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LEIGH ANDREWS
The opening keynote of the final day of the Gartner Symposium 2019 kicked off with a conversation with Nicky Newton-King, retiring from her role as CEO of the JSE, today, 30 September. She spoke of the role of tech in business and society and the aspects of leadership and transformation that have been part of her 23-year journey with the JSE... read
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The Creative Circle monthly award winners for work flighted during June. July and August this year, were announced at King James Group, Cape Town on 26 September...read
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ISSUED BY IAB SOUTH AFRICA
The IAB SA Bookmark Awards has announced Andrea Quaye, Vice President of Marketing at Anheuser-Busch InBev, as the 2020/2021 Jury President...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
While Artificial Intelligence or AI continues to make tech headlines for innovative new products and their impact in the workplace, as with most emerging fields, AI has also encountered several noteworthy growing pains. The recent Gartner Symposium uncovered a number of the top AI blunders of recent times, and what CIOs can learn from these failures...read
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Bizcommunity is excited to announce the relaunch of our Biz Product and Rate Card, featuring all-new product infographics, descriptors and more... Read
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One of these projects will walk away with £5,000 to further develop their project... Read
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Advertising
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QONDILE DLAMINI
Producing award-winning work can be daunting, but rewarding... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
And a big Onion for the Gauteng provincial traffic department's pointless press release, with a promotion for a Women's Day event on August 9 attached to an email sent out in September... Read
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After announcing the winners last August, the Gerety Awards have been distributing trophies to its 2019 winners... Read
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The Clio Awards has announced its coveted Grand Clio winners on Wednesday night at a special star-studded ceremony, held in New York, celebrating the awards company's 60th anniversary... Read
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Branding
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ISSUED BY BRAND SOUTH AFRICA
Brand South Africa is the official marketing agency of South Africa. The agency's mandate is to manage South Africa's Nation Brand reputation in order to improve the country's global competitiveness... Read
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South Africa is the joint-18th most awarded country in the 2019 Cannes Lions Global Creativity Report... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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ZAMA MLANJANA
With the surge of e-commerce in recent years, retail marketers have experienced a shift from generic marketing to customer-focused marketing that looks deeply into data to drive more real customer experience... Read
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SINDY PETERS
A finalist for the 2019 SAB Foundation Social Innovation Award, Vollar has been making waves on the social enterprise scene since its inception. The new digital currency, as its name suggests, comes with an interesting twist... Read
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Ster-Kinekor Sales will air the United Nations World Food Programme's (WFP) new "Feed our Future" global cinema ad campaign across its screens in South Africa.... Read
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Apparel with purpose; that's the rationale behind The Lalela Scarf, an international luxury fashion brand that exclusively supports Lalela, a non-profit arts education programme for at-risk youth in sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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Design
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PAMELA MALULEKE
Traditional African jewellery designs have become a prominent feature on the international fashion stage with many fashion brands taking inspiration from traditional African jewellery and showcasing it on a global stage. But does it fall under IP protection...? Read
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Digital
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DEREK ABDINOR
Public commissions of inquiry always seem to backfire. The inquisitional atmosphere is designed to evince a confession: the raised podium of the panel, the cameras, the meaningful pauses, the constant rephrasing. But as theatre gives way to farce it reveals that the asymmetry goes the other way - power lies with what the defendant chooses to disclose... Read
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WILLEM HAARHOFF
You can't open up your laptop or turn on the TV without reading or hearing something about technological advancements. We get it... Read
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TALITHA SPYKERMAN
In many articles I have written, I have taken a closer look at not just what's trending in 2019, but how adopting some of the featured marketing methods can work for your business or brand... Read
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According to the latest Deloitte Millennial survey*, it seems that most millennials have the same concerns when it comes to finding happiness and fulfillment in the workplace... Read
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ISSUED BY SOUTH AFRICAN TOURISM
South African Tourism is extending an invitation to an experienced, mobile-first thinking and user-driven website and applications service provider, to submit a proposal in a bid to be appointed... Read
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Education
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ISSUED BY RED & YELLOW
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Exhibitions
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From vertical dancers on city walls to performance activity in parked cars, Infecting the City 2019 will activate city spaces from the Castle to the station, the fountain to the Cathedral and beyond... Read
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Film & Cinematography
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Magazines
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Marketing
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MAROEFAH SMITH
The latest IAB SA Insight Series event was focused on beating the benchmark... Read
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ANDREW WEINBERG
According to the UCT Research Institute's latest report, South Africa's "upper middle class" has the potential to make or break brands... Read
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RYAN MCFADYEN
The best word to describe the state of influencer marketing in South Africa is 'fledgling'. Read
