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| The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity came to an end on 22 June 2018, rounding out a full week of award shows that celebrated creativity across various categories. Here's how SA fared overall...read |
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The Sunday Times Literary Awards winners were announced at a gala dinner held at The Venue, Melrose Arch, on Saturday 23 June...read | 
Ellen De Matos Silva Ellen De Matos Silva, shares her thoughts on fragmentation in marketing and how online users are becoming increasingly comfortable with a cross-device messaging world...read | 
Leigh Andrews A stand-out factor of Cannes Lions 2018 was the introduction of the Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) Lions to this year's Festival of Creativity. Here's how we can make the world a better place through creativity...read |
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 | Leigh Andrews "The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it." - Brian Tracy. Lifelong learning is just that - constantly investing in your mind and therefore, your life. This #YouthMonth, I share my take on the importance of lifelong learning and why it's critical to future success... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg 16-year-old self-taught game developer, Brandon Kynoch, is dominating the gaming industry with the App Store having chosen his game, Torus., as its 'Game of the Day' in 137 App Stores worldwide... read |
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 | When no less than three blood tests failed to diagnose his malaria, Brian Gitta decided to come up with a better option... read |
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Issued By MediaCom | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity concluded on 22 June, with the 2018 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Lions, Creative Effectiveness Lions, Film Lions and the associated Young Lions, Glass Lions, Titanium Lions and overall Grand Prix for Good announced during the final Cannes Lions award ceremony... read | |  | Ann Nurock Ann Nurock interviews Julian Boulding, president and founder of thenetworkone at Cannes Lions 2018... read | |  | Ann Nurock Ann Nurock interviews James Hunt, vice president of CNN Create, who talks to her about why CNN is increasing its presence at Cannes, elaborates on what type of clients CNN produces content for and what the importance of Africa is to CNN... read | |  | Jessica Tennant As part of the 2017 Cannes Lions Branded Entertainment jury, Jason Xenopoulos, VML global chief vision officer and EMEA CCO, collaborated with the jury to write a book called The Art of Branded Entertainment, which was launched just one year later at Cannes Lions 2018 on Tuesday, 19 June... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 19 June with the 2018 Cannes Print & Publishing Lions announced during the Communication award ceremony, with SA once again bringing home the Grand Prix and roaring with metal... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June with the 2018 Cannes Brand Experience & Activation and Creative eCommerce winners announced during the Experience award ceremony... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June with the 2018 Cannes Entertainment and Entertainment for Music Lions winners announced during the Entertainment award ceremony, with SA bringing home a Gold, Silver and Bronze Lion from this track... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June with the 2018 Cannes Film Craft, Digital Craft and Industry Craft Lions announced during the Craft award ceremony, with SA bringing home a Bronze Lion... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 19 June with the 2018 Cannes Mobile Lions announced during the Communication award ceremony... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity kicked off on 18 June with the Cannes Pharma and Cannes Health & Wellness Lions award ceremonies... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 19 June with the 2018 Cannes Print & Publishing Lions announced during the Communication award ceremony, with SA bringing home two silver wins... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 19 June with the 2018 Cannes Design Lions announced during the Communication award ceremony, with SA bringing home a Bronze Lion... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 19 June with the 2018 Cannes Outdoor Lions announced during the Communication award ceremony... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 21 June, with the 2018 Creative Data, Direct, Media, PR and Social & Influencer winners announced during the Reach award ceremony... read | |  | The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 21 June, with the 2018 Innovation and Product Design winners announced during the Innovation award ceremony... read | | | Latest news | Live streaming |
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 | Jessica Tennant David Uribe, TBWA\Worldwide's regional data director for Africa and the Middle East, tells us that it took "lots of studying, trying, failing and repeating" to get to where he is today... read |
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 | Brendan Seery Hangovers, they say, are God's way of telling you to lay off the booze. And, anyone who has had one will know the "why did I do it?" feeling of remorse... read |
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 | Jedd Cokayne More and more brands are finding it difficult to trade in this ever-changing and difficult market we find ourselves in. The biggest challenge is remaining relevant to a core target market... read |
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 | Juanita Vorster Gone are the days of customer service consisting of treating buyers with common courtesy. Customer service has been disrupted by an expectation of a total customer experience that is dictated by the customer, not company policies... read |
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 | Richard Lord Facebook and Google are the biggest media owners in almost every market across the globe and they seem to be heading for world domination, says Richard Lord. But, is that so bad?... read |
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 | Shaka Sisulu has acquired ROi Africa, a smart technology media monitoring and intelligence provider from Ecsponent Limited... read |
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 | Nedbank has appointed The Odd Number to manage its digital media services... read |
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 | Shaune Jordaan Publicis recently announced the launch of its bespoke artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Marcel. The platform was Publicis' major focus for the best part of the year and saw it pull out of all industry awards and events until it was complete... read |
