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LEIGH ANDREWS
In our annual #AfricaMonth catch-up, Loeries CEO Andrew Human chats about what to expect from Loeries 2019, why judges are briefed to look for locally relevant experiences and communications, and the rising importance of brand humanity and problem-solving in creativity against the continued shift away from merely punting the client product or service... read
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Pete Case, Ogilvy South Africa's chief creative and innovation officer, has been promoted to Ogilvy's 12-member Worldwide Creative Council.read
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PETER PENAR AND CAROLYN LOGAN
Freedom is weakening across Africa and more worrying is the considerable willingness to accept government restrictions on individual freedoms in the name of public security...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week is just around the corner, taking place in New York City from 6 to 10 May 2019. Here, SA's own Jonathan Deeb shares his experiences as an online juror on this year's One Show social influencer marketing panel...read
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One Show Awards
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week is just around the corner, taking place in New York City from 6 to 10 May 2019. Here, SA's own Pete Khoury shares his experiences as a juror on this year's One Show integrated, experiential and immersive panels... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week is just around the corner, taking place in New York City from 6 to 10 May 2019. To kick off our #AfricaMonth coverage, David Tshabalala and Sarah Waiswa share their experiences as online jurors on this year's Art Director's Club (ADC)'s illustration and photography panels respectively... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week is just around the corner, taking place in New York City from 6 to 10 May 2019. Here, SA's own Jenny Ehlers shares her experiences as a juror on this year's Art Director's Club (ADC) interactive and integrated panels... Read
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Advertising
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Independent full-service agency Hero has appointed a new leadership team, with Andrew Hall stepping down as MD and Amanda Lambe taking over the reins, in partnership with new ECD Jabulani Sigege... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
We had been waiting almost an hour. An hour is a long time to wait. You start playing weird games in your head. I will count to thirty. When the big hands gets to the five, I am definitely out of here. You also silently seethe... Read
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HETZNER, ISSUED BY HETZNER
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CHARIS APELGREN-COLEMAN
Songs have long been powerful vehicles for social change, either through the messages contained in their lyrics, or as high-profile celebrity fundraisers... Read
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Design
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By simply trying to create a doll that his daughter could identify with, Meshack Mulaudzi embarked on a doll-making journey that spreads positivity to African children... Read
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Digital
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The high projected growth of esports streaming and sponsorship revenue in South Africa should not be ignored by local brands. If any brand alignment with the category exists, businesses would be wise to explore the opportunity to invest... Read
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RACHEL THOMPSON, ISSUED BY GFK SOUTH AFRICA
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Entrepreneurship
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Following overwhelming responses from entrepreneurs, the FNB Business Innovation Awards (FNB BIA) have been extended to include two more categories, and now represent the entire business landscape in South Africa... Read
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Film & Cinematography
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ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP
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Marketing
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MAROEFAH SMITH
Denimwear brand Levi's has approached some of the country's leading influencers to help increase voter awareness and turnout amongst young people... Read
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Shopping centre owners, mall marketing departments and agencies are invited to enter the South African Council of Shopping Centres' 2019 Footprint Marketing Awards... Read
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MAGGIE PRONTO
Personalisation in advertising communication is a key part of the consumer journey. Consumers want a unique connection in exchange for their time, but they're also concerned about how brands use their data. Or are they? Read
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ERNEST NORTH
Over the past 10 years, we have seen digital technology reconfigure the relationships between brands and consumers. The rise of globalised competition has given people more choice than they have ever had before... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Immaculately-dressed, globe-trotting and adorably doll-like, Noonoouri has made an enviable splash in the world of high fashion - but she only exists on the web... Read
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Media Freedom
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GLENDA DANIELS
It's pleasing that the latest World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters without Borders rates the state of press freedom in South Africa as "satisfactory". Satisfactory is the second best category after "good"... Read
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JONAH DYLAN
A video sent to the NGO Gift of the Givers shows South African journalist Shiraaz Mohamed, abducted in Syria in early 2017, to be alive. In the video, dated 13 April, Mohamed said he fears for his life and begs for help from a number of people and organisations... Read
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Mobile
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Online Media
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ISSUED BY THE CITIZEN
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PR & Communications
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MIMI KALINDA
There is a problem with the idea that women need to be specifically empowered in the media, PR and communications industry... Read
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NICOLE CAPPER, ISSUED BY MANGO-OMC
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JUDITH MIDDLETON, ISSUED BY DUO MARKETING + COMMUNICATIONS
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Printing
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OFM wants Rick Astley for president, and it's making its political intentions clear this national voting day, 8 May 2019... Read
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TRACY ROBBINS AND JULIA OLLEY
