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 [Sandy Pullinger] Proctor & Gamble, one of the world's most successful brand owners, thinks like this in a recession: ‘When times are tough, you build share.' At the heart of this philosophy (and strategy) is that market share is cheaper in a recession. Read more >>Advertisement: | MARKETING TO KIDS, TWEENS, TEENS & FAMILY!
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 [Dr Nikolaus Eberl] Shortly after having been appointed National Police Commissioner, Bheki Cele stated that he wants to create a country "where people aren't told they're safe, but actually feel safe", and that he is on a mission to change the image of the police and boost their morale. As history has shown, high levels of morale are a precondition for peak performance that is required for ensuring the safety of visitors and locals alike, especially at times of hosting a major international event. Read more >> Tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk unveiled a street art mural that is part of South African Tourism's (SAT) domestic marketing campaign, known as Sho't Left, in Durban yesterday, Tuesday, 4 August 2009, to members of the media and stakeholders. The wall mural at The Cube in Innes Road features arguably the best view of the 2010 Moses Mabhida stadium. Read more >>Advertising
A radio ad campaign aimed at stimulating listeners' creativity is claimed to have achieved significant results for pay-TV channel. Read more >>Advertisement: In celebration of Women's Day, Wimpy is offering a free cup of coffee to all the women in the country on Monday 10 August. Women need only to walk into their local store to receive their free cup of regular coffee, a gesture by the company to show their respect, admiration and love for the women of South Africa. Read more >> [Damon Freeman] Well, here we are - less than a year away from the world's biggest sporting event, and Africa's best opportunity to dazzle the globe with our professionalism, charm and expertise. Read more >> [Chris Moerdyk] Am I living in hope that, unlike in previous recessions, this time round the advertising industry will give some thought to what needs to be done to bring relevance, accountability and return on investment to what they do? Read more >> As part of McCann Africa's plan to re-ignite its pan-African offering, the African network hub, previously based in London, has now been moved to Johannesburg, South Africa. McCann is currently present in 32 African countries. Read more >>The Loeries will offer this year's Battle of the Bands winner a week at the Red Bull Music Academy's recording studio, a performance at a Big Concerts Festival in 2010, be featured in an ads24 newspaper publication and receive a gift from Brandhouse. Read more >> The Loeries Travelling Exhibition returns to Johannesburg, when it visits CityVarsity in Newtown, from 11-15 August 2009 - the first time the road show has been hosted by CityVarsity. Read more >> [Buddy Naidu] Guess who owes the SABC millions? National and provincial government departments owe the SABC more than R300-million in advertising fees. Read more >> NEWSWATCH: Microsoft has been taking shots at its competitors through its advertising and now Google has decided that if Gates and Co can do it, so can they, reports ChannelWeb. Read more >>Cinema
 According to Peter Rorvik, director of the Durban International Film Festival and the Centre for Creative Arts, attendance at the 30th edition increased significantly compared to previous years. Read more >>Nu Metro Cinemas and Podium… The Comedy Merchants are collaborating in presenting the Podium Comedy Series at all Nu Metro Cinemas nationwide from Thursday 20 August 2009, the cinema group announced yesterday, Thursday 6 August. Read more >>The South African HorrorFest, which is just turning 50, is being celebrated by the fifth anniversary Halloween season at The Labia Theatre, Cape Town between 29 October and 5 November, 2009. South African movie makers can now make their submissions. Read more >>Years ago, an enormous spaceship came to rest over Johannesburg, now a sun-scorched urban wasteland. Since then, the ship's inhabitants have been moved into the titular ghetto and placed under the control of Multi-National United, a private corporation bent on cracking the secrets of the aliens' ultra-powerful weapons. Read more >>CRM
 [Graham Mansfield] Managing your customers, fostering customer loyalty and generating more revenue streams today is far more complex than what it used to be before the rapid user adoption of Web 2.0 applications. In the past, information and branding were managed exclusively by companies, partners and employees and they had a relative amount of control over customer behaviour. Read more >>CSI
A project that uses Ndebele art to explain Pythagoras's Theorem to schoolchildren has recently benefited from the assistance of Business and Arts South Africa (BASA), Plascon and the “Africa Meets Africa” project. Read more >>Design
