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It's a big week for the industry, with the One Club's
One Show Creative Week kicking off in New York today. In addition to the two main award nights this week, our roving reporter Ann Nurock will be providing feedback from the ADC's 96th Annual Awards taking place this evening, as well as The One Club Young Ones Awards, The One Club Creative Summit and a handful of exclusive interviews. Keep an eye on our
special section for the latest updates, like my interview with FCB Africa's creative director Suhana Gordhan on
judging the One Show's direct marketing entries and how diversity forms a golden thread through all the One Show touches...
Keeping with international award news, Cannes Lions is next on the calendar, taking place in June, with
10 South African creatives elected as jurors across the various panels. Keep an eye out for the judges' feedback and more of Nurock's live reporting in just a few weeks' time.
On the local award front, Prisa announced the winners of the
20th annual Prism Awards at The Park House of Events On 7 in Johannesburg this past weekend, following its two-day annual conference. Danette Breinbach attended and noticed a
rise of independents. You can also click
here for more on
lifetime achiever Sej Motau and his career of giving back to the industry
here for more on the overall gold campaign winner of the year and what it says of the
future PR agency model and
here for the first of our conference feedback, with Jessica Tennant sharing a glimpse into the
online newsroom, from Marion Scher's perspective.
We also have highlights and insights of the
AdForum Worldwide Summit 2017 from IAS CEO Johanna McDowell. Held at the end of April, IAS represented South Africa for the ninth consecutive year, with more than 40 international consultants visiting more than 25 agencies during Summit week.
In addition to this, we have exclusive interviews with all of SA's
D&AD winners and May is
#AfricaMonth here on Biz, so you can expect interviews and commentary on continent-wide innovation over the next few weeks.
Pour a cup of something warm to ward off the chill and get reading!
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 | Danette Breitenbach MP Sejamothopo "Sej" Motau has been honoured for his Lifetime Achievement at the 2017 Prism Awards held on Saturday evening at The Park House of Events on 7 at the Hyde Park Shopping Centre in Sandton. read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach This year's Prism Awards' most successful winners are all independent agencies - from Clockwork Media with 12 awards, PR Worx with 11, Atmosphere with 10 and Engage Joe Pubic with 5... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Tribeca Public Relations and Retroviral's RocoMamas #ElectionBurger has been crowned the 2017 Prism Awards' South African Campaign of the Year... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach This Saturday the public relations (PR) industry will celebrate 20 years of the Prism Awards. Entries have grown since the first Prism Awards in 1997, and today over 200 entries are received on average, annually... read |
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 | Maurice Levy, CEO and chairman of Publicis Groupe has been appointed as honorary chairman of the Cannes Lions School... read |
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 | Cannes Lions Media honours Sir Lucian Grainge as their Media Person of the Year 2017 at the annual festival... read |
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 | Robin Fredericks A panel of travel bloggers and influencers gathered at WTM Africa 2017, to chat about the do's and don'ts of influencer marketing and the use of social media as a destination marketing tool... read |
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 | Local carpooling app company, uGoMyWay launch Carpool Wednesdays to help South African motorists save money and time... read |
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 | Chantal Riley How did a little movie in a notoriously unprofitable genre that nobody wanted to make, become not just an instant hit but completely alter the entire movie-making universe? read |
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 | Despite the existing economic doldrums and the undercurrent of political uncertainty, big business leaders are surprisingly confident about Africa's growth prospects... read | |  | Sindy Peters A bit of patience and manners is some of what's required to be successful in the African context, says Jean-Jacques Pierre Oelofse, Wood-Mizer corporate director for emerging markets... read | |  | Sluggish growth, leading to stagnant global trade, subdued investment and increasing policy uncertainty worldwide, are just a few of the challenges facing the global economy... read | |  | Additional investments in science, technology, and innovation in Africa will improve health, spur economic growth, and reduce poverty across the continent... read | |
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 | Leigh Andrews With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky lot. FCB Africa's joint-CCO, Jonathan Deeb, talks about the colour and content of their D&AD pencil box... read | |  | Leigh Andrews With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky lot. Lawrence Katz, creative director at DDB, talks about the colour and content of their D&AD pencil box... read | |  | Leigh Andrews With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky winners. CEO and chief creative officer at Native VML Jason Xenopoulos talks about the colour and content of their first D&AD pencil box... read | |  | Leigh Andrews With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky lot. Jenny Glover, ECD at TBWA Hunt Lascaris, talks about the colour and content of their D&AD pencil box as the top performing individual agency in SA... read | | Issued by Ogilvy & Mather | |  | Leigh Andrews With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky winners. Ogilvy SA CCO Pete Case talks about the colour and content of their D&AD pencil box... read | |  | Leigh Andrews With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky winners. FoxP2's creative founding partner and ECD Justin Gomes talks about the colour and content of their D&AD pencil box... read | |  | Damon Stapleton Where do you find inspiration? As it happens, I found it on a windswept balcony overlooking Shoreditch... read | |
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 | The One Club for Creativity has announced the schedule for Creative Week, 8-12 May 2017, which more than 2,000 professionals, artists and students from 25 countries will attend... read |
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 | Major advertisers will be speaking at the FEPE International Congress, in Stockholm from 7-9 June 2017 where they'll be addressing global OOH challenges... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews FCB Africa's creative director, Suhana Gordhan, shares exclusive insights into judging the One Show's direct marketing entries and how even this reflects the organisation's strong drive for better diversity across the industry... read |
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 | IDidTht's April SA Film Reel was judged by multi-award-winning Tim Beckerling, creative director at Network BBDO Johannesburg, who selected Jakkals 13 by Ari Kruger at Your Girlfriend for Best of Reel for Direction Craft... read |
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 | Marthinus Van Loggerenberg Branded entertainment, a particular offshoot of content marketing, can be defined as a communication effort that employs a compelling authentic narrative to achieve brand resonance... read |
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 | Japanese gift and lifestyle retailer Shaddy's new ad campaign features the O. Henry short story, The Gift of the Magi... read |
