Joburg rocksWhereas the Mother City was pretty quiet this weekend - probably recovering from The Loeries - Joburg was clearly in a party mood, what with Sexpo, Taste of Joburg, Rocking the Gardens, Joburg Pride, and more on the go. Meanwhile, the SABC issued a statement on the meeting it had with the ANC Youth League; the latter apparently eager that when soccer fans arrive for 2010, they will get a good dose of exposure to local music. All in all, therefore, it should be a pretty loud visit - what with kwaito et al, and vuvuzelas. Cheers, Rod BakerPS In this week's Ornico Ad Showcase, we feature TV ads for Royal Baking Powder, Chevrolet Cruze, Liqui Fruit, Audi R8 and BMW, and radio ads for Jacobs, M-Web, Nu Metro, Flanagan's and Timberland. Please send all marketing and media news to marketingnews@bizcommunity.com and opinion pieces to contributors@bizcommunity.com. Responses to this column welcomed in our online editor's column archive or on our editorial blog: http://blog.bizcommunity.com.Top stories
The Loerie Awards 2009
Lost Loeries linkThe cyber gremlin may have diverted the second Loeries special edition newsletter this week from your mailbox and if so, we do apologise. You can pick it up, however, on www.bizcommunity.com/LoerieAwards2009Newsletter2.html and catch the first one as a refresher on www.bizcommunity.com/LoerieAwards2009Newsletter1.html. At the Loeries this past weekend, Channel O's ‘Young, Gifted and Black' and ‘Tree' campaigns were among the big winners, having already had 20 nominations. Read more >> This year's Loerie results have indicated that the Net#work BBDO group is tops in South Africa. A total 27 Loeries, including the Grand Prix went to the creative powerhouses that make up the Group (Net#work Jhb, Net#work CT, Gloo and Studio 4332, formerly Proximity#ttp). Read more >>Rockstar passes for Loerie SMS winnerThe winner of the Loeries SMS information service competition was Sandra Benskin, a senior recruitment consultant from Ad Talent. She won a pair of Rockstar passes to all the Very Important Ego areas over the festival weekend, entry to the invitation-only Velocity party and a Lexus chauffeur drive for the weekend. She shared her good fortune with Nina Daniel-Gruber, executive creative director from Brands Rock. VWV Group, one of South Africa's leading experiential communications agencies walked away with its 101st award, a bronze in the Live Events category at the 31st annual Loeries awards evening, held in Cape Town on Saturday, 26 September. Read more >>Newly rebranded progressive creative studio, Studio 4332 (previously proximity#ttp) a Proximity Worldwide affiliate, has won two Loerie Awards, one in each of the categories, experiential Digital Mixed Media Campaign and Experiential Digital Microsite categories for its Create Me online campaign for Cell C. Read more >> Ogilvy's performance at the 2009 Loeries has boosted the agency's rankings and taken it within the grasp of the leading-agency title. “Our sights are set firmly on this target, but we expect to get there through the continuation of creative work that speaks to the people of South Africa,” comments Ogilvy chairperson, Nunu Ntshingila. Read more >>Marketing & Media
Attend the Bookmarks workshop, held in conjunction with Tony Koenderman's Brainstorm Conference. Read more >>Advertisement: Entries are now open to 5 October 2009. Read more >>Marketing
 For coffee lovers, a new consumer website from Nescafé, created by Ledimo Solutions, is aimed at not only providing details on brands but will also offer competitions, recipes and social networking over a virtual cup of coffee. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
 JOHANNESBURG: A 50-member delegation from the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) and FIFA yesterday, 30 September 2009, completed an inspection of the five newly-built stadiums and the upgraded Soccer City stadium. After travelling to six cities in six days the operational experts concluded that preparations are on track for all stadiums to be completed by the end of the year. Read more >>Branding | | Idea Engineers will grow your brand, reputation & business. | |  |
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Northern Cape Province hosted South Africa's National World Tourism Day celebrations on Tuesday 29 September 2009 at Galeshewe Stadium in Kimberley. Read more >> Advertisement: [Dr Nikolaus Eberl] In a recent contribution to the 2010 Nation Branding Debate, titled A branding bridge too far for a demoralized nation, a senior Business Day analyst argued that South Africa is “a country in crisis”, faces “a political, institutional and social crisis of unprecedented proportions” where “retributive justice has become the norm … local government has become ineffective … and crime is rampant and getting worse”, concluding that “a branding exercise similar to Germany's, with its concomitant successes, is simply not possible in SA”. Read more >> Cinema
