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| The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) elected its new board of directors for the 2018/2019 fiscal on Thursday, 25 May 2018, during its 71st Annual General Meeting at the AAA School of Advertising campus in Johannesburg...read |
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Jessica Tennant Jessica Tennant interviews Yenani Madikwa, copywriter at FCB Africa, on winning this year's global Cannes FCBSocialEYE and how we can keep an eye on her this week...read | 
#Newswatch: Absa tweeted out an offensive poll on 'black tax', outraging numerous clients, many of whom have since threatened to leave the bank and move to Nedbank and Capitec...read | 
Jessica Tennant Jessica Tennant interviews Tom Stein, chairman and CCO of Stein IAS to find out what delegates can expect from his talk at B2B Marketing Africa in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 19 June and his view of the B2B marketing landscape from a global perspective...read |
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 | The One Club for Creativity has announced the latest group of Portfolio Night All-Stars, the top young creative as selected by industry professionals from each of the 19 cities around the world that participated in its recent global Portfolio Night 14... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This year, Barron Hufkie is celebrating seven years in radio. Here, Hufkie explains his biggest learning since entering the world of work and shares advice on how others can follow suit... read |
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 | South African youth must take up the torch in health matters and lead awareness campaigns when it comes to the prevention of tuberculosis (TB) and Aids-related deaths... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Think Creative Hub's cofounders and creative directors Nkgabiseng 'Nkgabi' Motau and Mukondi Ralushayi explain their Cannes Lions links and why they just couldn't ignore feeling the itch of entrepreneurship two years ago... read |
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 | D&AD's free 12-week night school that provides young people without qualifications with a leg up into the creative industries, is back for a third year... read |
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 | The Cannes Lions Print & Publishing Lions shortlist has been released, with SA seeing two agencies make it to the final round at Cannes Lions 2018... read | |  | The Cannes Lions Design Lions shortlist has been released, with SA seeing a single entry make it to the final round at Cannes Lions 2018... read | |  | The Cannes Lions Outdoor Lions shortlist has been released... read | |  | The Cannes Lions Radio & Audio Lions shortlist has been released, with SA seeing six agencies make it to the final round at Cannes Lions 2018! read | |  | The Cannes Lions Mobile Lions shortlist has been released... read | |  | The Cannes Lions Titanium shortlist has been released. read | |  | The Cannes Lions Innovation shortlist has been released. read | |  | Leigh Andrews The 2018 Cannes Lions Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity kicks off on Monday! We boost the excitement with insights from Molefi Thulo, creative director at Ogilvy Johannesburg, currently in transit to Cannes to take on his role this year as radio and audio awarding juror... read | | Issued By VML South Africa | |  | Leigh Andrews With less than a week to go before the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity begins, Wayne Bishop, MD of PhD, explains his role as Cannes Media Lions shortlist juror... read | |  | The Cannes Lions Glass Lions for change shortlist has been released, with SA seeing a single entry make it to the final round at Cannes Lions 2018! read | |  | Prince Zwane and Kaylee Germann of Publicis Johannesburg were selected as the winning team in Cinemark's Young Lions competition held earlier this year. As a result, they're now flying out to Cannes to represent the country in a week of creative inspiration.... read | |  | The Cannes Lions Pharma and Health & Wellness Lions shortlists have been released, with SA seeing a single entry make it to the final round at Cannes Lions 2018... read | | | | | Latest news | Live streaming |
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 | The Lisbon International Advertising Festival has released Win a Crow. Win the Respect, a video promoting the 2018 edition of the Festival... read |
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 | Derryn Jackson Is there a difference between advertising and content? If so, what is it?... read |
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 | The Warc Awards has announced the 2018 winners of the Effective Content Strategy category... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Loeries chair aunty and creative director at FCB Africa, Suhana Gordhan shares what creativity means to her and lessons in leadership she's learnt along her journey in advertising from the boys' locker room to the beaches of Nicaragua... read |
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 | Damon Stapleton "Doing stand-up in Poland." This is a phrase that we used to say at an agency I use to work at many years ago. It referred to a bad meeting with a client that involved a creative presentation... read |
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 | Brendan Seery It was one of the most talked-about pieces of marketing in quite a few months, the Mercedes-Benz recreation of its famous 1990 TV commercial, about how one of its brilliantly engineered cars saved the life of its driver when he crashed 100m down the side of Chapman's Peak outside Cape Town... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Loeries chair aunty and creative director at FCB Africa, Suhana Gordhan shares what creativity means to her and lessons in leadership she's learnt along her journey in advertising from the boys' locker room to the beaches of Nicaragua... read |