 What if a box could be more? This question drove the Aldo designers to produce a shoebox that will not only reduce the company's plastic bag consumption by 40% in 2009 and 70% by the end of next year but also is made from recycled materials and eco-friendly soy-based dyes and finishes. By adding the handle to the box, the need for a packet was eliminated. Read more >>Digital
Cyber attacks hammered Twitter, Facebook, and Google late last week, disrupting the hip micro-blogging service and causing stumbles at the hot social-networking site while Google fended off assaults. Read more >> [Roger Hislop] Over at Facebook central, you can only imagine the anguish in the conference rooms. The good news so often comes with a disastrous implication. User numbers are just climbing, and climbing, and climbing. Revenues are climbing as well (apparently), but Facebook is privately held, so who knows whether they're even breaking even. Those who know don't tell; those who tell don't know. Read more >>Earlier this week, the Online Publishing Association (OPA) of South Africa and FNB hosted a panel discussion, chaired by veteran marketing and media journalist Tony Koenderman, entitled “Cannes: the impact of digital”. Here are three video highlights, filmed by South African social media platform Zoopy.com. [video] Read more >> [Katharina Scholtz] Is an investment in social media more important than one in SEM? The short answer is: probably not. Search engine marketing (SEM) and social media marketing have different results, but SEM more reliably drives business and sales. Read more >>Direct Marketing
 The Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Assegai Awards 2009 has opened for entries and agencies, corporates, educational institutions and SMEs have until 18 September 2009 to submit their entries to compete for an Assegai award. The gala awards event takes place on 17 November. Read more >>Eventing |  |
The Most Influential Women in Business and Government (MIW) awards for 2009 were announced last week at three countrywide events, sponsored by Wits Business School, Anique Skincare, Jaguar, merSETA, Jenna Clifford and CNBC Africa as the broadcasting partner. Read more >>Advertisement: | Business School Expo
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 The Nando's Jozi Comedy Festival will run from 17-23 August 2009 at Montecasino, as part of a three-city comedy festival. Read more >>Magazines |  |
 September 2009 sees the launch of the new-look Finesse magazine. Publishers Carpe Diem Media says it is aiming to set the magazine apart from other women's magazines with a crisp new look and new areas of content. Read more >>New deadline for PICA early bird entriesThe Magazine Publishers Association of South Africa (MPASA) has announced that the deadline for 2009 PICA Awards early bird entries has been extended. Members now have until Friday, 7 August to submit early bird entries at a fee of only R850 per entry. PICA has since its inception recognised and rewarded exceptional publishing excellence within the South African publishing industry. This year's event will take place in Johannesburg on Thursday, 12 November 2009. For more information on the PICA Awards as well as the extended deadline go to www.mpasa.org.za. Media | | Recruitment - Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Media Sales | |  |
NEWSWATCH: Ombudsman Joe Thloloe says a Times report on an alleged conversation between Frank Chikane and Alec Irwin is “another example of the reckless use of anonymous sources”, reports Mail & Guardian. Read more >> The finalists in each of the two categories of the Sanlam Fashion Journalism Awards - writing about the fashion industry and fashion editing - were announced last week week. Read more >> [Colleen Lowe Morna & Pat Made] It is late afternoon in Namibia and a current affairs programme at Base FM is about to go on air. Namibian singing sensation Stella Kavendjii breezes in unannounced, baby in her arms, and does an impromptu interview on her new album about HIV and AIDS. Such is the homely atmosphere at this woman-led community radio station that if anyone has an issue, they come in and chat about it. Read more >> NEWSWATCH: Three complainants said that explicit descriptions of sex on the popular show, which is aired during family time, were inappropriate; the BCCSA rejected their complaints, reports IOL. Read more >> [Colleen Lowe Morna & Pat Made] Research released today, Thursday, 6 August 2007, by Gender Links, a Southern African non-governmental organisation, points out that media is still not a very friendly environment for women to work in. “Glass Ceilings: Women and Men in Southern African Media” presents data and findings from 126 media houses (approximately half of all media houses in the region), representing 23 678 employees. Read more >>Entries are now open for the Webber Wentzel Legal Journalist of the Year award, which recognises outstanding work in the field of legal journalism. Read more >> NEWSWATCH: The Television Industry Emergency