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We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2018 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views. Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's Marketing & Media site over the past year below... read
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GARETH GRANT
Gareth Grant, business unit manager at The MediaShop says that we're looking at our smartphones every 12 minutes, but is it making us smarter?...read
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JESSICA TENNANT
SodaStream has released a video campaign to highlight the damage caused by single-use plastic bottles and as a call to shift away from these to reusable packaging...read
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JENNILEE PEREMORE
I attended the Global Leadership Summit in Port Elizabeth on the 19th and 20th of October 2018, where valuable leadership insights were shared by some of the world's top leaders.read
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Advertising
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JESSICA TENNANT
TBWA\Worldwide has been named Adweek's 2018 Global Agency of the Year based on the strength of its creative product... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
Misleading advertising will always get an Onion - and so will you, e-toll collecting agency ETC, for your dishonest and threatening campaign... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
Imagine you are in a city of close to 15 million people. You are walking down a large street. It is a lot like 5th Avenue in New York. For a couple of seconds, you are happily staring at one of the beautiful window displays. You turn around and your child is gone... Read
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ISSUED BY FCB AFRICA
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ISSUED BY DECIMAL AGENCY
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ISSUED BY M&C SAATCHI ABEL
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
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Branding
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Following the conclusion of an investment deal with black-owned private equity business Symmetry Capital Partners, Knight Frank South Africa has rebranded to Galetti Corporate Real Estate... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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PAULA SARTINI
Paula Sartini, founder and CEO of BrandQuantum, delves into the new role of marketing and IT in the era of Customer Experience... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Mike Schalit, co-founder of Net#work BBDO, has introduced a new 'Wear it Forward' range of t-shirts and caps with Marlboro Originals through the agency's non-profit Mal Foundation... Read
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According to the findings of a study by researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the University of Cape Town (UCT), threats about Day Zero when taps would run dry had a far greater impact on Capetonians' water usage than water restrictions... Read
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ISSUED BY UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
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ISSUED BY EAST COAST RADIO
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ISSUED BY TOZER MARKETING & EVENTS
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Design
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BRONWYN WILLIAMS
In August 2018 Kim Kardashian and Chrissy Teigen caused a social media frenzy when the posted pictures of themselves sporting what appeared to be body-modification "jewellery" implanted in their necks and torsos on their respective social media feeds... Read
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Coca-Cola has teamed up with four local fashion designers to create a quartet of signature collections influenced by South African experiences and the beverage brand's iconic design elements... Read
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JENNY GILBERT
Tickets have just gone on sale for the V&A London's Mary Quant exhibition, which opens its doors on 6 April 2019. The timing, whether through luck or curatorial savvy, feels perfect... Read
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ISSUED BY JUST DESIGN
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Digital
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LEIGH ANDREWS
"It's such a weird job title, to introduce yourself as a 'YouTuber', but only a small part of it is making the videos. It's a hugely complex role, which only content creators really understand..." Read
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How did Avicii die, World Cup fixtures, Zuma and jobs near me are some of the top trending search lists for 2018... Read
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JAY THOMSON
Today's business landscape is challenging and complex. So with the promise that 'data' is the answer, and swayed by the promise of ROI that data can bring, CFOs are increasingly signing off on moving marketing budgets over to consultancies like Deloitte and Accenture... Read
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Education
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Wikimedia has pledged to close the gap in African content as part of their global movement strategy towards a more racially, culturally and geographically inclusive Wikipedia... Read
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Data science needs to embrace African context and work for greater good... Read
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ISSUED BY FCB AFRICA
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ISSUED BY THE LOUD HAILER
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ISSUED BY RED & YELLOW
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Entrepreneurship
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
The world, in general, is going through a fuel revolution... Read
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SACHA MATULOVICH
It's that time of year where, in between the mad dash to wrap up work before the holidays, many business leaders and decision-makers look back at their organisation's performance... Read
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Events & Conferencing
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ISSUED BY WORX GROUP
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Magazines
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NEWSWATCH: News has broken that Khanyi Dhlomo's Ndalo Media will shut its doors for good on 31 January 2019, with its web presence lingering until March 2019. Read
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ISSUED BY NEW MEDIA
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Marketing
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JOHANNA MCDOWELL
If your pitch brief does not adequately explain the "job to be done", it's time and money wasted. To get a functional brief in writing, you need to create a document that communicates enough for an agency to put their heart into getting the job... Read
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Media
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GEORGE OGOLA
Online new media platforms have become an important site for political and social engagement in Africa... Read
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Media Freedom
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Turkey, China, and Egypt are responsible for jailing more than half of all journalists detained worldwide... Read
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Newspapers
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JESSICA TENNANT
Tiso Blackstar digital sports editor, Mninawa Ntloko, was named Sports Columnist of the Year at the SAB Sports Media Awards last month, for his weekly Business Day column Finding the net... Read
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Online Media
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ISSUED BY THE SPACESTATION
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OOH
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PR & Communications
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LWAZI PITI
Working in the PR industry makes for an interesting conversation starter with vastly different public opinions. Within the industry, there hasn't been much chatter around the integration and agility of PR agencies, which raises an interesting discussion... Read
