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The last two quarters of 2018 see a huge South African theme emerging to engage the audience's attention, peppered with local humour... read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity for 2019 kicks off next week, with winners announced at nightly awards from 17 to 21 June. We caught up with this year's SA contingent of judges for a preview of what to expect. First up, Fran Luckin...read
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JESSICA TENNANT
In her opening address at the IAB Summit, which took place on Thursday, 30 May at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein, IAB CEO Paula Hulley shared seven key insights from the IAB Global Direct Brand Report on the direct brand economy...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
RX Radio has just celebrated its second year on air, as the station that's effectively for the children, by the children, as the Red Cross Children's Hospital's internet station...read
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Cannes Lions
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Shortlists for Cannes Lions' Glass: The Lion for Change, Innovation Lions and Titanium Lions have been announced ahead of the 2019 Festival of Creativity... Read
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Youth Month
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MICHAEL HATHORN, ISSUED BY GINKGO AGENCY
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Influencer marketing is an especially hot topic as we enter #YouthMonth, but do your research before you rush in as the quickest way to waste your time and money is to spend it on the wrong people... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This #YouthMonth, we go behind the selfie with Zoë Brown, radio and TV presenter at Kfm 94.5 and The Expresso Morning Show respectively and overall best traffic presenter at this year's Liberty Radio Awards... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
In 1976, students took to the streets and helped shape the South Africa we're living in today. In 2019, students are going to need a different tool to shape our future... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Accenture Digital MD Wayne Hull presented a keynote on 'Leading in the new' at this year's IAB Summit, which took place on Thursday, 30 May at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein, looking at digital transformation through three critical lenses... Read
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Advertising
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BRENDAN SEERY
Peugeot's clichéd and silly La Belle France-type ads are only Onion-worthy... Read
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MIKE SILVER
Most agencies don't give it a second thought but I often find myself in crowded meeting rooms, questioning how so many people got invited into one tiny space. It appears that clients (and agencies) have adopted their own #squeezechallenge... Read
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TERRY MURPHY, ISSUED BY NIELSEN
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Branding
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CRM, CX, UX
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LYNN BAKER
Bridging the gap between management vision and employee engagement in the delivery of customer experience has become a major challenge for businesses around the world... Read
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In the race to attract and retain the best talent, dramatically improving the workplace experience to make it a 'super-experience' is now on the radar of every organisation... Read
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CSI
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To mark World Environment Day, Emirates gave its old advertising billboards in South Africa a new lease on life, transforming the PVC Flex material into hundreds of reusable bags... Read
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Design
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LAUREN MITCHELL
Australian sculptors and married couple Gillie and Marc are creating 10 life-sized sculptures celebrating the lives of monumental women... Read
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Digital
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Education
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In order to create strategies that allow their companies to keep abreast of this change, operate efficiently, and implement management systems that result in sustainable growth, managers, management graduates and mid-career professionals need to embrace continuous learning... Read
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Entrepreneurship
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JESSICA TENNANT
MomSays, an online resource for moms who are looking for unbiased, trusted advice from other moms regarding the best product solutions for their families, recently launched its new website... Read
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NICOLE BARNES, ISSUED BY MULTI-MEDIA
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JESSICA TENNANT
This years' Ads24 Food For Thought event focused on the future of business from an AI and technology perspective and how our roles as humans are changing... Read
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Exhibitions
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Film & Cinematography
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RANA FLORIDA
Though the members of the creative class do not share one singular identity, they share a number of attributes - perhaps most importantly an ethos that is tolerant and open-minded, and places a high value on individuality, authenticity, merit, and originality... Read
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JONATHAN HOUSTON, ISSUED BY HKLM
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Media
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The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the SABC have made an application seeking an order reviewing and setting aside the decision to appoint Sekela Xabiso CA Incorporated as a service provider to the SABC... Read
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Wan-Ifra has launched a European news transformation and coaching programme to support local journalism in Europe... Read
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NEWSWATCH: Media legend and Sanef Council member Raymond Louw and his wife, Jean died within 24 hours of each other... Read
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JOHN YELD
South Africa's hard-won constitutional rights to freedom of expression and of legitimate political protest are under mounting pressure from both the state and private companies... Read
