3 Oct 2011

Marketing & Media | South Africa

 
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First, some housekeeping: if you've been wondering what, when and how to send your contributor pieces and general news and press releases to Bizcommunity, especially now that we have launched 16 more content channels with corresponding newsletters, wonder no further! Take a look at our guide, "How to contribute to Bizcommunity, from op-ed pieces to news" and all should become clearer. (If not, let me know.)

Secondly, on to the industry news: this week it's the turn of Gill Moodie to give the scoop on Scoop!, Media24's new Sunday tabloid that launches towards the end of October 2011 with Peet Bothma at the helm; Mike Abel has issued a challenge to the ad industry to make far better television work over the coming year, after an unmemorable showing at this year's Loeries for TVCs; Herman Manson chats to Godfrey Morley on transforming the ad agency business at Draftfcb Cape Town; and oh, yes, just in case you've not heard, Prakash Desai has indeed left the building - Avusa's, that is. Business Day editor Peter Bruce believes that the chickens have come home to roost. Sjoe.

Thirdly, congrats to Daily Maverick's Ivo Vegter, who is a nominated finalist for the international Bastiat Prize, up against journalists from the likes of The Economist, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal etc. The prize was launched in 2002 by the International Policy Network and is inspired by 19th century French philosopher Frederic Bastiat, who emphasised the quality of argument in putting forward free-market ideas. We'll be rooting for you, come Wednesday 2 November!

Moer hulle!
Simone Puterman (@SimoneBiz)
Managing editor

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How to contribute to Bizcommunity, from op-ed pieces to news
Bizcommunity.com has now expanded its operations into 16 new sectors and will soon venture into another 17, providing a whole new range of target audiences for advertisers. The most critical aspect of this is the quality of content and this is a formal invitation to you to become a recognised contributor on Bizcommunity. Read more >>


Marketing


Content marketing contributes substantially to the bottom line
[Tseko Shibambu] The advent of the Internet has brought with it opportunities and new marketing techniques. Sales people offer prospects face-to-face and verbal communication which depends on their innate ability to be successful. Content marketing provides online information that the public needs in order to make the right decisions. Read more >>


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Special focus on media freedom


Protests on POIB in line with intl concerns
The current public interest defence to the Protection of Information Bill and its collection and disclosure of classified information is very much in line with foreign practice. This is according to Brigit Rubinstein, a director in the Dispute Resolution practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in Cape Town. Read more >>


Advertising


Ad and media industries need to prove relevence
[Chris Moerdyk: @chrismoerdyk] Unless South African consumers can be convinced of the importance of advertising to the economy and its crucial role in keeping prices down, government will continue to target the ad industry with "politically safe" ad bans and restrictions. Read more >>


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Remember all those wonderful TV commercials?
[Mike Abel] As I sat in the Loeries audience on the Sunday night a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't help but wonder why I had seen very little to nothing that took my breath away. There was not a single television ad where I could apply that old test of saying, "I wish we had done that!" Read more >>


Clients say "screw the line" - Godfrey Morley
[Herman Manson: @marklives] Godfrey Morley has been running Draftfcb Cape Town for a little over a year. As someone who has spent most of his career on the client side of the table, Morley brings a strong focus on business transformation to the agency. Read more >>


New jury, categories for Art Directors Club awards
The Art Directors Club has announced its jury for the 2012 awards, which will shortly open online for submissions. Deadlines for entry are 20 January 2012 for design, photography, illustration and interactive, 3 February 2012 for student and 10 February 2012 for advertising and integrated. Read more >>


Branding

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Future of brands in today's market multidimensional shifting trends
[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] The future of brands, including the creation and communication of a brand's true meaning to consumers is, according to independent marketing and branding strategist Dr. Thomas Oosthuizen, being affected by informed consumers, media proliferation. Read more >>