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Production
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ISSUED BY EGG FILMS
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Radio
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ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING
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Research
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Journalists from 52 countries reflect on their biggest fears about their industry, their personal feelings regarding the profession and why freedom of the press must be protected... Read
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In 2017, native advertising brought in 20 percent of overall advertising revenue for news media organisations, according to the findings from the just-published Native Advertising Trends in News Media, the annual study conducted by Wan-Ifra and the Native Advertising Institute... Read
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Johanna McDowell, Scopen Partner and Director for UK and South Africa gives a few early insights and trends derived from interviews that are currently being conducted with CMOs of leading brands in the UK by Agency Scope... Read
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ISSUED BY COLUMINATE
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Retail
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Edgars, the 90-year old South African clothing brand is back on the fashion radar... Read
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Ready-to-eat chilled processed meats, such as polony and viennas, will soon return to shelves following the reopening of the Enterprise Foods factory in Polokwane, Limpopo... Read
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ISSUED BY BURGER KING
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Social Media
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ANDY WALKER
Well... it's pretty safe to suggest that YouTube Rewind 2018 is controversial. The annual video published by the Google-owned service pays homage to the year that was and the moments that made it, all created by the internet's biggest personalities... Read
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DALE FERREIRA
Dale Ferreira from Sconetent shares his top content trends for 2019... Read
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TV
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A national student television network is being launched at South Africa's top universities, giving the tertiary institutions a vital added income stream, as well as providing brands with direct access to this important Generation Z demographic... Read
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ISSUED BY SHOWMAX
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Gareth Marshall, senior brand manager for Shield at Unilever SA, Durban... Read
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Fairness First
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LEIGH ANDREWS
From queen bee syndrome to unchecked micro-aggressions and struggling to deal with being 'the only' in the boardroom, Corinium's Women in Digital and Data Forum touched on many topics that may be subconsciously holding back our businesses from becoming more inclusive... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
"If you want something done right, do it yourself," seems to be the business mantra of companies that succeed on their journey of digital transformation, focusing on using tech to meet otherwise ignored human needs. Here's how your brand can improve on customer experience by following suit... Read
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One Show Awards
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The ADC 98th Annual Awards has named a gender-balanced group of top creative leaders to serve as jury chairs for 10 disciplines... Read
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Publiseer to deliver digital content to over 3,000 libraries with cloudLibrary... Read
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'Africa is not a country' and understanding Africa in all its diversity is fundamental to business excellence on the continent... Read
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Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's IT & Telecommunications site over the past year... Read
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LULLU KRUGEL, CHRISTIE VILJOEN, MAURA FEDDERSEN AN
While more South Africans participated in the Black Friday shopping event in 2018 compared to the preceding year, the average spend per consumer dropped noticeably... Read
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Since 2014, a Cape Town father, Henri Terblanche has been campaigning for more parental leave for fathers. Fathers were only entitled to three days family responsibility leave as stated in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act... Read
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Africa's enterprise applications leaders will gather under one roof in at the inaugural Enterprise Africa Summit, taking place in Cape Town from 24-25 January 2019... Read
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GARY STEVENS
Is it too obvious to say that website security is vitally important to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? Read
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According to Lightstone Property, millennials are likely to spend 3.04 times more on their first-time home than the generation before them... Read
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Liquid Telecom SA has partnered with The Western Cape Government to increase the number of free public Wi-Fi hotspots across the region... Read
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If looking around your office at motivational posters from 1988, psyche-ward green walls and rows of people slumped at rows of desks makes you want to run screaming for the exits, don't worry, help is at hand... Read
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All senior Eskom managers have been ordered to cancel their holiday leave to meet Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan's 10-day deadline to sort out the causes of the current load shedding crisis... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
With the spongy green grass of Spier farm beneath our toes and a veritable picnic feast warming our bellies, we couldn't tell if they were shivers of cold from the light breeze rustling through the trees or fear from the otherworldly feathered beings of Stravinsky's Firebird ballet and ghostly lights in the bamboo forest and haunting operatic voices from the Spier Light Art Festival... Read
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Jane Austen "Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief." William Shakespeare "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool" Eckhart Tolle "To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment." Dean Cain "Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful." John Denver "Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back." |
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 | Mark1 is looking for an experienced digital media strategist assist in formulating digital strategies. He/she should be highly analytical, results-focused and able to create successful campaigns. Read more >> |
| Tradeway Promotions is looking for a talented, hardworking activations manager to join our Durban office, an individual who is well rounded and can think on their feet. Read more >> |
| Tradeway Promotions is looking for a new talented, hardworking brand ambassador coordinator to join us, an individual who is well rounded, can think on their feet, and manage promoters efficiently. Read more >> |
 | Oxford University Press currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced sales consultant TVET. Applications close 11 January 2018. Read more >> |
We are looking for a very special person; a marketing manager with experience and who understands how to create content and campaigns that sell. Motivated, practical and ambitious. Read more >>Liquid Image Consulting is looking for an in-house graphic designer that has the ability to design fresh, creative print-ready designs for POS, event invites, PR, social media, etc. Read more >> |
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