Coalition is to meet today and it seems one of their concerns is that cost-cutting by the SABC could see a fall of almost 70% in local production, reports IOL, which also reports that the interim board is to decide soon on suspended CEO Dali Mpofu's fate. Read more >>[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Environmental journalists, like financial journalists, have sometimes been accused of being ‘in disharmony' with their audiences for using purely scientific and ‘sophisticated' language when reporting on issues related to their respective fields. Some observers now believe that could be one of the main reasons why the message of climate change awareness has never been received adequately. Read more >>  NEWSWATCH: The government (their sole shareholder) owes them millions, they're in need of a massive bailout, but the chair of the interim board says the SABC can afford the extra wage bill, reports IOL, which also reports that the interim board has instituted a range of cost-cutting measures - and a TV licence fee is going to cost us more. Read more >>[Jocelyn Newmarch] A new discussion document asks wide-ranging and probing questions on the future of public broadcasting in SA. But given the tight deadline, media analysts have questioned whether the issues brought up will be properly considered. Read more >> Cabinet approved the appointment of Lakela Kaunda as deputy director general (DDG) and head of the Private Office of the President and that of Vusi Mona as DDG for Communications, late last week. Read more >>Mobile |  |
 [Mike Wehrs] The worst economy overseas in generations has VCs changing the way they fund young companies. Here's how that shift affects mobile marketing firms internationally. Read more >>24.com announced yesterday, Wednesday, 5 August 2009, that it has successfully secured the 24.mobi mobile domain name, believed to make it the first South African company and first publisher worldwide to be awarded a .mobi domain name with only two alphanumeric characters. Read more >>[Issa Sikiti da Silva] When it comes to home languages and mobile marketing, are we matchmakers or moving towards a head-on collusion? Read more >> Register now for The Thinking Mobile Conference SeriesRegistration is open for The Thinking Mobil Conference Series. It's a meeting place for business communicators who need to focus not on “techno” language but on concrete and tangible applications. This is the place where you will walk away armed with knowledge that will enable you to confidently strategize around mobile. Who should attend? Brand managers, event organisers and managers, marketing, communication and PR experts, business owners, business experts and coaches, NGOs. For more information go to mobilemarketingwinners.com/.  In response to the developing trend of mobile Internet usage in South Africa, MWEB, this week announced a new division tasked with managing every aspect of customers' Internet connectivity through mobile devices. Read more >>[Alexander Gregori] Whenever you are in the market to sell your skills, for example as a consultant, agent or professional, you inevitably have to pitch to people who know less about your subject than you do. That is why you are the expert and that is why they want to hire someone like you to help their company benefit from what you have to offer. Read more >> Newspapers |  |
South African literature was recognised and praised at this year's Sunday Times Literary Awards held at the Summer Place, Hyde Park, Johannesburg earlier this month. Read more >> Zero Hora of Brazil and Express & Echo of the United Kingdom have been named World Young Reader Newspapers of the Year in the annual competition organized by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishing (WAN-IFRA). Read more >>Hoosain Karjieker has been appointed CE and Anastacia Martin publisher of all print and online operations at M&G Media; current CE Trevor Ncube will move into the position of executive deputy chairman. This succession plan should see new blood running the day-to-day operations, while freeing Ncube to focus on strategic issues and explore business opportunities in Zimbabwe and the region. Read more >>Online Media
 [Patrick Gordon] The recession is driving the need for cheaper more cost-effective marketing solutions. This development has already seen a reduction in a number of traditional channels, creating opportunities for measurable tools which can deliver a high ROI. Read more >>US media company News Corporation will begin charging readers of online versions of its newspapers in the coming year in a move that chairman Rupert Murdoch says could spur a shift away from free news content on the Internet. Read more >>Out Of Home |  |
