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|  | JESSICA TENNANT The TBWA Group, along with a number of partners and contributors from various media organisations are working with the Solidarity Fund to launch a national campaign. TBWA ECD Carl Willoughby tells us more about their Citizens in Solidarity campaign and why we need to come together as not just an industry but a nation...read |
|  | JESSICA TENNANT Since winning Sanlam Group's internal communications business effective February 2020, Machine agency's content marketing division has been hard at work reimagining the Group's internal communications content strategy with its communications team...read |
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| | ISSUED BY THE BRAVE GROUP |  | CHRIS BOTHA Chris Botha, Group MD of Park Advertising says that despite the chaos there is more evidence that we will learn, overcome and possibly emerge from this crisis all the better... Read |  | LESLEY-ANN ROZANSKI Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the average consumer. In this digital age, it's absolutely essential for businesses to have an online presence... Read | ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK |  | GERHARD HOPE While 'talking the talk' is an important part of PR in that it demonstrates we know what is going on, the danger of any kind of jargon is that it can become a lazy shorthand, and therefore ultimately meaningless... Read |  | LUDEK STAVINOHA As Covid-19 becomes the most intensely covered virus in history, there are important lessons to be drawn from the media's reporting of another global pandemic: HIV/Aids... Read |
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 | DAMON STAPLETON I have been in advertising for twenty-five years and I swore I would never write a 'Ten rules of' article. So, I didn't. I wrote one with eleven laws instead... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Gumtree: ads are perfect marriage of emotion and common sense; Nedbank: slammed on social media for card collection order for elderly client... Read |
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 | MICHELLE BEH Michelle Beh, head strategist of the Jupiter Drawing Room details the journey of a TVC with client, Sasko... Read |
 | International Advertising Festival White Square has announced its 2020 winners... Read |
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 | KATLEGO THULARE What makes Nando's so relatable on social media? Apart from the fiery personality and tone they always have, the fact that they always speak to relevant topics is key to their success... Read |
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 | Woolworths' 'Christmas Gifting Window of 2019' scooped two international accolades at the Shop! Global Awards 2020 in June... Read |
| Digital |
 | The New Generation Social & Digital Media Awards has launched New Gen TV which will broadcast online every Wednesday at 19:00... Read |
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 | NATASCHA TORRES AI cannot be truly creative in the sense of using imagination to develop truly original ideas and make something. AI systems are limited by the original datasets humans give them to learn from. So, the question shouldn't be technology or creativity, but rather how AI can help creatives to meet their goals... Read |
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 | ROB VAN DALE Rob van Dale, CMT and digital partner at global management consultancy Kearney talks to five moves that can help traditional media companies survive these challenging times and help to better position themselves for the future... Read |
 | This jury of 15 client-side and agency-side senior industry executives, will look for how sophisticated communication architecture helped boost campaign effectiveness... Read |
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 | BRITTA REID As South Africans ride the coronacoaster, they need news, information and advice they can trust. There is a unique opportunity for commercial brands and corporates to partner with these news brands to communicate meaningfully with their sizable audiences... Read |
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 | LEON COETZER Retail sector investment into mobile apps and platforms has been accelerated by the global pandemic... Read |
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 | Joe Public United's Xolisa Dyeshana will speak at One Club's "Advertising Around the World: New Business in a New Business", a special panel featuring seven top global creative leaders... Read |
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 | JEREMY BRIAR Now more than ever, public relations should have a seat at the top table... Read |
 | MKHUSELI VANGILE With the lockdown regulations being eased, many businesses are reopening their doors after weeks of closure. With businesses slowly going back to their routine, and restructuring. As a public relations professional, I that most businesses will neglect their need for PR and the significant role it will play on growing their business... Read |
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 | Havas partnered with Market Probe International to do a survey of people's attitudes towards change, particularly radical change. The study has shown that people demand radical change that makes a meaningful difference to the world around them and this is key for businesses to understand and act on... Read |
