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Jessica Tennant Regarded by many as one of the leading trend analysts in the retail, business and built environment, Dave Nemeth of Trend Forward has taken over the reins from Bev Hermanson as editor-in-chief of Designing Ways...read | 
Jon Ratcliffe Jon Ratcliffe sat down with Phil Thomas, CEO of Cannes Lions Festival, and spoke to him about his belief that there has been more change in marketing in the last year than the 10 years preceding it, and why they're launching 'ecommerce', 'experience', and 'social and influencer' Lions...read | 
Leigh Andrews M&C Saatchi Abel's founding partner and ECD Gordon Ray shares the power of work "rich with local insight and executed with heart," while founding partner and chief executive Jacques Burger explains how M&C Saatchi Abel is motoring ahead in 2018...read |
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 | Jessica Tennant In light of International Women's Day and the recent IAB Digital Summit, which had a notable lineup of women in digital in this notoriously male-dominated sector, I thought I'd interview Sturae Hickley, ad operations manager at Mark1, who was a panellist at the Summit, where she, along with other women in digital, discussed data, AI and how they're using programmatic to manipulate us... read | | Issued By Sizmek | | Issued By FCB Africa | |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster "I hate you", I said to the pregnant pharmacist. The vilification was justified. She had the second best house in the village... read |
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Henk Pretorius Issued By Columinate |
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 | Juanita Pienaar BBDO's group CEO, Boniswa Pezisa talks to Bizcommunity about the agency's decision to move back to its one-agency-two-offices model... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Yesterday, Net#work BBDO tweeted about the agency's #SendMe full-page ad in Business Day, in which CCO Mike Schalit wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa... read |
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 | Loyiso "The Victor" Twala Loyiso 'The Victor' Twala, an FCB creative was sent to LeaderSurf as part of FCB Joburg's skills transfer and training programme. Here, he gives feedback on what he experienced and how it has changed him forever... read |
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 | Loyiso "The Victor" Twala This a continuation of feedback from Loyiso Twala, an FCB creative sent to LeaderSurf as part of FCB Joburg's skills transfer and training programme... read |
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 | Entries for the first Creative Circle monthly awards for 2018 open today and the entry deadline is Friday 9 March... read |
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 | Khangelani Dziba International Women's Day has got Khangelani Dziba interrogating the different set of binaries that exist for women and men. Some acceptable and some not so much... read |
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 | Damon Stapleton I would like to talk about a feeling. A very strange and specific feeling that you can get, being a creative in advertising. To explain it, I will take you back a few years, to a job interview I had in London... read |
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 | "The market in South Africa has evolved and grown up and so have we. Our new imagery and logo reflect our values and brand essence..." read |
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 | "The creation of the Radisson Hotel Group is an evolution of our long-term partnership with the Rezidor Hotel Group. Together, we are clarifying and executing a new brand architecture to create more value for our guests and owners." read |
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 | This year's PPC Imaginarium Awards judges are established in a range of disciplines, including research, design, curation, activism and education... read |
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 | Bradley Elliott Influencer marketing today is very different from its origins of celebrity product placement and is proving more effective than digital ads, which are increasingly filtered out by ad blockers... read |
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 | PayPal expects sales from SA of R53bn in 2018 as more and more South Africans use their cellphones as digital wallets... read |
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 | Dustin Homer In Africa, the potential of data to improve governance is just beginning to make itself felt... read |
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 | Tom Jackson The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)-run 22 On Sloane startup campus in Johannesburg has launched Startup Huddle, a programme designed to educate, engage and connect entrepreneurs globally... read |
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 | Celebrating human rights this month, Cape Town will play host to the first in a series of Top Women Conferences, providing a platform to address challenges around women empowerment and women-driven economic growth... read |
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 | The Human Rights Foundation (HRF), in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, will be hosting the first-ever Oslo Freedom Forum in Johannesburg (OFFinJoburg)... read |
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 | Aphelele Tapile Recent times have seen the uprising of smartphones against not-so-smart people, and a trending weapon-of-choice in this regard is Call Recording Apps. However, this triggers the ethical question: is it even legal to record conversations without a person's knowledge...? read |
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 | The 2018 Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit will celebrate UN International Women's Day with 120 of South Africa's most influential women in attendance... read |
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 | Karl Blom and Daniel Vale South Africa has recently suffered its largest data leak to date with, conservatively, an estimated 60 million South Africans' personal information becoming publicly available; the gravity of which (and the risks associated with the sensitive information that has been imparted from it) cannot be overestimated... read |
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 | Quinton Jones Okay, let me just deal with the elephant in the room first up. The SA media industry has some really great people, even some of the best people, on par with anywhere else in the world. They innovate, they don't compromise, and really push things forward. They, unfortunately, are the exception rather than the rule... read |
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 | Werner Lindemann With other sectors such as accounting, IT and science looking to recruit the brightest and most ambitious young women, the media and marketing industry should also be looking at ways to change its profile and create a pipeline of future leaders... read |
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 | Samsung has introduced an AR emoji, allowing users to create an accurate computer-generated image of themselves (avatars) that can express real-time emotion... read |
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 | From headsets that help you lose weight without dieting to a smart meat thermometer, here are some of the interesting devices on display at the Mobile World Congress... read |
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 | Brendan Seery When I had my "conversion", it wasn't on the road to the biblical road to Damascus; it was on the back of a large elephant... read |
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 | Bonnie Ramaila Enterprise Foods is facing a reputation nightmare. Bonnie Ramaila gives a few tips on how she thinks the company should approach the crisis... read |
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 | Victor Moreriane Victor Moreriane analyses the current crisis management related to the outbreak of listeriosis... read |
