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JESSICA TENNANT
Bizcommunity invited contributors to join its vision for Africa (with over 230 industry trend contributions making up the 2019 report) at BizTrendsLIVE!, which took place at Ster-Kinekor Sandton City in Johannesburg on Thursday, 31 January. read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
SA's own Melusi 'Mloo' Mhlungu, now at David Miami, worked on one of the 2019 Super Bowl ads...read
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There is increasing concern about the number of time children and adolescents are spending on recreational screen time. There's also increasing controversy over whether or not screen time is actually harmful...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
One of the basic tenets of journalism is to tell the true story. But everyone's version of the story is shaded by personal background - and what if your background doesn't match that of the subject? It shouldn't make a difference, but it does. Here's why UK publishers are now hiring diversity executives...read
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LOUISE MARSLAND
Bizcommunity.Africa has curated our business-to-business outlook for Africa for this year... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Those that fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Luckily, in the January 2019 Meltwater webinar, Ogilvy Cape Town's creative director Melissa Attree explained how to evolve your content marketing strategy for success in 2019... Read
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ROB STOKES
Beyond the lip service, I feel like we are in a trough of disillusionment on so many pivotal technologies. In particular, there are five emerging fields which have garnered tremendous excitement... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
The global food and beverage space is bubbling over with creativity and innovation, with an eager audience of brave consumers with bold taste eager to sample the next big thing... Read
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AILSA WINGFIELD
Shopping - love it or hate it, it's nearly impossible to escape the banality or adventure that competes for consumers' precious time. It takes us away from the things we would rather be doing... Read
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MIKE BEUKES
In psychology, there's a term known as post-traumatic growth. If you haven't already worked it out, it talks to the idea of rising from the ashes. Or, to use a phrase coined by Nassim Taleb, being 'antifragile'. What didn't kill us, made us stronger... Read
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IRINA HERF
For far too long now, South African brands have been buying digital advertising space based on return on investment (ROI) data, but have been throwing good money after television advertising without tracking its performance... Read
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DANILO ACQUISTO
As we move into 2019, it's becoming clear that using micro-influencers is becoming very valuable - perhaps more than using macro-influencers who have a very large audience reach. Here's why... Read
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ZUBEIDA GOOLAM AND WAYNE FLEMMING
The field of digital and social media marketing is constantly changing as technology advances and consumer needs develop. It is paramount for us to stay ahead of the curve with continual innovation and the application thereof... Read
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SHARON PIEHL
Managing a brand's reputation is a marathon; it's about going the distance, having the stamina for the up-hills and the resilience to face harsh external conditions... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Jessica Tennant reports back on Charles Stuart's analysis of the annual 'Entertainment Media Outlook: An African Perspective', specifically with regard to three key trends in the entertainment and media space... Read
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SIZAKELE MARUTLULLE
Whilst it is exciting to think of the future and to guess what may or may not come to pass, it is also an undertaking that requires deep reflection... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Scott Wilson, President Africa and Europe, Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW) looks at trends he sees as relevant to both the European and African markets... Read
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MARYLEE TOWNSHEND
IRI's Marylee Townshend predicts 7 trends that will influence the future of FMCG... Read
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ANDREW SMIT
Google Shopping and Facebook Dynamic Product Ads are a powerful way for retailers to reach new customers and drive sales... Read
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LARA UTIAN-PRESTON
While virtual reality, augmented reality and 360-degree video and photography become the norm within advertising, filmmaking, and content production, their applications across a range of other industries and sectors are also set to exponentially increase... Read
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WARREN MOSS
How can a disruptive company rely on traditional, pre-modern marketing thinking to drive home the values of their 21st-century brand? Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
When Marian Salzman, one of the world's top trendspotters, invited me to discuss all things trends over coffee at the end of 2018, I jumped at the chance. This is the final part of my three overviews of our talking points... Read
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SINDY PETERS
While employer branding has made significant inroads into the South African market, with a number of companies leveraging its benefits, its relevance and how to purposefully implement it does still seem to leave many indifferent... Read
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Advertising
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New York Festivals Midas Awards has announced the Finalists for the 2018 competition, which includes 40 entries from South Africa... Read
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RACHEL THOMPSON
Rachel Thompson, insights director at GfK South Africa comments on the recent Gillette "We Believe" campaign that urges men to be their best and leave behind toxic behaviours like mansplaining, bullying and sexual harassment... Read
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LESLIE LONDON & NEO MOROJELE
Public health research suggests that concerns about alcohol advertising and accessibility warrant strong regulatory action... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
An Orchid to Spar. And an Onion to you, Telkom, because your marketing and your customer service is a mess... Read
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ZUBEIDA GOOLAM
Shockvertising. How far is too far? Are shock ads effective in changing consumer behaviour or, is shocking people simply off-putting?... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
There is an adage in advertising that says nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Of course, that is assuming the product actually exists... Read
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ROSEMARY BARONETTI, ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
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ISSUED BY BOOMTOWN
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ISSUED BY DIGITAL SCHOOL OF MARKETING
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ISSUED BY MORTIMER HARVEY
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ISSUED BY DECIMAL AGENCY
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LYNN MADELEY, ISSUED BY HAVAS JOHANNESBURG
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Branding