Cannes is comingCinemark announced that tickets for the screening of the 2009 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival are available from participating venues from Monday 28 September 2009 for the screening on 16 and 19 October at 10am, noon and 2pm. Four tickets per person can be collected, at no cost, on a first come first serve basis from The Zone, Gateway and Cavendish Ster-Kinekor cinemas.CRM
 Research by Finmark Trust reveals that more than 50% of stokvel members in the mass market do not have a bank account, 94% of members are black and 57% are women. In response to this, FNB has launched its Smart Solutions Stokvel Account. Read more >>The majority of the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act come into effect next year on 24 October 2010 and one that must concern companies is its effect on loyalty programmes. These will have to be overhauled to meet consumer protection requirements. Read more >>Design
 Having been around for 70 years, Sasko Grain has re-energised the Sasko Flour brand making it stand out through a striking design using black and white photography, and red. To increase brand exposure, it has launched its first “Share the Goodness” TV advert, which builds on previous television exposure on shows like Muvhango and Mara and Friends. Read more >>Digital
Missing Link, one of South Africa's leading presentation strategy companies, has been named as a winner in the World's Best Presentation Contest 2009 by SlideShare, the popular presentation sharing website. Read more >>Advertisement: According to the latest blog report conducted by Bivio Consultants, Versus wines, produced by the company of wine people is leading the race for fans on the social networks. Read more >>Eventing |  |
 [JP Roodt] The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards ceremony highlight the best online and social media practices for communication and events professionals. Read more >>Advertisement: Thebe Ikalafeng, founder of the Brand Leadership Academy, is launching the inaugural Public Sector Excellence Symposium - A Roadmap for Improved Performance and Service Delivery - at the Sandton Sun Hotel in Johannesburg on 26-27 October 2009 and talks about the event's key speaker. Read more >> Earthdance, an international music and dance festival that aims to create awareness of the waning environment and preservation of the earth, premiered in Mpumalanga on Saturday 26 September 2009. The province joins the South African provinces of Gauteng, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal and the other 500 locations in 80 countries in celebrating EarthDance. Read more >>In keeping with its Tuscan architecture and design, Montecasino is bringing Italy to South Africa from 11-18 October 2009. “L'Italia in Piazza” or “Italy on the Square” festival offers films, food, fashion and Ferrari, what more could one want? Apart from the fashion show, entry is free. Read more >>Exhibitions |  |
“Perhaps their pants are too tight.” So says Sexpo organiser Silas Howarth in response to statements issued by the African Christian Democratic Party in which the party slammed the adult sexuality and lifestyle show Sexpo, scheduled to open at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Thursday this week. The party allegedly referred to the event as being “sleazy” and “perverse”. Read more >>Advertisement: Magazines |  |
 As part of Mental Health Awareness Month (October) and World Mental Health Day (10 October), Psychologies magazine will include a breathing ‘kit,' to encourage readers to breathe consciously for emotional and mental health. Read more >>Media | | Recruitment - Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Media Sales | |  |
Entries close soon for SAB journo awardsEntries for the SAB Environmentalist and Environmental Journalists of The Year Awards 2009 close on Friday 9 October 2009. Awards will be adjudicated based on work produced between 1 August 2008 and 30 September 2009. For information about awards and downloading of entry forms go to www.sabenvironment.co.za.  NEWSWATCH: After much haggling with the national broadcaster and e.tv, Zapiro and producer Thierry Cassuto are putting their satirical puppet show ZNews on the web, reports IOL, which also reports that former SABC chair Khanyi Mkhonza allegedly had certain executives and managers investigated by the police and ‘spies'. Read more >> NEWSWATCH: CTV, Cape Town's only community television channel has been forced to cease transmissions due to a cash crisis, reports IOL, which also reports that Julius Malema wants radio to feature more kwaito artists so that we can “impose ourselves on” 2010 tourists next year. Read more >> JT Communications launched its media hub in Craighall Johannesburg offering several meeting rooms, press conference area, broadcast interview room and a wireless network for local and international media interaction. The company partnered with Marimba Media and the South