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Shan Radcliffe The advent of social media has provided brands with an undisputed marketing opportunity - a direct customer engagement and promotional platform, where brands can build their identity and loyalty to their heart's content. But all good things come with a price...read | 
Jessica Tennant Catherine Grenfell, ex-5FM presenter who co-founded and manages The Eye radio station, opened this year's IAB Digital Summit sharing her experience of digital and what she predicts for the industry...read | 
Shae Leigh In the same way they say, 'you are what you eat', so you become where you work, as company culture affects your productivity, your personality, your positivity and your pursuit of your greater goals...read |
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 | The winners of the 10th annual Bookmark Awards were announced at the conclusion of the 2018 IAB Digital Summit, both held at The Theatre on the Track, Kyalami, on 1 March 2018... read | |  | Jessica Tennant Last night's 10th annual IAB Bookmark Awards held at The Theatre on the Track in Kyalami saw Ogilvy yet again recognised as the best agency, taking home over 20 awards, and client KFC also recognised again as the brand of the year... read | |  | Leigh Andrews The 10th ever IAB Bookmark Awards took place after the fourth Digital Summit, on 1 March in Johannesburg. I got some behind-the-scenes insights ahead of the action from Tseliso Rangaka - ECD at Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town and chair of the 2018 Bookmarks' 'marketers' jury panel... read | |  | Can pay TV stations compete in the digital era? Justin Hewelt, global director for UK-based PayMedia Consulting Group, certainly thinks so. Here, in South Africa for the IAB SA Digital Summit on Thursday, he shares his views on the pay TV world in a Netflix era and other things South African marketers need to know... read | | Issued By The Star Film Company | | Issued By Mark1 | | | |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster How does a nation get ahead in the global economy if its landmass and population size is small? Although I hadn't thought much about it previously, an article in the Times of Malta made me think of my newly adopted homeland rather differently. The answer is to position yourself as a player in the knowledge economy... read |
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 | Brendan Seery My colleague and friend, Paballo, is a photographer and, as is the mark of a top camera person, he can be slightly obsessive about getting things right: exposure, composition, expression - they all have to be just so... read |
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 | Linda Ensor The Department of Health is seeking a ban on alcohol advertising in the controversial Liquor Amendment Bill now with the Cabinet... read |
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 | African Fashion International (AFI) has announced the list of designers set to take part in the AFI Cape Town Fashion Week on 23 and 24 March... read |
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 | Farren Roper We exist in a time where the amount of information being generated exceeds our given capacity to consume and process it. What are the tools and resources that we can leverage to ensure that we cope and are able to be productive?... read |
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 | Richard Bensted The mythical land of SEO is so often shrouded in obfuscation and mysterious lingo that few marketers understand whether or not it's a strategy worth using... read |
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 | Issued By The SpaceStation The SpaceStation, one of SA's leading digital media solutions company, will be exclusively handling the ad sales for the much-anticipated Business Insider South Africa... read |
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 | Ronelle Bester On Red Ribbon's 15th birthday, what I know for sure is that entrepreneurship is a practical path of self-empowerment. Especially for women... read |
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 | Nicholas Dilley In almost every aspect of our lives we have grown accustomed to instant gratification. Why should the world of business and innovation be any different?... read |
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 | Issued By Pula Capital Partners Innovative B-BBEE investment firm Pula Capital (the investment arm of LRMG) has acquired a majority stake in performance coaching company, Game On Performance Solutions (Game On)... read |
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 | "A key focus must be on shifting the international perception of investing in South Africa, which has recently been negative. To ensure that this happens, structural reforms will be needed to ensure that our credit ratings improve as soon as possible." read |
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Issued By Universal Church of the Kingdom of God |
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 | Julia Breakey You hear it all the time (at least in the hipster parts of Cape Town): support local. Wear locally-made clothes, buy fruit and veg from your local vendors. Whether these efforts are helping is unclear, but one area it isn't? Local film... read |
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 | The Cape Town International Animation Festival (CTIAF) will be held at the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town from 2-4 March 2018. read |
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 | Andy Walker If you stayed up all night to catch the 90th edition of the Oscars, congratulations, you deserve that coffee. read |
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 | African-linked films won nine awards at the Berlin International Film Festival... read |
