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This has been a year of sustained growth for Bizcommunity.com - our fifth year of operation since launching in 2001. We have welcomed nine new faces to the team this year: Robin, Simone, Gee, Kershin, David, Rob, Sindy, Clarina and Issa, across editorial, sales, IT, support and admin. It is important to note that in those five years, we have had only two resignations. The most significant appointment, of course, has been that of Robin Parker as MD to allow founding director, Andre Rademan, to focus on development. After a period of consolidating existing projects in Bizcommunity.com, Robin is driving existing expansion plans, as well as innovation and brand extensions within the company which will benefit the Bizcommunity.com brand and create greater value for all our subscribers and advertisers.
Our figures continue to climb month on month and we hit the 57 000 weekly subscriber mark last month (up 10 000 from this time last year), with 157 000 website readers (unique browsers) per month - up 23 000 - generating a figure of 2.2 million page impressions a month. Bizcommunity.com has readers in almost every country on the globe, with 10% of our traffic coming from international users - mainly from other English speaking countries, including India, Australasia, the UK and the US. The new year will bring a host of value-added additions to our existing offering as improvements in technology allow us to go further each year in delivering the best possible service to our readers and advertisers. Notable this year has been the launch of our Jobs SMS service for our enhanced jobs section.
Bizcommunity.com pays tribute to its passionate loyal staff and sends out a big thank you to our readers and advertisers who interact with us everyday - you spur us on to greater excellence (a talented member of our support team has penned an ode of farewell to 2006, see right!). Wishing everyone a very happy holiday, safe travelling, peace and prosperity, wherever you are.
...All the best! The Bizcommunity.com Team, www.bizcommunity.com
| | Headlines | MultiChoice launches Euronews in SA
Joburg's Rosebank gets R623 million retail boost
Is spam ever a necessity?
5FM delivers Cape Town into the New Year
Corporate execs are getting the Web PR clue
Motorola wins M-tel contract in Nigeria
Shopping centres maintain high levels of security
Three new shows for Channel O
Thinking inside the box
Jupiter appointed as lead agency for Absa
Corporate governance a priority for fledgling DMA
Plug and play with new Dion Wired stores
Online festive shopping trends
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Marketing | | New marketing drive for Gauteng Film Commission
 The Gauteng Film Commission (GFC) recently launched a new marketing campaign to promote the province as a production hub of choice. Under the slogan of "Big ideas, Perfect locations", the campaign seeks to reinforce the province as a mature international film centre: one where the creative ideas are as big as the mine dumps, and the weather and locations perfectly pitched, all year round.
Corporate execs are getting the Web PR clue
[Sally Falkow] Nearly half of senior executives surveyed recognise that reaching audiences only through traditional mass media is no longer effective. "The Changing Face of Marketing and Communications in Today's Creativity Economy", by Weber Shandwick and KRC Research, reveals that top corporate executives are finally getting the clue - half (49%) realise that using traditional media is no longer enough and 76% of senior executives are experimenting with "alternative" media (read Web PR).
Online festive shopping trends
A recent Symantec Online Shopping Trends Survey has shown that during the weeks leading up to Christmas, more than half of the respondents would not be shopping or transacting online over this festive season. The survey also revealed the online habits of those consumers that use the Internet, as well as the reasons behind the seemingly slow uptake of the online opportunities within the digital environment.
Upgraded tool helps marketers move into the suburbs - Knowledge Factory
Marketing insight services company Knowledge Factory has released the latest version of its marketing insight tool, MarketPlus*. The tool combines the results of the SAARF All Media and Products Survey (AMPS) with geographical and marketing information from Knowledge Factory's other award-winning products to create a representation of the AMPS data at a suburb level.
To launch, or not to launch, that is the question - Knowledge Factory
The use of test marketing techniques to forecast a new product's potential is being increasingly scrutinised by marketers. Consistently high failure rates among new products worldwide and a string of extremely expensive, high-profile failures have stimulated the debate and made many brand managers wary.