African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) in this initiative. Read more >> NEWSWATCH: Bharti and MTN have decided to disengage as they need SA government approval for their planned deal, and that approval is not forthcoming, reports Mail & Guardian Online, and Debora Patta resigned yesterday as editor-in-chief of eNews, but will still be grilling her guests on 3rd Degree, reports Business Day. Read more >> NEWSWATCH: The national broadcaster is determined to identify the person who leaked the Zapiro documentary to the Mail & Guardian website, reports Business Day, which also asks: what now for the SABC? In Africa, meanwhile, media bosses are to gather soon to see how they can generate revenues from the continent's digitally-savvy youthful audiences. Read more >>[Issa Sikiti da Silva] While politicians' ‘unfair' criticism of media continues unchallenged in parts of Africa due to fear of speaking out, the trend is being met with fierce resistance in ‘liberal' South Africa by academics, media lobby groups and activists. Read more >> Mobile |  |
 Shuttleworth Foundation launched the first mobile novel (m-novel) for South Africa's youth in both English and isiXhosa last week. Apart from the one-off registration cost of R1.50, the novel is free for anyone to read on his or her WAP-enabled cellphone. Read more >>Advertisement:  MTN and IMImobile, an India-based software and managed services provider linked to 350 content providers worldwide, have entered into a strategic partnership to address the growing demand for content in emerging markets. The deal will entail providing MTN's 21 markets access to a repository of content through various delivery platforms. Read more >>Rick Joubert, founding chairman of the South African Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and head of mobile media at South African mobile operator Vodacom, is joining Yonder Media, a leading mobile marketing services provider and their associate company Ringco, a mobile media platform developer, as chairman and CEO respectively on 1 October 2009. Read more >>Maani Safa, head of mobile for the Telegraph Media Group in the United Kingdom, has joined the programme for Beyond 2009, the World Digital Publishing Conference to be held on 5 and 6 November 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. Read more >>Newspapers |  |
 Latest AMPS 2009 data shows Sunday Times now has an average issue readership of 3,977 million - a readership growth of 66% since 1994. Read more >> A reminder to newspaper printing companies to enter the WAN-IFRA 2010-2012 International Newspaper Color Quality Club competition, which close online at the end of December 2009. Read more >> The opening session of the 2015 Newsroom Conference, organised by the World Editors Forum at PPF Media's Futuroom complex in Prague, took place on Thursday, 1 October 2009. The event was launched with a debate bringing into question the value of the massive traffic Google drives to newspaper websites. Read more >> The French government's decision to give free nationwide subscriptions, from 1 October 2009 are part of new subsidies to the French press totalling €600 million over three years. The publishers provide the newspapers free and the government pays for distribution. The campaign is aimed at boosting newspaper readership in the youth market. Read more >>Out Of Home |  |
 Primedia Unlimited subsidiary, Mall Active designed a custom stand to display the new Mazda 3 sedan, hatchback and MPS hatchback cars in an in-mall campaign from 4 August to 7 September 2009. The consumer engagement meant the upwardly mobile target market (28-35) could spend as much time as they wanted admiring the new models in the Menlyn Park, Sandton, Eastgate, Clearwater and Maponya malls. Read more >>Production
 Late last week, M-Net launched the African Film Library - the largest electronic library of feature films, shorts and documentaries from 50 years of African film production. Over the past three years, M-Net has been negotiating the rights to almost 600 works in English, French, Arabic and Portuguese and digitising them. Read more >>Public Relations |  |
 [Tiffany Markman] You can't please everyone. At some point on your professional path, you'll do something silly: offend a client, annoy a customer, give shoddy service or even be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And you'll have to apologise. This article is about the different types of written apology and how to craft them perfectly first time around. Read more >>Radio |  |