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Politicians' words can damage nation brand
[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] "Every time politicians open their mouths, whatever they say has the potential to market or de-campaign their countries," Zimbabwe deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara said, speaking at the Brand Africa Summit on Thursday 29 September 2011, at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Read more >>


Reinvent yourself in this digital world, brands are told
[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] "Brands needs to reinvent themselves in this new digital world and find new ways to re-engage consumers in order to enhance brand loyalty, otherwise, consumers will desert them," Alexandre Michelin, MSN executive producer for Europe, Middle East and Asia, said on Wednesday 27 September 2011, at the 2011 Brand Summit hosted in Bryanston, Johannesburg, by CompuBrand and Microsoft Advertising. Read more >>


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Economic limitations hampering broadband development - IIC conference
[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] Delegates from various parts of South Africa and the rest of the world are currently meeting at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg, for the 42nd International Institute of Communications (IIC) conference, which aims at discussing, among others, issues of broadband development and digital services. Read more >>


User experience as an online competitive strategy
[Farai Madzima] A difficult-to-use website or mobile application can easily corrode customers' impressions of a brand and shifting units definitely won't solve the problem. In the South African online market where usability (ease of use) is seen by many as an optional extra, spending on improving the usability of a product is a wise investment that can yield significant returns. Read more >>


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Magazines


Forbes Africa magazine launched
The latest edition of Forbes Magazine, Forbes Africa which was launched on Wednesday 28 September 2011, will be available at selected retailers across the country, including CNA and Exclusive Books from 1 October 2011. The first Forbes Africa cover features South African mining tycoon, Patrice Motsepe, and his views on nationalisation. Read more >>


Media

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Vodacom Journalist of the Year: western region winners
The winners of the western region for the 2011 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards were revealed early last week, at a breakfast event held in Cape Town. These awards aim to celebrate distinction by giving recognition to the individuals who continually dedicate their lives to report the news. Read more >>


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Media inflation show TV gains, while print loses
Media Manager Online has produced its media inflation watch (MIW) data, described as South Africa's official media inflation statistics, for the period Jan-June 2011 with percentage comparisons to Jan-Jun 2010. Read more >>


Mobile


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Newspapers


EXCLUSIVE: Media24's new Sunday tabloid Scoop! aims for 1.6m readers
[Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] Media24 is launching a new English-language Sunday tabloid newspaper, called Scoop!, at the end of October 2011, Bizcommunity.com can reveal exclusively. It will be launched in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal under the guidance of Peet Bothma, the editor of the very successful Sondag tabloid. Read more >>


Online Media

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Cybercrime increase worries, vulnerable groups targeted
[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] The 2011 Norton Cyber Crime Report says 431 million adults worldwide fell victims to cybercrime last year. Women, disabled people, schoolchildren and job-seekers continue to fall victims of cybercrime, which has reached significant proportions in South Africa and the rest of the world, worrying governments, internet experts and scarring users. Read more >>


Out Of Home


Primedia Outdoor's most successful viral competition ends
[Primedia Outdoor] The Prime 5 Competition ended on the 8th of September after four weeks of prize giving. Read more >>


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PR & Communications


Finding an alternative to PR's broken business model
[Judith Middleton] How do you measure the value of PR? The ultimate business goal is to get the phone to ring, but PR is not sales and it's rare to be able to draw a direct link between a particular PR effort and a sale. The results show themselves in more subtle ways, in reputation and in visibility. Read more >>


Help the media, and help yourself
[San Reddy] Editors everywhere - at least, traditional media ones - must be quaking in their boots. The advent of the Internet was difficult enough to survive. But the revolution that is social media, accompanied by the great technological strides of recent times, mean that media is more democratic and less in the hands of a journalistic elite than it has ever been. Read more >>


Printing


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Recruitment

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Beware of job hunting and employment scams in classifieds
[Bronwyn Johnson] In a tight economic market, online recruitment ads seems to offer a quick way to earn money but we believe that the jobs section in classifieds has one of the highest percentages of scams, averaging around 70%. Read more >>


