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Leigh Andrews Topics for inclusion, equality and diversity in the media sphere itself remained under the media spotlight this week as social media netizens celebrated Cosmopolitan South Africa's decision to place Laverne Cox on the cover, with their logo suitably rainbow-hued to show support of the LGBTQI+ community...read | 
Jessica Tennant In the 1970s, people were served about 300 ads a day. Today it's about 5,000 ads a day. It's a product-polluted world with smart consumers, where it's no longer about differentiation, but about multiple and meaningful connections, says Carmen Murray, founder of Boo-Yah!...read | 
Julia Breakey The South African Film and Television Awards (Safta) has announced its (very, very) long list of nominees, so buckle up, because here they are...read |
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 | Natasha Fourie Local industry research has been turned on its head leaving many agencies and clients really scrambling to build benchmarks for success and establishing a new normal... read | |  | Pete Case The reality of effectively marketing through the line, has for many years been an incredibly complex discussion. Our industry is constantly adapting to the changing needs of the consumer landscape and there are huge pressures that everyone is feeling on both agency and client side to deliver... read | |  | Gillian Rightford The truth is that almost everything has changed in the world of marketing communication - and those that own the data,
have the power... read | |  | Pilira Mwambala Ad operations professionals are now under immense pressure to upskill and provide data driven insights... read | |  | 2017 has been a very tough year for businesses and consumers. However, according to Morne Cronje, head of franchising at FNB Business, the franchise sector continues to perform well... read | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg If you're searching for proof that retail as we know it is changing, look no further than Shanghai's 24-hour, unstaffed, self-driving grocery store... read | |  | Bronwyn Williams Perhaps as a reaction to the disillusionment of adulthood, the millennial generation is looking back to the comforts of childhood brands and media as a balm for their collective pre-mid-life-crisis... read | |  | Gisela Seeley Those in leadership positions within the media industry face a daunting task. Technology has completely reshaped business and it's not done yet... read | |
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 | Damon Stapleton So, it's a balmy morning on 13 January 2018 in Hawaii. You can smell the hibiscus and you can see the early morning light dancing off those over-sized waves only the Pacific Ocean can bring. Life is good. As you stroll along the beach your phone makes a strange noise. You look down and squint a little to read the screen. It says that there are incoming missiles about to hit and the alarm is not a drill... read |
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 | Video advertising spend on YouTube and Facebook to grow by 130% in just 5 years... read |
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 | Iza Grek The blame for little to no representation of the LGBTQIA+ community in South African advertising lies squarely at the door of our 'conservative culture', writes Iza Grek... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris created an integrated campaign for Standard Bank to showcase its commitment to Regional Performance Centres (RPCs) and endeavour to move South African cricket forward... read |
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 | NEWSWATCH: Swedish clothing retailer H&M has recalled a line of children's socks after complaints from shoppers that a pattern on them appeared to resemble the word Allah written in Arabic... read |
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 | South African wine and beer producers as well as design studios are invited to enter the fourth annual Wine Label Design Awards and the inaugural Beer Label Design Awards... read |
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 | Alan Knott-Craig What is the one thing your kids can't live without? It's not water. It's not electricity. It's not school. It's the internet... read |
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 | Stephanie Walters Do you really need a big agency, complete with hordes of analysts, programmers in their droves, tens of designers, and a mob of consultants to help you use big data? read |
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 | Thabiso Dlamini Thabiso Dlamini explores several reasons why marketers need to focus on developing their relationship with traditional media now more than ever... read |
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 | Sandra Roberts Should you be using VR? It has some great advantages for communications and storytelling... read |
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 | A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence expo, AI Expo Africa, will take place in Cape Town from 9-11 September 2018... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant During my adolescent years, an endless supply of sanitary pads 'magically' appeared in my toiletry cupboard. I had never thought of such things as luxury, but essential and not optional, oblivious to the reality that some school girls from underprivileged backgrounds miss school for weeks at a time when menstruating. Thanks to campaigns that have increased awareness and support for these girls, I did not realise the extent of this or what it means exactly, until... read |
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 | Kirsten McLeod Grobler Start the new year finding an agency that understands what you do and who your target market is, and work with them to generate a plan to heighten awareness of your brand name and drive product sales... read |
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 | Stuart Innell With many of our fellow countrymen struggling to make ends meet, brands have stepped in to provide them with a picture of a future worth striving for... read |
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 | Vaughan Patterson There has never been more demand for hyperlocal marketing than there is today. And print is one of the best methods to support hyperlocal reach... read |
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 | Devon Meerholz Devon Meerholz writes about a scenario when the client asks (demands) that two erstwhile competing agencies work together... read |
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 | Kgaugelo Masweneng The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has officially announced that Chris Maroleng has been appointed as the new chief operations officer of the public broadcaster... read |
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 | Nine organisations, startups and nonprofits have been selected as winners of the South Africa Media Innovation Program's (SAMIP) first Innovation Challenge... read |
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 | Deutsche Welle has launched DW Freedom, a project to encourage and protect freedom of speech and media freedoms around the world... read |
