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LEIGH ANDREWS
The Sanlam marketing team has had an exceptionally good year, coming out as top brand in the latest Loeries Rankings. Alistair King, CCO of agency King James Group and Mariska Oosthuizen, head of brand for Sanlam, explain how they got to that top spot for the second time in four years... read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Founder of Thinkerneur, Bogosi Motshegwa has worked for some of the biggest agencies and agency networks in South Africa and is now pursuing his career as an entrepreneur. Here he elaborates on entrepreneurship and the importance of it, especially in SA. Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Global social performance agency Adglow's SA country manager, Catherine Jenkins, explains the tools and techniques needed to successfully work with the rest of their collaborative global network, and more... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
What do Tim Modise, the late Rowena Baird, Stephanie Ruhle, and Oprah have in common? They serve as inspiration for the new news and social media anchors of OpenView's Open News... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
RentMyRide is empowering locals by giving them the tools for a low-touch small business and creating competition for conventional car rental companies... Read
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SHAN RADCLIFFE
The graduate unemployment problem is an age-old, catch-22 situation: In order to get a job, you need experience, but the only way to get experience is to get a job... Read
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ANDREW WOOD
Andrew Wood, CEO of The Unlimited, offers some power networking tips for young entrepreneurs... Read
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MIKE BEUKES
Mike Beukes lists a few important things he thinks we need if we want an industry that is appealing to entrepreneurs... Read
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SMITH WILLAS
One of the hottest buzzwords in the business world, "entrepreneurship" is growing more than ever before... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
And an Onion to a PR man for his 'shotgun' press release that greatly annoyed the receiver... Read
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2018 Epica Awards Grand Prix winners from the United States, Italy, Ireland, Germany and Japan have all been announced... Read
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One of only a handful of black ballerinas in the world, Kitty Phetla, has broken all barriers in becoming a respected dancer, choreographer, model and radio host in South Africa... Read
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Clients, agencies and journalists will be asking, "Will responsibility kill creativity?" at the Epica Awards Creative Circle that will be taking place in Amsterdam on 15 November at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute... Read
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The top four finalists of the Financial Mail Creative Challenge - vying to win the inaugural Financial Mail AdFocus Creative Challenge Award - have been announced... Read
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The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) has announced the 2019 Apex Awards season open for entry... Read
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Branding
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The Pentawards Live Amsterdam will be hosting international speakers from a selection of the world's most renowned brands and Microsoft's Kevin Marshall is the latest speaker to be announced... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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LEIGH ANDREWS
On the second day of AfricaCom 2018, Indranil Das, VP and head of Ericsson digital services for EMEA explained the importance of asking if the customer experience exceeds the customer expectation... Read
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WYNAND SMIT
Black Friday is here to stay: as part of a retail festival that entices consumers in their millions to part with their cash, it's another way of increasing revenue just before the festive season officially kicks in... Read
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HANS ZACHAR
Acceleration of digitisation raises the bar for companies to innovate - or be left behind... Read
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CSI
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The White Light Movement is a new non-profit organisation aimed at providing empowerment to women who have been victims of gender-based violence and abuse... Read
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The Kevin Richardson Foundation has managed to raise more than R2.7m on local rewards-based crowdfunding platform, Thundafund.com, breaking the record for the most money raised for a single campaign on a South African rewards platform... Read
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Design
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Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry has adopted reports on the Copyright Amendment Bill and the Performers Protection Amendment Bill which seek to establish and protect the rights of creators and copyright owners... Read
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Digital
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The 2018 AfricaCom Awards were announced at a colourful and festive Mardi Gras themed event in Cape Town last night... Read
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NTOMBI MHANGWANI
As new ideas, digital technologies and business models penetrate the marketplace in Africa, the ability to disrupt is becoming more and more of a necessity... Read
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PAUL MITCHELL
Blockchain has the potential to grow into a key capability, helping companies in the entertainment and media industry to keep track of content assets, avoid contractual disputes and establish the certainty and accountability that will foster trust with business partners and customers... Read
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One of South Africa's foremost innovation specialists and digital thought-leaders has voiced concern about the country's lack of investment in digitalisation... Read
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Direct Marketing
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Education
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TED-Ed invited members from Think Ahead's TED-Ed Club Boipelo Moagi and Ayanda Bokaba to the recent TED-Ed Weekend... Read
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Entrepreneurship
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The AWIEF Awards this weekend celebrated the achievements of women entrepreneurs and innovators across the African continent... Read
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Events & Conferencing
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The winners of the 10th annual Feather Awards were recently announced at the Johannesburg City Hall... Read
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The seventh TEDxCapeTown main event explored the power in pausing and considering before taking action... Read
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Film & Cinematography
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The Ladima Foundation: women of influence panel discussion DISCOP Joburg... Read
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Joburg Film Festival opened on Friday with Kenyan feature film, Rafiki... Read
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AfriDocs: Migrant stories changing the narrative on migration... Read
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The inaugural Africa Rising International Film Festival (Ariff) will be as part of the Global Festival Week in South Africa from 26-29 November 2018... Read
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South Africa's official entry to the 91st Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language category, is the acclaimed Sew the Winter to my Skin by filmmaker Jahmil X.T. Qubeka... Read
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Magazines
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Media
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EMEKA ENWERE
