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#NEWSWATCH: As a result of one of its cans with the XiTsonga word: "Xitombo" (vagina) printed on it having gone viral on social media last week, Coca-Cola has announced that it will be terminating its nationwide Share a Coke activation at the end of February... read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Jared Kushner has been appointed creative director at Digitas Liquorice Johannesburg...read
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MARC KORNBERGER
The term 'influencer marketing' has never been sexier than now, but many agencies are not getting it right. Welcome to the world of micro influencers...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The global Gerety Awards have launched, signalling a marked shift in award shows themselves redefining their role, especially as much of the advertising industry is aiming to redefine itself in these tricky times...read
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Advertising
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#NEWSWATCH: Woolworths has pulled its in-store #LoveAlwaysWins Valentine's Day campaign following social media outrage, this just a few weeks after the retailer's Ubuntu Baba scandal... Read
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Grey Africa's Fran Luckin has been announced as one of the executive jury members of the 2019 New York Festivals Advertising Awards... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
MSC Cruises' Orchid-worthy print ad spells romance, beauty and freedom - but trashy McDonald's gets a super-sized Onion... Read
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Ackermans' latest Valentine's Day campaign, 'I Am Me' (#IAmMe) was conceptualised and produced in partnership with the retailer's lead creative agency 99c and is calling on South African women to celebrate their true selves and each other... Read
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Branding
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Get ready to recognise the Mastercard brand not only with your eyes but also your ears. That's right, the latest phase of its brand evolution involves sonic melody that's set to form part of your Mastercard brand experience in the future... Read
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Turkish Airlines has teamed up with the Lego Movie team to create a new safety video featuring no less than 20-million of the toy bricks... Read
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ISSUED BY TOWER
With a remarkable 52 years under its belt, TOWER, South Africa's largest home and office stationery supplier is aiming for bigger and better with a fresh new look. Read
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ISSUED BY ALL TOLD
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ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC UNITED
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CRM, CX, UX
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EBEN ESTERHUIZEN
Branding and selling is about knowing what and how technology can assist in the CX experience but it's also about ensuring that there's a human and emotional connection with the consumer every step of the way... Read
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ISSUED BY BRAND SOUTH AFRICA
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Design
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ISSUED BY BERGE FARRELL
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Digital
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New agency kid on the block, Clay Creative recently won the City & Guilds pitch for their international digital account with the agency's soon-to-be-launched #FutureFit concept... Read
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PIETER GEYSER
Success is dependent on how well one responds. Professional marketers are constantly having to evolve as industries shift. The competitive landscape, in market dynamics and consumer expectations, plays a mammoth role in how marketers respond to these shifts in the industry... Read
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RALEEN BAGG
We live in an era where rapid advances in robotics and artificial intelligence are colliding with an expanding conception of sexual identity... Read
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Direct Marketing
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SID PEIMER
Sid Peimer asks, "Why are cold callers still doing the same thing?" It just doesn't work any more. The call should go straight for the jugular which makes the caller seem more credible... Read
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Entrepreneurship
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ISSUED BY ADCLICK AFRICA MEDIA GROUP
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Events & Conferencing
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LEIGH ANDREWS
YPO is hosting the world's largest gathering of chief executives, its Global Leadership Conference and YPO Edge, right here in Cape Town on 6 and 7 March 2019, with the theme, 'Life of Re'. YPO member Julia Raphaely, also CEO of Associated Media Publishing, shares what to expect... Read
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On 7 February, Bacardi employees will pour into more than 1,000 bars in 130-plus cities around the world for the drink giant's second annual 'Back to the Bar' initiative... Read
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Meetings Africa 2019 working towards inclusivity and sustainability... Read
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ISSUED BY GALLAGHER CONVENTION CENTRE
Gallagher Convention Centre is honoured to have won the AAXO award for the Best Venue of 2018... Read
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Exhibitions
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ISSUED BY MADEX
Gatsby-inspired décor and fashion were the backdrop for this night of the stars awards evening, held at the elegant Montecasino Ballroom on Thursday, 31 January... Read
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GL EVENTS SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD, ISSUED BY GL EVENTS
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ISSUED BY EXPOSURE MARKETING
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Film & Cinematography
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The man behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Peter Ramsey, and the man who produced all the Shrek movies, Aron Warner, are set to attend the 2019 Cape Town International Animation Festival (CTIAF)... Read
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The 2019 RapidLion South African International Film Festival will be held at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg from 1 March to 10 March 2019... Read
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Marketing
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ISSUED BY DIGITAL KUNGFU
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JESSICA TENNANT
Jessica Tennant interviews Peter DeBenedictis, chief marketing officer for Microsoft in the Middle East and Africa on his recent business trip to South Africa... Read
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SYLVIA SCHUTTE
For years, Sylvia quoted best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell's theory that it takes 10,000 hours to master a craft. Whether it's to improve as an athlete, a musician or to be a better leader, it's about the time you put in to master that skill. But then there are people who improve faster than others, so it clearly can't just be about putting in the 10,000 hours... Read
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SYLVESTER CHAUKE, ISSUED BY DNA BRAND ARCHITECTS
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Media