Vicki Trehaeven, head of FNB 2010 FIFA World Cup Marketing Communication, issued a statement on Friday, 7 August 2009, in response to the article Soccer stadium branding offers year-round opportunities, published last week. Read more >>Primedia Sport announced early this week that it had acquired the commercial rights to Johannesburg's most famous football venues, National Stadium South Africa (formerly Soccer City), and the Orlando and Dobsonville stadiums. Read more >> The Letter Corporation (TLC) has begun a national washroom advertising campaign for Unilever's Lifebuoy Liquid Hand Soap for the month of August in female washrooms. Included in the 360O washroom promotions are traditional washroom frames, mirror decals and TLC's latest innovation, branded product sampling soap dispensers with the new liquid formulation. Read more >>Production
Here's the chance Capetonians to share the fun, the tears and the fears when SA's Got Talent comes to the Mother City. Read more >>Congratulations are due to Content Hub-Reversioning as the Best South African Short Film at the recently held Durban International Film Festival was awarded to SABC's film, Coming Home. The short film was directed by Bobby Heaney, starring television actor Hlomla Dandala and based on a story by young writer/actress Amber Jay van Rooyen. Read more >> The Gauteng Film Commission (GFC) has published the Guide to Getting Started in Film and TV, it announced yesterday, Tuesday. 3 August 2009. Read more >>Promotions
Friday is "Bokday"Sport24.co.za, together with Canterbury, the official kit sponsors to the Springboks, brings you Bokday every Friday before a Bok Test. Show your support for the "Bokke" by wearing green and gold on the Friday before and sending Sport24 the pic. It will choose a few of the best-dressed supporters or groups every Bokday and put them in a gallery. Supporters then get to vote for which they think deserves the jerseys that week. Sport24 will publish the winning pic on the Monday after the Test, and the winner gets one of three new Springbok jerseys worth R1800 each. Click here for full details. Funky Jacob Mofokeng is the big prize winner of this year's annual Cadbury Dairy Milk winter on-pack promotion, which invited South African consumers to ‘release the joy inside' by winning their share of a massive R650 000 in cash and additional prizes. Read more >>Radio |  |
Google has shed its disappointing radio ad business and announced a US$106.5-million stock deal to buy a firm that specialises in compressing video for the Internet. The move came about yesterday, Wednesday 5 August 2009. Read more >> The second annual 702 Small Business Awards launched yesterday, Monday 3 August 2009, and from 10 August, listeners can nominate small businesses that have offered outstanding service. Read more >>Research |  |
Results of the SME Survey 2009 have now been disclosed and one of the preliminary findings is that ADSL has become the connection of choice for the SME, due to its reliability and relative low pricing. Read more >>The results of the latest MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women's Advancement saw South Africa's Index score decline by five points from 90.6 to 85.7 between 2008 and 2009. The Index was released yesterday, Tuesday, 4 August 2009. Read more >>The fifth Female Nation Survey, which is conducted annually by Women24.com, has revealed that few save, are “cautiously optimistic” about the government and are happiest when they take “me” time. Read more >>Retail
 A two-month in-store promotion of a ‘chill test' to establish sensitive teeth is claimed to have proved a successful campaign for Sensodyne, with high consumer reach and conversion to sale recorded during the campaign. Read more >>Sponsorship
The educational booklet, Money Skills for Learners is once again available free to schools throughout South Africa, thanks to a collaboration between MasterCard Worldwide, City Press Business, SakeRapport and Dynamic Wealth. Read more >>TV
 loveLife flighted the second in a series of four PSAs (Public Service Announcements) on Tuesday, 4 August across SABC channels. Read more >> [Marion Scher] When quite a while back, former Bizcommunity.com editor and friend Louise Marsland said I HAD to join Facebook – be in or be out – I jumped to attention and immediately signed up. My 21-year-old son’s reaction was “Ma, you joined Facebook – that’s so lame...” That, of course, made me feel much better about my choice. Read more >> Marketing
 Future Marketing, the dynamic marketing and advertising consulting arm of The Future Group, is proud to announce their acquisition of the Budget Car & Van Rental Marketing and PR account. Read more >> IIR's Marketing and Branding in Recessionary Times Conference, taking place on 14, 15 and 16 September at the Rosebank Hotel in Johannesburg, promises to deliver the hottest topics, issues, solutions and speakers for marketing and brand managers to survive and deliver growth during these recessionary times. Read more >>Advertising