 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Interim Board met with the ANC Youth League last week on Wednesday 30 September 2009; the league presented its views regarding what it feels is a lack of local music content on SABC stations. Read more >> Following the MPowerFM Vodacom Top Jock competition in August 2009, Garth Taylor, the celebrity judge and entertainment, has been increasing in popularity with listeners. MPowerFM has decided to bring the band to Mpumalanga for two live concerts 9-10 October 2009. These will be the start of Taylor's 2009 countrywide album tour in support of his recently launched CD, Stripped Down, Soul'd Out. Read more >>Failing attempts by Radio Pulpit and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to resolve the dispute on a broadcasting licence for the Western Cape, Radio Pulpit is to proceed with its review application to the High Court. Read more >> Entries are open for the Mr & Miss Lollipop fashion show at Pier 14 Shopping Centre in Port Elizabeth on Saturday 17 October 2009 and close on 9 October. Open to teenagers 13-17, entrants need only pay R25 and have a professional photograph taken at Studio 4 at the centre. Unsuccessful entrants may keep their photos. Read more >>Wits Radio Academy will bring top international speakers to Johannesburg to consider the future of radio as medium and industry at the Joburg Radio Days conference to be held at University of Witwatersrand, 19-21 October 2009. Read more >>Recruitment | | Recruitment - Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Media Sales | |  |
Following the recent statement in Parliament by labour director-general Jimmy Manyi that the Department of Labour would like to see businesses fined 10% of their turnover for failing to comply with employment equity legislation, a senior consultant in executive recruitment says a large pool of black management candidates is available. Read more >>Advertisement:  Kelly has traditionally produced an annual salary survey, which aggregated information on actual salaries for a number of key job categories across 11 geographical areas. However, the economic situation has hit the job market particularly hard and in order to get an accurate picture as to what is happening, it has conducted its first biannual salary survey. Read more >>SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND: Zebrajobs announced on Monday, 28 September 2009 that IBM is the lead sponsor of the first Africa Virtual Job Fair (AVJF) organised by Zebrajobs.com and the Corporate Council on Africa. The Africa Virtual Job Fair is an online platform connecting employers with professionals to interact on wide-ranging career and employment opportunities within the African continent. Read more >>Research |  |
The AMPS 2009A results for the period July 2008 to June 2009, with a sample size of 20 961 have been released. As stated earlier, it is the first survey in South Africa to use state-of-the-art Double-Screen Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing technology or DS-CAPI - one of only four industry-wide media audience surveys in the world to do so. Read more >>The University of Pretoria and the National Credit Regulator (NCR) have produced a 331-page report entitled The debt counselling process: challenges to consumers and the credit industry in general that spells out the shortcomings in the debt restructuring process and applicable law and identifies the parties responsible for delays or prevention of the process finalisation. Read more >>Retail
Those attending The Times and Sowetan 2009 Retail Awards will discover which retailers have made the grade and came out tops as South Africa's favourite places to shop. Read more >>Sponsorship
Cricket fans who recently entered a competition sponsored by KFC to win seats in the sky during the ICC Champions Trophy, were able to enjoy the games and dinner in the KFC Champions Box at SuperSport Park. Read more >>TV
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] Debora Patta's resignation as e.tv's group editor-in-chief has opened up a heated debate and dug a huge hole in many viewers' hearts, who are concerned about the future of the channel's ‘no fear and no favour' editorial philosophy. Patta announced her resignation yesterday, Wednesday, 30 September 2009, adding that she will focus solely on her investigative programme 3rd Degree. Read more >> The nationwide Shield Teens No Sweat Music Fan Challenge has chosen three Johannesburg girls as finalists for the number one slot as top Video Jockey (VJ). They join nine finalists from Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town to determine which of them has what it takes to be the winner in December 2009. Read more >> In its second year, the MTV Africa Music Awards, with Zain, showcases the wealth of musical talent that Africa has to offer and provides the ultimate vehicle for young Africans to salute the African and international artists that rock their worlds. The 2009 winners will be unveiled on 10 October 2009 at the Indoor Arena, Moi International Sports Centre, Nairobi, Kenya. Read more >> Responding to a survey promoted across the DStv bouquet, radio and internet campaigns, All Africa Poker (AAP) TV will be located on channel 112 from 1 October 2009. It will be accessible to HD, dual view and DStv compact subscribers from 10.30pm , offering six hours of local and international poker content, along with give-aways and competitions, to its 1.6-1.8 million viewers a month. Read more >> AdVantage magazine has partnered with mobile business solutions provider Mobilitrix to add mobile functionality to print articles within the publication -digital downloads of selected content, surveys and other interactive applications are now available. 5 Oct 2009 11:24
