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| Creative Circle has announced its monthly winners for the months of March and April 2018...read |
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Danette Breitenbach The new consumer campaign of the Association for Alcohol Responsibility and Education (Aware.org) turns the saying "drink like there's no tomorrow" on its head...read | 
Jessica Tennant Wunderman South Africa recently appointed Kagiso Musi (effective May) and Astrid Ascar (effective March) as MD and chief strategic officer respectively...read | 
Leigh Andrews Loeries CEO Andrew Human on the way regional cultural nuances and differences affect creativity...read |
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 | Net#work BBDO has been awarded the Primedia Broadcasting advertising account for flagship radio stations 702 and 947, as well as Lead SA and EWN... read |
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 | Lisbon Health International Festival has announced its Tech jury panel which will assess the work submitted in this category... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Having consulted for Riverbed since the beginning of the year, the agency recently made Adrian Miller's appointment official as ECD... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Mercedes-Benz and Net#work BBDO today released the S-Class content piece that returns to the famous Chapman's Peak accident that Christopher White survived 30 years ago... read |
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 | Susan Credle, global chief creative officer of FCB, has been named the jury president for the New and Social Influencers in LIA 2018... read |
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 | Newswatch: Just six weeks after resigning from WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell has returned to the stock market as executive chairman of Derriston Capital and plans to use it as a means to build a "next-generation" advertising group... read |
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 | The Warc Awards has announced the 2018 winners of the Effective Use of Brand Purpose category... read |
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 | Damon Stapleton Kintsugi: The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold... read |
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 | brendan seery There are many moments which remain in our memories but, for a petrolhead like me, it will always be the moment I first had control of a car...when I managed to get it moving forward in first gear without stalling and then, because we had a long driveway, a quick change into second gear and braking to a stop... read |
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 | Neo Mashigo, who joined M&C Saatchi Group SA a year ago, has been appointed CCO... read |
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 | During a fireside chat with Publicis Groupe chairman and co-founder, Maurice Levy, at the recent Viva Tech event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about privacy, GDPR, his plans for governance, and how he intends to fight bad content... read |
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 | After launching in Johannesburg almost a year ago, MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet and Better SA have announced that they are bringing the 'Uber of volunteering' to the Mother City... read |
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 | New Urban Architects and Urban Designers was recently recognised at the Congress of New Urbanism (CNU) in Washington DC... read |
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 | Priscilla Kennedy Video production and viewing become more challenging as goldfish attention span proves longer than a human's... read |
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 | Tichaona Savanhu As the local digital landscape continues to mature and companies understand the need to be more data-driven, the line between consultancy and agency has blurred in order to deliver what clients are asking for... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Juanita Pienaar chats with MMMC's chief brand communications consultant, Thomas Mofolo and asks him to elaborate on MMMC's new venture and partnership with Canvas CAM... read |
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Brett Terespolsky Issued By Sprout |
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 | A first-ever gathering in the sub-Saharan African region will be held in Cape Town, bringing together more than 700 people to discuss how to improve the diversity of knowledge represented on Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites... read |
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 | Wesgro, together with five Western Cape-based companies are participating in the Private Label Manufacturers Association Trade Show in Amsterdam to showcase agri-processed products... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Marcus Brewster aka 'the Maltese falcon', founder of local Marcusbrewster Public Relations, moved to Malta to expand the business into the European Union with the launch of Marcus Brewster International. A year later, and he's back in South Africa to encourage others to do the same... read |
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 | Ads24s hosted its second Food for Thought at Hyde Park recently, featuring academic, Prof Nick Binedell, economist and political analyst Dawie Roodt and management strategist and scenario planner Clem Sunter... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Grid Worldwide introduced an incentive to send the two team members to Coachella 2018 who would make the most meaningful contribution to building its cultural insights capability... read |
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 | Daniel Dercksen Daniel Dercksen chats with 29-year-old writer/director Nosipho Dumisa, about her feature film debut, the South African crime-thriller Nommer 37, opening in cinemas on 1 June 2018. read |
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 | Official selection announced for the Zanzibar International Film Festival after record number of entries... read |
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 | Zubeida Goolam South Africa has made great strides in recent years towards being a world class creative hub, our vast strides in creativity and humour have been made possible through its many, young, vibrant and defiant citizens. However, we are still facing cultural misunderstandings and gaps in our varied backgrounds... read |
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 | The finalists for the 2017 FCJ Excellence Awards have been announced... read |
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 | The finalists in 13 of the 17 categories in the Sikuvile Journalism Awards 2018 have been decided... read |
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 | According to a report by Gartner, global sales for smartphones returned to growth in the first quarter of 2018. The report shows a 1,3% increase over the same period in 2017... read |
