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LEIGH ANDREWS
In the third session of the second digital agency showcase, held at Red & Yellow School on 16 May 2019, alumnus Johann Schwella, now digital creative director at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, said the drive is no longer just to be best in class but only in class. Agencies today are not competing with other agencies but with culture, making it harder than ever to stand out. Here's how to do so... read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Digital is often viewed by organisations as a silver bullet to leapfrog into the 21st Century and meet their customers' needs, but with a plethora of channels and technology types, as well as an overwhelming amount of data, is it really that simple?...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Fitting in perfectly with the rise of purpose-led marketing across the globe is Jeanne du Plessis, corporate affairs and citizenship leader at Procter and Gamble (P&G) South Africa. Du Plessis is a passionate believer that business can and should be a force for good in the world...read
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ZUBEIDA GOOLAM
With more than 600 million members from 200 countries in 2019, LinkedIn is still the largest professional networking platform in the world...read
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Africa Month
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The likes of Black Panther have turned the concept of Wakanda from a dream to reality for superhero fans across the continent, but that's only the starting point of African creativity. Malenga Mulendema has taken this further in Mama K's Team 4, Netflix' first original African animated series... Read
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RUTH COOPER
Award-winning Mozambican artist Mário Macilau will be exhibiting his solo show, titled Faith: Rituals, Spirit & Sea in collaboration with Ed Cross Fine Art in London, at Guns & Rain in Johannesburg... Read
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SALONA NAIDOO AND GABI WOJTOWITZ
Welcome to the future, where a continent once cast in darkness has come into the light... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Humanitarian emergencies often strike without warning, destroying lives and livelihoods within a matter of seconds. In the immediate aftermath, the challenge for those responding is to know where to start... Read
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UZOMA UKAH
Nigeria's social media space is a very volatile place, and going viral should be treated like a double-edged sword... Read
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One Show Awards
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The One Club for Creativity is calling for entries for Young Guns 17, celebrating international creative professionals age 30 or younger... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Ahead of this year's IAB Summit, taking place 30 May at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein, we interviewed speaker Marcel Botha, founder and CEO of 10XBeta to find out what to expect from his talk on 'manufactured stories' and what this year's theme of the 'new now' means to him... Read
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Advertising
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BRENDAN SEERY
And the DA's intrusive marketing campaign before the elections, using 'stolen' information, gets an Onion... Read
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CHRIS BOTHA
How are leaders in our industry chosen? Often, the position goes to someone who is 'likeable' and a natural 'people's person'. Oh, and often very good at their job. But is that the real qualities that we need in a leader? I don't think so... Read
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The Apex Awards has announced its jury for the 2019 competition... Read
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SHEILA MCGILLIVRAY, ISSUED BY ONE LADY & A TRIBE
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SIMON ORGILL, ISSUED BY INCUBETA
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Biz Takeouts
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In this episode of #StateoftheMedia, Nadia Hearn of 2OceansVibe Radio chats to Leigh Andrews and Angie White about One Show Awards, Cannes Lion and the passing of Matthew Buckland. View
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Branding
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Multimedia visual artist Trevor Stuurman and media personality Nomalanga Shozi are the faces of G-Star Raw's South African SS19 brand campaign... Read
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YAW DWOMOH
Stories are a powerful part of the human experience. Yes, we see them told at bedtime to children listening in rapt silence, but they're also told daily in election campaigns, fundraising drives and in business, through brand storytelling... Read
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The International Fund for Animal Welfare (ifaw), a global animal welfare and conservation non-profit organisation, recently unveiled its rebrand... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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SARAH GEORGE
How many times have you visited a company's web site, only to be greeted by a small pop-up window asking, "How can I help?" Read
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Companies, from legacy to startup, multi-national to local, are all grappling with how to meet steeply rising customer experience (CX) expectations... Read
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CSI
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To mark the 25 years since it was established, the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) has launched the 25 Million Reasons to Give campaign. The fundraising campaign aims to encourage investors to help it raise R25m for the arts... Read
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The finalists in the eighth annual Eco-Logic Awards, presented by The Enviropaedia, have been announced with the awards to be presented on 5 June, World Environment Day... Read
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Design
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Nelson Mandela University's Riaan Huiskens has been named the overall winner of the 32nd Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Rob Stokes, chairman of Red and Yellow School, got their second #digitalagencyshowcase underway by calling Mark Tomlinson and Robyn Campbell of HelloFCB+ to the podium, to explain the process of combining Hellocomputer and FCB Cape Town as HelloFCB+, and why the 'plus' is silent but so important... Read
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CHLOE-SIMONE HOFMANN, ISSUED BY PISTOL + HONEY
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DESIREE GULLAN, ISSUED BY G&G DIGITAL
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Direct Marketing
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The Direct Marketing Association of South Africa (DMASA) has launched a new online training portal, DMASA Academy... Read
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Entrepreneurship
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Applications are open for start-ups interested in participating in a four-month high-impact business accelerator programme, run by the British Council in partnership with Seed Academy and the Social Enterprise Academy... Read
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Events & Conferencing
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Useful & Beautiful and Women in Tech ZA have announced the inaugural Women in Tech & Digital Conference to be held on 12 June 2019 in Cape Town... Read
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Exhibitions
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Emirates has unveiled the design concepts of its pavilion for the six-month Expo 2020 Dubai event, comprising a design and visitor experience which will utilise interactive technologies and design-thinking focusing on the future of commercial aviation... Read
