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Leigh Andrews I caught up with Loeries CEO Andrew Human for a catch-up on the last 40 years and a preview of all things #Loeries2018-related...read |
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Bradley Elliott While a variety of popular apps such as Apple Siri, Google Now, Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana promise to enhance people's lifestyles, few will have more impact on consumer behaviour than personal finance assistants...read | 
Chloe Gottlieb has been announced as the 2018 See It Be It ambassador and Madonna Badger has been announced as See It Be It chair...read | 
Leigh Andrews In the wake of his #Peoplekind comment, a joke that "didn't play well out of context", The Evening Standard has provided a lookback on Trudeau's push for gender equality...read |
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 | Issued By Ask Afrika Trust is important in an era where loyalty levels are diminishing globally and consumers no-longer want to be put in boxes, treated generically or given false promises... read | |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster After a decade's diet of negative South African poltico-economic views, I'd forgotten that curious feeling of civic optimism, the effervescence of possibility and the Candidean sense of living in the best of all possible worlds that good news cultivates... read |
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 | The Midas Awards for the World's Best Financial Advertising has announced its 2017 winners and South Africa has struck gold with 12 Midas Gold Ingots in the bag... read |
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 | The Creative Circle has announced its winners for work flighted between September to December 2017... read |
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 | Damon Stapleton The first thing advertising has to do is be noticed. It would seem right now many are forgetting this. If an ad isn't noticed the rest doesn't matter, does it... read |
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 | Mfundo Ntsibande As cliché as it sounds, brands need to adapt to consumers' current state of mind and way of things or suffer the consequences of being called out or being irrelevant... read |
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Giles Shepherd Issued By Brand Alive |
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Chris Moerdyk Issued By Chris Moerdyk |
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 | Mike Saunders Mike Saunders writes about how ultimately the internet gives people an opportunity to scale their platform easily, giving them the opportunity to influence more and sell more... read |
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 | The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) is set to hold the Furniture Design Competition later this month to recognise excellence in the sector... read |
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 | The Absolut African Art Intervention is continuing in its mission to change how the world views African creativity... read |
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 | Thanks to Ocean Basket's interactive online nutritional guide, dubbed Nutriguide, diners can decide whether to ditch the chips or keep the chips at the touch of a thumb... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Google SA hosted a media event earlier this week to bring media practitioners across Africa up to speed on the latest technological advancements in the digital advertising space, focusing on Google Ads in particular... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Playbook is a web-based platform that simplifies the creative procurement process by making sure SA creatives and artists 'play by the book' in terms of bookings, performances or commissions... read |
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 | Carmen Murray With the hype around the fourth industrial revolution, AI, robotics and what this means for our careers, Carmen Murray, articulates how this impacts the future of work... read |
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 | Rob Green Leaders of all firms have a duty to continue to protect and grow their businesses to in turn work towards a better South African economy... read |
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 | Mastercard is inviting all ambitious young female entrepreneurs to turn their aspirations into a reality by applying to take part in the JA South Africa Youth Enterprise Development Programme... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Which African country is the best place to launch, or invest in, a tech startup? read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Wowing the world with what Africa has to offer. That is the purpose of Meetings Africa... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach The importance of Meetings Africa in terms of its contribution to the macro-economy of the country cannot be underestimated. "It serves to boost tourism revenue while driving employment." read |
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 | Nikki Munsie gives an overview of the IAS Masterclass that took place on 23 January in Sandton... read |
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 | The newly upgraded bridal exhibition, NWJ Bridal and Beauty Experience, will from this year be incorporating an interactive beauty aspect into its event offering... read |
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 | The Western Cape's film and media industry is taking steps to become water resilient and to cut the industry's water footprint... read |
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 | Daniel Dercksen "The Wound was born out of a desire to push back against clichéd stereotypes of black masculinity perpetuated inside and outside of African cinema," says writer-director John Trengrove... read |
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 | Football legend, David Beckham, is the public face of a new global malaria campaign, Malaria Must Die, So Millions Can Live... read |
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Peter Vee Issued By Vee Station |
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 | Rainmaker's Vista.360 virtual tours were viewed by more than three million potential guests focused on Namibia as a destination in December 2017... read |
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 | Gil Sperling Time to dismantle the traditional advertising complex and implement initiatives that drive exponential growth... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews The phrases 'water crisis', 'drought' and 'day zero' have been taking up headline space consistently for the past few months. While this has set most of the country into a frenzy, two Cape Town-based creative agencies put their (shower) thinking caps on with ways to better educate the public and hopefully #DefeatDayZero... read |
