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| | ISSUED BY MEDIAHEADS 360 |  | Nexio has appointed Mickey Mashale as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) with effect from 1 August 2020... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Chantelle Mashego, a senior manager responsible for delivering the locally produced Nissan Navara has been at Nissan for 11 years and understands the complexities of building a vehicle... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Catherine Wijnberg is a successful female entrepreneur with experience in starting, growing, and operating businesses in five different sectors across three countries... Read | ISSUED BY ALGOA FM |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our Women's Month content feature and in the build-up to our panel discussion with some of this year's Gerety Awards all-female South African executive jury members, taking place in September, Jessica Tennant, senior editor: Marketing & Media at Bizcommunity interviews Simoné Bosman, founder and creative at Osu & Kumalo... Read |
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 | BRENDAN SEERY I've said this before, but it bears repeating: Nando's, your crown as South Africa's funniest brand is not only slipping, it's in danger of being stolen altogether - and by one of your fast-food rivals... Read |
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 | MOTI GRAUMAN Moti Grauman from The MediaShop says advertisers that have halted their spend on Facebook to 'Stop Hate for Profit' is ambiguous... Read |
 | The 13 strong client- and agency-side senior industry executives, will award the best case studies showcasing how collaborations with third parties that have helped meet business goals... Read |
 | JANET MACKENZIE AND REINHARDT BIERMANN The draft Films and Publications Amendment Regulations 2020 (Regulations) which were recently published for public comment in South Africa, have significant implications for online distributors in their current form. The Regulations apply to the sale, hiring and streaming of content on various digital platforms in South Africa... Read |
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 | ARISHA SAROOP Arisha Saroop, managing director of The MediaShop Durban shares a few examples of global and South African brands that have reinvented to be more purpose led... Read |
 | KHANGELANI DZIBA Prism Young judge Khangelani Dziba asks if we suffer from late bloomer syndrome... Read |
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| Design |
 | EDWARD HERRIDGE Edward Herridge, Finishing Artist at Grey Advertising reflects on the future of traditional and digital design... Read |
 | New York Festivals' Bowery Awards, a new competition celebrating independent creatives in the commercial landscape, has announced its 2020 executive jury... Read |
| Digital |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT The IAB SA is hosting its next insight webinar tomorrow, 30 July at 11am on Zoom, featuring speakers Stéphane Rogovsky, Pierre Cassuto, Siya Metane and Aqeelah Harron-Ally on the topic of digital influencer marketing... Read |
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 | The Durban FilmMart Institute has announced the 2020 Talents Durban participants, which will form part of the official 11th Durban FilmMart virtual edition set to take place from 4 to 13 September... Read |
 | 31 film projects from around Africa have been selected to pitch at this year's Durban FilmMart's Finance Forum... Read |
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 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL & BREHNDAN BOTHA Johanna McDowell CEO of IAS, and Brehndan Botha, certified Action Coach business coach, share some thoughts around the importance of recreating certainty in the workplace in ways that are in your control... Read |
 | Marketing and advertising consultancy Scopen presents the fourth edition of the Agency Scope Colombia 2020/21... Read |
| Online Media |
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 | LIZ MCCONNELL Liz McConnell, head of sales at Tractor Outdoor writes how good relationships with clients are more important than data... Read |
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 | BRIDGET VON HOLDT An in-depth look into the importance and future of industry awards... Read |
 | RACHEL IRVINE Rachel Irvine, CEO of Irvine Partners writes why your comms specialist is your new best friend when doing business in the new normal... Read |
 | BRIAN EAGAR Brian Eagar, CEO of Towerstone Leadership Centre, shares insight on the key steps to build stronger workplace relationships through effective communication... Read |
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 | JUANITA PIENAAR Radio presenter and digital media boffin, Jacaranda's Renaldo Schwarp lets us in on what's next for him after wrapping his shows at the station over the past weekend... Read |
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 | JUANITA PIENAAR Verusha Maharaj, advertising and marketing lead at Deloitte Consulting unpacks how marketers can retain their existing customer base and embrace the new and also elaborates on how they can start building trust and get consumers to fall in love with their brands during the pandemic... Read |