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Not enough marketing budget? Frustrating isn't it? Tell me, I've been there. But, there is a solution to not only making a budget stretch but actually getting more money into the marketing kitty without having to beg the boss or the board for it. Read more >> PocketMedia is possibly one of the best return-on-investment communication mediums available to marketers today, providing cost-effective, targeted and user-friendly print communications specifically designed to be kept on person for continual ease of reference. Read more >>Advertising
After dominating the Pendoring advertising awards with 12 Golds and a Grand Prix, Draftfcb South Africa had an excellent showing at this weekend's Loerie Awards winning a total of 14 Loeries and two craft certificates. Read more >> To address the concerns expressed around the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act (RICA), Chillibush has introduced Knoppies, a cell phone character who forms part of a campaign to highlight the importance and requirements of the Act. Read more >> A Gallo Images specialist soccer photographer has been selected to provide photographic insights of the latest stadiums inspection tour with FIFA and the LOC. Read more >>The newly relaunched ABF Vital Support Fund has secured a sponsorship deal with Oracle Airtime Sales to the value of R150 000. Read more >>The recent ABF ten-pin bowling fundraiser held at the Brightwater Commons was a roaring success, with eight participating teams from various agencies including The Jupiter Drawing Room, MediaCompete, Adreach, Websend Digital and Oracle Airtime Sales. Read more >>Branding
Hello World Agency has been appointed to handle all publicity for the launch of Brutal Fruit's new flavour ‘Berryluscious'. This is the second time in two years that Hello World Agency has been chosen to direct a publicity campaign for the Brutal Fruit brand. Read more >>Historically, communication has been seen as a soft issue low on the priority list, but the revised King Report on corporate governance explores the subject comprehensively and elevates the significance of two-way communication between organisation and stakeholders. Read more >>Talk2Us, a specialist in internal communications, media relations, and brand positioning, has announced the appointment of Daniel Munslow to the position of Chief Strategic Communications Officer. Read more >> Consumers travelling along Rivonia Road in mid-September caught a glimpse of Foozi's branded foosball tables in action. Foozi hit the street with guerilla marketing tactics that got its target audience talking - and playing - foosball. Read more >>Personal branding is arguably the most powerful marketing tool of the 21st century. It has the potential to cut through the clutter, by providing a strong point of differentiation, and to deliver a strategic competitive advantage in a saturated market. Read more >>Digital
Nearly half the USA's small businesses are without websites and even those with sites feel they are struggling, according to 1,100 small businesses surveyed by Yola, one of the nation's largest free website builders. Read more >> RTL Nederland, part of the European entertainment network RTL Group, has launched a new online gaming platform offering a wide choice of casual games, supplied by SkillPod Media and supplemented with games from a selection of third-party games developers. Read more >>Inxmail Professional provides the best starting point for aligning email marketing to the needs of customers with the Inxmail Professional interface for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. CRM solution users can start benefiting from the advantages of Inxmail Professional immediately. Read more >>Education and Training |  |
To ensure that your organisation always collects its outstanding debt and never battles with its cashflow, CBM Training has put together a series of debt collection courses that can aid any collections department. Read more >>Advertisement: Most employees have a good understanding of sales, marketing and the operations side of the business, but struggle with the financial aspect. This is largely because most departments work independently of each other when it comes to finance, each focussing on their own budgets and targets. Read more >>Eventing