Research

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Using research to justify your internal communication budgets
[Daniel Munslow] Many organisations are busy developing their annual financial budgets. Now more than ever, companies are asking for tangible return on investment for their communication programmes, and a justification on budgets spent. When presenting their plans to the board, they are being required to show a shift in attitudes and behaviours in the workplace - or impact - as opposed to the production of material, or output. Read more >>


Retail


TV


BBC Worldwide's SA audiences up, summer programme showcased
[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] BBC Worldwide audiences in South Africa have significantly increased over the past year, with BBC Entertainment experiencing a whopping 31% growth, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Knowledge scooping 8% each. Viviane Paxinos, BBC Worldwide director of entertainment and branded content, said on Wednesday 27 September 2011, in Johannesburg at an event showcasing the channels' summer programme. Read more >>



International news
Malaysian to pay $31,000 over Facebook defamation
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court has ordered a man to pay 100,000 ringgit ($31,000) for defaming a mechanics' training centre on Facebook, his lawyer said Saturday (1 October 2011). Read more >>


Adverts remind Indians 'daughters bring joy'
NEW DELHI: Full-page colour advertisements in leading newspapers reminded Indians on Friday (30 September 2011) that "daughters bring joy to life" in a campaign designed to tackle the country's worsening gender imbalance. Read more >>


WAN-IFRA hosts media conference in Vietnam
HANOI: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has organised its first conference in Vietnam, with more than 140 Vietnamese media stakeholders gathered in Hanoi this week for a look at business strategies from a wide variety of markets worldwide. Read more >>


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Camsoft receives Maximizer EMEA Partner Of The Year award - Maximizer
Maximizer Software has announced that local CRM provider Camsoft Solutions has received its EMEA Partner Of The Year award. Read more >>


A guide to surviving tough times - Chris Moerdyk
Global economic chaos and talks of double-dip recessions, it's no wonder that South African businesses are concerned about what is in store for them in the months and years ahead. So, there is no better time than to consider that in marketing terms the best possible way to ensure that the future does not hold any nasty surprises is to go back to basics. Read more >>


Borders open as African Marketing Confederation sweeps in - IMM Graduate School of Marketing
The launch of the African Marketing Confederation heralds a new era in knowledge-sharing in Africa. Helen McIntee, director of the Institute of Marketing Management (IMM) and president of the African Marketing Confederation (AMC), says that an umbrella body for Pan African marketing associations and institutions has long been in the pipeline. Read more >>


Advertising


The ABF embraces the 80's for its Annual Crazy Golf Day - Advertising Benevolent Fund
The ABF Vital Support Fund will host its Crazy Golf day on 16 November at the Kyalami Golf Course. Get dressed for success for this year's theme, any 1980s TV series. Read more >>


The power of advertising to faith-based products - The Southern Cross
[Chris Moerdyk] South Africa has a rich and powerful market segment that has so far been untapped and which is relatively cheap to reach. It is the faith-based sector, which might at first glance, appear to be diverse and complex but which in fact, has far more similarities and differences. And what's more, it is a market segment that is by its very nature, honest, reliable and trustworthy. Read more >>


Saatchi & Saatchi animates Curious Times for UCT Graduate School of Business - Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town has developed an animated short film to introduce Executive Education, a sub-brand of the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB), by showing how curiosity grows with new discoveries and in return rewards one. Read more >>


A perfect fit for your social media campaigns - Billads
Brands are now able to go directly to the heart of the matter and engage with their consumers directly via numerous social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter. Read more >>


Y&R appoints seasoned strategic expert, Mike Cathie - Young & Rubicam
Marketing-savvy Mike Cathie has joined Y&R as Group Executive Strategy Director, bringing a wealth of knowledge across various disciplines and brands to the agency. Read more >>


