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The IAB SA has announced a panel of industry leaders who will judge the Bookmark Awards in 2020... read
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The 2019 Assegai Awards was recently held at The Polo Room/Inanda Club in Sandton, Johannesburg...read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Free fast internet is a game-changer, but while public Wi-Fi is highly valued by South Africans, deploying a sustainable service can be challenging...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Up to 18 million jobs need to be created annually just to absorb the new entrants each year. This is unprecedented globally and doesn't even include the unemployed and underemployed...read
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The 12th annual AfricaCom Awards recognised minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, South Africa's Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services with an inaugural Government Leadership Award... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Dion Jerling, co-founder of Connect Earth was chair of the third and final day of AfricaCom 2019's keynote sessions. He said there had been closer to 17,000 attendees than predicted 15,000 and convened a panel discussion on getting user experience (UX) right... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The 22nd edition of Africacom took place from 12 to 14 November 2019 at the CTICC in Cape Town. Chair for the first morning of Africacom's headline keynotes was Toby Shapshak, editor-in-chief of Stuff magazine, with Paul Scanlan, CTO of carrier business group at Huawei technologies, up first on all things 5G and even 'facial recognition' of fish... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Yolisa Phahle, CEO of general entertainment at the MultiChoice Group, presented the final keynote session of the second day of AfricaCom 2019. As "a South African who lives and breathes the African dream," she explains why they're retelling possibly the greatest African story of all time, with global appeal... Read
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NICCI BOTHA
According to the World Economic Forum, there are 700m people using digital financial services globally, of which half are in Africa... Read
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Chat commerce and chat banking have revolutionised the way companies are serving their customers. Without having to invest in new architecture, companies are able to meet and engage with their clients on the platforms of their choice... Read
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Tom Cuthell, portfolio director of AfricaCom and AfricaTech, chats to Rutendo Nyamuda live at the recent 2019 AfricaCom conference & trade expo in Cape Town. View
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The 2019 AfricaCom is officially done and dusted! The three-day event was held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, this past week. View
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The 12th Annual AfricaCom Awards was held at The Lookout in Cape Town. View
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The 2019 AfricaCom is currently on at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in the Western Cape... View
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Born and raised in Klipfontein, Chantelle Goliath went from cleaning other people's homes to becoming a businesswoman and entrepreneur who owns an import and export company - Milli Distributions... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
South African skincare brand Lulu & Marula is catering to the growing demand for natural, ethically-made skincare products... Read
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Blue Ribbon's Share that Mmmm Yum Taste ad doesn't only show us the sort of yummy sandwiches you can make, it also highlights the importance of spending time with family... Read
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
What's in the box? Hint, prepare for some seriously dark matter, like 50% or more off promo hampers of Biz top-story exposure products that will put your competition in the shade... Read
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
The beauty of a Biz Office on Bizcommunity is it's two-way nature, providing climate controlled conditions for culture and capabilities... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
Great message and sight as Boks drank its beer from the trophy, but an Onion to Santam for tacky ambush marketing ploy... Read
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The 2019 Epica Awards shortlist has been announced with South Africa's VMLY&R's "Don't Tell Me What To Do" campaign for Edgars revealed as a finalist in the Branded Content - Music Video category... Read
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HERMAN DEGENER
The other day, I was attending the briefing of a highly sought-after account. It's a piece of business that I'm rather passionate about and have had the privilege of working on before... Read
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Branding
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Positioned at the Sandton Gautrain Station, the tourist kiosk will be staffed by two of Sandton Central's 12 new multilingual tourism ambassadors... Read
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ASHLEIGH WAINSTEIN, ISSUED BY SOCIAL PLACES
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CARMEN MURRAY
Companies spend millions to improve their service design and train staff to offer friendlier service and handle complaints more efficiently. My question is this: How can you expect your staff to provide a nasty service with a nice smile? Read
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MELISSA CAMPBELL
As customers' needs evolve, retailers must adapt to meet those needs, or better yet, stay ahead of them. Retailers must rethink the traditional test and learn cycles... Read
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According to Nathalie Schooling, the brands that achieve the most success on Black Friday, are not just focused on deals, profits and 'quick-wins'... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Building inclusive products for all South Africans is the motivation for several new developments and commitments recently made by Google South Africa at the first Google South Africa conference held in Johannesburg... Read
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DAVID JENKINS
Businesses that currently rely solely on paid-for Google search to attract consumers to their offerings should also be incorporating organic search... Read
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Gartner revealed its top strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond... Read
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Through an analysis of online content from more than 58,000 chief executive and chief marketing officers, the second annual Worldcom Confidence Index (CI) shows that global business leaders' confidence has plummeted in 2019... Read
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ANGELIKA KEMPE
It's time to consider alternatives to this time-consuming and costly practice, writes Angelika Kempe, executive consultant at AdOps... Read
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MARTIN MUSASA
Anthropology in the B2B space has seen great success over the years by helping businesses at all levels see and think differently about their business and clients... Read
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JOAN OSTERLOH