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PAULA SARTINI
Would you let your employees send out personal letters on the company letterhead? Would you send out company letters on unbranded documents? Have you thought about the risks of allowing employees to send out emails without the correct company branding?... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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NATALIA ROSA
For many years, content has been king when it comes to marketing travel and tourism brands. This is changing... Read
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CSI
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ISSUED BY HOT 91.9FM
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Design
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LEIGH WHITING
Value in the form of quality interactions and ethics are the biggest priority for consumers in 2019, and this will shape how companies design solutions, deliver services and communicate... Read
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At her inspiring annual trend seminars, the Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort will be discussing key topics like cultural appropriation in fashion and how to cure "colourphobia" in our interiors... Read
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Two years ago Ikea teamed up with a group of designers, architects, artists and creatives from five African countries to collaborate around modern urban rituals and the importance they play in the home... Read
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Digital
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QUINTON JONES
Will the agencies that are at the cutting edge of digital media and data win this race? The answer to this is Yes and No, unfortunately! Yes, in the long term, No potentially in the short term... Read
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WYNAND SMIT
With consumers manipulating the way they come across on social media as well as online channels, marketing campaigns using data to reach them can go awry and mess with your CX strategy... Read
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Events & Conferencing
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The 2018/19 Cars.co.za Consumer Awards, powered by WesBank, concluded with the announcement of the category winners... Read
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ISSUED BY BRABYS
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ISSUED BY WORX GROUP
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Exhibitions
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ISSUED BY SCAN DISPLAY
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Film & Cinematography
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Isaac Oboth is an Ugandan-born entrepreneur who has proven that even without a certificate, one can still make it big in life through hard work and dedication... Read
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Marketing
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Hoorah Digital has won Hi-Tec and Pizza Hut Tanzania, the latest in its growing stable of brands to turn to the consultancy for their performance marketing needs... Read
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A campaign is to be launched to deal with the proliferation of illegal business enterprises in KwaZulu-Natal... Read
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ISSUED BY BOOMTOWN
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Media
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African Media Agency to reward best African Journalist with a fully paid trip to cover The Africa CEO Forum in Kigali... Read
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Mobile
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DEVON MEERHOLZ
The close of last year contained some especially good news for the South African mobile consumer... Read
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ERNST WITTMANN
Innovation in smartphones seems to have hit a ceiling, with most manufacturers releasing new products that feel like incremental improvements ... Read
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Online Media
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ISSUED BY MYBROADBAND
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PR & Communications
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JENNIFER STEIN
The job market is an extremely difficult one and as we see more and more applicants come through the door there are a number of things that seem to be hindering the appointment of these applicants, especially in the PR industry... Read
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LEAGO MONARENG
As a PR professional, crisis communication is all about getting your client out of the storm with the least amount of damage, whether it's to the organisation or its reputation... Read
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ISSUED BY THE TECH LAB
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Production
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ISSUED BY CONTENT LOUNGE
Telling a story with visual elements will always attract the reader or viewer to a story and social media posts that include pictures or video are viewed more times by users... Read
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ISSUED BY GLOBAL ACCESS
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Radio
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Research
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Pernod Ricard, the distributor of brands such as Absolut Vodka, Jameson Whiskey and Beefeater Gin recently set out to discover "how convivial the world is"... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
While even the most positive SA CEOs are reining in their expectations, local CEO confidence has improved in the short and medium term... Read
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ISSUED BY KANTAR MILLWARD BROWN
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Retail
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BRENDAN CANAVAN
Christmas may seem like a distant memory, but retailers won't forget it in a hurry: it was the worst on the UK high street since 2008... Read
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HIGOR TORCHIA
Is the bricks and mortar ship really going down? Not for those that innovate and adapt, says Vend's Higor Torchia. Read
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Social Media
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Sponsorship
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ISSUED BY LEVERGY
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TV
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Consumer electronics businesses gather annually at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a global platform for companies to flaunt their latest innovations and battle it out for recognition as the best of the best... Read
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ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week we go behind the selfie with Grant Sithole, chief creative officer at Avatar agency... Read
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DHIREN VASRAM
2018 was a landmark year for the cloud with a flurry of mergers and acquisitions, and technological advances... Read
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Knight Frank has released its inaugural Urban Futures report which has found that the affordable housing gap reached an estimated $740bn globally in 2018... Read
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CLAIRE D'ADORANTE
The international trend towards co-working, defined essentially as shared office space, equipment, and services, is set to change the office space landscape in South Africa... Read
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