Euro RSCG gets top award for gender empowerment success - Euro RSCG
Euro RSCG was recently chosen as winner of the Media and Social Media Award at Topco Media's 8th Annual Top Women Awards - an award given to the company in recognition of its excellent work with regards to gender empowerment. Read more >>


Bester Burke and Yardley wish Bokke good luck - Bester Burke
Yardley Gold is a favourite aftershave for men that will be making a comeback for a limited launch in March 2012. Bester Burke put together a tactical Green & Gold advert, wishing the Bokke good luck for the 2011 RWC Tournament. Read more >>


Absa rugby sponsorships score with fans and customers alike - Mortimer Harvey
With exciting rugby sponsorship properties such as the Springboks and the Absa Currie Cup, Absa had the perfect opportunity to 'own' rugby during 2011. And that's exactly what happened. They launched with a bold Absa Card campaign early in the year and then spiked with Absa Savings & Investments offers until the end of the year. Read more >>


Pyrotec 2011 Pyro Inspiration Awards - Pyrotec
Pyrotec has announced the September finalists for the 2011 Pyro Inspiration Awards. Initiated by Pyrotec in 2008, the awards seek to recognise exceptional on-pack solutions and to establish on-pack as a rightful stand-alone media category. Read more >>


TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris at the Loeries - TBWA\South Africa
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris is back from another successful weekend at the Loeries Festival, held in Cape Town from 16-18 September, armed with a fistful of awards. Read more >>


Branding


Brand Inc talks Big Business @ FNB's BizNetwork - Brand inc
Brand Inc was chosen by Entrepreneur Magazine and FNB to be the featured case study and the subject focus of this quarter's National FNB BizNetwork Event. Read more >>


34 to the power of 1 - 34
34 has been classified a level 1 B-BBEE contributor by Emex Trust, a SANAS accredited BEE verification agency. Read more >>


Branding, Bloy and Blockbuster - Chatroom
"If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land..." It could become the theme song of Bloy Resource Evaluation. The mineral resource evaluation consultancy, formerly known as BMRE, has introduced a new brand design for the company as well as for their interrelated Grade Control software. Read more >>


Havas Sports & Entertainment innovates to help Citroën select their new ambassadors - Havas Sports & Entertainment
Havas Sports & Entertainment conceptualised a novel and exciting digital campaign using Facebook and Twitter to drive fans to the Citroën South Africa Facebook page to vote for a celebrity who they thought should represent the innovative brand. Read more >>


Springbok fans unite to bid the Boks farewell! - 34
34Sport, the agency behind SA Rugby's Springbok Fans Unite 2011 drive, recently organised the nationwide Fans' Farewell event, which not only united the Springboks and their fans but focused international media on South Africa once again. Read more >>


Johnny Cash, Audrey Hepburn, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Madonna and Barrack Obama - Tag 8 Media
What do all these icons have in common? A pair of Ray-Bans, of course. Ray-Ban has launched a nationwide campaign across South Africa's top universities to look for the next generation of cool. Conceptualised and executed by alternative media specialists, Tag 8 Media, the campaign involves the use of a coffee cup sleeve bearing a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. Read more >>


Exciting new client wins for Havas Sports & Entertainment - Havas Sports & Entertainment
The Havas Sports & Entertainment team has had success in the events and activations industry with their creative strategic approach, and this has resulted in them winning a number of new clients. Read more >>


Brand Alive appointed to Servest Group - Brand Alive
brandalive has been appointed to handle internal brand engagement and communication for the Servest Group, encompassing its six divisional companies, including Servest Cleaning, Servest Hygiene, Servest Office Plants, Servest Landscaping, Servest Security and Servest Turf. Read more >>


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Kaelo Stories of Hope a big draw at Soweto Festival - Kaelo Worldwide Media
The engaging e.tv series, Kaelo Stories of Hope, drew a big crowd at the popular Soweto Festival over the Heritage Day weekend. Read more >>