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 | Hlumelo Ndoni Hlumelo Ndoni shares some thoughts on how to structure and budget for your future influencer campaigns... read |
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 | Media Measure, an African media compliance and marketing insights business operating in nine African countries, has received investment... read |
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 | Ann Crotty In what looks set to be an extremely drawn-out affair, the Competition Commission has referred 28 media companies to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution on charges of price fixing and the fixing of trading conditions, in contravention of the Competition Act... read |
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 | Australia's major media organisations on Monday joined forces to back publisher Bauer's appeal against the nation's largest defamation payout awarded to Hollywood actor Rebel Wilson, arguing the size of the damages could stifle public-interest journalism... read |
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 | Nick Hedley Convicted fraudster Rubben Mohlaloga has been given five days to say why he should not be removed from his post as chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa)... read |
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Nikolay Dolgov Issued By GfK South Africa |
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 | Leigh Andrews Here's how Fort Review is changing perceptions and giving a voice to issues of industry equality, as well as the rise of advertising that goes beyond just punting a product to actually solving a societal issue... read |
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 | For those looking for free news online, the search is becoming harder... read |
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 | The new data launched by the OMC has revealed that OOH has evolved and taken centre stage in the media mix landscape... read |
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 | Maiyo Febi Today the PR practitioner must be responsive and well versed in many areas, mainly: marketing, social media and influencer management, while remaining tuned into the latest trends likely to affect the industry... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews NEWSWATCH: Last week, KFC London faced a chicken shortage as a result of "operational issues" with new delivery provider, DHL. This led to a temporary shut down of some 700 of its 900 branches - but they quickly crossed the road to the other side of the crisis... read |
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 | Burson-Marsteller Africa has announced a partnership with Reputation Matters across the African continent... read |
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Issued By Canon SA |
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 | A much-awaited memoir by former first lady Michelle Obama will be published in North America on November 13 and will appear simultaneously in 24 languages worldwide. read |
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 | A new campaign by fashion retailer Trenery is bringing together a collection of talented African creatives in a celebration of craftsmanship and quality... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar The new viral app, Vero, has been receiving tons of flack over its CEO's ties to Russia, its privacy policy and its servers' inability to handle the overload of new users joining... read |
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 | Facebook pulled a virtual reality gun game from a major US conservative political gathering on Friday, saying the demo was a mistake given the recent deadly school shooting in Florida... read |
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 | Bekezela Phakathi The Department of Communications has confirmed that statesponsored set-top boxes will not be encrypted... read |
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 | Glenn van Eck The younger generation offers valuable insight as to where brands should be focusing their efforts... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This week, we go behind the selfie with Rob Stokes, chairman of the Red & Yellow Creative School of Business... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Howard Audio founder, Adam Howard, lets us in on their successes on the local and global award track over the past year... read |
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 | Khangelani Dziba If you have not seen it, global is fast looking at Africa more and more as a place of innovation... read |
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 | The 2018 Warc 100, an annual global index of the world's top marketing campaigns and companies based on their business impact has been released... read |
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 | Bettina Büchel We are not only living in an age where women are being under-represented in many spheres of economic life, but technology could make this even worse... read |
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 | Blazing fast 5G wireless networks promise to unlock the potential of internet connected devices, or the Internet of Things -- making driverless cars and talking fridges a reality... read |
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 | Multi-unit franchising is becoming a growing trend globally and in South Africa, meaning a single franchisee owns more than one outlet in different geographies... read |
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 | SA's cultural goods exports are growing faster than imports, according to a new report that examined the growth and structure of the country's cultural and creative industries trade between 2007 and 2016... read |
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