 The month of September has been exciting for Attica. As the new season begins, the days grow longer, the weather improves and people begin to emerge from hibernation, Attica is preparing for a hectic event season. Read more >>Developing long-lasting partnerships with innovative suppliers ensures that exhibitors remain at the forefront of current trends. Oasys Innovations has partnered SARCDA Trade Exhibitions in creating successful trade shows for over twenty-five years. Read more >> Both the agency and video teams at TEC are inundated with work, having recently been awarded a host of projects from a variety of corporate clients. Read more >> In celebration of World Maritime day, 25 September 2009, the Department of Transport hosted various festivities at Lagoon Beach Hotel in Cape Town. Eventscape contracted the services of AV Direct to supply all the audiovisual and camera equipment for both parts of the day's activities. Read more >>Intra-Africa Business Symposium seeks to highlight the business opportunities available in post-conflict countries. It will also touch on the economic reforms that have been implemented to create an enabling business environment. Read more >>Conference Speakers International will presenting Speakers Showcase 2009 to top corporate clients and professional conference organisers on 27th October 2009 at the MonteCasino Ballroom and is inviting you to join them. Read more >>Approached by Avusa Media, Callit-IT assisted with the The Sowetan Journey held at Avusa Media offices and the Gautrain service station in Midrand. The primary purpose of the event was to introduce and relaunch the new Sowetan brand to their trade clients. Read more >>Avusa Media recently ran a Work In Life Roadshow to present the results of the Sunday Times 2009 Work In Life survey to all their human resources clients. Read more >>Missing Link have further cemented their move into the conference space by winning four consecutive pitches, for two very important clients - First National Bank and Coca-Cola. Read more >>Exhibitions
 Three City Events will be launching Kids Indaba alongside the award-winning baby and parenting expo, the SABC Education Baba Indaba, as of 2010. As a first for Africa Kids Indaba will cater for 6-12 year old children, a demographic which has remained largely unexplored. Read more >> The Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Wedding Inspirations magazine was a sellout success at The Wedding Expo on 5 and 6 September 2009. Read more >>Magazines
Rui Barbosa has been appointed National Sales Manager and Kevin Barker has been appointed Aviation Editor at luxury lifestyle magazine, Prestige. Read more >> Women's Health South Africa, the new women's lifestyle magazine published by Touchline Media in partnership with Rodale Inc, has named Kate Wilson editor of the magazine. Read more >>Mobile
MMS Marketing campaigns are set to take off over the next five years with annual growth rates reaching 94 percent, hitting $87 million by 2014 according to a new report. Read more >>Newspapers
 Angela Quintal has been appointed editor of The Mercury from November 1 2009. Presently Executive Editor on The Star, Quintal will succeed David Canning, who retired earlier this year, but remained on as editor at the company's request. Read more >>Online Media
Stonewall+ Media, a digital media agency, was recently appointed by G2 Certified Used Cars, to manage their digital media campaign to not only increase brand awareness but to drive traffic to the website. Read more >>Advertisement: One of the many things that Quirk has been up to recently is the running of a four-week Introduction to eMarketing course at the Maharishi Invincibility Institute of Management in Johannesburg, which was designed specifically for the institute's students. Read more >>Out Of Home
 DStv employed the services of Moving Ads South Africa to promote one of their top-class entertainment bouquets - DStv Indian. Read more >>Production
 Production house Frieze Films - as part of the team that delivered the Loerie Awards 2009 Grand Prix for Channel O - is celebrating along with the agency that created the ad, Ogilvy Johannesburg. Read more >> The DStv ‘Guess Who's Been Watching?' campaign has won awards from US to Ireland and now the South African Loerie award judges have also recognised their brilliance. The campaign was awarded a Silver Loerie and one of the ads, ‘Lunch Box', was singled out for a Loerie Craft for Direction. Read more >> All stole the show to make up the infamous Velocity Loeries Party. See the mayhem for yourself. And no, there isn't a Velocity party lost property box. Read more >> TV commercials director Jeana Theron has joined Bouffant. Jeana has recently returned from Los Angeles where she completed the Judith Weston directing actor's course, following in the footsteps of world-renowned directors of feature films such as Babel, 21 Grams and WALL-E. Read more >>Riverstone's director and co-founder, Jeremy Holden, and TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg won a Loeries Craft certificate in the Animation category for his Neotel television commercial. Read more >> Clearwater has taken delivery of the first of two RED