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JOHANNA MCDOWELL
Media agencies are notoriously bad at self-promotion - like the cobbler's kids with bare feet, these agencies have a wealth of value at home, but don't wear it where we can all see it, writes Johanna McDowell... Read
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An interview with Mark Tungate, the editorial director of the Epica Awards... Read
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Media
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Media funding is not only about finance; it is about media freedom. This makes the current problems around funding in journalism a crisis. This was the topic of the second in the Future of Journalism Series held at the Goethe-Institut... Read
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Local journalist Malu Lambert was named the Montblanc Emerging Wine Writer of the Year Award at the 2019 Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards... Read
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ISSUED BY MEDIOLOGY
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Mobile
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Digital marketing agency AccuraCast's new research indicates that while advertising on mobile may lead to more clicks, it still falls behind when it comes to conversion. Read
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Hello Paisa recently introduced banking features for its consumers on WhatsApp... Read
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ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA
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One Show Awards
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At the recent SDG Media Summit 2019, The One Club for Creativity announced the introduction of The One Show Sustainable Development Pencil... Read
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PR & Communications
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ROSS SIBBALD
In the traditional world of insurance, customers were only likely to hear from their insurers was after they'd filed a claim, or if it was time to renew their policy... Read
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Production
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Radio
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Research
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With South Africa's incredibly complex society, the Publisher and Broadcast Research Council of South Africa first launched the Socio-Economic Measure (SEM) to replace Living Standard Measure (LSM). SEM Supergroups are based on where changes in lifestyle are found in the segment profiles and deliver the granularity required by agencies and publishers... Read
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By 2021, over 20-million South Africans will shop online. Yet, while the commercial opportunity is obvious, local brands aren't taking full advantage... Read
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RACHEL THOMPSON, ISSUED BY GFK SOUTH AFRICA
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Retail
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Barbie-maker Mattel has launched a new customisable, gender-inclusive doll range called Creatable World... Read
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Social Media
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JODI LYNN KARPES
Please heed my advice, from a public relations brand specialist, with almost 20 years' experience... Read
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ISSUED BY R-SQUARED DIGITAL SA
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Sponsorship
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ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA
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Streaming
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TV
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Brian Carter, executive creative director at Digitas Liquorice... Read
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MOLENGWA ROSE LUCKSCHEITER
The media are challenged to report the whole story when it comes to recent violence in South Africa - including the proactive and positive stories of communities which took steps to protect foreign nationals and say no to Xenophobia, for example... Read
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White space is the name used to describe unused broadcasting frequencies in the wireless spectrum... Read
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Businesses in Africa can't ignore WhatsApp as a potential connection point to customers to revolutionise their user experience... Read
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Young Africans will "produce the magic" says AU chief, as the UN sounds warning on Sustainable Development Goals... Read
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Facebook Accelerator London opens to African companies for the first time... Read
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African investment has traditionally been dominated by its big economies but the long-awaited emergence of intercontinental trade blocs is shifting the balance of power... Read
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Rand Merchant Bank's ninth edition of 'Where to Invest in Africa', lists the sectors that are key to unlocking the continent's growth potential... Read
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Fenix Mozambique inaugurates Nampula branch in collaboration with FUNAE and DStv... Read
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The 2019 Lisbon International Advertising Festival was recently held at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Centro Ciência Viva in Portugal... Read
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The modern workforce is tired and worn out. Advancements made in technology have resulted in the ability to always be online, always check mail, and to always be available for meetings... Read
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LEE NAIK
If there's anything that my time as a digital transformation leader has taught me, it's that everyone is a lot iffier about innovation than they let on... Read
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RACHEL ADAMS
Suggest to Samsung's Virtual Personal Assistant Bixby, "Let's talk dirty", and the female voice will respond with a honeyed accent: "I don't want to end up on Santa's naughty list." Read
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DONNA TORRES
It's official, Spring is finally here - the days are getting longer, the air is getting warmer, and that means we're all starting to get our mental energy, motivation and mojo back... Read
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Niccolo Machiavelli "There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless." Robbie Robertson "You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared." Norman Vincent Peale "Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all." Viktor E. Frankl "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." |
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