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The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity came to an end on 21 June 2019, rounding out a full week of award shows that celebrated creativity across various categories. Here's how SA fared overall... read
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Our correspondent Mikhaila Hunter filmed John Legend speaking at the The Goals House at Cannes Lions about his partnership with Pampers and their effort in addressing changing table inequality... Read
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Our roving reporter Ann Nurock chats to Neo Mashigo, M&C Saatchi, CCO on his experience in Cannes, judging the print category, and winning the Standard Bank account last week... View
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Our roving reporter Ann Nurock chats to Mariska Oosthuizen, Head of Brand at Sanlam about her first Cannes Lions experience... View
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Our roving reporter Ann Nurock chats to Carina Coetzee and Amri Botha, from 99c, about the Young Lions experience, their take aways and favourite work... View
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The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June with the 2019 Radio & Audio Lions announced during the Communication award ceremony, with SA once again roaring with metal! Read
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The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June with the 2019 Cannes Brand Experience & Activation and Creative e-Commerce winners announced during the Experience track award ceremony... Read
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The 65th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 20 June, with the 2019 Mobile, Innovation and Creative Effectiveness winners announced during the Communication, Innovation and Impact award ceremonies... Read
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Our roving reporter Ann Nurock chats to Shukri Toefy, the only SA speaker at Cannes this year, about the SA ad industry in a global and Cannes Lions context... View
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Verusha Maharaj, senior manager, Customer and Marketing at Deloitte Consulting SA talks to Bizcommunity's roving reporter Ann Nurock live in Cannes... View
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The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on Wednesday, 19 June, with the 2019 Creative Data, Creative Strategy, Direct, Media, PR and Social & Influencer winners announced during the Reach award ceremony... Read
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Our roving reporter Ann Nurock talks to co-founder of the Gerety Awards, Lucía Ongay, at Cannes Lions, who shares why she thinks there's a need for a new type of creative award show that elevates new female voices... View
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Our correspondent Mikhaila Hunter shares some of the highlights from Day 2 of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2019. View
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The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 18 June, with the 2019 Cannes Entertainment Lions, Entertainment for Music Lions and Entertainment for Sport Lions announced during the Entertainment award track ceremony and SA bringing home two Bronze Lions... Read
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The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 18 June, with the 2019 Cannes Film Craft, Digital Craft and Industry Craft Lions announced during the Craft award track ceremony... Read
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Youth Month
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ROBIN FREDERICKS
"Has anybody ever asked you what you're passionate about and you can't help but have a glow before you respond?" Read
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Graduates often hear the same advice on repeat. Write your CV like this, don't post inappropriate content on social media, dress professionally for an interview, maintain eye-contact, don't have a weak handshake etc. Read
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ODETTE FALING
Whether you love or loathe the selfies, the "wokeness" and general thrust of Generation Z culture, the ideas, technologies and resultant change this vibrant populace of our era has ushered in, cannot be overstated... Read
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JENNI PENNACCHINI, ISSUED BY KLA - KAUFMAN LEVIN ASSOCIATES
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One Show Awards
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The One Club for Creativity has announced the jury for the Young Guns 17 program, celebrating international creative professionals age 30 or younger... Read
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NICK WILKINSON
Rand pricing on the horizon as holidaying from Africa evolves... Read
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LIANNE GODFREY, ISSUED BY INCUBETA
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Digital
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PAULA SARTINI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring great benefits to businesses across various industries. Already companies such as Google and Microsoft have invested significantly in this technology and are benefiting from it... Read
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This year's Ads24's Food for Thought explored the notion of humans vs robots, and offered insight into a world where a desperate need for human connection and belonging square up against formidable advancements in technology and AI... Read
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JOHANNA MCDOWELL
Advertising, communications and marketing agencies are the core of creativity for brands across the globe. Scopen's Agency Scope studies around the world show some 45% of potential clients visit an agency's website to see who they are... Read
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KAMO MOGASHOA
At its root, data storytelling is about using the facts and numbers to craft stories that create a deeper connection with the real person at the end of the data... Read
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BRUCE BORRIE, ISSUED BY ROCKETSEED
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Education
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AIDAN VAN DEN HEEVER
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Western Cape SABC signed a historic partnership agreement on Tuesday, 18 June 2019, which will see the provincial broadcaster assist the UWC Media Society in developing students' media and broadcasting skills... Read
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WESLEY FREDERICKS, ISSUED BY RED & YELLOW
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Pick n Pay's Fresh Living magazine is now available in braille, making it the first supermarket in South Africa to offer this to its customers... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Publicis Machine recently received three honourable mentions at the global Pearl Impact Awards for their work on the Sanlam Reality account. We asked chief content officer Sarah Browning-de Villiers what it takes to succeed in the content marketing space... Read
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ONYI NWANERI, ISSUED BY MARKETING ACHIEVEMENT SUMMIT
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Media
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The finalists of the Frewin, McCall, and Joel Mervis Awards have been announced... Read
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CHRIS MOERDYK, ISSUED BY CHRIS MOERDYK
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The Forum of Community Journalists (FCJ) has announced all the finalists for the 2019 FCJ Excellence Awards... Read
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Online Media
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Burn Media has revealed new site designs for Ventureburn and Memeburn, as well as redesigned newsletters for each... Read
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PR & Communications
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KHANGELANI DZIBA
PR practitioners should be the ones who are there when media buying strategies are being curated, sold to clients and engagements are taking place with media houses to negotiate further how brands can leverage that media spend for PR deliverables... Read
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LIESL SIMPSON