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Advertising | | Advertising students send doctors packing
Earlier this year, third-year AAA School of Advertising students were tasked with applying their newly acquired skills to extending the newly launched advertising campaign for Multibionta, a new class of supplement from Merck Pharmaceutical, as one of the three live campaigns they are required to work on during their final year - a taste of what's to come.
Banking on differences
[Simone Puterman] Recent campaigns and promotions include Standard Bank and Nedbank trying to differentiate themselves, L'Oreal Paris making the world colourful, Imperial having a case of the airport blues, and Emirates Airline going for a huge impact.
Thinking inside the box
 [Adrian Holmes] The simple graphic symbol, the box, is surely the inspiration for one of the most overused and most widespread advertising clichés of the last decade. "Let's," as everybody says from clients to account men to planners to creative people, "let's think out of the box."
Chip-packet full of memories
 Net#work BBDO's new 50th anniversary commercial for Simba stirs up childhood memories of South Africa in a heartwarming way. Shot and aged in post-production to give it a sense of time gone by, it is intended to be an authentic collaboration of people's actual memories.
Jupiter appointed as lead agency for Absa
The Jupiter Drawing Room (Johannesburg) has been appointed as the new lead advertising agency for Absa, effective 1 February 2007, the bank announced yesterday, Monday, 11 December 2006. The appointment of Jupiter follows an extensive pitch process.
Microsoft unifies advertising services
Microsoft has combined its broad set of global advertising products and services into a unified offering for advertisers called Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions. In South Africa, advertisers reach online audiences by means of the MSN network and Windows Live.
Should SA's commercials producers be protected against imported ads?
[Chris Moerdyk] Roughly once a year, the head of some TV commercials production company somewhere in South Africa get his whimmies in a froth over all the imported ads coming in to the country and starts lobbying the media to have protective import duties placed on them.
Agency staffer's art wows his colleagues - Lowe Bull
 Hold an art exhibition for one of your employees, invite the entire staff and see what happens. That's exactly what Lowe Bull Joburg did recently, and the results were "quite amazing" - Irvin Mmono sold every piece of his Tsa-ma Afrika artwork.
Innovative marketing tools popular among varsity students - Boom Town
 Three-quarters of respondents to a survey, which measures the effectiveness of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's (NMMU) postgraduate marketing campaign, want to enroll for postgraduate studies at the institution. The survey was administered amongst final year and postgraduate students at NMMU.
Doing it for the kids - Lowe Bull
 Advertising agency Lowe Bull recently produced a TV campaign for Nando's that needed to communicate with a rather tough market - children - in an effective and memorable way. The objective was achieved through the conceptualisation of two cartoon characters, one a T-Rex dinosaur and the other an octopus.
Rewards for getting dirty - Lowe Bull
 Lowe Bull's activation unit has been working hard on the Omo 'Dirt is good' campaign, which launched earlier in 2006 with a successful national roll out. The campaign, which ended in November, aimed to make people view dirt in a different light - to see it as a part of the learning process in a child's life.
Music video or brand ad?
"Our new Crosse and Blackwell ad really is a mini movie," says Nestle Food Business Unit head Yasser Abdul-Malak. "With a unique South African flavor, we capture the richness of color and culture. To be able to secure a soundtrack like Mowbray Kaap - this pulls everything together giving the ad a vibe that makes everyone want to get up and participate." The award-winning Freshly Ground track for the iconic Crosse and Blackwell mayonnaise commercial, created by Publicis, follows the life of the jar from dispensing flavour and taste to life beyond the table.
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| | | Website revamp seeds florist brand rejuvenation
 Interflora South Africa's newly redesigned website, complete with an expanded product range for the festive season and added consumer and business partner functionality, is the first step in the complete rejuvenation of the Interflora brand and aligning the 100-year old brand more strongly with its core business, according to Sharon Louw, recently appointed CEO of Interflora African Areas.