Digital


IT Personality, Visionary CIO finalists named - ITWeb
The five finalists for the 2011 IT Personality and Visionary CIO of the Year awards have been named Read more >>


Relationship Marketing: The way to go in digital marketing - Digital Fire
Maintaining the relationships you have begun with your clients is just as important as getting new clients on board for your service or product. In the world of digital marketing, a brand has to operate on an entire new value system in order to attract and keep the interest of potential clients. This in a term is called 'Relationship Marketing'. Read more >>


Facebook facelift: what Facebook's recent and upcoming changes mean for brands - FGX Studios
Facebook recenly began rolling out a number of new features that will drastically impact on the way content is shared and displayed in users' newsfeeds. FGX Engage is on hand to make sense of these changes and find new ways to make your brand more relevant in the social sphere. Read more >>


Where Purple Cows do roam: Cape Town Heritage Day 2011 - Purple Cow Communications
[Joanne Brent] Heritage Day is a day that celebrates our country's diverse culture, while still uniting South Africans through the tongue-in-cheek media campaign that created "National Braai Day" in 2005. Need I say more? Even Icelanders know to give Saffas their space to make a fire and burn assortments of meat come the 24th of September. Read more >>


Digitail - TBWA\South Africa
Digital technology, cell phones in particular, has changed the way we interact with each other, the way we travel, the way we work and the way we think. It's only obvious that it will drastically change the way we shop. Read more >>


Email marketing for the car industry - Digital Fire
How employing an email marketing strategy for a car brand can increase revenue and relationships with your client. Read more >>


Social media myths - aquaonline
[Brent Shahim] Social media has changed the way we communicate. David Kau contextualised its influence in a recent performance when he quipped: "If Facebook existed in the Fifties, Apartheid would've lasted three weeks!" There's no doubt we're in the midst of a social revolution. Read more >>


Yellow Pages goes digital - Trudon
Trudon (Publishers of the Yellow Pages) has worked tirelessly to produce advertiser-centric products, all aimed at ensuring that their advertisers enjoy a seamless transition into the digital space as well as ensuring that advertisers enjoy multi-media coverage across the various Yellow Pages platforms at an affordable rate. Read more >>


Education & Training


Vega offers exciting short learning programmes during October 2011: Think about it! - Vega School
Vega offers Photography SLP's, ranging from Compact Digital Photography and Intermediate Photography to Master Classes in e.g. Wedding-, Fine Art- and Portrait Photography. Read more >>


Mr Not Convinced gets owned - The Learning Theatre
We recently had a meeting with a rather sceptical prospect. Sceptical in terms of whether or not industrial theatre can add value in terms of learning and behavioural change. Our prospect, let's call him Mr Not Convinced, argued that industrial theatre only serves to communicate social messages such as HIV/Aids awareness to the masses. Read more >>


Choosing a career that fits modern business - IMM Graduate School of Marketing
Determining which career path to follow is a hot topic, no matter who you are. Almost everyone grapples with "what to do for the rest of your life". It's one of those ongoing questions everyone has to face. Read more >>


Events & Conferencing


The highly anticipated TomTom end of year and Product Launch - Kadoro Events & Communications
First class events seldom have a balance between the client's brief and the celebratory aspect of the function. Kadoro Events and Communications managed to pull it off. Read more >>


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EMRC calls key players to partner for Agribusiness Forum 2011 - EMRC
[EMRC] Private sector partnerships viewed as key to ensure success for Africa's Agri-Food sector as EMRC launches AgriBusiness Forum titled "Engaging the Private Sector for Africa's Agri-Food Growth". Read more >>


3D Expo Domes will activate your brand - 3D Deco
Activate your brand with an attention-grabbing exhibition stand: the Expo Dome. These quick-to-assemble structures can be easily spotted in indoor centres and are perfect for long outdoor use as they are waterproof and durable with a PVC cover. Read more >>