As early as December 2017, Forrester's Brendan Witcher warned that marketers need to be aware of the "creep factor" when deploying strategies of personalisation and individualisation in their marketing efforts... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Simon Dingle started his Catalyst Africa presentation by confirming that when he's not making apps or writing books, he loves thinking out loud in public about a variety of divergent topics... Read
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The winners of the 2019 SAB Environmental Media Environmentalist of the Year Awards were recently announced at the AB InBev headquarters in Johannesburg... Read
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The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (Wan-Ifra) recently released the 30th World Press Trends report... Read
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The One Club has partnered with Working Not Working for ADC 99th Annual Awards and has launched ADC Freelancer of the Year Award... Read
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King James creative group head Moe Kekana and The Star Film Company executive producer Ksenija Strydom-Micic will serve on the 2019 One Screen Short Film Festival jury... Read
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ALEX ROBERTS AND NTOKOZO MAHLANGU
The destructive power of a corruption incident cannot be understated. The Steinhoff scandal of 2019 and the ongoing state capture enquiry are cautionary tales of how costly unethical behaviour can be... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Jacaranda FM's Martin Bester recently walked away with the title of Favourite Local Radio Personality at the Best of Pretoria Readers' Choice Awards, which was held at Candlewoods Boutique Venue in Centurion. Here, Bester shares more about what the recognition means to him and what excites him about the station and where it is going... Read
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The winners of the Amara Annual Media Recruitment Awards were announced at a formal event held at the The Empire Venue in Parktown on Friday, 8 November 2019... Read
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BUTCH RICE
Focus groups, group discussions, qualitative research are an ongoing scourge of marketing and the lazy marketer's crutch for obtaining so-called marketing 'insights'... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
The main findings of the 10th edition of the African version of the PwC Entertainment and Media Outlook: An African perspective, 2019 - 2023 was recently presented in Johannesburg... Read
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Consumer demand for personalisation drives revenue growth in Africa's Entertainment & Media industry, according to PwC's 'Africa Outlook', which is a comprehensive source of analyses and five-year forecasts of consumer and advertising spending across five African countries... Read
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Sensory marketing has positive emotional, cognitive and behavioral impacts on shoppers in-store, notes a new behavioural study... Read
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A recent survey entitled What Millennials Want From the Workplace has revealed that workplace design and flexible working are top priorities... Read
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SARINA DE BEER, ISSUED BY ASK AFRIKA
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Alibaba Group shattered its 2018 $30.8 billion Singles Day sales record, raking in $38.4 billion in sales during the 2019 11.11 Global Shopping Festival... Read
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Increased social media activity is believed to be fuelling investment in future global women's sports... Read
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AMANDA LOTZ & RAMON LOBATO
With the recent launch of Apple TV Plus and the imminent arrival of Disney Plus, the video landscape has never looked so competitive... Read
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MARGIE KNAP
The final viewership figures of the television broadcast of the 2019 Rugby World Cup final - between the Springboks and England - are in. Read
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The second edition of the E! People's Choice Awards was recently held at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California in the US... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Brendan Linley Arries, creative technologist/manager at HelloFCB+... Read
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has launched SheInvest, a new initiative that aims to mobilise €1bn of investment to benefit millions of women across Africa with better access to finance... Read
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JAMES BOAFO
Small-scale mining forms an important sector of Ghana's economy, employing one million people directly and supporting the livelihoods of about 4.5-million people... Read
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ALEX EZEH
In Africa today women still die needlessly during childbirth. They also fall pregnant when they aren't ready, and don't want to get pregnant. And there are still many obstacles on their path to living full and fulfilled lives... Read
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ELANA BEISER
A newly updated database on CPJ.org visualises the trend of media attacks in recent times - and how it combines and contrasts with other trends in decades of research on journalists who have been imprisoned or killed or who have gone missing because of their work since 1992... Read
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Africa is ready to absorb more investments. The risk perceptions from the continent, while high, are often exaggerated. And they do not often match what data shows and return performance on investment... Read
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Tommy Hilfiger, owned by PVH Corp., is incorporating 3D design technology into all global apparel design teams at its headquarters in Amsterdam... Read
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November is Entrepreneurship Month. From Global Entrepreneurship Week, which takes place from the 18-24 November 2019, to Global Women's Entrepreneurship Day on 19 November... Read
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Prince Mashawana, aged seven years old, has created a compelling new superhero - SuperMash... Read
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Boredom in the workplace has a multitude of negative physiological and psychological health impacts and, from a business perspective, can lead to frustration and loss of productivity. In addition, bored employees are twice as likely to leave their job, according to a study by Udemy... Read
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South Africa is to host the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Durban... Read
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Allan Gray, founder of the investment management company that bears his name, died in Bermuda on 10 November at age 81... Read
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Franz Kafka "You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." A. P. J. Abdul Kalam "Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work." Socrates "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." Christopher Morley "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." Marcus Aurelius "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." |
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