Added Value launches in Poland - Added Value
Added Value is entering the Polish market with a strategic partnership agreement with Stratosfera, a leading marketing strategy consultancy in Poland.
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Cinema | | New structure, appointments for CineMARK Group
2006 saw the launch of CineMOBILE and Prime360Media within the Primedia CineMARK group, bringing the total of divisions within the group to three. The new structure has resulted in a number of new appointments.
Yesterday screens in Iran and India
The inaugural South African Film Festival took place in Tehran last week, opened by Videovision Entertainment's Academy Award-nominated film, Yesterday, at a gala screening hosted by the South African Ambassador in Iran, Yusuf Saloojee. Singh and Videovision are also being honoured in a retrospective at the 11th International Film Festival of Kerala in Trivandrum, India.
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Design | | Tree planting offsets carbon emissions from conference
Some 500 trees were planted in Soweto, Johannesburg, earlier this week to ensure that the Design Indaba Conference, a Cape Town-based design conference judged the best in the world, is carbon-neutral. This was the final planting in a 2000 tree project to offset the carbon emissions generated by the 2006 conference held in February 2006. All future annual conferences will also be carbon-neutral.
SA design doyenne judges in Japan
Martha Bateman has become the first South African to be invited to judge the fifth annual Nagoya Design Do! competition, held in Nagoya, Japan, every two years. Currently the CEO and founder of Martha Bateman Concepts, she has been in the graphic design and communication industry for 37 and was secretary general of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) from 1999 to 2001.
New business for FCB Design - FCB Cape Town
FCB Design, FCB Cape Town's award-winning corporate identity, product and environmental design unit, has been tasked with redeveloping the environmental design and brand experience at four of Distell's brand homes in the Western Cape.
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| | | Is spam ever a necessity?
 [Andy Hadfield] Standard Bank's recent communication may have put it between the proverbial rock and a hard place: the FICA act and South Africa's data privacy laws. In a recent email sent to customers on the Internet Banking database, Louis Blom, head of online banking at Standard Bank says, "We are obliged to send this email to you as an Internet banking user, even if you have unsubscribed to our emails..."
Speedy broadband triple play coming in 2007
2007 should see South Africans accessing a new broadcast offering, with triple play delivered directly into the home via an ordinary wall socket. Service provider Goal Technology Solutions uses power-line communication (PLC) to bring a combined offering of broadband Internet access, voice telephony and television programming directly into the home via an established electrical connection.
STONEWALL+'s Adam Whitehouse selected for The One Show 2007 in New York - STONEWALL+
Adam Whitehouse, creative director of STONEWALL+, was recently appointed as a judge for the 2007 One Show Interactive Awards. Whitehouse joins a panel of top international creatives in the new media and advertising industry who understand and produce some of today's best interactive advertising and communications.
Broadband network for Mother City
IOL Technology reports that the City of Cape Town is planning to spend R400 million setting up its own broadband network by 2010 so that it can bypass Telkom, saving money, and improving services and increasing revenue by offering Internet and telephone services to the private sector. For more, click here.
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| | | Corporate governance a priority for fledgling DMA
 The Direct Marketing Association of Southern Africa (DMA) is placing a high premium on getting its corporate governance in order. John Rollason, a current board member of the DMA and a former chairman of the association, has been tasked with the task of ensuring that the DMA complies with the highest principles of responsibility and accountability to its stakeholders.
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| | | Business school prizegiving - Cross Media Business School
 "Effective leadership is dependant on commitment, genuine concern for others and character" was the quotation upon which Nick Delport, MD of the Cross Media Training Centre, based his speech at the Cross Media Business School prizegiving, held on 5 December 2006.
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Eventing | | The 8th African Gymnastics Championships - Gearhouse CTN - Gearhouse SA
 South Africa hosted the 8th African Gymnastics Championships at the Bellville Velodrome between 22 and 27 November 2006, which culminated in a gala evening on the 30th to celebrate the International Gymnastics Federation's (FIG) 125th anniversary. Gearhouse Cape Town was nominated the preferred technical supplier to both these events.
