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| |  | DEAN MCCOUBREY Covid-19 has been fatal for some businesses. But as countries and industries re-establish their roots, re-engage with customers, and adapt their business to fire up revenue and move from rescue to reach a new normal, the marketing landscape and business mindset have changed too. Dual moving targets... Read |  | STELLA CARTER Stella Carter, head: Client Services at Stratitude shares four lessons she's learnt in 2020 when it comes to client service... Read |
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 | After announcing the winners for its second edition last week, the Gerety Awards has announced the Agency and Network of the Year for the 2020 Awards. 72andSunny Los Angeles and Havas respectively were awarded... Read |
 | The Immortal Awards has announced seven projects that have received Finalist status in the first-ever MEA competition, sending them through to the final, global round of judging in November... Read |
 | LYNN MADELEY & LARRY KHUMALO October in South Africa is Pride Month, and it marks the month when the first official Pride march was held on the African continent, 31 years ago this year. Lynn Madeley, CEO of Havas Southern Africa, and Larry Khumalo, head of PR at Havas South Africa had a conversation about Oreo's recent ad and what it means for this moment... Read |
 | ANGELIKA KEMPE Angelika Kempe, executive consultant at Ad Ops, says it's not unusual for clients to change agencies. It's less common for agencies to resign an account, but perhaps it shouldn't be... Read |
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 | RYAN FALKENBERG We don't just want companies to tell us what they have to offer but to interact with us in a way that's user-centred, hyper-relevant, one-touch, and multi-channel... Read |
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 | Thabisa Mjo has become the first South African designer to have her work form part of the permanent collection at the renowned Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris... Read |
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 | CHELSEY HALE Standing the test of time, through Myspace, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and even a global pandemic, email marketing is still one of the most effective methods for reaching and engaging target audiences... Read |
 | These are the highlights of Jason Dunn's talk at the SingularityU South Africa 2020 Summit... Read |
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 | Bronwyn Williams, partner at Flux Trends, interviewed Sylvester Chauke at the Alinea Innovation Master Class to find out South African businesses can use innovation to become more resilient and sustainable... Read |
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 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG AllFashion Sourcing, the annual trade show for the apparel, textile, footwear and leather industry, will this year be hosted on a virtual platform from 3-5 November 2020... Read |
 | The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) recently reopened with Home Is Where The Art Is: Art Is Where The Home Is, a proudly Capetonian exhibition, which showcases around 2,000 artworks... Read |
 | FNB Art Joburg will launch the 13th edition of the fair online from 6 -18 November 2020. The shift in dates has given the team time to curate a collection that will give art lovers access to an experience which captures the best parts of a live showcase while respecting the times... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY FLUX TRENDS Flux Trends has teamed up with The Enrichment Project to put together an open session on 25 November 2020 for businesses, teams, entrepreneurs and leaders to help you overcome the inertia of postalgia in your organisation and your own life as a leader and look to the future with purpose. Special discount for Bizcommunity readers... Read |
 | ISLA PRENTIS Isla Prentis, head of Tirisano Consulting at The MediaShopon comments on the topic of personalisation in marketing... Read |
 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL The fourth edition of Agency Scope 2020/21 commences fieldwork in early 2021 and Johanna McDowell, Scopen Partner and director for the UK and South Africa, notes that in this unprecedented time, information that enables agencies to see their positioning in the market through marketers eyes is invaluable... Read |
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 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS This week Bronwyn Williams reviews two (very different) just-released books by South African authors John Sanei and Iraj Abedian, and Simon de la Rouviere... Read |
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 | The winners of this year's MTN Business App of the Year Awards have been announced. EasyEquities, an app for new and existing investors, took the top spot... Read |
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 | Type Directors Club has launched its global TDC67 Communications Design and 24TDC Typeface Design awards competitions and announces diverse juries from 10 countries... Read |
 | Bongiwe Neema Nouse, a copywriter at The Odd Number in Johannesburg, has been named the MENA/Africa Regional winner in the Next Creative Leaders 2020 competition, run jointly by The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement... Read |
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 | Kantar was presented with this year's Pamro Best Paper Award for 'Measuring the changing socio-economic landscape of Africa' on the third day of the #Pamro21 virtual conference... Read |
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 | Data reveals a surge in the number of social media users across popular social networks with a forecast expected to reach over 5.9bn combined users by the end of 2020... Read |
 | TRACY JONES Tracy Jones, MD: Positive Dialogue shares her expertise on why the time is right to leverage the power of influence... Read |
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 | IAN JACOBSBERG SABC's licensing proposal involving Netflix, MultiChoice and DStv is the subject of some quite passionate debate and controversy. Measures are widely seen as a desperate attempt to address the SABC's dire financial plight without addressing the reasons that created it in the first place... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Matina Razafimahefa is the founder of SAYNA, an innovative edtech venture based in Madagascar, and a runner-up in the 2020 Anzisha Prize... Read |
 | CHRISTIAN HAPPI & IFEYINWA ANIEBO Nigeria, like other African countries, wasn't spared from the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. To overcome this challenge, countries have been advised to keep testing, treating and isolating to reduce infections... Read |
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 | DR YUDHVIR SEETHARAM Apart from the obvious impact of months of lockdown on business turnover and profitability, one of the biggest challenges that faced organisations during the first few months of Covid-19 was a complete lack of data... Read |
 | ASTRID R.N. HAAS AND VICTORIA DELBRIDGE Trade routes have been significantly disrupted this year in efforts to contain Covid-19. The effects of this are already showing: global growth is set to contract by 4.9%... Read |
 | Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) highlighted the many challenges South Africa faces in reigniting its economy beyond the Covid-19 crisis, but it was predictable in its promises, and light on detail... Read |
 | At the end of the 19th century, philanthropy was significantly transformed from being an ad hoc form of giving to meet a specific need for support or help, to a highly strategic, investment-based way of doing good, potentially in perpetuity. Read |
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