Exhibitions


Love your home - HOMEMAKERS
Join the Durban HOMEMAKERS Expo at the Durban Exhibition Centre in Durban between 6 and 9 October. Read more >>


Get crafty with CBeebies' Mister Maker at The Baby Expo MamaMagic - The Baby Expo - MamaMagic
At this year's The Baby Expo MamaMagic in Cape Town CBeebies' Mister Maker will entertain the kids with his crafty skills. Read more >>


Confex: an alternative for improving ROI - Complete Exhibitions
[Nigel Walker] No-one can afford to - or at least should not be allowed to - undertake any activity whose benefits are less than the resources utilised to undertake it. Organising an exhibition, participating in an exhibition, or commissioning a designer stand should be no different. Read more >>


Magazines


CLASSICFEEL exclusive: A fashion first with David Tlale and SA Mint - DeskLink Media
Put innovative fashion designer, David Tlale, and the SA Mint together and you get a fashion creation unlike any other, a fusion of luxurious fabrics and precious metals, couture catwalk trendsetting with a powerful conservation message. Find out more about this extraordinary collaboration in the October edition of CLASSICFEEL magazine. Read more >>


DRUM presents: Cooking with Siba - goes global! - Media24 Weeklies
The popular cooking TV series, DRUM presents: Cooking with Siba, will be broadcast internationally. From Wednesday, 5 October, the series will be on Britain's new Africa Channel. Read more >>


Media


Shutha.org: free online training for Majority World photographers and multimedia storytellers - Africa Media Online
The need for training and the lack of financial resources were recurring laments among speakers at Highway Africa 2009. HA2011 sees the introduction of Shutha.org, a new and free online resource aimed at enabling photo-journalists from Africa and the Majority World to understand, access and produce for local and international markets. Read more >>


Mobile


Strike Media is the foremost ranked mobile marketing agency - Strike Media
The 2011 Loerie official ranking by digital agency places Strike Media as the number one mobile marketing agency in SA. Strike Media assisted Lowe Bull in winning a bronze Loerie for an inventive campaign for their client, Independent Newspapers. Read more >>


Online Media


Sport LIVE goes live - Avusa Media LIVE
Captained by award-winning journalist, David Isaacson, Sport LIVE is a sports website which offers comprehensive, up-to-the-minute sports news and results on everything from rugby to golf, soccer to cycling, tennis to cricket. Read more >>


Private Property flights its first TV advert - Private Property Holdings
While many businesses are pulling back on advertising expenditure, Privateproperty.co.za is busy rolling out a new and exciting advertising campaign. The campaign will be broadcasted via television, radio and online through the Privateproperty.co.za Facebook fan page. Read more >>


Out Of Home


ADreach salutes Loerie Winners - ADreach
Showcasing the power of street pole ads as a tactical medium, ADreach launched a campaign that leveraged the Loerie creative campaign to congratulate this year's winning agencies. Read more >>


Get your braai on! - Expand a Sign International
Unilever's dried herb and spice brand, Robertson's, joined up with 5fm to create a 'Bring & Braai' Day. Expand a Sign was asked to brand the event. Read more >>


Printing


An Orange spin on an economic downturn - Fishwicks Printers
Although there have been no real groundbreaking technological developments in the print industry lately, Fishwicks has shown great initiative and innovation to counteract the negative effects of the economic downturn. It was all about finding means to increase value-added benefits for customers. Read more >>


Production


Velocity Loeries party video - Velocity
Velocity celebrated the Loeries with ta party held at The Grand Café and Beach restaurant. Read more >>


Pixel Foundry invests in state-of-the-art photography equipment - Pixel Foundry
The Pixel Foundry has made a notable investment in the very latest photography equipment from Phase One with the purchase of two IQ180's, IQ140 and P40+ digital backs - providing their photographers with innovative tools to enhance their creativity on every project. Read more >>