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 | Gumtree Media and Mediamark are teaming up to offer SA advertisers a unique service... read |
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 | The Association for Communication and Advertising NPC (ACA) has announced that it is selling its shareholding in the AAA School of Advertising (AAA) to Richfield Holdings... read |
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 | E. Herridge Have you ever been asked to write an opinion piece? I recently had the misfortune of receiving such a request, and while baulking internally, I was powerless to prevent my ego from commandeering my vocal chords and saying yes... read |
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 | Hlumelo Ndoni There are a number of reports of agencies missing the point when it comes to the youngest generation of consumers, Generation Z. Often, too little time is spent optimising content for this generation's platforms-of-choice, such as Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook... read |
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 | Margie Knap Making radio work for your company requires strategy, skilled media buying and an engaging creative. But what makes a radio ad engaging?... read |
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 | For the last few years, packaging industry professionals have been curious about the future of smart packaging. Whilst barcodes and QR codes were once considered the "next big thing", the acceleration of technology is transforming smart packaging... read |
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 | Wynand Smit In business, your company needs to get as deep into the minds and interaction habits of your customers as possible. Too often, however, the single view of the customer is viewed as unattainable, a marketing smokescreen that can obscure business strategy and confuse communication efforts... read |
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 | Edward Carbutt Do you remember your first car? That great feeling of freedom that came with the ability to drive yourself wherever you wanted or needed to go, without having to ask for a lift, take public transport or cycle or walk... read |
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 | Matthew Kibby Services companies can unlock a better customer experience with a modern business solution and focussing on business efficiency... read |
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 | Gil Sperling A powerful lesson in how to turn vision into reality, delivered in the heart of downtown Johannesburg... read |
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 | Mike Wright The customer communication management space, once dominated by document output software companies, has seriously embraced digital transformation... read |
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 | Entrepreneur, Shaka Sisulu has announced that he has acquired a 51% stake in Retroviral Digital Communications... read |
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 | Carmen Murray With the rise of the connected individual, marketers must re-think the way they build a brand to be future fit for the digital savvy consumers... read |
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 | Grant Fleming There's no doubt that Black Friday (and the subsequent Cyber Monday) has firmly embedded itself as part of the local sales cycle. With the annual shopping frenzy only due in November, it does not mean that marketers should not be preparing already... read |
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 | The Direct Marketing Association of South Africa (DMASA) has announced that the Assegai Awards for 2018 are open for entries as of 12 June 2018... read |
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 | The Businesswomen's Association (BWA) in Cape Town has announced 17 finalists for its annual Regional Business Woman of the Year Awards (RBWOYA)... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Heavy Chef and Xero have recently launched a book entitled The Heavy Chef Guide to Starting a Business in South Africa. Founder and CEO Fred Roed lets us in on what we can expect from the new book... read |
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 | The 2018 edition of Africa's customer experience summit, CEM Africa, will focus on return on investment as the African CX market matures and investment increases... read |
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 | Lisa MacLeod, head of digital at Tiso Blackstar Group, South Africa has been elected vice president of Wan-Ifra... read |
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 | Jacob Henry I was drawn to how Bourdain upended the travel show genre, telling compelling and complicated stories about people and places most Western viewers tend to view through a lens of simplistic stereotypes or caricatures... read |
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 | The Cape Town International Film Market and Festival will take place from 9-19 October 2018 at venues across the V&A Waterfront as well as in select sites across the city of Cape Town... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Cosmopolitan South Africa has launched a petition to end tampon tax, calling all women to campaign against period poverty in South Africa... read |
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 | Kai Henniges Attention spans are short, and they're getting shorter. Consumers today are bombarded with editorial, commercial and social messages through more devices and sources than ever... read |
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 | This week around 2,000 guests from 100 countries will discuss various aspects of 'Global Inequalities' at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (GMF) in Bonn, Germany... read |
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 | South African food guide Eat Out has launched a new free app. The app will provide users with the ability to book and review more than 6,000 restaurants across the country. read |