 [Mick Shepard] Creating highly effective, creative advertising doesn't all come down to the agency. To rework the time-worn phrase: Behind every piece of great advertising, there is a great client. Mick & Nick's Mick Shepard says the kind of client you are plays a large part in the kind of advertising you're being offered. Read more >> A mischievous TVC for Nescafé Classic has been created by McCann Erickson to launch the Nescafé brand's new and updated look. The TVC aims to modernise the brand, thereby satisfying the contemporary consumer without alienating the brand's existing loyalty base. Read more >>Branding | | Idea Engineers will grow your brand, reputation & business. | |  |
 Rogue Brand Agency, which launched on 21 July 2009, is set to challenge the depths and heights of truly brand-centric, business-wide communication. The agency will be offering a line-of-sight brand-building service, meaning it offers brand development strategy and identity through to advertising and communication. Read more >> [Gary Bryant] All this recession stuff is seriously getting to me. Anyone able to use Microsoft Word is writing about surviving the recession and coining phrases left right and centre; longevity is the new luxury, recession-proof your brand... you get the picture! Read more >> International branding group HKLM has four finalists in the running for the upcoming 31st Annual Loerie Awards, in the category Brand Identity and Collateral Design. Read more >> As the South African internet and telecommunications market moves into an era of high-speed, high-capacity Internet access, disintermediation and true convergence, Internet Solutions is embracing the change by realigning its vision and positioning, which will drive the company's business over the next three to five years. Read more >> HKLM Exchange, the specialist stakeholder communications/investor relations division of branding company, HKLM, hosted a luncheon to introduce a five-month independent study undertaken by the team at SustainabilityServices.co.za. Read more >>Cinema
For advertisers, cinema need not be a long-term commitment anymore. The medium lends itself to successful one-night screenings which are proving to be incredibly popular with both advertisers and consumers alike, says Popcorn Cinema Advertising GM, Karen Bailey. Read more >>Design
 Africans in relationship is the focus of a new product being launched by Africa Media Online. The africa@heart CD is the third in a series of multiple usage image compilations that enable buyers to reuse photographs a number of times, on a number of platforms, for a once-off fee. Read more >> Local designer Stiaan Bester has won the July 2009 round of the Wrap2theMax vehicle wrap design competition with his dynamic submission for News Cafe. He wins a brand-new laptop for his efforts. Read more >> The Open Window invites you to their Open Day where you can see a showcase of student work and demonstrations in graphic design, motion graphics, photography, video, illustration and animation. Read more >>Digital
 KREW Interactive has launched the website for Adcock Ingram's vita-thion energy supplement, having established a site architecture that innovates within the category and content that fully represents the brand positioning and tag line, "I am all I need". Read more >> This week's episode of The Digital Edge features local celebrities and guests from the web, marketing and PR world answering questions on digital in an exciting new quiz format. Read more >> Brandscape Digital, the development arm of Brandscape Marketing, has announced a reseller partnership with Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. Read more >> HelloComputer has received the highly respected “FWA Site of the Day” award for their digital execution of the Loerie Awards campaign. Read more >>The results of Bitdefender's recent malware and spam survey show a sharp rise in HTML newsletter-impersonating spam and web 2.0 phishing attempts. According to the anti-malware security solutions provider malware writing has become a full-fledged business - shaped after corporate models. Read more >> [Jonathan Allan-Barrett] Jonathan Allan-Barrett, the Digital Project Manager at digiVOX, responds to a City Press article about how Google's advertising sales growth was the slowest on record in the second quarter of 2009, saying that this by no means indicates that “Internet ad spend is down”. Read more >>Virtuosa recently refreshed their website with some exciting new sections and updates. According to Creative Director Bryce Hancock although design is a passion it's not always that easy when it comes to your own brand and company. Read more >>Direct Marketing
Realising the value of professional and efficient service, Habari Direct has set the benchmark for all multiple reward promotions with a 48-hour turnaround. Read more >> The Direct Marketing Association's Assegai Awards 2009, sponsored by the South African Post Office and recognising and rewarding excellence in multi-channel direct response marketing, is now open for entries. Read more >>Education and Training |  |
