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Respected financial journalist and editor Tim Cohen has joined Daily Maverick's newly established Business Maverick as of 1 March 2019. read
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JESSICA TENNANT
The IAB Insight Series held the last edition of its Q1 instalment, namely 'The Future of Work', this time focusing on transformation in the digital economy and the principles of future focus...read
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TIISETSO MALOMA
Tiišetšo Maloma shares the two most important quotations in marketing he says will help you to become an expert in customers' eyes...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
International Women's Day was celebrated on Friday, 8 March with the 2019 campaign theme of #BalanceforBetter. With reports that the global gender pay gap is actually widening despite increased awareness of the issue, we need to go beyond giving working women flowers and cupcakes in recognition of their contributions on the day...read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
The anticipated launch of Ikea's Överallt homeware collection is described as a marriage between African rituals and Scandinavian design... Read
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MONARE MATEMA
Monare Matema, associate brand architect at DNA Brand Architects, shares key take-outs from the 2019 Design Indaba conference... Read
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JACQUES DU BRUYN
What is the point of talking about trends? Do they assist our decision-making or are they a badge that we wear to help us feel like we're in the know? Read
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MARK TUNGATE
As just about everyone in the advertising world must know by now, creative titan Lee Clow recently announced his retirement after 50 years in the business... Read
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Ad-women.com, a global register of female talent linked to the advertising industry has launched... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
Local is not only 'lekker', it's very much needed. But that doesn't help Vodacom, who gets an Onion for its 'pay to rollover' up-yours to customers... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
We will get to the painting later. We need to go back 48 hours... Read
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DEVON MEERHOLZ
Our current challenges that include perpetual spoiler Eskom throwing shade at our economy should not distract us from South Africa's impressive achievements... Read
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MATHE OKABA
Mathe Okaba, CEO of the ACA, looks at the 2019 Budget and what the communication and advertising sector can learn from it... Read
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Stratcom Branding is calling on entries from 100% black-owned SMME's for the chance to receive a pro-bono packaging design through its bi-annual social responsibility initiative... Read
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LISA STEINGOLD
Marketers need more than just optimised ad spend and clever campaigns to thrive in fast-changing times. We need thinkers who are prepared to shift business as usual... Read
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CHUMISA NDLAZI
Chumisa Ndlazi, a marketing and communications practitioner for CSIR shares her thoughts on the role of brand communication in the future... Read
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An effective loyalty programme will positively influence the relationship between a service provider and the customer through rewards and incentives - but the days of offering points as the frontline reward are long gone... Read
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CSI
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As a young boy, Isaac Boshomane loved cars, motorbikes, even tractors - any vehicle that moved. He wanted to know what made them work. View
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Digital
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SHAN RADCLIFFE
As technology rapidly evolves to make our lives simpler through ease of communication and automation, so comes the fear of redundancy as more people wonder if they will be replaced by "robots"... Read
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RIRHANDZU SHENGWENYANA
It's critical that social media managers understand the overall corporate strategy and the company's position so that this guard them when dealing with backlashes... Read
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ERIK MALCOLM CHAMPION
We need to change our preconceptions about what virtual reality is. Let's not limit VR experiences to recreations of the real world, instead let's open our minds to history, mythology and fresh perspectives from real people... Read
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Wits Language School offers a specialised course in Teaching English to Young Learners. The course is ideal for pre-school, primary and EFL teachers no matter where you teach... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
YPO hosted the world's largest gathering of CEOs right here in Cape Town on 6 and 7 March 2019, for its Global Leadership Conference and YPO Edge, with the theme, 'Life of Re'. Here's how the C-Suite in general and media creative specifically can take the theme to heart and make a difference through positive change in society beyond the bottom line... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
SheSays brought together a powerhouse panel of industry trailblazers to speak about career boldness and how they had to step out of their comfort zones to pursue greater ambition... Read
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RAW Material Company's Koyo Kouoh will serve as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa's (Zeitz MOCAA) new executive director and chief curator... Read
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CAROL EMSLIE
Many alcohol companies see International Women's Day as an ideal opportunity to market their products... Read
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The MediaShop's Richard John Raddon Reed, who only wanted to be called Dick, and who was the founder of The MediaShop, has passed away... Read
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The International News Media Association (Inma) has announced finalists in the 2019 Global Media Awards competition, featuring six South African entries... Read
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Deloitte has found no evidence that any payment was made by Bosasa or entity or persons related to Bosasa to the SABC8 campaign in 2016... Read
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After five years in jail, Eqyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as Shawkan, has been released... Read
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Winners of the Mobile Marketing Association's annual Business Impact Index (BII) have been announced in New York and South African brands and agencies have consistently outperformed international peers... Read
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HERMAN WASSERMAN
For a generation of Afrikaans-speaking South Africans the relaunch of the alternative weekly Vrye Weekblad (1988-1994), brought a whiff of nostalgia. Its readers remember the publication (first a newspaper, then a magazine) under Max du Preez's editorship, fondly... Read
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ROBERT GENTLE
It needs to take control of its public narrative... Read
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Following the introduction of the amendments to the Pension Funds Act in September 2017, the deadline to comply with the Act's default regulations is now effective... Read
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Results of the 2018 SA-csi for Supermarkets reveals that Woolworths has marginally maintained the best overall customer experience among SA's top supermarket brands... Read
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Employee experience is not just another buzzword but a critical component of the changing nature of work. Employees entering the workplace today seek meaningful work, flexibility, autonomy and mentoring on a foundation of collaborative communication... Read
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Chief marketing officers believe brands like Amazon, Google, Apple, Nike and Starbucks are getting customer experience right... Read
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In the latest research commissioned by the Publisher Research Council (PRC), print advertising cracks the top 10 in the automotive category, placing second, clipped only by television, in the 'paid for' touchpoints... Read
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UK-based digital marketing agency AccuraCast has done a study that shows the impact of mega influencers across social media platforms is waning, and micro influencers - and in-house staff - are stronger for marketing... Read
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Psychologically, we are programmed to respond well to being rewarded for good behaviour... Read
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GRAEME MCLEAN
Have you ever searched for a product online in the morning and gone back to look at it again in the evening only to find the price has changed? Read
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Through a new initiative called Project Zero, Amazon wants to empower brands to help stop the spread of counterfeit products on the marketplace... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Described by Paper magazine as a "...saucer-eyed, lipless bird lady with trendy bangs and Voldemort nostrils," it's easy to see why Momo is the latest social media scare, as it's reportedly being hacked into child-friendly apps such as Peppa Pig, Fornite and YouTube Kids. But read this before you ban your young ones from using the internet... Read
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ANDY WALKER
Facebook is working on a cryptocurrency for its chat service WhatsApp, a New York Times report suggests... Read
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In this video, Nyiko Chauke of Marketing Fridays interviews Regaugetswe Thwala an account manager at influencer specialist agency, The Salt. Read
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WALTER VAN DER MERWE
Are financial services providers able to cater to the demands of the next generation?... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week we go behind the selfie with Chris Botha, group managing director of Park Advertising - the holding company for Meta Media and The MediaShop... Read
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