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The Golden Pen of Freedom has been awarded posthumously to Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Khashoggi... Read
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Newspapers
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Herbert Mabuza, veteran photographer and former managing editor of the Sunday Times and Sowetan, has passed away... Read
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PR & Communications
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JOHAN SCHEEPERS
There's no doubt that May 2018 will be remembered in business and technology circles as an important milestone in the evolution of data protection legislation... Read
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According to research, the most in-demand skills in the world currently include sales representatives, project managers, information technology professionals, office support and financial analysts, among others... Read
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LEANNE FREEMAN & MICHELLE DAINES, ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH
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Retail
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FRANÇOIS LÉVÊQUE
Amazon is shrinking time and eating up the planet... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Savanna recently launched its non-alcoholic cider, Savanna Non-Alcoholic Lemon, targeting consumers who want to preserve their social image by partaking in more conscious consumption... Read
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Social Media
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As much as people love social media, there is a dark side to it too - one involving counterfeit goods and billions of Rands of lost revenue for companies and governments the world over... Read
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Sponsorship
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TV
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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DHL Africa eShop has seen impressive growth since launching and has now been rolled out to nine more countries across sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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Global economic pressures and tougher market conditions are driving business interest in cross-border business expansion strategies - and Africa is rife with investment opportunity. Read
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BY FRANK MATTHEIS AND UELI STAEGER
After being ratified by the required minimum 22 nations, all the member states of the AU are now legally bound to allow African goods to be traded without restraint throughout the continent... Read
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Angola has launched the first phase of its new six-year licensing strategy, which covers a total of 10 blocks, including Blocks 11, 12, 13, 27, 28, 29, 41, 42 and 43 in the Namibe Basin, and Block 10 in the Benguela Basin... Read
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Getty Images and APO Group announce strategic partnership to provide innovative and integrated text, photo and video services to companies operating in Africa and the Middle East... Read
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FEDERICO DE NARDIS
Sub-Saharan Africa's advertising spend, currently only 0. 47% of global investments... Read
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The New York Festivals Global Awards has announced its 2019 Young Globals Student Competition and Internship award winners... Read
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The Lisbon Health International Advertising Festival that will be held in Lisbon on 19 September, announced its executive jury panel for the best work submitted at the festival... Read
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The Lisbon Tech International Advertising Festival has announced its shortlist for 2019... Read
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The German Brand Awards announced all the winners of the 2019 competition at a gala event held at Deutsche Telekom's Representative Office in Berlin on Wednesday, 6 June... Read
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PREMESHIN NAIDOO
The high cost of voice and data services in South Africa is well publicised and both the regulator, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and the mobile operators have been strongly criticised... Read
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VIRUSHA SUBBAN AND MATTHEW TOUT
The Carbon Tax Act and Customs and Excise Amendment Act were approved by the President in May, with the purpose of the latter to provide for the administration and collection of Carbon Tax revenue... Read
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DOROS HADJIZENONOS
New protection for consumers provide consumers with added protection to ensure their privacy and prevent issues related to data theft or misuse... Read
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Too many organisations take a reactive, rather than a proactive, stance toward incident response... Read
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The better an employee's understanding of cybersecurity risks is, the greater their potential to participate in reducing these risks... Read
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SUDHISH MOHAN
In most organisations today, people are talking about digital transformation... Read
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The first quarter GDP growth of 2019 for South Africa is once again a negative number, with the economy contracting 3.2% year on year... Read
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Seedstars World, the early-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, returns to Africa for the seventh time... Read
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TEBOGO MASHABELA
The South African economy, the most industrialised economy on the African continent, has been struggling to gain momentum and has not grown by more than 2.5% a year since 2013... Read
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Taxpayers with an annual income not exceeding R500,000 will no longer be required to submit tax returns... Read
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During this years Indian Ocean Hotel Investment Forum event in Mauritius, the Radisson Hotel Group shared its Indian Ocean development strategy and market insight with hotel owners, developers, banks, investment funds and hotel groups... Read
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