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Film & Cinematography
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The lineup of non-fiction films to be screened at the 21st Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, taking place from 6 to 16 June 2019, has been unveiled... Read
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Marketing
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ALON FITTINGHOFF
B2B marketing specialists leverage a variety of strategic programmes and tactical campaigns to enable an organisation to achieve its goals... Read
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Media
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The Burn Media Group - which publishes Ventureburn and its sister site Memeburn - has announced Cobus Heyl as the company's new chief product officer... Read
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Wan-Ifra has released a new report that looks at the global map of remedies adopted by governments whose objective is to combat the disinformation crisis, though with extremely diverse intent and effects... Read
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Mobile
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DEVON MEERHOLZ
From being the numberplate prefix for the Western Cape town of Knysna, 'CX' is today popping up all over the web as the marketer's shorthand for 'Customer Experience'... Read
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Online Media
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PETROC SUMNER & RACHEL ADAMS
Health stories are prolific in the news. Each year, thousands of articles are published claiming to have the latest compelling evidence on how we should eat, drink, exercise, sleep, and which medications we should or shouldn't be taking - among a host of other things... Read
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Production
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Radio
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The SABC's Radio Park building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, was evacuated yesterday morning following a massive diesel leak... Read
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Research
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The results of the second annual BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable Global Retail Brands have been revealed. The research shows that the world's most valuable retail brands are worth $339 billion more... Read
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The Marketing Association of South Africa (Masa) and the Marketing Research Foundation (MRF) have announced that Maps, the products and brands replacement survey for Amps, will officially start collecting consumer insights from July 2019... Read
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Nielsen Sports recently released a Commercial Trends Report that outlines the key global and local developments in sports for rights holders and brands... Read
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Retail
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JAMES TAGG
As a sub-industry of online retail, ticketing and event management are being shaped to engage consumers in unprecedented ways. Read
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Instagram has launched a @shop account, essentially a curation of posts from online merchants that sell products through the image-sharing app. Read
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Superbalist.com, has adopted two new technologies which have significantly accelerated the browsing experience for shoppers and translated into strong business results... Read
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The winners of the 2019 International VM Awards were announced at the RetailExpo in London... Read
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Sales
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Streaming
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Eye of the Pangolin, a new documentary about the most trafficked mammal on earth, will premiere on Friday, 17 May, Endangered Species Day... Read
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Youth Marketing
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The finalists in the Celebrity, Entertainment and Sports personality categories at the 2019 Sunday Times Generation Next Awards have been announced... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Derik Nieman, director of data and analytics at performance marketing agency, Algorithm... Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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LEIGH ANDREWS
I chatted to the international jury presidents ahead of the upcoming Loeries Creative Week. Next in the series is this year's Google digital communication jury president Tara McKenty, creative director for Google APAC... 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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The 2019 SABRE Awards Africa winners were handed out following on the annual African Public Relations Association (AFPRA) conference in Kigali, Rwanda, last week... Read
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CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO
Innovative projects tackle entrenched gender inequality in Africa... Read
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The Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA) announces appointment of Nigerian visionary and thought leader, John Kamara, as a director... Read
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Rwandan PaaS (platform as a service) startup Ared has marked its first international expansion by setting up 10 women-run 'smart business in a box' solar-powered kiosks in Uganda... Read
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JOAQUIM BRETCHA BOIX
Why local insights and research associations like PAMRO are important... Read
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Animation du Monde 2020 in Francophone Africa and head judge and mentor announced... Read
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African Media Agency partners with Brand Africa to launch the 7th Annual Brand Africa 100: Africa's Best Brands... Read
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On an individual and organisational level, ethics and reputation are of the utmost importance and form part of storytelling and shaping a realistic narrative... Read
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New York Festivals Advertising Awards has announced its 2019 winners... Read
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The distorting of the physical and virtual world is reshaping businesses, industries and sectors... Read
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ANJA VAN BEEK
Awkward workplace scenarios... Most of us have encountered at least one of the below-listed scenarios. The big question remains: Should we or shouldn't we discuss the big elephant in the room...? Read
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The Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) offers clear guidelines regarding employee leave, however employers also need to be aware of emerging trends among progressive businesses, the latest being pawternity leave... Read
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What if after the second time someone tabled a decision the meeting was automatically over? What if you replaced all PowerPoint presentations with short memos? What if instead of talking about how a drone could reshape the supply chain, you demonstrated a test flight? 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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TANIA AJAM
For governments to function optimally, there must be a good relationship between politicians and administrators. This "political-administrative interface" is a key theme of public administration, both in theory and in practice... Read
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