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Victor Moreriane The time is now ripe for organisations to employ forward-looking risk mitigation and reputation management strategies. The story of the Panama Papers has changed the world...read | 
Shae Leigh If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a powerful content video is worth 1,000 pictures. The challenge comes when you have to sit down and choose those 1,000 pictures and create something from them that resonates with people...read | 
Leigh Andrews It's a touchy subject for some, but completely necessary to explore: Here's how Fort Review is amplifying the need to truly hear the black voices in advertising and stop being creative Jekyll and Hydes...read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Sol Beer's 'My sunshine in a bottle' campaign, created in partnership with The Odd Number and launched in November last year, has to date reached a new audience of 900,000 followers and an engagement rate of 6%, surpassing the industry standard of 1%... read |
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 | Brendan Seery Sometimes cute does work in advertising. And sometimes, as a critic of advertising, if you pan something which is cute - or, even more dangerous, includes an animal - you incur the wrath of diverse constituencies, whose hate mail wishes you all manner of unpleasantness... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Artifact SA recently partnered with Philasande Sokhela, taking the ad agency to level 4 BBBEE (under the new MAC codes) with several divisions offering specialities where needed, including digital (level 4 SME), promotions (100% black-owned), integrated (51% black-owned) and print (51% black-owned)... read |
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 | Criticism of Rwandan President Paul Kagame is believed to be the reason behind the disappearance of South African advertising professional, Leon Orsmond... read |
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 | Damon Stapleton I want you to imagine I am telling you the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. In your head, run it through. Picture all the details, the twists and turns and the big ending... read |
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 | New York Festivals AME Awards announced the 2018 award-winners... read |
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 | Sibusiso Ndhlovu The recent rise of the flowing black middle class has led to a disconnect between brands and these consumers. Sibusiso Ndhlovu explores ways in which the gap between brands and the township segment can be closed... read |
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Lebogang Mokubela Issued By Lemok Group |
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 | When a product does not work properly or a service provider does not deliver as expected, indignant consumers are quick to assert that they know their rights, but they often do not... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews In your own creative career, you often find yourself stuck in a comfort zone. At the latest Creative Mornings Cape Town talk, 'fibre artist' Danielle Clough shared that you don't have to be good at just one thing, as well as why it's important to step away from the safety net and have the courage to try new things... read |
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 | Cristina Garduño Freeman Most people's experience of World Heritage is now a digital one. Whether it's on social media, an official website, Wikipedia or a simple Google search, this shift in "visitation" means many people who engage with World Heritage will never physically travel to the actual site... read |
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 | Grant Fleming While wide usage of email has been around since the early 1990s, it remains a tried and tested tool for communication, and particularly for effective direct marketing campaigns... read |
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 | Cari Coetzee The QSL Members Club will be an incubator for Africa's leading lights, an organic platform for ideas to be birthed, connections to be forged and for plans to be set in motion... read |
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 | Ticket bookings are now open for Ciclope Africa, the regional leg of Ciclope, the leading international festival that recognises and rewards exceptional craft in moving image... read |
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 | Gary Mortimer and Louise Grimmer On 26 January 2011, Coles fired the first shot in what would soon be dubbed the "supermarket price wars" by reducing the price of its own-brand milk to A$1 per litre... read |
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Claudelle Naidoo Issued By MediaCom |
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Natasha Heiberg Issued By Madex |
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 | Nick Hedley Tiso Blackstar Group, the owner of Business Day, is focused on offloading noncore assets so that it can reduce debt and invest in its media business, says CEO Andrew Bonamour... read |
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 | Senior mobile experts offer key insights into the impact of mobile on business at MMA SA's 1st breakfast event of the year... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews There's no denying those who work in the public relations and media industry work hard. But in 2018, it's all about working smarter, not harder. So if there's a way to streamline and simplify the process of both generating content and ensuring media coverage, both sides benefit. That's where Jana Leonard's PR Hustle fills a gap... read |
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 | Lunice Johnston Failing to plan for a reputational crisis happens more often than it is comfortable to think about. Lunice Johnston writes about what steps are crucial to successfully handling a reputational crisis... read |
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 | Africapractice establishes regional headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana, consolidating group operations... read |
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 | The share price of Novus Holdings closed 2.35% firmer at R4.35 on Tuesday after the release of details of the hefty knock it will suffer on the new Media24 printing contract... read |
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 | Respected British senior retail executive, Andrew Jennings, has released his debut book, Almost Is Not Good Enough in South Africa... read |
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 | Tiso Blackstar's share remained untraded on Tuesday morning, with only a wide spread between its bid and ask price showing a reaction to a statement released at 5.30pm on Monday that a special dividend of R40m promised in July 2017 had been delayed indefinitely. read |
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 | South Africa was ranked 23rd in the 2018 Gunn Media 100's "world's top 10 countries for media excellence"... read |
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 | Warc has released its latest monthly Global Ad Trends report focussing on threats to the digital advertising ecosystem... read |
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 | How the "connected individual" is impacting news media is the focus of a new report released by the International News Media Association (Inma)... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg As store closures continue across the globe, we're witnessing the demise of physical retail as we know it... read |
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 | Online fashion retailer Zando has initiated zero-rate data for both contract and prepaid Vodacom subscribers in SA. This means that all Vodacom users can browse and transact on Zando's app and mobile website and no longer pay for data... read |
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 | Andy Walker Meanwhile on the less acerbic side of the Facebook spectrum, Instagram this week introduces a new feature to users' bios... read |
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 | Andy Walker It's the F-word you've been hearing an awful lot of this week, and its one everyone should be using. Yes, Facebook... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg Following revelations that Cambridge Analytica exploited the personal data of millions of Facebook users, the social network is finding itself in a remarkably anti-social predicament... read |
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 | Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in nine major British and US newspapers on Sunday to apologise for a huge data privacy scandal... read |
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 | Issued By TBWA While TBWA is focused on disruption to grow our client business in Africa, the following trends are bound to be top of mind in the year ahead... read | |
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 | Will AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner give it a "weapon" to crush pay-television rivals or help it catch up with "runaway" technology giants?... read |
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 | The 12th Annual South African Film and Television Awards took place on Saturday, 24 March 2018 at the Sun City Superbowl and was hosted by Thando Thabethe and Phat Joe... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This week we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Musa Kalenga, chief future officer at House of Brave (HOB)... read |
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 | Matt Ian explains why he is thoroughly impressed by P&G's "It's a Tide Ad Campaign" by Saatchi & Saatchi New York, Rattling Stick, The Mill, Arcade Edit and Personal Music, in this #OneShow2018 judging pick of the day... read |
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 | Carol Lambert explains why she is thoroughly impressed by Fred & Farid's "Libé Des Réfugiés" campaign for French daily Libération in this #OneShow2018 judging pick of the day... read |
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 | Kentaro Kimura explains why he is thoroughly impressed by Burger King's "Scary Clown Night," created by Lola MullenLowe, Only 925, Vision Media and Weber Shandwick, in this #OneShow2018 judging pick of the day... read |
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 | Debbi Vandeven explains why she is thoroughly impressed by DDB Paris' whimsical "Emerging Species" entry for Hasbro's Play-Doh in this #OneShow2018 judging pick of the day... read |
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 | Discop Zanzibar has announced the preliminary backbone of the Next Gen knowledge-transfer and development programme... read |
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 | Jesse Weinberg The smartphone has perhaps become one of the greatest gifts to an entrepreneur looking to launch a business on little to no seed capital... read |
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