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LEIGH ANDREWS
Local marketing media is in a flurry over news that FCB has rebranded as Nahana Communications Group. Brett Morris explains what's changing and what's staying the same... read
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South Africa's advertising and marketing communication industry has a new group of agencies, Nahana Communications Group... read
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Xolani Gwala, champion of the South African airwaves, has passed away following a battle with colon cancer. He was 44...read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Last week's Pendoring Awards saw a total of 21 golds handed out - 10 Golds, 4 Craft Golds and Campaign Golds and three Campaign Craft Golds...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Marketing insights continued at Kantar customer experience (CX) advantage 2019 masterclass when Collective ID's Zanele Ntulini took to the platform to share a practical guide in explaining what we often forget in aligning the customer experience with the brand promise when tackling customer experience projects...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Business strategist Justin Cohen has coached global entrepreneurs, small businesses and major corporates on how to win some of the toughest multimillion-dollar pitches. To kick off our #EntrepreneurMonth coverage, he shares that business pitching in SA is no different than it is anywhere else... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Garon Campbell, award-winning director, filmmaker and entrepreneurial founder at Breadbin Productions, shares how watching E.T. 50 times from the age of 6 sparked his love of the film medium, as well as the power of the storytelling value-add, and how he learned to stop stressing, even when facing the most stressful filming conditions... Read
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World Sports Betting's choice of familiar South African comedic duo, Leon Schuster and Alfred Ntombela, for its 2019 Rugby World Cup ad campaign may resonate with die-hard rugby fans... Read
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NATASHA FOURIE
Armed with the correct information, TV can be a viable option for most businesses, and most definitely one that delivers ROI... Read
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JEAN SWANEPOEL
The first thing you notice when walking into an office is invariably the colour scheme... Read
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It's full steam ahead for the 2020 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which is now officially open for business... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Here's what you missed from Barbara Cador, global head of Kantar's CX+ initiative, and Mark Molenaar, head of CX for Kantar South Africa at the Kantar customer experience (CX) advantage 2019 masterclass, with a special focus on learnings from the banking industry... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Marc Emert, customer experience consultant at SAP, unpacked what he called "the perfect intersection of experience data (the whys) and operational data (the whats) and how to understand and prioritise the improvements that matter most," at Kantar's recent #ExperienceAdvantage event... Read
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GERRIT DE VILLIERS
With subdued investment levels and consumer spending being curbed, there is no doubt that local businesses face an uphill battle... Read
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The winners of the 2019 South African Loyalty Awards were announced in Cape Town this week... Read
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CSI
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Design
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MICHAEL SPINKS
Nando's South Africa's Michael Spinks shares seven lessons from a chicken brand elevating South African design through property development... Read
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RENTIA AUSTIN
In the wake of Industry 4.0 there is no doubt that technology - both its advancements and shortcomings - is dictating the speed of change across the globe... Read
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RYAN FALKENBERG
While some commentators talk about the 4IR as something that is happening in the future, the reality is a little more immediate... Read
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HAZEL CHIMHANDAMBA
Remember playing Snake on your bulky-brick of a Nokia 3310, Mxit-ing on your Motorola Razr, BBM-ing on your Blackberry and flipping your Samsung D500 like it 'ain't no thang'? Read
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London-based architecture and interior design practice Universal Design Studio and Giles Miller Studio have built a recyclable pavilion for BBC Studios in Cannes, France... Read
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The 2019 Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival Cape Town recently concluded with an awards ceremony, which was held at the 44 On Long Theatre... Read
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EARLE HOLMES, ISSUED BY AFDA
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Masa announced several leadership changes and detailed important contributions to the marketing profession and industry at its recent thirteenth Annual General Meeting... Read
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Warc has forecasted global advertising investment growth across the 19 categories it monitors - which is expected to result in a 6% ($656bn) increase... Read
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BEATE STIEHLER-MULDER
As marketers, we've been told - and taught - to differentiate, differentiate and differentiate... Read
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Epica has partnered with One Young World: The Global Forum for Young Leaders for the 2019 Creative Circle seminar... Read
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CLAIRE BURGESS, ISSUED BY ENGAGEMENT FACTORY
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The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) has expressed its condolences following the news of the death of former Sunday Tribune editor, Juggie Naran.... Read
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Some of Ndalo Media's former staff members are taking legal action against the defunct publisher. They claim that they haven't received retrenchment packages as promised... Read
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MADELINE EARP
A program run by the Seattle-headquartered Tor Project, OONI created OONI Probe, software that anyone can use to investigate their own network for signs of censorship... Read
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After using its database of effective advertising campaigns to evaluate 1,100 case studies between 2009 and 2018, Warc has released its Media Allocation Benchmark report... Read
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JONATHAN ROZEN
There is a global trend of law enforcement seizing journalists' mobile phones and computers-some of their most important tools. CPJ has documented device seizures around the world, from the United States to Slovakia to Iraq... Read
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Mobile
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The Mobile Marketing Association South Africa's Smarties Awards took place on Wednesday, 30 October at Monte Casino, Johannesburg, awarding bronze, silver and gold winners as well as Marketer of the Year, Agency of the Year and Agency of the Future... Read
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Bell Pottinger - the PR firm that was linked to the Gupta family and that was involved in attacks on Gupta foes and campaigns around "white monopoly capital" - has repaid or promise to repay about R9m in profits its liquidators say they were not entitled to receive... Read
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The many complexities of the mining industry means that the outdated tactics used when establishing stakeholder communication are no longer an option... Read
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Takealot's recent #backthebucks promotion saw the online retailer partnering with Samsung to offer South Africans the opportunity to win a free TV if the Springboks win the Rugby World Cup... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Duke's Loops Madikane on how young professionals can overcome challenges in the marketing industry... Read
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Simon-pure Consulting have released the first findings of its South African Company Culture Health Index survey, which was launched in August 2019... Read