Google and Facebook own the most popular media platforms online. As the two most dominant players in the online advertising space globally... Read
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Media Freedom
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ANGELA QUINTAL
Muthoki Mumo and I embarked on a 10-day visit to Tanzania, primarily as a networking and fact-finding mission to gauge media freedom in Magufuli's Tanzania. We had nothing to hide, and even had a letter of invitation from the government-recognised press regulator. But then I heard a knock on my hotel room door... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Jennifer Thomas, an award-winning, veteran American broadcast journalist, was invited by the United States Embassy (South Africa) to address the Cape Town Press Club on media coverage of elections in the age of fake news late last month... Read
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The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for Cameroon to drop all charges against Mimi Mefo... Read
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Mobile
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LEIGH ANDREWS
"I never subscribed for that, now all my data is gone!" It's a common call centre complaint, and also the basis of a highlight of the AfricaCom 20/20 track: The keynote address by Dimitris Maniatis, head of Secure-D at Upstream, who revealed the scary reality of smartphone data fraud... Read
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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) calls for comments on the Draft International Mobile Telephony (IMT) Roadmap... Read
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PR & Communications
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SUE CHARLTON APR
Public relations (PR) gets a bad rap and that's probably because so many people don't understand the concept at all... Read
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Production
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Cartoon Network's Creative Lab winners of its search for the next African animation talent, have been announced... Read
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Radio
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Research
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Marketing technology spending, customer experience, innovation and personalisation mark key trends in marketing leaders' budget and attention... Read
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SEAN SULLIVAN
Attention spans are not shrinking, rather they are evolving to be more selective, according to new research... Read
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JOHN LAURENCE
Have you ever wondered how your brain prioritises what you pay attention to?... Read
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RACHEL THOMPSON, ISSUED BY GFK SOUTH AFRICA
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Retail
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Online retail is part of the much bigger picture of frictionless commerce where online is moving offline and offline to online. Driving this is time and convenience... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Tuesday night saw a collection of high-end businessmen, Maserati's top clientele, and an array of influencers and celebrities make their way to De Waterkant restaurant, Beluga to celebrate the launch of Beluga's new whisky lounge... Read
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Social Media
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ANDY WALKER
Apparently, middle fingers just won't do as insults in South Africa's Parliament anymore... Read
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On the heels of the success of their inaugural edition in 2017, The Black Twitter Awards (also known as BTAwards) will be returning this year... Read
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The Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill was officially passed last week, which means you can face up to three years jail time if you are caught sending these messages... Read
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MARCUS 'THE MALTESE FALCON' BREWSTER
In a local twist on the trope of the actress and the bishop, Maltese social media is running high about the Gozitan parish priest who was led through the streets of the village in a parade... Read
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Facebook has launched new tools and resources to help youth, professionals and entrepreneurs in South Africa to access new career opportunities, including, an enhanced Mentorship tool, and an improved Jobs on Facebook product... Read
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The non-stop growth of social media is threatening the future of African telecoms operators... Read
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JOSH DA COSTA, ISSUED BY R-SQUARED DIGITAL SA
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Sponsorship
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German fashion house Hugo Boss and German carmaker Porsche have entered into a multiyear cooperation that will see the apparel giant outfitting Porsche's Formula E racing team... Read
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Streaming
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Telkom confirms partnership with internet entertainment service, Netflix... Read
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CARMEN MURRAY
Who could imagine that after all of these years, Steve Jobs was a prophet? In 2005 he made it clear that he will support podcasts on iTunes and he was unyielding that podcasts are the future... Read
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TV
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StarTimes inked a 10-year deal with Senegalese Professional Football League... Read
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Turner's Upfront reveals brand new look, slate, and local partnerships for its African markets... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Boni Mchunu, GM for East Coast Radio... Read
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One Show Awards
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In addition to celebrating the full class of 30 winners at the Young Guns 16 awards ceremony in New York, The One Club for Creativity presented additional special recognition to three women honourees, all creatives age 30 and under... Read
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The Ventureburn 2018 Startup Survey results are out and it uncovers the nuts and bolts of the SA tech startup sector... Read
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STUART SCANLON
As implementation of new EU General Data Protection Regulations continues, many South African companies are finding themselves unprepared and likely to face stiff penalties if they don't seek compliance as a matter of urgency... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
In order for Africa to leap into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, industry players must re-calibrate their telco strategy... Read
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STEVE BRIGGS
Most analysts would agree that a sense of political stability and renewed national hope has swept through South Africa recently... Read
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MILLS SOKO
The collapse of Steinhoff International, the multi-billion dollar global business group, has been rightly described as the biggest corporate scandal in South African history... Read
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One of 75 local finalists shortlisted across 15 categories, Workshop17 was named Best Coworking Space - South Africa, at the recent Southern Africa Startup Awards... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Over three-quarters of franchisee owners are optimistic about the future. This optimism is translated into the growth of franchises' contribution to the GDP of South Africa - growing from 9% in 2014 to 15% today... Read
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American actor and stand-up comedian Chris Tucker toured South Africa last week with his new comedy show. Juanita Pienaar attended the Cape Town event and shares what she enjoyed most... Read
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