China comes to the Cape - Gearhouse SA
 The China Experience - a showcase of China's 5000 year cultural heritage at the Artscape Theatre from 7 - 12 November 2006, was organised by Cape Town-based Cape Asian Face Communications, which contracted technical supplier Gearhouse SA to assist with the technical supplier requirements.
Coloured to perfection or brilliantly bald - what will you do?
Being organised once again by Figjam marketing, the third annual Cansa Shavathon fundraising event will take place in over 60 shopping centres across South Africa on Saturday, 3 March 2007, in support and celebration of life for South African cancer survivors. The participation donation of R50 will go to the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA). For more information, go to www.shavesa.co.za.
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Exhibitions | | Displaying the best in business tourism
Set to take place at the Sandton Convention Centre, 28 February - 1 March 2007, Meetings Africa will see some 200 exhibitors marketing their products and services to local and international delegates. Arranged by the Thebe Exhibitions and Events Group, the annual expo is a one-stop shop for meeting planners, event organisers and incentive travel professionals in Africa.
A new director for Scan Display - Scan Display
 Scan Display Solutions has appointed Gary Van Der Watt to its board of directors with effect from 1 December 2006. Gary has been GM of Scan's Western Cape operation since June 2004.
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Magazines | | Goodwill with an entrepreneurial flair - Succeed
 Throughout the year, Succeed magazine and its staff have raised money or goods for charity. During the past year and a half, they brought some cheer with an Easter egg collection for the SOS Children's Villages and the Starfish Foundation, collected Christmas presents for the children at the Twilight Children's Home, and this festive season are helping their animal friends by adopting the SPCA as their beneficiary.
For the lowdown on 4x4 trails
After months of testing, the top ten 4x4 trails for 2006 are being featured in a 30-page supplement with the December/January issue of Drive Out magazine, available countrywide for R34.95. According to Drive Out publisher Andrew Nunneley of New Media Publishing, the issue featuring this annual announcement is always the most popular edition of the bi-monthly 4x4 lifestyle title.
IT training guide to include skill survey results
ITWeb's 2007 IT Training Guide, its fifth annual directory of IT and telecoms training providers and products available in January 2007, will also include the results of an end-user IT skills survey that are intended to provide insight into trends shaping IT training in corporate South Africa. Other topics include the plague of fly-by-night operators, whether training is keeping abreast of what is required from IT graduates, training to retain, and whether learnerships are working for corporate SA and the learners themselves.
Second Winelands guide now available
Published by The World's Favourite Publications, the recently published second edition of the Wine Tourism Handbook, which launched in 2005, has been updated to make it even more user-friendly and comprehensive. In line with international wine tourism trends, it highlights the destinations, cellar-doors, dining options, activities and accommodation throughout the wine regions of the Cape, complete with maps, telephone numbers and opening hours. The guide retails at selected bookstores nationwide, wine route and publicity offices for R89.00.
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| | | Court ruling upholds freedom of speech
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The Mail & Guardian (M&G) newspaper's recent victory against the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) hopefully signals that the courts have little time for pre-publication gagging in the age of constitutionally-protected freedom of speech, Anton Harber, Caxton Professor of Wits University's School of Journalism, told Bizcommunity.com.
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Mobile | | Hassle-free flying an SMS away
This festive season, flight details and up-to-the-minute departure and arrival times are but an SMS away. Contemporary mobile download service provider NXT Mobile and the Airport Company of SA (ACSA) have teamed up in an effort to make travelling to and from South African airports easier, thanks to a service called NXT Flights.
Motorola wins M-tel contract in Nigeria
ABUJA, NIGERIA: Earlier this week, Motorola announced the signing of a US$75 million GSM network expansion contract with M-tel, one of the leading mobile communications operators in Nigeria, which will enable M-Tel to extend its coverage across Nigeria.