 | New data from Moat shows that advertising campaigns viewed within a trusted editorial environment yielded significantly better results for attention and viewability than the industry standard... Read |
| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Game's vice president shares how the retailer has navigated business challenges and opportunities over the last 50 years, and how it aims to remain relevant beyond 2020... Read |
 | GARY SACKS, ERIC CROSBIE AND MELISSA MIALON Diet-related diseases are major public health problems in SA. But many in the food industry strongly oppose globally recommended policies that could address these issues... Read |
 | TYRONE VAN HEERDEN How has Covid-19 accelerated digital shopping and what does this mean for your business? Read |
| Social Media |
 | SOLANI HLAYISI AND BABALWA NYEMBEZI Solani Hlayisi, group account director at Wunderman Thompson and Babalwa Nyembezi, head of digital at Net#work BBDO, analyse the brand Bonang Matheba has built over the years, the strategy behind her moves and what others can learn from Brand Bonang... Read |
| TV |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR CEO of DStv Media Sales, Fahmeeda Cassim Surtee's presentation focused on what advanced TV really is, how the TV landscape is changing and what this means for marketers... Read |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR CEO of DStv Media Sales, Fahmeeda Cassim Surtee elaborates on what exactly advanced TV is and how marketers should adapt and be more addressable in their approach... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | JESSICA TENNANT This week, we go behind the selfie with engineer turned furniture designer Mpho Vackier, who started TheUrbanative, an award-winning contemporary African furniture and product design company based in South Africa... Read |
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 | MUAZU IBRAHIM Most economists see structural transformation as one of the main routes to Africa's sustainable development... Read |
 | MISHECK MUTIZE A debt service relief package has been approved by some of the world's biggest lenders for more than 25 African countries... Read |
 | ABDU MOHIDDIN & MARLEEN TEMMERMAN There are reports that Kenya's hospital beds are filling up because of a surge in Covid-19 patients. This highlights concerns since the start of the pandemic, that the health systems of many African countries would quickly become overwhelmed... Read |
 | DPO Group will support the expansion of Network International's presence across Africa, one of the most under-penetrated and fast-growing payments markets in the world... Read |
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 | KINGSLEY IGHOBOR In June, the International Trade Centre launched a report titled Covid-19: The Great Lockdown and its Impact on Small Business... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA In our #SurvivorStories series, we put a face to Covid-19 by sharing the stories of people who have fought the virus and come out the other side. PR consultant, Shorn Khumalo talks us through his journey... Read |
 | JEFF LOMEY & MARK WORTLEY In this series, Jeff Lomey and Mark Wortley share top mental health tips that can assist SME owners to reach business success... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Vollar, an online platform that allows organisations to incentivise and reward members of a community for doing volunteer work to help others in their area. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the team then had to go back to the drawing board... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA There are early signs that the Western Cape may have crested the Covid-19 curve, even though restrictions have been eased and more economic activity has resumed... Read |
 | STEVE NICHOLLS On a trip to Denmark to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the National Business Initiative's (NBI) counterparts there, the one issue on which we struggled to connect was inequality... Read |
 | Seedstars is issuing the last call to startups to enter the Seedstars World Competition 2020/21... Read |
 | CHRIS OGDEN There is one word that defines the times today - uncertainty. It hangs in the economies and markets. It is the essence of the complexity that the pandemic has wrought... Read |
 | In the light of the unprecedented need created by Covid-19, NGOs and corporate social investment (CSI) programmes will be looking for ways to best utilise their resources, finances and people... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Melun Jeptha noticed two empty plots of land that were being used as dumping grounds and decided to do something about it... Read |
 | In addition to Covid-19 being a global health crisis, the pandemic has unleashed extensive socio-economic impacts, putting many companies at risk of being forced out of business... Read |
 | BRUCE PARKER-FORSYTH I've always believed that the words 'small business' is misleading... Read |
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