDIA FORUM The advertising, media and marketing industries are living in a golden era of media measurement. Almost everything can be measured – and is measured... Read |
| Newspapers |
 | WILMA DE BRUIN Freelance journalist, Wilma de Bruin talks to Barnard Beukman, editor of the soon-to-be-launched Afrikaans weekly newspaper, Die Papier, in this exclusive interview.... read |
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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The Audit Bureau of Circulations Q4 2025 Circulation Release shows that newspapers have declined... Read |
| Online Media |
 | ISSUED BY BROAD MEDIA MyBroadband’s product reviews add a rich, persuasive narrative to your marketing campaign... Read |
| OOH |
 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Digital billboards are an inescapable part of our urban landscape, lighting up highways and malls alike. As more of them go up, we have to plan digital infrastructure that’s more resilient by design... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | CHERYL REDDY Cheryl Reddy, founder of Comms Reddy shares valuable lessons after the launch of Comms Reddy… read |
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 | ISSUED BY CHILLIENGINE Integrated experiential agency Chilliengine has once again been named a finalist at the prestigious Sabre Awards Africa for its campaigns for The Walt Disney Company Africa... Read |
 | SHARON PIEHL Sharon Piehl, GM, FleishmanHillard South Africa says reputation is more than a shield; it’s a foundation for business opportunity… Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING If you were born on 29 February, listen up! Kfm 94.5’s The Flash Drive with Carl Wastie is celebrating Cape Town’s rarest birthdays - those special leaplings who get to celebrate their actual birthdays only once every four years... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SAMRO The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) invites applications from eligible members for the Music Business Lab (MBL) Publisher Programme 2026... Read |
 | Tumi Rabanye has been appointed the new head of marketing for Kaya 959... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HOT 102.7FM Hot 102.7FM has announced the addition of highly regarded presenter Alan Khan to its on-air line-up, a signing that underscores the station's continued upward momentum in the commercial radio space... Read |
| Radio & Podcasts |
 | Apple has announced a major update to Apple Podcasts that will introduce advanced video podcast capabilities to the app later this year... Read |
| Recruitment |
 | ISSUED BY JTI SOUTH AFRICA JTI South Africa has once again been recognised by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer for 2026, reaffirming the company’s unwavering commitment to people excellence and workplace culture... Read |
| Research |
 | ISSUED BY CAXTON MEDIA One in three South African men under the age of 44 are gambling online at least once a week. This is just one of the disturbing trends that the latest Roots consumer survey has uncovered following its poll of online gambling habits... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BRANDMAPP AI-driven tools have been evolving for decades, but when ChatGPT was released to the public on 30 November 2022, it set off the fastest adoption of a technology in human history... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LIVINGFACTS As mentioned in our previous article, reaching the 25-year mark in business is one of those rare moments that invites both celebration and reflection... Read |
| Retail |
 | Baby consumer goods categories like baby formula, food, nappies and personal care products are growing between +4.5% and +10.1%, signalling higher spend per child and shifting value dynamics... Read |
 | The result is a healthcare retail offering that is both best-value and truly representative of South African customer needs... Read |
 | NICHOLAS DE DECKER In an increasingly digital economy, many firms are turning to algorithms and machine learning to optimise pricing, improve efficiency and respond faster to ever-changing market dynamics. Yet, what is often designed as an efficiency tool can, under certain conditions and circumstances, drift into the territory of inadvertent collusion... Read |
 | SAJIDHA GAMIELDIEN, NICOLE HAWORTH, AND AIMEE DU PLESSIS Over the last several decades, there has been a strong global push towards regulating tobacco and tobacco products with the aim of reducing tobacco consumption... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE On 21 April 2016, Starbucks SA opened its first store in Rosebank. Marking its 10th anniversary in South Africa this year, we hear some insights into building a global brand in a local context and the evolving dynamics the local coffee and retail landscape... Read |
| Social Media |
 | From isiZulu lessons to isiXhosa food storytelling and multilingual comedy, local creators are proving that language learning doesn’t have to live in textbooks. On TikTok, culture travels through humour, recipes and real-life moments... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TWIGA COMMUNICATIONS After clocking up roughly 142 hours a year on dating apps, equivalent to just under 6 days, yet securing on average only five meaningful connections... Read |
 | KARABO LEDWABA Between Q1 2024 and Q4 2025, TikTok consistently recorded the highest median engagement rates worldwide... Read |
| The One Club of Creativity |
 | ADC 105 jury members from Africa discuss creative trends and what they are looking for... Read |
| TV |
 | The MultiChoice Innovation fund (MIF) backed company that is providing satellite and fibre-based connectivity for local and international sports broadcasts... read |
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 | ISSUED BY URBAN BREW STUDIOS Urban Brew Studios has received two nominations at the 19th Annual South African Film and Television Awards (Saftas)... Read |
| Youth Marketing |
 | ELLA THOMAS Gen Z is changing how consumers discover, trust and buy from brands... Read |
| Africa |
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 | CHRIS TAKUDZWA MURONZI Zimbabwe is one of the first countries in the world to roll out the long-acting HIV prevention drug lenacapavir... Read |
 | With the entry deadline nearing (2 March 2026), contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora are invited to submit entries for the 2026 Sovereign African Art Prize... Read |
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 | The Vumelana Advisory Fund calls for urgent prioritisation of land reform in 2026, emphasising implementation, coordination, and rural infrastructure investment to boost productive land use and job creation... Read |
 | FNB’s R18bn pledge drives ongoing growth in the informal sector... Read |
 | Sunter is known for playing a key role at Anglo American and ushering in a new South Africa... Read |
 | "De Beers must not pretend to be clean on this disaster because it's their old shafts," said Mantashe... Read |
 | According to DWS, recovery efforts were further hampered by a heatwave in the province since early February... Read |
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