Parents find out if children are playing truant via SMS - Clickatell
Schools-SMS is a recently launched information and communication service for schools, provided by 123 Consultants and Clickatell, one of the world's leading messaging providers, that uses the power and popularity of SMS text messaging to inform parents if their children are playing truant, as well as providing educational tools and services.
Online, cellphone gambling nearing legality
Business Day reports that online and cellphone gaming may finally become legal "if a draft amendment bill adopted by the cabinet last week is finally passed into law". For more, click here.
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The battle lines have been drawn. It's time to mobilise for an award worth winning -a Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award. Aligned with the theme Weapons of Mass Discussion, the sixth annual newspaper journalism competition seeks to pay tribute to journalists who have fought for excellence in their crafts of hard news, analysis and commentary, feature writing, investigative journalism and creative journalism.
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Online Media | | Lack of finance causing entertainment industry to collapse?
Hearsay has it that due to Internet downloads, CD sales and film revenues are plummeting, and that the entertainment industry is collapsing, and that we may soon all be forced to watch nothing but drab re-runs, listen to 'classic' re-issues, and feast on the occasional mediocre new music or film. But according to consultancy Creativo, which recently surveyed more than 500 entertainment businesses about the problems they face, industry insiders now admit it's not because of Internet downloads.
Nationwide photography service provider Visual Tours at the top in 2006 - Visual Productions
 An exceptional growth in business and increased client confidence during the past year has secured Visual Tours the number one spot as national supplier of photography services to the real estate-, tourism- and online marketing industry.
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| | | Doing things right at the Nedbank Golf Challenge - Right Stuff
 Right Stuff recently worked with HKLM, Nedbank's ad agency, to design and manufacture point of sale products, entry boxes and banner walls for the 26th staging of the Nedbank Golf Challenge held 30 November - 3 December 2006, an event which annually attracts top golfers from all over the world.
Go big or go home - TBM
"We like to think big." These are the words of Johannesburg entrepreneur and media specialist Pierre van der Hoven, CEO of successful global digital signage leader TBM.
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Printing | | Creda Communications concludes BEE deal - Creda Communications
After actively looking for some time for a black empowerment partnership that would benefit all stakeholders, Creda Communications has announced that it has now found such a partner in MBTI. Bulldog Charton and Stan Hannath, who are both now of retirement age, will be retiring at the end of year in order to facilitate the new shareholding required for this deal.
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Production | | Suburban's new look is love at first sight - Suburban
 Production company Suburban has undergone a makeover. For more than 20 years, industry icon Linda Notelovitz Goodall has been aware of the need to evolve to keep abreast of the times, so that her business brands remain modern and relevant. Now, Suburban has a new look, one that is fresh and playful and represents the core values and vision of the six year-old business - it's "Love at first sight".
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| | | Stimorol refreshes like no other this summer - RedCube Agency
 In launching two new variants to its already successful range, Stimorol Chewing Gum has pulled out all the stops in order to give this summer holiday campaign the legs needed to endure the silly season.
Bumper year for The Write Co - The Write Co
 The Write Co's mission statement is to get as many local authors published as possible in popular fiction and non-fiction. The company has seen its 20th student receive a publishing contract this year, including its first black woman graduate, Angela Makholwa.
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| | | 5FM delivers Cape Town into the New Year
The 5FM/Savanna "Got Change for a Million?" New Year's Control Centre will close off a street in Cape Town CBD on 31 December 2006 from 7pm in preparation for celebrating South Africa's first millionaire for 2007 at midnight. Apart from the celebrations inside the clubs and outside, 5FM will also be broadcasting all the party action live from the venue until 1am on New Year's Day.
Counting down the capital - Tuks FM
Tuks FM will once again be hosting a New Year's party for the capital city. "Capital Countdown" will start from 6pm onwards at Hatfield Square, Pretoria on 31 December 2006. The radio station's New Year events have grown each year, with last year's "Gods of Rock" attracting close to 10 000 people, making it one of the most successful events produced by Tuks FM.
