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LEIGH ANDREWS
Former ECD of TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, Damon Stapleton made his move to New Zealand eight years ago but he's stayed at the top of our radar with his excellent award-winning work and insightful industry commentary on his blog, Damon's Brain. Here's more on his impressive recent promotion and his advice to anyone looking to make a similar career leap across the ocean... read
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Advertising
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Ogilvy South Africa has promoted Tseliso Rangaka and Matthew Barnes to joint chief creative officer... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
A personal Orchid for Pete Case and another for Ogilvy Group in SA. But a double Onion to Mount Amanzi Resort and whoever trained your call centre person... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
After Cannes, I found it difficult to write anything. It felt like everything had been said. It had been dissected in a million different ways... Read
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The 2019 Epica Awards has introduced a Gender Equity Prize... Read
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ISSUED BY MORTIMER HARVEY
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ISSUED BY M&C SAATCHI ABEL
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Branding
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ARISHA SAROOP
With so many conservative groups lobbying against the LGBTQ+ community, only big brands can be brave enough to not injure their market share or upset their loyal conservatives, right?... Read
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MICHELLE BEH
Michelle Beh from The Jupiter Drawing Room CT asks "Does politics need good marketing?"... Read
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J&M Famous Biltong recently underwent a rebranding - introducing a new logo and packaging... Read
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
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CRM, CX, UX
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RYAN FALKENBERG
A few years ago, 'omnichannel' dominated every customer experience (CX) discussion... Read
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More than 85% of the 2,000 global consumers surveyed prefer personal, trusted and reliable omnichannel engagement... Read
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
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CSI
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This year, The Sunflower Fund's multi-purpose accessory, Tube of Hope (tope), will be on sale at Pick n Pay stores nationwide, selected independent pharmacies and online at Zando from 1 August 2019. Sunflower Day will be commemorated on Friday, 20 September 2019... Read
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Design
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South African entrants Maq and Playboy Deodorants are among the top 10 winning brands in the 2019 Nielsen Design Impact Awards, which recognise successful package redesigns in the global CPG space... Read
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Plans for Foster + Partners' The Tulip, unveiled in November last year and originally approved by the City of London in April this year, have been rejected by London's Mayor Sadiq Khan... Read
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Located in the Western Cape's Breede River Valley, the Bosjes Kapel has been acknowledged by the 2019 edition of Architizer's premier A+Awards programme... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
African brands like MaXhosa by Laduma, Pichulik and AAKS are on show in the U.S. as part of The Lion King pop-up concept shop at Bloomingdale's... Read
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Digital
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Craig Hannabus was recently appointed to the role of strategy director for performance marketing agency Rogerwilco... Read
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MICHELLE MULLER, ISSUED BY THE WEB SHACK
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ISSUED BY IAB SOUTH AFRICA
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Education
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TATYANA TERENTYEVA
For too long, HR experts around the world have been debating what to do about the pressing skills gap issue... Read
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Entrepreneurship
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The finalists of the 2019 Fairlady Santam Woman of The Future Star and Social Entrepreneur Awards have been announced... Read
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Events & Conferencing
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Exhibitions
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Film & Cinematography
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Moffie will make its world premiere at the 76th Venice Film Festival, which starts on 28 August 2019... Read
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Magazines
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RAMON ZENEL SHABAN AND CRISTINA SOTOMAYOR-CASTILLO
Washing hands and coughing into your elbow can help limit the spread of infectious diseases on planes and around the globe. So why don't passengers read about this in their inflight magazines? Read
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Marketing
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ROAN MACKINTOSH
Presenting at the 6th episode of the IAB Series, recently appointed DQ&A commercial director, Roan Mackintosh, explored how to use technology to gain a competitive advantage... Read
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GARETH GRANT
We as South Africans can be pretty tough on ourselves... Read
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Media
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MARISA LOUW
Marisa Louw started her entrepreneurial journey as a freelancer eight years ago and provides valuable tips for anyone who is considering becoming their own boss... Read
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Warc has named the final jury panel for the 2019 Warc Media Awards effective use of partnerships and sponsorships category... Read
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Media Freedom
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Wan-Ifra has released a new report that looks into how news media companies are adapting their business models to ensure press freedom... Read
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Mobile
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South Africa's Wireless Application Service Providers' Association (Waspa) was founded in 2004 as a self-regulating industry body... Read
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A study from Ofcom about children's media usage revealed that parents are getting more and more concerned about the internet... Read
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Newspapers
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Journalists and community newspapers were honoured for work published in 2018 at the annual Forum of Community Journalists' Excellence Awards that took place on Friday 19 July 2019 at the Leriba Hotel and Spa in Centurion... Read
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Online Media
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OOH
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PR & Communications
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CLAIRE DENSHAM
While on a game drive one rainy morning outside Oudtshoorn, I realised there are striking similarities between the pursuit of game and the pursuit of publicity... Read