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Marie Yossava Issued By Grapevine Communications |
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 | Wynand Smit Wynand Smit takes a fresh look at how video can be used in the channel environment, like how AI-enabled video screens can "learn" from the data you create when interacting with them... read |
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 | Darren Kerr A key component for the award entry, regardless of the category or sector, is the submission video. Darren Kerr goes through some of the key elements of producing an award-winning video... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews If you're in the persuasion game and you've ever wanted to better understand your consumers' purchase behaviour, this is the interview for you! I caught up with Richard Shotton, deputy head of evidence of Manning Gottlieb OMD, and author of The Choice Factory: 25 Behavioural Biases That Influence What We Buy. He shares how behavioural science findings can sharpen your brand's advertising and overall creative impact... read |
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 | The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer revealed that while only 14 percent of the general population trusts the government, 77 percent believe that chief executive officers should take the lead on change rather than waiting for the government to impose it... read |
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 | While South Africa has made progress in reducing the gender bias for women engaging in early stage entrepreneurial activities, the number of women business owners remains constrained... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg In the search to become 'more than a store', retailers in Africa need to put their customer at the heart of the operation, says Frans van der Colff... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg According to online retailer Action Gear, their passion for outdoor technical products is second only to their love for stellar customer service... read |
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 | Luxury British fashion house Burberry on Thursday announced the appointment of Riccardo Tisci, formerly of Givenchy, as its new chief creative officer to replace Christopher Bailey... read |
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 | Dominique Turpin As the world's top winter sports stars showed off their athletic prowess in the snow and ice of PyeongChang last month, the thirteen worldwide Olympic sponsors who have helped fund the global spectacle, outdid each other to capture the attention of a billion-strong television audience... read |
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 | Andy Walker Well well well. It seems that Swedish music streaming giant Spotify may finally make a play in South Africa.... read |
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 | The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) announced on Thursday that veteran presenter and journalist Bongani Bingwa will join its news anchoring pool... read |
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 | Discovery Communications has rebranded to Discovery Inc after completing its acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Nickelodeon's Alexi Wheeler shares about the talk he presented at the 2018 CTIAF, how he feels about the role of women in the animation industry and elaborates on what he thinks the industry as a whole can still improve on... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This week we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Tshepang Molisana, self-employed freelance writer behind Taste Let's See, who calls herself a technophobe... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews You may have noticed lots of purple on your newsfeed today, as International Women's Day is celebrated on 8 March. Here's why this is known as the colour for equality and justice - just what International Women's Day stands for... read |
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 | Daniel Munslow How Africa's communicators can aid the United Nations in communicating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan Kenyan independent news channel A24Media has announced the launch of a US$1 million investment fund to back innovative media technology developers from around the world... read |
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 | Undoubtedly the giant of Africa - with an estimated population of 194 million people - Nigeria remains the largest mobile market in the continent... read |
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 | Finalists in the Inma Global Media Awards were announced today, spotlighting excellence in audience, revenue, and brand development by news media companies... read |
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 | The first two grand jury panels for the Lisbon International Advertising Festival have been announced... read |
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 | The ten-week 2018 Top Tech Tools for Women in Business course, hosted by the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative, in partnership with the City of Cape Town, will kick off on 4 April 2018... read |
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 | Nick Lavars After ramping up its efforts to shift towards more sustainable materials in 2015, perennial purveyor of plastic blocks Lego is making good on that promise and is set to launch a new form of eco-friendly playthings... read |
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 | IDidTht's February SA Film Reel Monthly Craft Awards were judged by Gareth McPherson, ECD at Publicis Machine, who selected Toyota's 'Rami' by Paul Ward from 0307 for Best of Reel for Direction Craft... read |
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Rose Kennedy "Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great." Ambrose Bierce "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." Lewis Mumford "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." Vincent Van Gogh "The more I think about it, the more I realise there is nothing more artistic than to love others." Gustave Flaubert "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." |
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 | South Africa is one of the most sophisticated, diverse and promising emerging markets in the world. Read more >> |
| MyBroadband is expanding its team and would like to add another great business journalist to its roster. Read more >> |
| If the prospect of joining the country's top tech news website as a journalist sounds good, we would love to meet you. Read more >> |
| Firewater is looking for a webmaster/content manager extraordinaire that has a keen eye for detail and a love for websites, emailers and content. Read more >> |
| The operations assistant assists the operations team, in coordinating project activities, facilities, logistics and suppliers. Additionally, the incumbent will provide administrative support and reports directly to the operations team leader. Read more >> |
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 | Brand South Africa aims to contribute to the objectives of the National Development Plan by undertaking coordinated initiatives to build South Africa's reputation and contribute to the country's global competitiveness. Read more >> |
Audio Post Production facility seeks freelance mixing engineers to join The Squad, to handle the overflow of broadcast mixing work within their facility. Night shifts and Saturdays. Read more >> |
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 Legal, Risk and Marketing experts join forces to reveal what POPI thinks about Email Marketing. Read more >> Want to master influencer marketing? Join Meltwater and P&G on Friday 16 March for a JHB Biz Breakfast where we'll show you how. Read more >> |
 Customer Loyalty Seminar|What Marketers Should Know | 14 March 2018| CT. How loyal are customers really? Hear latest research and trends| email: debbie@knowres.co.za Read more >>
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Give your brand purpose and get your audience to take note. 16 March 2018 in Cape Town. Read more >>
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