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Retail | | Joburg's Rosebank gets R623 million retail boost
The commercial precinct in Rosebank, Johannesburg, is set for a major boost with the construction of a R623 million mixed-use development comprising retail space, a 160-room hotel, a four-level basement parking garage and loft offices. The development by Old Mutual Property Group is due to begin early in 2007.
Shopping centres maintain high levels of security
As the festive shopping frenzy escalates, shopping centres are responding to the pressure for them to maintain high levels of security, says the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC), the representative body of nearly 90% of the industry. While private security is the backbone of safety measures to keep shoppers safe, the police are also reported to be on the alert around the larger centres where enormous amounts of revenue are being turned over daily.
Plug and play with new Dion Wired stores
 Dion Wired's first consumer electronics concept store has opened in Centurion in Gauteng, with Fourways (Gauteng) and Gateway (Durban) to follow in the New Year. "This is a completely new shopping experience for South Africans," says Greg Hirsch, GM of Dion. "It is a customer friendly and service-oriented retail experience... Dion Wired's signature of 'plug and play' reflects perfectly on the world in which we live today."
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| | | OUTsurance pointsmen gear up for the New Year - Media3
The festive season is upon us, and traffic congestion in Johannesburg has started easing up. As a result, the OUTsurance pointsmen started their well-deserved break on 14 December 2006 and will resume point duty again on Tuesday, 9 January 2007, just in time to get motorists off to a good start for the year ahead.
'Kaelo - Stories of Hope' book launches - Kaelo Worldwide Media
 An inspiring selection of corporate social responsibility (CSR) stories has been published in a new book, 'Kaelo - Stories of Hope'. The book is one of the linked Kaelo communication platforms that take CSR stories into mass media - including a successful SABC 2 television series of the same title, a full colour insert on CSR in national print media, radio features on five local language stations and the Kaelo website.
Football deal to extend past 2010
Puma and the Cameroon Football Association's recently added long-term extension to their 1997-initiated partnership means that Puma will continue to be the official supplier of The Indomitable Lions and all its associated teams beyond the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. "The announcement... underlines Puma's commitment to support African football. Africa will be the center of attention with the African Cup of Nations in 2008 leading up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa," says Jochen Zeitz, CEO of Puma.
Johncom the exclusive media partner for Soccerex SA
Johncom Media Investments, publishers of, inter alia, the Sunday Times, SoccerLife and Sowetan, have signed an exclusive media partnership agreement with Soccerex, one of the world's largest business-to-business football conventions which in the run-up to 2010 will be held annually in Gauteng. The agreement, which covers all events in South Africa in 2007, 2008 and 2009, was made at Soccerex 2006, hosted recently in Dubai.
Whiskey brand going kiteboarding
The Jim Beam 'Xtreme Beam' International Kiteboarding Competition, organised by Conceptualise on behalf of the DGB bourbon brand Jim Beam, will take place at the Strand Kiteboarding Club, 20 - 23 December 2006, in a bid to build relationships with consumers this festive season. According to DGB marketing manager, Stuart Berry, the sponsorship is logical, seeing as Jim Beam is one of the main sponsors of the kiteboarding world tour.
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| | | MultiChoice launches Euronews in SA
 This week, MultiChoice South Africa began broadcasting EuroNews, an international news channel covering world news from a European perspective broadcast simultaneously in five language choice options on its DStv Bouquet. The channel commenced on channel 61 on Monday, 11 December 2006.
SA's empowerment captains reveal all in new series
In a new series on Summit TV, leaders in organisations such as Metropolitan Asset Managers, Moreland Developments, Xstrata and the MAPPP SETA bring viewers face-to-face with South African businesses' views, strategies and insights about the current empowerment framework from their industry-specific vantage points. The Impumelelo Empowerment Series is the first partnership of its kind between Summit TV and TopCo Media.