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HOWARD FELDMAN
It is not so much what they say, but all the other stuff that envelopes it... Read
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Production
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Publishing
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TIFFANY MARKMAN
But is publishing dying? Is the bookshop morphing into the bookshelf?... Read
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The Sunday Times Literary Awards has unveiled the shortlists for the Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize... Read
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Radio
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Research
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JESSICA TENNANT
Kevin Kruger joined BMi Research, last month, as its new chief executive officer and took over from Gareth Pearson who led the organisation for the last 19 years... Read
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According to Nielsen's new study on advertising ROI, digital and print media will get advertisers more bang for their buck... Read
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Retail
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Sales for Amazon's 2019 Prime Day event surpassed those the company recorded for the previous Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. Prime Day, held over two days on 15 and 16 July this year, was the largest shopping event in Amazon history... Read
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From store window displays, through to prints on a number of different garments, Ackermans shoppers will get to see fully-animated 3D scenes of their favourite characters coming to life in the real world... Read
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Sales
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With so much focus on the fourth industrial revolution in politics and organisations, the direct selling industry needs to learn to innovate and embrace technology in order to be future-fit... Read
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Social Media
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ELOUISE KELLY
Looking to the future, Nunu Ntshingila, head of Facebook Africa, shared the four Cs - which are key trends directing their business for the next few years... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Beyonce and her daughter Blue Ivy's "Brown Skin Girl" sparked a new #BrownSkinGirlChallenge on Twitter since the song's debut last Friday... Read
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DANA KACHAN
It's crucial for business success to understand the hidden influences of users' decision-making process in the modern digital space... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson will be the next UK prime minister and Twitter isn't handling the news well... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Pinterest revealed new "emotional well-being activities" for users to perform when they search for negative content... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Snapchat is making a comeback since launching an optimised Android version of its app in April this year... Read
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Sponsorship
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Streaming
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TV
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JUANITA PIENAAR
We sat down to chat with Kathleen Finch, chief lifestyle brands officer at Discovery, who tells us more about why the channel will be able to resonate with South African audiences, female audiences and their love for the channel... Read
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Louise McClelland, executive producer and co-founder of Okuhle, has passed away. She was 47 years old... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Michael Oelschig, MD at Cerebra... Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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LEIGH ANDREWS
With the year's biggest international award shows done and dusted, I chatted to the regional jurors ahead of the upcoming Loeries Creative Week. Next in the series is this year's Integrated campaign, Film & Radio, and Radio Craft juror Yash Deb, also managing director and chief creative officer at Isobar, Kenya... Read
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JESSICA HOPE
Whether you're a multinational or a tech startup in Africa, comms is no longer a nice-to-have - it's a necessity... Read
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Showmax has launched a new video on demand service in Nigeria... Read
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Google announces new products, features and other programmes, at the third 'Google for Nigeria'... Read
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NIC CHEESEMAN
There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in a number of countries across the world... Read
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Technology has enabled organisations to deliver more innovative solutions in the workplace to provide for a more compelling environment. This, however, should not happen to the detriment of the company culture... Read
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LUVUYO MADASA AND DAVID BLYTH
Twenty-five years into democracy and South Africa continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons... Read
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KIRSTY SHARMAN
Businesses have become obsessed with their growth curve, regardless of the metric, number of users, customers and followers growth... Read
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IBM Security revealed the results of its annual study examining the financial impact of data breaches on organisations... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
It was a brief encounter between two university students that lead to the start of Skywalk Innovations... Read
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The Franchise Association of South Africa says it's encouraged by the positive and committed attitude and concrete steps taken by the government to partner with the private sector... Read
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TONY WALT & KERVIN PILLAY
Modern businesses know that digital transformation is no longer a "nice-to-have", but rather a "have-to-have" if they want to survive... Read
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Kaspersky finds a 60% rise in users hit by password stealers in 2019... Read
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Nominations for South African National Parks' (SANParks) 15th annual Kudu Awards is now open... Read
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In winter, the cold drives us into our cars. After all, who wants to brave public transport on chilly mornings when there is a car waiting in the garage. What is often not considered, is the impact that cold weather's in winter can have on our vehicles and your insurance policies... Read
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The latest hype around the FaceApp application has attracted scammers who want to make some quick profits... Read
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Norman Vincent Peale "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." Carl Jung "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." Thomas A. Edison "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." Alexandre Dumas "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." Alan Alda "Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart." |
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