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LEIGH ANDREWS
Standard Bank has firmed up South Africa's commitment to UN Women's #HeForShe movement. Here's why it's so impactful, especially in Africa, and how you can go beyond clicktivism and get involved, too... read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Facebook has revealed new features for its Marketplace as it celebrates being around for two years...read
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WYNAND SMIT
Fostering a culture of continuous learning is essential in today's business environment, but companies find this principle difficult to implement...read
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SINDY PETERS
What started off in 2012 as a games arcade for the 400-plus kids of Ponte City in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, has evolved into an inspiring social development project...read
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One Show Awards
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The campaign was developed by brand experience design firm Collins and each episode is brought to life by one of six talented animation and illustration studios from around the world... Read
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NEW YORK: The One Club for Creativity today debuted an online video campaign by Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo to promote the call for entries for the 2019 iteration of the One Show awards... Read
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Cannes Lions
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ISSUED BY CINEMARK
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Advertising
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The director behind some of South Africa's most iconic TV ads has passed away... Read
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A Notice of Liquidation has been issued against the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa by Eripio, but the members of the ASA are determined that this will not mean the end of self-regulation of advertising content... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Artist, maker and activator Chris Auret led attendees of the September Creative Mornings Cape Town session through a "collaborative art experiment"... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
What does it mean to be a man? Most of us, a new Carling ad says, learned the wrong way, from our fathers, about being bold, brave and strong... Read
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NEW YORK: Leading figures from the worlds of business, advertising, design and philanthropy gathered at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 in New York City to celebrate the winners of the third annual D&AD Impact Awards... Read
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Branding
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CRM, CX, UX
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WYNAND SMIT
Stats SA recently announced the news of a second quarter fall of 0.7% in the Gross Domestic Product, and that this has officially plunged us into a recession. What should be of concern to companies is the burden of such a recession on consumers.... Read
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CSI
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Mars Multisales Africa, a division of global family-owned food company Mars Incorporated, has announced progress made on the company's global 'Sustainable in a Generation' plan... Read
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Shoprite & Checkers has made its annual call on registered charities to apply to be part of its festive season gift wrapping fundraiser... Read
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Design
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Visi magazine's editor-in-chief Sumien Brink explains how New Media's bi-monthly décor, design and architecture-first magazine has proven its endurance and longevity over the past 20 years... Read
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Digital
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Today marks the launch of Retroactive, a new creative digital sports marketing agency, co-founded by former Springbok Bryan Habana and Mike Sharman, co-founder of Retroviral Digital Communications... Read
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SANDRA BURGER
The job of branded goods and companies is about to get much harder, says Sandra Burger, business unit manager at The MediaShop... Read
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Education
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LYNN MADELEY, ISSUED BY HAVAS JOHANNESBURG
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Entrepreneurship
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Events & Conferencing
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The Shopper Insights briefing, set to take place in Johannesburg on 7 November 2018, will unpack the key shopper trends that brands should tap into to get ahead in the retail space... Read
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Africa's media landscape has undergone significant changes since African publishers across the continent gathered for the first Digital Media Africa conference in 2016, and this year's gathering promises to address digital revenue challenges... Read
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Exhibitions
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Magazines
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ISSUED BY MANGO-OMC
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Marketing
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Media
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PIETER CONRADIE, ANJA HOFMEYR AND ASHLEIGH GORDON
The Supreme Court of Appeal handed down a ground-breaking judgment recently in the matter Centre for Child Law & Others v Media 24 Limited & Others, reinforcing the public's right to be informed of crimes involving child victims... Read
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ISSUED BY ORNICO
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The Constitutional Court has granted the Competition Commission jurisdiction to investigate the deal signed between the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and MultiChoice... Read
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Media Freedom
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GEORGE OGOLA
The government of Benin has cancelled a recent decree that imposed a tax on users of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
NEWSWATCH: Court reporting is notoriously one of the most strictly regulated fields of journalism, which is why media celebrated this morning when granted an application to take still pictures of the #DrosRape accused... Read
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Mobile
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Regularly scan your messaging inbox for messages saying you are subscribed to mobile services... Read
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Online Media
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Facebook Africa has launched third-party fact-checking in partnership with Africa Check and AFP to help assess the accuracy of news in South Africa and reduce the spread of misinformation... Read
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OOH
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PR & Communications
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VICKY GILLAN
You're holding a pitch for new agency partners. This won't have been a decision taken lightly; running the pitch will be time-consuming, distracting and there's always the niggling concern that you won't find better in a new agency partner... Read
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Radio
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South Africans have been called to comment on the draft policy directive regarding the introduction of the digital sound broadcasting in South Africa... Read
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NEWSWATCH: Hot 91.9 FM has dismissed breakfast show host Sasha Martinengo with immediate effect, having called EFF leader Julius Malema a "monkey" live on air... Read
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Recruitment
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ANDREW ALLISON
You'd be hard-pressed to find a responsible South African business that doesn't believe in the critical need for representative transformation and inequality reduction in South Africa. However, the intricacies of B-BBEE are confusing at best and can be incredibly expensive and stressful at worst... Read
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MICHELLE DE WITT, ISSUED BY MEDIACOM
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Retail
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
In #FreshOnTheShelf, we round up some of our favourite food and beverage products that have hit the shelves recently... Read
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South African online retail aggregator Guzzle, which allows consumers to browse deals from the country's largest retailers, has just launched its business-to-business app... Read
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Social Media
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REBECCA NOWLAND
Young people are lonelier than all other age groups, according to recent findings from the BBC Loneliness Experiment... Read
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ANDY WALKER
Doppelgangers are instant viral internet fodder, but even more so when the person in question looks like Regina George from Mean Girls. Read
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JOSH DA COSTA, ISSUED BY R-SQUARED DIGITAL SA
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Sponsorship
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ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA
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Streaming
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As part of Spotify's newest Global Cultures initiative, designed to promote and bring to the surface culturally diverse music, Spotify today announced the launch of Afro Hub... Read
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TV
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Youth Marketing
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Lexi Hall, founder and director of Tinkwe PR... Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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MARRAKECH: The second World Summit of Women in Africa (WIA) Initiative commenced on Thursday, 27 September at the Beldi Country Club in Marrakech, Morocco... Read
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MARCUS 'THE MALTESE FALCON' BREWSTER
One of the advantages of living on the other side of the equator to South Africa is that it gives you a different perspective - on everything! From a Maltese standpoint, Marcus Brewster was led to look at a recent report about population density through the other end of the telescope... Read
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JOHN PRESS
Television shows like Dragon's Den would have us believe that a halfway decent product and a charismatic founder are all that's needed for an SMME to attract investors... Read
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Georg Trakl "I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods." Emily Dickinson "Saying nothing... sometimes says the most." Walt Whitman "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." Mahatma Gandhi "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." T. Harv Eker "If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible first." |
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