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|  | | The winners of all the FM AdFocus Awards 2020 were crowned at a small gathering at The Empire in Parktown last night, with Agency of Year Triple Eight walking away with the prestigious title for the second time...read |
|  | | The 2020 Assegai Awards was held at The Venue in Melrose Arch in Johannesburg on Thursday, 26 November...read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT This week, we go behind the mask with independent creative director and author Iain S. Thomas... Read |
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 | DAMON STAPLETON It was a question I should have been able to answer. I have been in the business a while and I have made a few ads. But maybe the simplicity or the clarity of the question blindsided me and left me saying nothing... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Toyota: outdoors online meeting fiddled to look like 'work-at-home'; But health's Net effort competes with Fikile Mbalula in the Useless Stakes... Read |
 | AMELIA NEATE With just a few weeks until Christmas, it's time to cosy up and watch the most anticipated advert of each and every year. The John Lewis and Partners Christmas ad has marked the start of the festive period for many years... Read |
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 | Tine Fisker-Henriksen, the Innovative Finance Lead for Bertha Centre for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, and a member of the Green Outcomes Fund Advisory Committee, shares details of the Green Outcomes Fund, what it means to be a green business and how green SMMEs can apply for funding. View |
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 | GARY VAN ZYL Everyone out there is struggling in the current economy. It also seems that we are all being called upon to adapt and do things differently to survive... Read |
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 | JARRED CINMAN Jarred Cinman, CEO of VMLY&R South Africa and ACA Board member, talks us through three things he believes the pandemic has changed... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our #EvolutionofWork content feature, Boomtown's all-female digital department shares what the future of work looks like from their point of view and how they're navigating the 'new normal' in the aftermath of Covid-19... Read |
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 | Anant Singh has produced a gender-based violence awareness film to highlight the call for people to act against this scourge in our society... Read |
 | Realness Institute's Episodic Lab will be looking for screenwriters from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa with authentic and original stories of all genres... Read |
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 | MKHUSELI VANGILE Traditional advertising has been a long-time ally of marketing. When starting a business, your main goal is to gain exposure and build a customer base... Read |
 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL As preparations get underway for the fourth Agency Scope study to begin in May 2021, Johanna McDowell, Scopen partner and director for the UK and South Africa notes that some of the trends seen in the global research will be a barometer for the pressures, proficiencies and pandemic recovery in South Africa... Read |
 | On 23 October 2020 Scopen, together with the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company (IAS), conducted a virtual launch of Trend Score, a first for South Africa... Read |
 | The countdown to the 2020 Smarties Awards has begun with the judges undertaking their final rounds of assessments to announce the winners on 9 December 2020... Read |
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 | Winners of the 19th Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) awards have been announced, with AmaBhungane's Susan Comrie and eNCA's Dasen Thathiah sharing top honours... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE At a time when many PR agencies have retrenched, or worse, closed, Cape Town-based Irvine Partners is celebrating its 10th birthday... Read |
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 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS This week, Bronwyn Williams has been reading Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Nobel Prize winner, Robert J. Shiller... Read |
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 | PETER GREALY, NOZIPHO MNGOMEZULU, WENDY TEMBEDZA, KARL BLOM, AND ZIYANDA NGCOBO The South African (SA) sound broadcasting industry has been waiting patiently for legislative developments regarding the switchover from analogue broadcasting to digital sound broadcasting (DSB)... Read |
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 | As the global Covid-19 pandemic continues to spur e-commerce, a Mastercard study has revealed the rapid growth of online shopping, with 68% of South African consumers shopping more online... Read |
 | BRETT ROGERS Brett Rogers explores the edges of culture and how things are changing, providing valuable insights for brands wanting to understand who and what is shaping culture... Read |
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 | The number of new shoppers introduced to e-commerce over lockdown boosted Black Friday weekend total online transaction volumes by 50%, compared to 2019... Read |
 | MEGHAN TAYLOR Covid-19 has fuelled development in the e-commerce space, but there is a downside to this sudden shift... Read |
 | Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now Green Monday. Retailers would be forgiven for becoming a little breathless with all the shopping events that fall just weeks before the traditional rush of the festive season... Read |
 | It's that time of the year again, when retailers attract their biggest share of customers and increase in-store foot traffic as the festive season begins... Read |
 | The ODOmeter will be conducted on a quarterly basis to assess the shifts and changes in the rapidly evolving e-commerce sector... Read |
 | DR YUDHVIR SEETHARAM The Black Friday sales that have long been a part of the retail landscape in the United States and Canada have steadily gained popularity and traction in many other parts of the world, including South Africa... Read |
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 | D&AD opens the call for entries for the 2021 D&AD Awards announcing key changes across categories in response to developments in the creative sector... Read |
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 | ANNA COLLARD Africa offers a wealth of chances for startups and innovators looking to address cybersecurity risk across the increasingly digitised continent... Read |
 | The MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) is set to make a comeback in 2021, when it will be held virtually, in partnership with Uganda, on 20 February 2021... Read |
 | NJ AYUK Last spring, the Maersk Voyager, an ultra-deepwater drillship under contract by French supermajor Total, sank a wildcat well to a depth of 3,628 metres (11,903 feet) in Block 48... Read |
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 | DAVID TAYLOR There's some great news for motorists as we go into the final month of 2020. The price of petrol will be coming down... Read |
 | According to CSI consultancy Trialogue, South African companies spent an estimated R10.7bn on corporate social investment (CSI) in the 2020 financial year... Read |
 | People who loosen their purse strings during the upcoming holiday season and buy local instead of imported products could help improve South Africa's economic outlook... Read |
 | While the country has made some strides on the diversity and inclusion front, a lot of progress still needs to be made, particularly when it comes to disabled South Africans... Read |
 | Women's lobby movement Women of South Africa (WoSA) will on Friday, 4 December, lead a national march to raise awareness around the various issues that are holding women back from participating meaningfully in the country's economy... Read |
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