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 | HOWARD FELDMAN Because 2020 wasn't weird enough, South Africans are apparently now able to purchase coffins on Takealot... Read |
 | WAYNE FLEMMING The social and economic implications of the lockdown have forced businesses to rethink their sales strategies in order to stay afloat and meet shifting consumer demands... Read |
 | "E-commerce's rise, especially now, reinforces the point that consumer trust and legitimacy of online retailers are paramount, especially in an era of heightened risk and uncertainty," says Bidorbuy CEO Craig Lubbe... Read |
 | DAVID JENKINS SA's large retailers have a history of positioning themselves brilliantly in prime retail locations in premium malls, and need to follow the same strategy for their digital shopfronts... Read |
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 | BONGA MPUNGOSE SMANGA South African urban youth culture is a very complex space to navigate and without the right credible 'plugs' on the ground to introduce you or expose you to information about this culture and what is deemed valuable by urban centennials has become a very tough job for brands particularity in infiltrating this space and create relevance for themselves... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | JESSICA TENNANT We go behind the selfie with Zumi Njongwe, consumer communication and excellence director at Nestlé East and Southern Africa and #NedbankIMC2020 speaker... Read |
| D&AD Awards |
 | This year Suné Liebenberg, with tutor Pam Lansdell from AAA School of Advertising, won a Wood Pencil for "Dis Tjala tyd" and creative team, Carla Ehlers, Chante Harding and Tulsha Booysen, with tutors Anka Joubert and Mandy Speechly from IIE Vega School (Cape Town), also won a Wood Pencil for Operation-O... Read |
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 | KALU OJAH Independence is a cardinal pillar for organisations that are set up to deliver a public good. Their success depends on it... Read |
 | TIMOTHY A CAREY, AGNES BINAGWAHO & JUDY KHANYOLA This year - 2020 - marks the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. It's therefore understandable that it's being marked as the year of the nurse and midwife... Read |
 | SANDY RHEEDER From humble beginnings in a London flat in 2005, to an African fintech giant in 2020, Mukuru's journey has been one of turning challenges into opportunities for innovation... Read |
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 | ROBIN FISHER Over recent months the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that as humans we are all connected... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE "Women shouldn't shy away from leadership, especially during tough economic times such as these," says Shilpa Mehta, the newly elected first female president of The Entrepreneurs' Organisation Durban Chapter (EO)... Read |
 | REINARD KRUGER The question surrounding the ownership of copyright is becoming increasingly relevant to businesses, particularly when they outsource the creation of works to independent people or companies... Read |
 | ARNOUX MARÉ Managing and growing a business is no easy feat, this task becomes even more difficult when you factor in recessions, economic downgrades and pandemics... Read |
 | ALAIN TSHAL, Everyone is fair (and likely) game when it comes to identity theft. That is true at the best of times, but the Covid-19 pandemic has only intensified cyber fraudsters' hunt for the susceptible and vulnerable... Read |
 | The recent launch of 5G technology in South Africa presents several highly attractive opportunities for consumers, carriers and the ICT industry... Read |
 | VIRESH HARDUTH It's not easy to build a business. In fact, most small and medium business owners have stories of challenges, failures, turning points, and other significant events that contributed to their success... Read |
 | The MTN Business App of the Year Awards has opened entries for aspiring entrepreneurs and digital innovators across the country and launched a dedicated app development and coding initiative... Read |
 | The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in South Africa came into effect on 1 July 2020. If you have waited with your compliance project, you need to act fast... Read |
 | The Ad Crashers initiative is focused on giving much-needed marketing support to the small businesses that need it most... Read |
 | Engen has announced the arrival of their new Engen 1app, which conveniently offers motorists a safe and contactless way to pay... Read |
 | NATASHA BOLOGNESI Regular cleaning with standard household products is sufficient. Read |
 | JOHAN BOTES, TIISETSO RABOLAO AND KIRSTY GIBSON Even though we are starting to see light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, we still have a long way to go before life can return to a pre-Covid-19 type of normality, with many questioning if it will ever fully return. From a business point of view, we can draw insight from the CEOs of 2020's Fortune 500 list of companies... Read |
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