Garon Campbell picks up Bronze Loerie - Propeller Films
Young Propeller Films director Garon Campbell has won another award for his Ster-Kinekor "Bully" charity commercial - this time a Bronze Loerie in the Student category at the 2011 Loerie Awards in Cape Town. Read more >>


Accolades for Cape Town photographer Matthys Van Lill - Pixel Foundry
Cape Town photographer Matthys Van Lill was honoured as part of the production and design team recently, when the Saatchi & Saatchi recipe book for Sasko Flour won a Bronze Loerie Award in the Food/Retail/Snacks sector. Read more >>


Recruitment


You're hired! Now what? - RecruitMi
You've been given a new opportunity - here's how to handle the resignation period, your last days at your current company and start off on a good foot at the new one. Read more >>


Social media recruiting - an essential addition to the recruitment mix - Careers24
Careers24 has created a Facebook plug-in to extend online recruitment activities for clients. Read more >>


The National Health Insurance System and you - Softline VIP
The National Health Insurance (NHI) System that has been proposed by the South African Government is set to be implemented in 2013 and will span a 12-year implementation period, says Rob Cooper, a Payroll tax expert at Softline VIP, part of the Sage Group plc. Read more >>


Research


Synovate's record rugby pass - Synovate
Global Market Research company, Synovate, is attempting to complete the longest rugby pass during the Rugby World Cup 2011. Read more >>


Video clips from Radio Works 2011 - Foshizi
Lebo Motshegoa recently made some waves with his presentations at Radio Works 2011. Here are some examples. Read more >>


Retail


Pyrotec launches all-in-one on-pack promo solutions product - Pyrotec
Pyrotec PackMedia, a division of Pyrotec, has released its MobileInteractive suite of mobile media options. MobileInteractive aims to provide a timesaving, cost-effective one-stop service that allows for seamless integration across on- pack campaigns. Read more >>


MX8's perfect partnering with Marin's - Marin's Southern Africa
Zodiac recently selected Marin's Southern Africa as their POS supplier. Read more >>


Marin's TKO's heavyweight - Marin's Southern Africa
Marin's introduces its latest product offering - the Cargo Lama, designed to display heavy-duty merchandise. Read more >>


Sponsorship


Exp signs major new business - Exp
Sponsorship and brand activation agency, Exp has experienced a major revenue spurt over the past few months, having grown the business by 26% for the year to date, after securing multiple pieces of new business. Read more >>




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Motoring
Chinese Geely is full of surprises
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Driving the little Chinese entry-level Geely GL for the first time is like expecting a dish of predictable sweet and sour pork and being served a delicious meat and prawn chow mein instead. Read more >>


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BizLounge
Deadmau5 SA tour
The Canadian progressive, electro and house music producer Deadmau5, will be performing at Ratanga Junction, Cape Town on Thursday, 1 December, at the Wavehouse, Durban (unhooked) on Friday, 2 December, and at Wildwaters H2O, Joburg on Saturday, 3 December, 2011. Read more >>


Jim Beam bourbon has gone cherry
[Evan-Lee Courie] Red Stag, the newest addition to the Jim Beam range of bourbon whisky, was recently launched in South Africa. I had the opportunity to have a taste of the new kid on the block. Read more >>


Red Hot Chilli Peppers "live" concert at Ster Kinekor - Win tickets
American band, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers will be bringing a "live" recording of their "I'm With You" concert to the big screen on 30 September and 1 and 2 October, 2011, exclusively at select Ster-Kinekor theatres. Read more >>


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New accounts
  • Greater Than appointed to launch Claudia Mohr's debut album - more info
  • New accounts for Havas Sports & Entertainment - more info
  • Offlimit Communications wins Coca Cola SA account - more info
  • Magna Carta PR appointed by Azuri - more info
  • Bush Radio 89.5 FM appoints Merle Falken Inclusive - more info
  • Cape Town Bike Festival appoints CSA - more info
  • New account wins for Fora Productions - more info


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