The 'old ads interrupting movies' con
[Chris Moerdyk] Why is it that M-Net is still the only TV channel in the country that understands the marketing insanity of flogging advertising airtime during movies? Or is it because M-Net is the only honest operator in the business, while the others realise full well that the marketing value of an ad shown during a movie is pretty well zero, but continue to flog airtime anyway as long as there are clients and media planners naive enough to think they are getting some sort of value?
Three new shows for Channel O
Channel O will usher in the New Year with Mzanzi Ridez, a car-customising show; Behind the Video, the lowdown on music video shooting; and O-Zone, filmed at Primi Piatti at The Zone in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Says Yolisa Phahle, Channel O GM, "2006 has been a fantastic year for Channel O and it is our intention to work even harder to ensure that 2007 sees us continue to be recognised by viewers and industry as Africa's number one music channel."
Ed Jordan to wheel and deal on M-Net game show
Radio personality and musician Ed Jordan is to be the host of M-Net's new game show, Deal or No Deal, which kicks off on the channel early next year, sponsored by Virgin Money. The show is currently produced in more than 50 countries across the world.
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New accounts | | CineMARK announces 360° partnership with Clearwater - more infoFusionDesign Woodstock gains City Sightseeing account - more infoHMC Seswa concludes 2006 with a succession of big wins - more info
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People on the move | | Jill Barnes joins Cadbury SA as senior manager of Market Research and Insights - more info
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| | Events to diarise | MCQP’s ''Comic Strip'' MCQP - Cape Town, 16 December
Just as comic strips run the gamut from fantastical to factual, from sexy to sublime, so too will Comic Strip, MCQP's annual not-to-be-missed costume party... And the final count down is on! | | | Versatile broadcasting Walter Sisulu University - East London, 22 January
Walter Sisulu University is offering a very hands-on one-year certificate radio course. | | | Professional selling skills - world-class skills AchieveGlobal SA - Cape Town, 22 January / Jhb, 22 January
Salespeople develop the face-to-face selling skills needed to promote an open exchange of information and reach mutually beneficial sales agreements. | | | Commercial contracts administration and management IQPC Pty Ltd SA - Johannesburg, 24 January / Cape Town, 7 February
A two-day intensive and practical contract management course. | | | Entry-level web development course Working Webs Consulting - Johannesburg, 29 January
This course teaches the student all the basics, such as HTML, web server essentials, protocols and other important things a web developer needs to know. | | | Telesales and telemarketing LRCT (Pty) Ltd - Johannesburg, 30 January
A two-day telesales course on selling skills and telephone techniques. | | | Animation diploma and masterclass NEMISA - Johannesburg, 1 February
The National Electronic Media Institue is offering these practical animation courses starting February 2007. | | | Creative negotiation skills Maurice Kerrigan (Pty) Ltd - Johannesburg, 1 February / Johannesburg, 12 February
This programme is for everyone who negotiates on a day-to-day basis including first-line supervisors, middle-managers, front-line personnel, sales professionals, consultants etc. | | | Effective speaking and presentation skills Maurice Kerrigan (Pty) Ltd - Johannesburg, 5 February / Johannesburg, 7 February
This programme is designed for all business communicators and will teach them to utilise all presentation tools to their full capacity. | | | 5th Annual Six Sigma Excellence IQPC Pty Ltd SA - Johannesburg, 7 February
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AFDA CT Film School has a vacancy for a core course convenor. Arrange and co-ordinate academic lectures on film, co-ordinate and mark students' research. read more
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Newly graduated? AA candidate? Embark on exciting career path, starting as PA to MD in a buzzing award-winning ad agency, gain experience and eventually move into account exec role! read more
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Publicity and PR manager required for a large well-established company. The ideal candidate should have a keen interest in reading and writing. read more
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Creative director of a fashion retail account in a medium-sized agency - must have a minimum of five years' experience in retail and be passionate about design and fashion. read more
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International agency looking for a highly conceptual writer to join their team. read more
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An experienced editor from a trade publication industry is required to manage a publication from the design and printing industry. Responsibilities include editing content, some writing, sales leads and admin management. read more
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