In February, the Department of Public Services and Administration Minister released a media statement, allowing for the inclusion of a social media check when reference checking prospective government employees... Read
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Research
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Media Manager Online has released its latest version of Inflation Watch for the full year of 2018. The study covers advertising rates and performance trends and an MIW Index, which is essentially a Cost Per Thousand calculation... Read
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The winners of the 2019/2020 Ask Afrika Kasi Star Brands survey have been announced. Kiwi shoe polish came first this year for the second year running, followed by Sunlight dishwashing liquid, Dettol liquid antiseptic... Read
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Retail
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EBEN ESTERHUIZEN
Innovative phygital business models, where bricks and mortar and digital seamlessly integrate, are popping up across the globe. But the best phygital experiences still remain aligned with old-school sales strategies... Read
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THANDO HOPA
For decades, mass media communicated a highly constructed image of beauty to its audiences. The result became quite remarkable - in that our popular culture demanded a standardisation of the human body and human beauty... Read
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SAM CLARKE, ISSUED BY SKYNAMO
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Social Media
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The Free State Provincial Government has warned members of the public not to fall victim to a social media scammer, who is promising people jobs in the provincial government... Read
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ISSUED BY OPTIMIZE ENHANCING EFFECTIVENESS
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HAPPY NTSHINGILA, ISSUED BY OPENFIELD
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ISSUED BY DISNEY AFRICA MEDIA SALES AND PARTNERSHIPS
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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, has been awarded the 2019 Cannes LionHeart in recognition of her advocacy for women, human rights and social justice... Read
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Africa Month
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One thing Mozambique definitely isn't short of is shimmering islands and tropical beaches. But, beyond that beautiful Indian Ocean coastline and Robin Crusoe adventure is a destination brimming with culture... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This Worker's Day, we go behind the selfie with Inoba Siwundla, brand manager at Burger King South Africa... Read
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D&AD Awards
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D&AD chairman Dick Powell is stepping down in September after almost ten years in the role. He will be replaced by current CEO Tim Lindsay... Read
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Large scale gold mining in sub-Saharan Africa has reduced infant mortality in nearby communities, with rates falling by 50% among those born within 10km of a gold mine... Read
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African economic growth has in general been driven by public infrastructure investment and the expansion of services to a largely underserviced population. However, fintech is increasingly receiving attention from both private and public sector... Read
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SINDY PETERS
With community and collaboration the key drivers of the co-working revolution, disruption in the traditional office space market seems all but inevitable... Read
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AUBREY HRUBY
Entrepreneurs have a pivotal role to play in Africa's unemployment crisis. Today over a third of the continent's young workforce (those aged 15-35) are unemployed... Read
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Media can win an invitation to the 2019 EurAfrican Forum and travel to Portugal to cover one of the most prestigious EU-Africa events... Read
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YU-SHAN WU
The accuracy of reporting on China's involvement in Africa can be "deeply misleading". What needs to be done to fix it... Read
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UK advertising spend rose 6.3% year-on-year to reach £23.6bn in 2018, marking the ninth consecutive year of market growth and highest annual total since monitoring began in 1982... Read
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Over the past few months, a Walmart Neighborhood Market in New York has quietly transformed into the company's first Intelligent Retail Lab... Read
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Fepe International is rebranding as the World Out of Home Organization... Read
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As an SME, you understand all too well that digital has become the cornerstone of doing business today... Read
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Kaspersky Lab has opened its call for papers to be submitted and showcased as part of its 2019 Industrial Cybersecurity Conference... Read
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It's obvious that many small businesses want to grow, but growing your small business isn't easy... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Argility is a South African enterprise software development and services company focussing on using industry 4.0 technologies in the retail and supply chain arena... Read
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While still an immature industry in South Africa, employee volunteering is growing rapidly in the country and punching above its weight... Read
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Internationally, major contributors to the governance discussion use the same tone about gender and ethnics diversity in boardrooms. They highlight the lack of diversity - even though progress has been made in recent years - and find a correlation between board performance and diversity in terms of growth, performance and value creation... Read
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#TechBytes is a nine-part video mini-series that shares nine simple steps any business can apply to generate qualified leads... Read
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DANIEL KELLY
The South African athlete, Caster Semenya, has lost her case against the athletic governing body, IAAF, which means that she will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels if she wishes to continue competing internationally in running events... Read
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INGRID WOOLARD
It's well-established that South Africa has one of the most unequal income distributions in the world... Read
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WYNAND SMIT
Over the past few years, there have been increasingly dire predictions that automation and technology will be the major job killer of our generation... Read
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