The UCT Graduate School of Business is launching a new course this October to cut through the bamboozling nature of old strategic thinking and practice. It will develop new strategic thinking that is more imaginative and effective for the real world of today. Read more >>Advertisement:  The Department of Home Affairs has a massive turnaround strategy aimed at improving overall service delivery. The Learning Theatre travelled across the country with their Customer Interface Training Workshop and told the story of change in 39 workshops and nine provinces. Read more >>If you ever get a slight whiff of the fact that trouble may be looming, proper preparation means being able to lead the information flow right from the start. Read more >> To kick-start bold new thinking, action and innovation in South African businesses, the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) is running a course this September to help organisations shake off pessimism and inertia. Read more >>What better way to celebrate your womanhood than by doing something creative... just for yourself. HeadSpark is celebrating Women's Day this year with an extra-special HeadSpark Novels course at a hugely discounted price for women only. Read more >>Eventing
 Gearhouse South Africa's Durban and Johannesburg branches combined resources and skills to provide all technical production required for the high-profile launch of Emirates Airline's new non-stop service between Durban and Dubai. Read more >> The Westcliff's specially created Celebrating Women package, on offer throughout the month of August, gives women staying at the hotel the most conveniently located rooms, with a complimentary upgrade to a suite. Read more >> AV Direct cc is relocating to their recently purchased premises and is expected to be set up and operational by the end of August. The new premises affords them the opportunity to house their ever-increasing new and modern state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment. Read more >> Ice Art was commission by the Chris Burger Petro Jackson Players Fund to carve an ice sculpture replica of the Webb Ellis World Cup Rugby Trophy for the Bell'S Night of the Stars Rugby Extravaganza at the Durban ICC. Read more >> Donnae Zorich is a three-year-old girl with fourth stage cancer who is currently receiving chemotherapy and will eventually need a bone marrow transplant. True Colour Events embarked on a fundraising assignment to assist Donnae and her family in defeating the disease. Read more >> Collyer Lessick recently produced a winning formula with a show-stopping production for the Unilever Domestos brand, on behalf of their client, Ogilvy Action. Read more >>Exhibitions |  |
 The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) will be launching their new awareness campaign called “Get Ready - Be Safe in our Waters” at the National Boat Show this weekend - using the lovable Splash the Dolphin as its mascot. Read more >> The latest big player to come on board with the SABC Education Baba Indaba is Clicks who will be offering visitors an exciting new addition in the form of a Baby Clinic. Read more >> If you've never dived before, the Dive Expo is an ideal opportunity to explore everything the diving lifestyle has to offer at the National Boat Show, 14 - 16 August at the Coca-Cola dome. Read more >> The 4th Annual OFM HOMEMAKERS Expo, held from 30 July - 2 August 2009 at Emerald Casino, saw several thousand visitors experiencing 175 stands on over 3 000m². Read more >>The SABC Education Baba Indaba believes in helping small businesses grow within the parenting, pregnancy and child target market. One way they achieve this is through the support of initiatives such as Clever Little Monkey's Designer Platform, which will be showcased at the Cape Town expo being held from 8-10 August. Read more >> Dr John Gray, the man who brought the battle of the sexes into the mainstream with his best-selling book, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, will be sharing his insights during the Look & Feel Good Expo at Johannesburg's Coca Cola dome from 9 to 11 October 2009. Read more >>Magazines
 At the fifth annual YOU Spectacular taking place this Saturday, 8 August, at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, awards will be handed to SA's most loved stars in entertainment and sport - as voted for by YOU readers. Read more >> The Lifetime and Platinum members of SAA Voyager will now be receiving the Live Out Loud magazine courtesy of SAA. Read more >>Media
 Zanusi Brand Solution's CEO, Nomahlubi Simamane, was named Top Businesswoman of the Year at the 2009 National Business Awards which took place at a prestigious function in Johannesburg on July 30th. Read more >>In the financial year 2008/9, the MDDA commissioned Z-Coms to conduct research on the trends in ownership and control of media in South Africa. Read more >>Mobile
The new web browser is the cell phone. The compatibility for viewing internet sites on a cell phone is still inadequate. This is disturbing as more South Africans access the internet via their cell phones as opposed to their computers. Read more >>Newspapers