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 | Andy Walker “Don't be evil” is a common phrase uttered by Google executives, but we can't help but think Facebook should perhaps adopt it too... read |
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 | Film/television actress and TV personality, Debi Mazar will host the 2017 New York Festivals International Advertising Awards that's taking place on Thursday, 18 May... read |
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 | Saatchi & Saatchi Australia won both the Grand Prix and the Product Innovation Special Award for Toyota Land Cruiser at the global Warc Innovation Awards... read |
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 | Three entries received the New York Festivals' grand award at the New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards, held at the annual Nab Show in Las Vegas... read |
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 | The nine winners of this year's Wan-Ifra's European Digital Media Awards will now go forward into the annual World Digital Media Awards... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This week we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with sometimes-skeptical technophile Masego Motsogi, MD at Ninety9cents' (99c) new Johannesburg agency, which opened its doors on 1 March 2017... read |
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 | Brendan Seery When it comes to marketing, I hate the expression “content producer” - the one which gets bandied around frequently these days as brands, or their agencies, start producing “content” for “consumers” on various “platforms”... read |
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 | Johan Walters Augmented reality campaigns are taking off internationally with progressive brands using the technology to turn every available surface into a virtual billboard. As cellphone manufacturers plough money into AR capability, local brands should be looking to do the same... read |
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 | As chatbots, cognitive technologies, and natural language understanding (NLU) take centre stage, having a workforce that can write these in the applicable language is essential... read |
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 | Ryan Kh Geo-targeting has the potential to dramatically increase the ROI of both local and global e-commerce digital marketing campaigns. However, according to the Econsultancy Cross-Channel Marketing Report, only 39% of marketing agencies are currently using it... read |
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 | The entries for Jozi Film Festival's ‘Discovery Channel Don't Stop Wondering Award' close on 31 May 2017... read |
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Lauren Durant, Issued by Isilumko Activate |
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 | The African Union Commission (AUC) has announced that entries to the 2017 All Africa Music Awards will open on Monday, 8 May 2017... read |
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 | Horizon 2020, the EU's framework for research and innovation, has selected Wan-Ifra to help facilitate the transfer to market of a new toolkit for modern journalism... read |
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 | The AFP charter has now been translated into Arabic, with Chinese versions soon to be published... read |
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 | Cape Town Chamber of Commerce and Industry regards newly revised draft bylaw, released by City of Cape Town, as still being way too complicated... read |
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 | Aki Kalliatakis In light of the recent news reports on bad customer service on airlines, Aki Kalliatakis from Leadership LaunchPad shares a number of ariline PR disasters and some lessons you can learn from them... read |
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 | Ann Crotty Novus Holdings's share price fell 3.68% to R7.85 on Tuesday after it announced the existing printing agreement with Media24 would not be terminated... read |
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 | The EU said on Thursday that Amazon had bowed to its demands and agreed to drop clauses requiring e-book publishers to disclose information... read |
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 | Issued by Ad Talent Brenda Bensted-Smith, CEO of Ad Talent, JHB and CT said, “It is time." Hugh Norval, owner of Turbine Design, was tasked with the refreshing of the Ad Talent corporate identity. read |
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 | Research done by Yonder Digital Group found that UK consumers are as likely to share a good experience as a bad one... read |
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 | Nicholas Kitonyi Some suggest that by taking the industrial revolution of 1760-1840 as the first one, we are currently in the fourth industrial revolution... read |
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 | Kobus Tosen A positive attitude and ability to sell means that a person will never be out of work. Here's how anyone can sell and communicate successfully and keep their enthusiasm intact... read |
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 | Shenaaz Jamal Press freedom is being increasingly compromised in Southern Africa, where journalists and media owners are being targeted for exposing the truth... read |
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 | The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) has expressed its concern regarding a spate of incidents that have the potential to erode media freedom in South Africa... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Lots of space has been given to the topic of sponsorships lately, with brands throwing their name, weight and money behind all and sundry - sporting events in particular. But few question whether they actually benefit the sponsor and the sponsored party alike... read |
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 | WASHINGTON, US: Twitter is launching a 24-hour streaming news channel in partnership with the Bloomberg Media, in a major expansion of the social media firm's video operations, the two firms announced Monday... read |
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 | BEIJING - China has issued new internet regulations increasing Communist party control over online news providers, the latest step in the country's push to tighten its policing of the web... read |
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 | WASHINGTON - Facebook said Wednesday it is hiring an extra 3,000 staff to root out violent content as the social media giant faces scrutiny for a series of killings and suicides broadcast on its platform... read |
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 | DUBAI - A Palestinian photographer with AFP, Jaafar Ashtiyeh, has won the prize for best photograph at an annual Arab journalism awards ceremony held in Dubai... read |
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 | A Russian cartoon channel said on Thursday that it would not air a The Simpsons episode about playing a game similar to Pokemon Go in a church that has been criticised by Orthodox clerics. read |
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 | Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa collectively attracted 58% of the continent's total FDI projects in 2016; as investment from the Asia-Pacific region into Africa hit an all-time high in 2016... read |
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 | For the princely sum of R30bn, Sibanye is now the proud owner of Stillwater Mining Company... read |
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 | Metropolitan has come out tops in the latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index for life insurance... read |
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