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 | Louise Marsland The global chief marketing officer for Patrón Spirits International, Lee Applbaum, talks about how to deliver creative and beautiful marketing... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Johanna McDowell has just been selected as the only representative of South Africa to be appointed on the UK-based Women in Marketing's (WIM) advisory council for 2018. She lets us in on the importance of championing women in marketing... read |
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 | Paula Sartini In the highly competitive business landscape where social media and customer experience are adding complexity to a global landscape, marketing needs to evolve... read |
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 | Latiefa Mobara was on Tuesday elected as executive director of watchdog body the Press Council of South Africa (PCSA)... read |
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 | The University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), in partnership with eThekwini Municipality, will host the 21st Time of the Writer International Festival from 12 to 17 March 2018... read |
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 | Billionaire physician and investor Patrick Soon-Shiong agreed on Wednesday to buy the Los Angeles Times, in a move aimed at reviving the fortunes of the newspaper amid recent turmoil... read |
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 | The APO Group has launched the first print monitoring service for press releases distributed in Africa, after the APO Innovation Lab designed a cutting-edge print monitoring system for press releases distributed across Africa... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Johannesburg-based strategic communications consultancy F/NE, with its reach into Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe, recently partnered with GlobalHealthPR (GHPR), the world's largest independent health and science communications agency partnership, in order to expand the network's presence and capabilities in Africa... read |
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 | Sandra Steenkamp When economies are under pressure, brand owners must work hard to preserve their coveted customer loyalty and sales... read |
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 | According to a new Inma report, news media companies are discovering the emerging value of content to create data-infused reader-based business models that are impacting corporate cultures and audience relationships... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Johanna McDowell of the IAS is also the South African partner of Scopen. Over what she described as 'the best sandwich ever' at Bizcommunity's offices in the MadWorld Orange Block in Woodstock, McDowell shared a wealth of insights into the local marketing-agency relationship, as well as SA-specific insights and what attendees can expect from the upcoming Scopen masterclasses... read |
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 | Marketing in SA remains on the back foot as the discipline is still perceived to be more concerned with creativity than business results. The upshot is that marketing is not taken seriously in the boardroom, says the latest Brand Barometer Survey... read |
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 | Garth Meier Like their international counterparts, South African retailers would traditionally run specials where discounts or 'two for the price of one' offers are given for a period of between a few days and a few weeks... read |
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 | Andy Walker Expect to see more options when picking out the perfect emoji to accompany your messages this year... read |
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 | Andy Walker Many South Africans may not think of American Football as a valid sport (I mean, we have rugby after all), but we most certainly recognise a good meme when we see one... read |
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 | Facebook today announced a number of partnerships across Africa to explore ways to make the internet safer for all... read |
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 | YouTube began labeling news broadcasts that get government money as it vowed to be stricter about content at the globally popular online video-sharing service... read |
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 | Walt Disney Co.'s deal for much of the film and television assets of 21st Century Fox could help remake the streaming platform Hulu a legitimate rival to Netflix... read |
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 | ZIFF and DISCOP Zanzibar add TV series festival to the category line-up... read |
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 | Leonie Wagner He may be a gifted designer, but not everything about David Tlale is stylish... read |
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 | IAB SA has announced the finalists in the 10th annual Bookmark Awards... read | |  | Leigh Andrews Josephine Buys, CEO of the IAB South Africa, takes some time out from her digital dynamite schedule to take a trip down digital memory lane ahead of the fourth IAB digital summit and tenth Bookmark Awards... read | |
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 | Leigh Andrews This week, we go behind the selfie with technophile Nina Pfeiffer, co-owner and executive producer at Tulips and Chimneys... read |
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 | South African consumer spending showed a healthy improvement over the festive season, with retail sales volumes rising 3.8% year-on-year... read |
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 | Lusanda Raphulu The world of work is evolving, and future-conscious organisations need to be aware of the business implications associated with automation and robotics. A fundamental consideration is how such changes disrupt and affect the world of work and long-standing traditions about the role human beings play in it... read |
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 | Brett St Clair Digital transformation continues to grow with a predicted spend of $1.7 globally by 2019, a massive 42% increase on 2017 spend (IDC 2017). It is a given that cloud computing services will gain a phenomenal market share in Africa this year... read |
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 | Due to a decline in agricultural water usage, Day Zero has been pushed back to mid-May 2018. Agricultural usage is likely to drop significantly over the next weeks... read |
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Samuel Johnson "Words are but the signs of ideas." Thomas Wolfe "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." Charles Horton Cooley "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." Joseph Addison "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Jean-Luc Godard "To be or not to be. That's not really a question." |
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