 The rain clouds that dominated the Cape Town skies last week were nowhere to be found when almost 2,350 mountain bikers crossed the start line at Die Burger Mountain Bike Challenge on Saturday. Read more >> Popular Afrikaans youth supplement, JIP, published weekly in Die Burger, Beeld and Volksblad, has partnered with DStv channel, MK, to present a reality show for its annual Rockspaaider battle-of-the-bands competition. Read more >>Online Media
Acceleration Media's 2008 Benchmark Report takes into account data from over 200 million advertising impressions to discover trends and benchmarks in the local online ad market. Read more >> On 01 August 2009 Quirk eMarketing moved from their old offices in Buchanan Square to their brand-new beautiful glass building in The Boulevard. The new office is full of quirky tidbits, such as grass in reception, and modern finishings that reflect their dramatic growth. Read more >>The innovation and effort that JD Internet Consulting places in the design and Internet marketing of their clients' websites achieves excellent results time after time as they pride themselves in their ability to deliver quality results in a measurable and cost-effective way. Read more >>Quirk and Getsmarter have partnered to introduce the Quirk Certificate Course in eMarketing, which will benefit marketing managers about to hire a digital agency, specialist professionals and small business owners or entrepreneurs, students and young graduates. Read more >>Out Of Home
 DStv recently ran an extended onboard campaign on 1time's entire fleet. For three slots of two months each, DStv took advantage of the effectiveness of tray table and headrest advertising to promote the their suite offering. Read more >>Primedia Face 2 Face has integrated an experiential, strategic and creative department into its existing infrastructure which will focus on producing tailor-made brand-specific solutions for each campaign. Read more >>Production
Picture Tree's Alan Irvin has won first and second place in the latest Creative Circle results for TV/cinema. Read more >> The new Vodacom “Single Ladies” spot, part of Vodacom's ‘Connect to Fame Campaign' is a tightly choreographed spoof of Beyonce's smash hit video and has been rocking the airwaves and racking up serious viewership numbers on the web. Read more >>Promotions
The Provantage operations team is growing with the addition of seven new team members: project managers to manage activation campaigns and assistants to ensure that all runs smoothly on the admin side. Read more >> “The Hangover” is a Las Vegas-set comedy centred around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures. The movie lent itself to a campaign sponsor that offers a solution to a hangover and liver protection, Cruciale. Read more >>Radio
According to research recently conducted by OIL it is important for Capetonians to be connected to their city - which is where their sense of identity comes from - more so than their country and their racial group. This led Heart 104.9FM to declare Cape Town an independent republic in their new brand campaign. Read more >>Research
Vision Africa, a full-service marketing and stakeholder research company, has completed the fieldwork for its MediaMetrics study that measures media penetration, consumption and preferences in Namibia. Read more >> Vision Africa, a full-service marketing and stakeholder research company that operates within Namibia, Angola, Botswana and Zambia as well as other African countries, has appointed Liz Curtis as Accounts Director. Read more >>Retail
 Todwil, the privately owned South African-based company that specialises in retail-marketing solutions, won Stand of the Year at the Castrol Extreme Autoshow 2009. Read more >>TV
 SpongeBob SquarePants, the porous, square, yellow, sponge with a starfish for a best mate and a dream of flying, is coming to the South African stage for the first time ever! Read more >>Among the stars guaranteed to set the stage alight for the 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain at the Kasarani Indoor Stadium, Nairobi on 10 October will be 2008 Best Female winner, Wahu, South Africa's Afro-soul queen, Lira, Nigerian rapper M.I. and Ghanaian dancehall superstar, Samini. Read more >>Youth Marketing
The popular Women's Leadership Conference (WLC), organised by premier youth marketing services provider Student Village, will be held in two separate events in Cape Town and Johannesburg at the end of August, with selected candidates from Durban being especially flown in to attend. Read more >>Student Village, South Africa's premier youth marketing services provider, has upped the ante on its BBBEE status and is now a Level 3 contributor, which is good news for new and existing clients. Read more >> Ronen Aires, CEO of South Africa's premier youth marketing services provider, Student Village, wove his particular brand of magic once again when addressing the Gordon Institute of Business Science's Spirit of Youth 2009 entrepreneurship event in June. Read more >>
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