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 | Pieter de Villiers Many brands remain obsessed with creating mobile apps. This not only defies trends that point to increasing consumer app apathy but can exclude a sizeable portion of your customers in emerging economies... read |
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 | Eugene Yiga Eugene Yiga offers a guide of suggestions on how publicists can better work with journalists, freelancers, bloggers, and the like... read |
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 | The recent ethics and reputation study conducted by Reputation Matters on behalf of the African Public Relations Association, has highlighted many opportunities for the continent to take charge of its narrative... read |
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 | South Africa's largest bookseller, Exclusive Books, has announced the appointment of Grattan Kirk as the CEO of the Group... read |
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 | CMO Council and Deloitte Study finds hesitation to embrace analytics skills, forge new C-Suite partnerships and extend strategic role beyond short-term acquisition goals... read |
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 | The latest monthly Global Ad Trends report by Warc takes a closer look at search advertising... read |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster After she had dropped us off in the village of Tarxien, Lady Harriet called later that evening to offer her advice. "Marcus, I want to tell you something that I don't think any other Maltese person would tell you..." read |
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 | Booking is open for the 19th Pamro All Africa Media Research Conference, which will this year, consider a 'billion dollar question'... read |
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 | There is no doubt that traditional brick-and-mortar shopping remains the backbone of the South African retail industry, but new ways of purchasing are fast becoming standard practice in retail markets... read |
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 | Louise Marsland Uganda is in the news today across the globe for what is being called a "social media tax" on social media users in the East African country, which has in the past imposed draconian laws that curb press freedom and freedom of speech. read |
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 | Madelain Roscher Social media is an amazing platform for engaging with your brand's audience. Do not let trolls, and disgruntled individuals steer you off course... read |
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 | Ofentse Maloba Ofentse Maloba explores ways how brands and influencers can build better relationships that can benefit them both... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Mark Sham of Suits & Sneakers fame recently explained what you need to know about how social media has changed the world as we know it and how your brand can be better at social media storytelling... read |
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Laeeka Khan Issued By ICESA |
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 | Gee Motsepe Gee Motsepe writes about why brands should be looking at including influencers in their marketing budgets... read |
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 | Shae Leigh Shae Leigh writes that if brands don't protect their influencers, legally and ethically, influencers won't protect the brand... read |
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 | MultiChoice Africa announces Pan-African initiative for film and television industry, to ignite Africa's creative industries... read |
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 | Newswatch: The American Broadcasting Company has cancelled Roseanne Barr's sitcom Roseanne in consequence to her racist and Islamophobic "bad joke"... read |
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 | Robyn de Villiers There are six main reasons for the rise of Africa as an investment destination and each of them has an impact on the practice of effective communications across the continent... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews All about the luxury brand's African consumer market and tailoring their 'premiumisation' approach to the mobile-first continent... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews With warm lighting and a can-do attitude at the no-queue-in-sight, just-walk-up-and-chat reception desk, this is not your average 'government office' - this is the InvestSA one-stop shop (OSS)... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This #AfricaMonth, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Benjamin Schoderer, digital manager at KFC Africa, awarded Black Pixels for ranking as marketer of the year and brand of the year respectively in the IAB SA's 2018 Bookmarks Awards earlier this year... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Starbucks made the drastic move of shutting all 8,000 of its stores across the US on Tuesday afternoon for compulsory 'anti-bias' diversity training sessions. Here's what other brands can learn from this... read |
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 | Nicci Botha To the older generations, millennials are an enigma. They are the first true digital natives, and in South Africa they are also the first generation to bear the fruits of democracy and empowerment... read |
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 | MullenLowe CCO Mark Wenneker and The One Club CEO Kevin Swanepoel team with programme founding partners Susan Hoffman at Wieden+Kennedy and Ida Woldemichael at Everytown for Gun Safety along with Psyop, Exile and others to transform student creative work into public campaigns... read |
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 | Airports Company South Africa is calling for public comments and proposals for the renaming of four national and international airports in South Africa... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg NEWSWATCH: Rumours have been circulating this week that Sergio Machionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), could announce the closure of one of America's oldest remaining automakers... read |
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 | Marius Coetzee Biometrics certainly presents a compelling use case across fraud and risk management, security and access control, so major enterprises are looking to harness biometrics in a broader way... read |
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 | GreenCape released its free annual market intelligence reports this week... read |
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 | Jarryd Chatz You don't need to be in IT to understand the ins and outs of the internet. This 'how the internet works' series will teach you everything you need to know about the internet... read |
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