There is always one question on the lips of everyone that I talk to about PR and it is; just why is PR so important anyway? Does PR really have that much of an impact on a business's bottom line? The answer is yes, it does. It can have a serious influence on whether people choose to conduct business with you... Read
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Radio
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KEVIN FINE, ISSUED BY JACARANDA FM
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Research
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Findings show that businesses are producing more videos than ever, average video length is down 33% while average viewer retention rate is up 13%... Read
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Retail
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MAROEFAH SMITH
WGSN editor and trend feed curator Polly Walters presented the company's trend forecast for spring/summer 2020 at the recent Source Africa in Cape Town... Read
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Social Media
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ZUBEIDA GOOLAM
With the continued increase of the prosumer, many brands are struggling to control messaging around who they are and what they offer. By having a savvy social media strategy, a brand is able to better communicate with and understand who their audience is, what it is they want and how to engage with them positively, while still building resonance... Read
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Sponsorship
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GARETH MARSHALL
As marketers, we're constantly looking for that 'sweet spot' to engage our consumers, but despite best efforts we know that consumers have a plethora of media at their disposal and attention is fragmented, or at best, minimal. My take on it? Get personal... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This #YouthMonth, we go behind the selfie with Simon Hill, presenter on Mansfield in the Morning, head of creative at Hot 91.9FM, and Liberty Radio Awards 2019 Bright Star, awarded to those with an intrinsic understanding and love for the medium, respects its past, but who also has great ideas about its future... Read
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Fairness First
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is officially underway, with awards being announced nightly from 17 to 21 June 2019. But keep your eyes peeled until the end, as The Glass Lion for Change, announced in the final ceremony of the week, is one of the most hotly contested awards - here's why we're hoping to see Caster Semenya and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka shine... Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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ABDHALAH ZIRABA
The second largest Ebola virus disease outbreak on record is currently raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with over 2,000 cases and more than 1,400 deaths recorded... Read
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EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG AND BHEKINKOSI MOYO
This century belongs to the African philanthropists whose capital, influence, local knowledge, and moral authority have the power to address pressing challenges that face the continent... Read
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ANDRE PASCAL KENGNE, ELVIS BANBOYE KIDZERU & MUKI SHEY
Non-communicable diseases are the current leading cause of death worldwide. And the burden is increasingly shifting from developed to developing countries... Read
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MOSOKA FALLAH
More than 2,000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since last August. Now, despite authorities' efforts - such as screening millions of travellers moving between the DRC and its neighbours - the disease has spread... Read
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The Namibian and 14 media organisations around the world have partnered with Forbidden Stories - to combat the deliberate silencing of journalists in various parts of the world... Read
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Infront Media seizes six-year Olympics TV rights agreement in sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Carla da Silva, Air Mauritius Regional Manager: Africa and Latin America, has been re-elected as chairman to the Board of International Airlines South Africa... Read
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Digital empowerment will not make workers redundant, but it is key for an organisation's growth and survival... Read
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HENRY CAZALET
Deciding to go it alone and start your own business is always hugely daunting. There's so much to learn and so much can go wrong... Read
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President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his second State of the Nation Address this year, said that revising the National Health Insurance (NHI) detailed plan of implementation is at an advanced stage... Read
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Hosted by Womandla, nominations are open for the first Women in STEM Awards set for 17 August in Cape Town... Read
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The call for entries for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) will be closing on 30 June 2019... Read
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Non-profit youth organisation Activate! Change Drivers has compiled a book, Heroes, featuring some of the 3,400 youth 'activators' that have taken part in its leadership programme... Read
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BRONWYN WILLIAMS
Cryptocurrencies offer a financial lifeline to people excluded from the formal financial economy and to those living in oppressive political or economic regimes... Read
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JANNIE ROSSOUW
Countries that use an inflation target to anchor monetary policy pay considerable attention to expectations of future inflation... Read
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A recent report reveals that 40% of South African consumers would give up their social media accounts to guarantee their data remains private for the rest of their life... Read
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ROGER WOODEND
When we think of industries obsessed with customer experience, we often think about travel, retail or even retail banking... Read
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World Wi-Fi Day is celebrated every year on 20 June... Read
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CHRISTO WESSELS
Smartphones are critical devices for most people in their everyday lives... Read
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New research identifies simplified access to technology as missing piece of the puzzle; companies that put it in place can drive greater engagement, productivity and business results Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Slipztream, an innovative expense claim app created and self-funded by former professional rugby player, Dylan Des Fountain and his entrepreneur wife, Joy Des Fountain, was recently launched... Read
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To accommodate the State of the Nation Address (SONA) and the opening of the 6th Parliament on Thursday, 20 June 2019, several roads will be closed in and around the Cape Town CBD... Read
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 Twenty-five entrepreneurs will be chosen for this three-month programme designed to support participants with the business modelling and growth strategy required to scale their enterprises, become investment ready and develop entrepreneurial leadership. Read more >> CDAO Africa continues providing delegates with in-depth case studies and interactive discussions on critical strategic topics. However, the content is shifting from the development of data analytics to sharing analytics-derived business outcomes. Read more >> We offer a platform where business owners and entrepreneurs can learn from successful business leaders and fellow entrepreneurs. You'll find this event inspirational and an annual must-attend conference. Read more >> The B-BBEE skills development framework has changed and will be put into effect on 29 November 2019. Want to hear how you can benefit? Read more >> Data Science Africa is the first forum in Africa established for the data science community to get together and learn from peers, discuss challenges, solutions, new ideas and the future of data science. Read more >> Learn fresh sales skills from top sales trainers and get motivated! Open to all Sales Teams of any businesses and industry. Read more >> |
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