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JESSICA TENNANT
Having recently completed her MBA, Kagiso Musi has been appointed managing director of newly formed media agency Meta Media, sister agency to The MediaShop, both housed within new holding company, Park Advertising... Read
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has announced that it has put on hold its retrenchment plan... Read
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QUINTON JONES
In the move to automation and commoditisation of media, creativity and innovation are often lost along the way. It's not cost effective! How do we measure it? How much work is that? Will I have to do it? Very often it's rolled out and spoken about when times are getting tough?-?"...we need to innovate!"... Read
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The African media industry can help shape economic development across the continent... Read
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Mobile
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Online Media
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PR & Communications
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MIKA CHAUKE, ISSUED BY PACINAMIX
It may not be part of the vision or mission statement document, but I guarantee that the lifelong undertaking of any self-aware entity is the successful advocacy of its reputation as a trusted brand and as an organisation that can deliver... Read
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Production
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LEIGH ANDREWS
SA-born filmmaker now based in New York, Dan Mace, was the speaker at Creative Mornings Cape Town's first event of the year, where he spoke through all things surreal, and how to put your otherness to your creative advantage... Read
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Radio
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Recruitment
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The Department of Correctional Services has warned members of the public of a jobs scam doing the rounds on social media and other channels where members of the public are invited to apply for employment and learnership opportunities... Read
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Research
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ISSUED BY INSIGHT SURVEY
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Retail
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JAINITA KHATRI
Coca-Cola dividing their products into three categories - leaders, challengers and explorers - is a good way of defining the future of any brand... Read
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CARMEN MURRAY
Carmen Murray talks to Roy Taberer, a patent attorney from Taberer Attorneys, Kimberleigh Stark, an actress and producer from Stark SA, Shannon McLaughlin, owner of Ubuntu Baba and entrepreneur Marnus Broodryk of SME Africa to understand the lessons we can learn from this and how can we protect our ideas better... Read
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Social Media
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MONGEZI MTATI
Election time is the perfect opportunity for political parties, and their leaders, to create a digital and social media strategy that resonates with their constituencies and keeps people engaged... Read
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MARCO BROCCARDO
With the number of instant messaging app users worldwide expected to top 2.4 billion by 2021, there is no better time for brands to embrace using these platforms as a way to engage with customers. However, care must be taken in its adoption as the rules are still being made up as we go along... Read
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Slack Technologies Inc. said it has filed confidentially with regulators to list the company's shares in the US... Read
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Facebook to open its first content review centre in Sub-Saharan Africa in a number of African languages... Read
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Sponsorship
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TV
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Hisense's new flagship 65" ULED smart television is a declaration of war aimed at the top end TV market. This beautifully crafted and ingeniously designed ULED is the perfection that should be strived for when creating the next generation of televisions... Read
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Applications for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award are open until 23.59GMT, 26 March 2019... Read
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ISSUED BY SHOWMAX
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Youth Marketing
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CARMEN MURRAY
Carmen Murray asked the public to vote to identify the top 8 youth wonders in South Africa under 30 and shares the results... Read
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MOKEBE THULO, ISSUED BY HDI YOUTH CONSULTANCY
HDI Youth Consultancy's Junior Board of Directors (JBoD) has been running for the past 20 years. The board consists of a group of young people that are opinion leaders, mavens, and trend predictors... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week we go behind the selfie with Auryn Hiscock, now creative director at Fort... Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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The Loeries has announced that entry is now open for the 2019 Awards and has called for agencies, studios, brands and designers to tell better stories - stories that upend stereotypes, tear down racial divides, and embrace cultural differences... Read
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The winners for the Creative Circle Monthly Awards, for work flighted between November and December of last year, were announced at the first monthly awards of 2019 at Fort, Johannesburg... Read
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MIKE HIGLEY
Seven of the top ten fastest growing internet populations in the world are in Africa, and there is an 81% mobile penetration rate on the continent... Read
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BINGANIDZO MUCHARA
President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address (Sona) theme was "Following up on our commitments. Making your Future Work Better."... Read
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LLEWELLYN LEONARD
During the apartheid era in South Africa, the mining industry operated without restraint and had undue influence over government decision-making... Read
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South Africans are among the most at risk for exposure to negative behaviour online according to Microsoft's 2019 Digital Civility Index (DCI)... Read
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Accenture has announced plans to launch a new Applied Intelligence Studio for Mining in Johannesburg, South Africa... Read
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Linda Trim, director at FutureSpace, describes pro-working as co-working's more mature older sibling, who is also better dressed and much more sophisticated... Read
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NADIA MANS-KEMP
The CEO of one of South Africa's top four banks - Absa - announced this week that she is retiring after 10 years in this role... Read
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SA manufacturing investment slows down, but automation could power progress... Read
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The digitisation of our personal and work lives is making society increasingly reliant on technology, and more vulnerable to the risk of a debilitating cyberattack... Read
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