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 | The Publishers Support Services (PSS) has announced the 2018 finalists of the Frewin, McCall and Joel Mervis Awards... read |
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 | Andy Walker If you were expecting Will Smith to open the 2018 World Cup in Russia this evening, don't worry, we were, too... read |
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 | Francois Rank Francois Rank gives a few tips on how we as communications professionals can learn from how Deadpool 2 was marketed... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Sarah Browning-de Villiers, former deputy editor at Cosmopolitan SA and the gal behind its #TamponTaxMustFall campaign, recently joined Publicis Machine as chief content officer in the narrative content marketing team... read |
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 | Nielsen Sports recently hosted an industry breakfast that outlined the five biggest commercial sports trends for 2018. These trends will have a notable influence on the way sporting codes, brands, broadcasters and publishers play the game in the future... read |
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 | Eben Esterhuizen Forbes' richest people in the world list says Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, earns $107.4 million per day, so he must be doing something right... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Every year nine million people view the Mona Lisa. People still flock to live events at stadiums. Why; when they can see it on video, in HD and 3D and AR, etc... read |
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 | Howard Feldman A new epidemic is fast spreading across the globe. It is known as Twitter Delinquent Disorder (TDD) - and it kills reputations in less than 280 characters... read |
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 | Elizma Nolte The kick-off of the first match in the world's most anticipated football tournament this June will also signal the start of what will likely be the biggest mobile and social media event the world has ever seen. It's an unprecedented opportunity for marketers to engage with people about a subject they are truly passionate about... read |
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 | Thoriso Kolobe It is without a shadow of a doubt that whichever business you find yourself in, social media is a must in order to maximise reach with your target audience. Thoriso Kolobe list tools you can use to design a pretty simple social media plan that maximises reach... read |
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 | Kwesé TV to bring the Rugby Africa Gold Cup 2018 live, via streaming and its free television model... read |
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 | The Africa Channel has announced the 20 finalists in the competition for Best TV Series entered into the inaugural Zanzibar TV Series Festival and Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)... read |
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 | The 2018 Sunday Times Generation Next youth survey announced the top performing brands the at the highly anticipated Sunday Times Generation Next Awards that took place in Sandton on Thursday, 14 June. read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Wayne Naidoo, founder and CEO of Duke... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Diversity is good for business, especially creative business, so little wonder that diversity is an increasingly hot topic at Cannes. With the 2018 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity kicking off later today, if you're covering the festivity from afar, you're likely to see the #MoreLikeMe hashtag trending on your timeline, in addition to #SeeitBeit and more... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews I chatted to the international jury presidents ahead of the upcoming Loeries Creative Week. Next in the series is Fabian Frese, chief creative officer at Germany's Kolle Rebbe and this year's Loeries film, radio and audio jury president... read |
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 | Shazam is launching an original campaign with Heineken in Nigeria on Monday around the World Cup... read |
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 | The latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report focuses on commercial rollouts of 5G and larger than previously forecasted deployments of cellular IoT... read |
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 | Total South African retail sales for April 2018 grew by 3.7% year-on-year after removing the effects of inflation, showing the highest growth rate seen in April in the past six years... read |
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 | According to Lucky Masilela, CEO of ZA Central Registry NPC, there's a sense of renewal in the air and it's, therefore, the perfect time for SOEs to ditch the .com and revert to .za domains to show their commitment to building South Africa... read |
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 | Huge international sporting events are becoming significant cyberattack targets, ordinary individual attendees included... read |
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 | The Franchise Association of South Africa's (Fasa) Awards for Excellence in Franchising held recently, saw health food brand Kauai walk off with multiple awards including the coveted title of Franchisor of the Year... read |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster If South Africa is reality, then Malta is wonderland. Or vice versa, as I've discovered on a visit back to the old country... read |
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George Herbert "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." Kanye West "Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?" Helen Keller "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." Arnold Bennett "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top." Gilbert Parker "Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love." |
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