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Research
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In partnership with Kantar, SheSays Cape Town will conduct the first gender diversity survey in the South African advertising and marketing industries... Read
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After fusing consumer panel data with PAMS (Publisher Audience Measure Survey) data, the Publisher Research Council (PRC) will now add a digital study into the mix... Read
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Heavy Chef launched The Annual Heavy Chef Entrepreneur Education Survey... Read
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MICHELLE MOSS
Second only to emotional intelligence (EQ), cultural intelligence (CQ) is fast becoming one of the most in demand skills for executives in today's culturally diverse world of business... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Local representatives from market research and consulting firm IPSOS recently shared a preview of some of the key insights gleaned from its yet to be released global trend survey for 2019... Read
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Parenting portal BabyYumYum has announced the winners of its inaugural Best Product Awards, highlighting the most loved and trusted products among its online community for 2019... Read
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ANDREW DABBS
In the past few months, many people may have read that Instagram and Facebook have been running trials to hide likes... Read
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In the lead up to the much-anticipated 2019 Rugby World Cup final between the Springboks and England, TikTok has launched the #BringItHomeBokke challenge... Read
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Turn.io, a startup incubated by Praekelt.org, recently announced the launch of its chat platform for social impact... Read
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South Africa media personality Bonang Matheba has been named African Influencer of the Year the 2019 E! People's Choice Awards... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Godfrey Parkin from Britefire presented a talk on the fragmentation of social media into niche social platforms at the 2019 Social Media Landscape Briefings... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Facebook on Friday announced that it has begun testing a new "dedicated place" for news on its platform called Facebook News... Read
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RIANA MCARTHUR
Is cyber-misogyny the new frontier for the embarrassment and humiliation of the disenfranchised? Read
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JOHN DAVENPORT, ISSUED BY HAVAS JOHANNESBURG
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TV
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) have reached an agreement regarding the unpaid royalty fees of Samro's members... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Sadiqah Levy, client service director at iProspect... Read
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Fairness First
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The Cavendish Square branch of Trenery launched their collaboration with Imiso Ceramic Studio's internationally renowned artist and cofounder Zizipho Poswa, with a curated coffee and clay-inspired immersive experience on 21 October... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris took top honours at last night's Pendoring Awards, claiming this year's Umpetha Award... Read
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"How I Built This" dives into the stories behind growing SME's and the movements they built... Read
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With the help of TBWA\Chiat\Day New York, online brand management technology company Yext has created a brand campaign, which aims to highlight the misinformation spread by 'The Man Without The Answers'. View
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Ugandan journalist Nila Yasmin wins the 2019 APO Group African Women in Media Award... Read
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LOUISE MARSLAND
Women need to access the new economic Pan-Africanism on the continent, said Dr Vera Songwe, UN ECA head... Read
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With the i5 Innovation Hub, Africa University seeks to develop and protect African intellectual property... Read
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South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association says local ICT service providers that don't support the latest version of the Internet Protocol are potentially threatening the country's participation in 4IR... Read
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Yannick Kimanuka from the Democratic Republic of Congo was crowned her the winner of the 2019 Anzisha Prize... Read
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LOUISE MARSLAND
A resolution taken at the annual Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum conference, calls on the economic empowerment of women to be linked to the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)... Read
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Preparations for the second edition of the Gerety Awards are underway. And the first 2020 global jury has already been unveiled... Read
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According to the latest Advertising Association/Warc Expenditure Report, adspend in the United Kingdom has increased by 5.8% year-on-year to reach £6bn in Q2 2019... Read
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There's been much in the media about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and how it has the potential to change South Africa's economy for the better... Read
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The regional finalists in the second edition of the Southern Africa Startup Awards (SASAWARDS) have been selected... Read
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The eighth edition of the MTN Business App of the Year Awards concluded with the much-anticipated announcement of the overall and category winners... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
We know that when it comes to your health information, you need your data on hand, as well as that of the ones you love... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
RISE Academy of Entrepreneurship isn't just your average academy; its core function is to make business skills available to the youth in a way that speaks their 'language'... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Karri Payments is an app that allows parents to make safe, quick and convenient payments to their childs' school, solving the problem of teachers acting as debt collectors... Read
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OfferZen's first State of the Software Developer Nation survey reveals skills, experience and salary trends in SA tech community. Read
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So far this year, 4.1 billion private records have been exposed as a result of breaches and cyber attacks... Read
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More South Africans are working two jobs in order to earn multiple incomes... Read
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BRADLEY WORKMAN-DAVIES
Did you know that your beliefs may be protected by labour laws? But how far do these protections extend - would you be protected for climate change denialism, veganism or being a flat-Earther? Read
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DR JOHN DEMARTINI
There are seven common fears and guilts that fragment our full potential, and the only difference between somebody who does what they love and someone who doesn't, is that the former has the ability to identify their fears and has a strategy to break through them... Read
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JUSTINE SWEET
Worldwide, corporates are increasingly expected, if not compelled, to exercise sound environmental management practices and ensure compliance with prevailing environmental law... Read
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Despite a challenging economic landscape, South African small and medium enterprise (SME) owners remain positive about the potential for achieving future business growth... Read
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GREG PUTNAM
WeWork went from unicorn darling with a nearly US$50 billion valuation to a cautionary tale for gullible investors worth just $8 billion in a matter of months... Read
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