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 | Lynette Hundermark Eight years after the global "app-splosion", even in a country like South Africa where smartphone adoption took a little longer than the rest of the world to catch up, "app-overload" aka "app-fatigue" is now a thing... read |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster I want to share two secrets with you. Firstly, how a lifetime in PR has qualified me, unexpectedly, to thrive in Malta. And secondly, to address the fear that all South Africans secretly have about living abroad... read |
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 | Clare O'Donovan In light of the Capitec/Viceroy debacle, Clare O'Donovan takes a look at the top five risks that could impact reputation and which she believes should be the top priority for corporate South Africa... read |
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 | By invitation from the Tanzania Tourist Board, Radio2000 will tour the country from 4-11 February 2018 to create content around the annual Sauti Za Busara Music Festival and tourism in Tanzania... read |
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 | In Africa and the Middle East, the value of mergers and acquisitions transactions is expected to rise to $6.4 billion in 2018 and will continue to rise in 2019, to $6.6 billion... read |
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 | As retailers target new avenues to increase personalisation of the customer experience, global retailer spending on AI is predicted to reach $7.3 billion per annum by 2022... read |
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 | Nick Hedley MultiChoice had decided to axe the Gupta-linked ANN7 channel from its DStv platform, the payTV group said on Wednesday... read |
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 | CNN has appointed an EMEA content sales lead to work with broadcast and digital partners... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Danish designer and CEO and creative director of the design company, Johannes Torpe Studios has been announced as one of the speakers at this year's Design Indaba Conference 2018... read | |  | Juanita Pienaar Architect, designer and inventor, Neri Oxman, has been announced as one of the speakers at this year's Design Indaba Conference 2018... read | |
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 | Leigh Andrews This year, we'll see the 10th ever IAB Bookmark Awards taking place after the fourth Digital Summit on 1 March in Johannesburg. With award judging underway, I got some behind-the-scenes insights with Jade Amic. She's Native VML's creative group head and chair of the Bookmarks' 'innovative engineers' jury panel... read | |  | IAB SA has announced the provisional speaker lineup for the annual IAB SA Digital Summit, which takes place on 1 March 2018... read | |
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 | Leigh Andrews This week, we go behind the selfie with technophile Veli Ngubane, 34-year-old founding partner and chief creative officer at Avatar... read |
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 | The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has released the remaining names of the 2018 jury presidents... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews What better way to creatively ease into the working year than with a reminder of some of last year's top contenders at the Loeries? We continue the local insights with King James... read |
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 | The 2018 Loeries will feature a bold new look to celebrate 40 years of rewarding creativity... read |
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 | Moliehi Molekoa With fake news on the rise, Africans need to tell authentic stories on their own platforms... read |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, US - Facebook on Wednesday reported a big jump in profits even though people are spending less time on the world's biggest social network... read |
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 | NEW YORK, US - US television network CBS announced on Thursday it will explore a possible merger with Viacom amid accelerating consolidation in the media industry... read |
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 | WASHINGTON, US - Facebook says it is banning all ads related to cryptocurrencies in an effort to fight scams... read |
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 | Lisbon International Advertising Festival has announced the executive jury panel for its third edition... read |
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 | Registration for the Lisbon International Advertising Festival has officially opened and the new jury president of the executive jury panel is announced... read |
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 | Startupbootcamp (SBC) Cape Town and RCS Group are hosting a water-saving hackathon from 9-10 February 2018 to commission technology from the wider Cape community in a bid to #DefeatDayZero... read |
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 | For a second consecutive month, motorists can expect further relief at the pumps with the price of all grades of petrol and diesel expected to drop when the minister of energy announces the final petrol price changes on 7 February 2018... read |
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 | Hanna Ziady Viceroy Research's report contains a number of explosive allegations against Capitec, including that its bad debts are massively understated and it should be placed into curatorship... read |
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 | Xoliswa Hlongwane is about to take over as uShaka Marine World's chief financial officer (CFO). She shares her insights on working in the public sector... read |
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 | René Garello The French National Centre for Space Research recently presented two projects for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 and methane) using satellite sensors... read |
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 | The Water Institute in Southern Africa (WISA) has launched a platform on which volunteers can pledge to donate time or goods to assist officials tasked with managing the Cape water crisis... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Technology, and the speed of technology, and skills are two of the country's CEOs most significant business concerns which also include cyber threats. This was the finding of PwC's most recent Annual Global CEO Survey... read |
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James Joyce "I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day." Samuel Beckett "We are all born mad. Some remain so." Christian Bale "It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me." Mort Sahl "My life needs editing." Carl Sagan "The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." |
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Work closely with a supportive and like-minded publisher to grow the publication and your income into the future. Read more >>IT News Africa is seeking an intern to join the editorial team in Johannesburg. The successful candidate is someone who lives and breathes social media and loves technology. Read more >>Somerset College seeks to employ a marketing officer who will report directly to the head of marketing, and who will be responsible for the marketing of the whole college. Read more >> |
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Journos' writers gymIAJ - Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - 19 Jun 2018 to 21 Jun 2018, Johannesburg |
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