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 | Bronwyn Williams In the wake of the recent Facebook scandal that revealed how Cambridge Analytical had gained improper access to the sensitive, personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users, consumers around the world are waking up to the value of personal privacy... read |
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 | Nick Bester Many facets of the digital ecosystem are complex and fragmented but, as the opaque and largely unverified world of data collection comes under scrutiny and the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force in Europe, ignoring a data's source is no longer an option... read |
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 | Boo-Yah!, an advisory and educational marketing services company, has announced its exclusive partnership with The Best of Global Digital Marketing, a Europe-based producer of workshops and in-house training on digital marketing... read |
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 | The 32nd Epica Awards today announced brand and content director of Wallpaper* magazine, Tony Chambers as jury president, two new grand prix in resposibility and alternative media, and the competition's new advertising campaign by Wieden & Kennedy in Amsterdam... read |
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 | Andreas Furtner Did you know: the human brain processes sound at a higher speed than any of its
other senses, making it a great tool to connect audiences with content and their emotions... read |
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 | CaribbeanTales and Durban FilmMart Partnership 2.0 encourages African women filmmakers to think co-production... read |
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 | Daniel Dercksen Daniel Dercksen talks with the creative team behind the hilarious action comedy Thys & Trix: writer-director Quentin C. Krog, screenwriter Frannie Van Der Walt, and actors/husband-and-wife team Leandie du Randt Bosch and Bouwer Bosch. read |
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 | Hyundai's luxury car brand, Genesis is renewing its exclusive yearlong sponsorship of Great Big Story's Origins channel and the creation of a fellowship program dedicated to supporting and showcasing emerging film-makers... read |
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 | Knysna Tourism's #SpiritofKnysna campaign pays homage to Knysna's scenic beauty, people and unique spirit, demonstrating the destinations resilience to rise above the trauma of the past year... read |
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 | Sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing mobile market, by 2020 the region will have more than half a billion mobile subscribers to date... read |
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 | Bronwyn Williams The future of retail, and indeed any business, is about selling solutions rather than products; creating an experience over an above an economic transaction... read |
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 | Spree and Superbalist, two of South Africa's most popular online fashion retailers, will merge into a single platform, Media24 and Takealot.com announced today... read |
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 | linda graham Social media is an excellent marketing tool, but in the wrong hands, it can also be severely damaging... read |
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 | Ronel De Kock Influencer marketing is a form of communication which identifies individuals that have influence over potential buyers, then focuses marketing activities around these influencers - mainly online... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Bongani Chinkanda, CEO of HDI Youth Marketeers, the agency that conducts the research for the Sunday Times Generation Next study, released last week, provided an overview at the conference, which took place on Thursday, 14 June at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg... read |
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 | mamahlatse marokane As marketers, we have long championed cause marketing programs as an impactful way for brands and companies to get involved, but our programs can go further by evolving them from "nice-to-dos" to "must-dos." Fundamentally, we should strive to create long-term, purpose-driven programs that allow brands and companies to do well while doing good... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This #YouthMonth, we go behind the selfie with 'just-35' Anna Vaulina - head of retention and customer experience for Showmax, she also moonlights as the head of marketing for the IAB SA, holds an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science and has completed both a Harvard business and innovation leadership course and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology big data and analytics course... read |
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 | The winners of the International Color Quality Club 2018-2020 contest (ICQC) has been announced... read |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster It's been exactly 12 months since I relocated to Malta so it was sobering to see, during my recent return to South Africa, what had changed in the year that I was away... read |
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 | Olatunbosun Olaniyan You may have noticed something different in the 2018 World Cup. For the first time ever, the Virtual Assistant Referee (VAR) system is being used to help make decisions during games. And already we are seeing it cause controversy... read |
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 | Tom Jackson The Africa Early Stage Investor Summit is looking for eight innovative, high-growth scale-ups to pitch at the annual event in Cape Town in November... read |
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 | Juliet McGuire Fuel prices in South Africa continue to climb on the back of a weaker Rand and higher international fuel prices, but how does the cost of petroleum in South Africa compare with the rest of the world? Let's take a look... read |
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Napoleon Bonaparte "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." Edith Wharton "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." Henry David Thoreau "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." Carl Sandburg "Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." Thabo Mbeki "The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living." |
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