One 4k Digital Cinema cameras. To exploit the spectacular image quality of the cameras, Clearwater also managed to source a set of Bausch & Lomb Super Baltar prime lenses from a DOP in Los Angeles. Read more >> Anton Visser directed Chicken Licken “Singing Burger” which won silver in the TV category along with Adrian de sa Garces who won silver for his Chicken Licken “Morning after”, both directed for Net#work BBDO. Greg Gray won two bronzes for BMW “Diver” and the Windhoek “Keep it real” campaign. Velocity also won a bronze for their new CI. Read more >> Erik van Wyk commercials director at Bouffant and Ogilvy have won Gold in the TV category for the BP 2010 campaign titled “SA United”. Read more >> Giant Films congratulates all the Loerie Award Winners and Giant's own Bruno Bossi and Foxp2 for their Loerie for MWeb "Lost". Read more >>Picture Tree's Alan Irvin clocked up a Silver and Bronze at this year's Loeries for Vodacom's Player 23 spots that he directed for Draftfcb. Read more >>Promotions
This winter DStv took advantage of the mass migration indoors by punting their “DStv Compact” product. DStv Compact is a limited viewing service available at a lower monthly premium, which is targeted at the LSM 5-8 market. Read more >>Public Relations
Taryn Fritz Public Relations has been awarded the Ndalo Media account, which includes handling all the communications for the group's DESTINY, DESTINY Man and SportsTeen magazines plus interactive social networking sites DestinyConnect, DestinyMan.com and sportsteen.com. Read more >>Radio
 With an overwhelming 60% of all public votes received for the Heart 104.9FM Presidential Campaign, Debbie Damant walked away with the presidency for the Republic of Cape Town last week Wednesday. The Presidential Campaign formed part of the station's new brand campaign, which aims to increase Cape Town pride. Read more >>Sponsorship
Johannesburg's Goodman Gallery is to host the third Boardbank SA networking session on the 6th of October. It offers young skilled black professionals an opportunity to engage with an arts organisation in a real and effective way, by providing the opportunity to voluntarily sit on its Board. Read more >>TV
 South Africa's first independent 24-hour news service will launch on DStv's premium and compact bouquets in southern Africa. Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Malawi will be able to receive the eNews channel on DStv (channel 403) from 3 October. Read more >> e.tv has announced Debora Patta's resignation as eNews Editor-in-Chief, following her decision to focus solely on 3rd Degree. Debora Patta took over as eNews chief in 2005, but stayed on as host and executive producer of her brainchild, 3rd Degree. Read more >>
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  More  The three finalists to play on the main stage at Rocking the Daisies 2009, as voted by the fans are She Man Lion, Sean Hayz Band and Jinx. These three bands will each get the opportunity to battle it out for the final prize live on stage at the Rocking the Daises festival.
 Lalela Music (Zulu for “listen”), a music library for film and television recently launched in Johannesburg. The library will be promoted internationally as a source for film and TV music. Alan Lazar, composer of “African Dream” and ex-Mango Groover is the driving force behind Lalela. Now based in Los Angeles, Lazar has composed music for top shows such as Sex and the City and Emmy-nominated An American Crime.
 [Kershin Padayachee] By ‘Old school', I am referring not to a style of music, but rather to an era when musicians were held in high regard for the immense quality of music which they produced. Have you noticed that many bands out there are sticking to the same key, same song structure, and same worn-out lyrics, blasted over the airwaves to near distortion. Sure there are some killer bands out there that are constantly changing the face of the music and I can certainly name quite a few. But there comes a time in a man's life when his soul craves for something different, yet vaguely familiar from an era thought to have long gone. You have to ask yourself ‘Whatcha gonna do?'
 [Kershin Padayachee] Finally, some decent gigs are taking place in my neck of the woods. And so, last Wednesday night, with the next day being National Braai day, I found that I had no excuse, but to partake in the festivities and check out the local talent at Stones in Table View. Fortunately for a late-bird such as myself, gigs never start when expected. This gave me enough time to grab a drink and chat to some of the line-up before the show kicked off.
 [Sindy Peters] The Red Bull RADAR competition will, in roughly two weeks, reach its climax when the winning band/artist will record a four-track demo at the Red Bull Studio in Cape Town, with return flights paid for, along with accommodation and meals. They'll also win a slot at Rocking the Daisies 2010.
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