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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Having enjoyed a successful 15-year career in the South African advertising industry, Aileen Sauerman has risen through the ranks at Duke Advertising to become their first female managing director...read |
|  | | Google has revealed the results of its 2020 Year in Search, sharing what the world and South Africans searched for, asked about, looked for, ate and dreamt of exploring in 2020...read |
|  | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Bronwyn Williams puts together a list of books that would make the ideal gift for everyone on your festive shopping list. Some old, some new, they are all sure to inspire interesting conversations...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Since March 2020 when Covid-19 first turned business on its head, Bizcommunity has been the place where virtual business gets done, fully set up to seamlessly steer your business communications through the challenges of lockdowns, meltdowns and new remote working norms... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT This week, we go behind the mask with Shelley Zalis, CEO at The Female Quotient in the US... Read |
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| |  | Covid-19 revolutionised how businesses operate and how consumers behave. Amidst the chaos, many companies had to evolve and adapt to fit the new normal... Read |
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 | BRENDAN SEERY Orchids: song for girls, young women about consent, boundaries; New airline Lift's dive into illogical clichés gets it an Onion.... Read |
 | GARETH LECK Theories abound about how organisations can keep growing in the face of a fast-evolving consumer, rapidly changing technology and agile global competition... Read |
 | VMLY&R South Africa has landed the full Vodacom advertising account. The remit includes through-the-line advertising for all business units within the telecoms giant as well as the master brand... Read |
 | Pitcher Festival of creativity has named Alistair King, co-founder and chief creative officer of King James Group South Africa as 2021 Pitcher Awards Heritage jury president... Read |
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| Augmented Reality |
 | eNCA is on the verge of taking news coverage to new technological heights with its innovative use of video walls and also with the launch of an augmented reality data reporting system... Read |
| Biz Takeouts |
 | Kirsten Barnes, the project lead for SA Plastics Pact, GreenCape, and Kevin O'Brian, the Group Sustainability and Risk Executive for SPAR, discuss the Plastics Pact and the vision for a circular economy for plastics in SA... View |
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 | Ambassador Riina Kionka, the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to South Africa, Ambassador Martin Schäfer, the German Ambassador to SA, and Ambassador Aurélien Lechevallier, the French Ambassador to SA, discuss the importance of investing in a green recovery for South Africa as well as the EU's projects in South Africa. View |
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 | South Africa's alcohol industry has decided to withdraw support for, or associating its brands with, naming rights for major entertainment events for which an events licence is required... Read |
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 | RICHARD MULLINS A brand's first-party data about its customers is one of its most potentially powerful assets. Yet most companies are not driving as much value from the customer data in their customer relationship management (CRM) systems and other platforms as they could be... Read |
 | REYNHARDT UYS Gaining brand trust has taken on a much deeper meaning since the Covid-19 pandemic ordeal when consumers experienced first hand which companies could provide evidence of their legitimate concern for customers... Read |
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| Design |
 | Katlego Tshuma's standout Sangu bench design earned him the overall prize in the 2020 Nando's Hot Young Designer (HYD) Talent Search, an annual competition that aims to unearth new local talent... Read |
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 | 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 |
 | AMIR SOHRABI Digitisation, most of all, means acceleration. This has numerous implications for leadership in the digital age. Simply making decisions faster to keep up with the rapid pace of business life and innovation will not be enough... Read |
 | AMELIA NEATE 2020 has changed the world in more ways than one, and with digital communications moving faster than ever before, many of us are questioning if it's just a phase or if it will stick around? Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Zodwa Gunuza, creative director at HelloFCB+ recently joined the IAB's Digital Content Marketing Committee... Read |
 | GARY PICKFORD There has never been a better time for ICT resellers to reinvent themselves as services businesses. Those that get it right will be positioned to grow faster than the market in 2021... Read |
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 | NATALKA ANTONIUK It's the talk of 2020. Virtual events have filled your calendar. And as a business owner, you're probably thinking you should get involved. But what are the reasons nobody visits your virtual exhibition stand? Read |
 | The Ticketpro Dome has unveiled a new Hybrid Studio - in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced companies to rethink the ways events are held... Read |
 | The second GQ Men of The Year Awards (MOTY) will take place on 12 December 2020. From artists to humanitarians, innovators to designers, comedians and entrepreneurs, GQ South Africa and Hennessy VSOP Privilège will celebrate the best talent from South Africa and the rest of Africa... Read |
 | Fame Week Africa will take the form of a three day hybrid virtual and physical experience for the film, art, media and entertainment industries in Cape Town in 2021... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | A total of 10 films were shortlisted in the Discovery Rise competition. The competition is run by Discovery Networks, in partnership with the Jozi Film Festival (JFF) and Save the Children South Africa (SCSA)... Read |
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 | GQ South Africa announced the winners of the Men of the Year awards (MOTY) on Saturday, 12 December at Hotel Sky in Sandton... Read |
   
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 | The award recognises Sea Monster for the design and implementation of the Livin' it Up financial education mobile game that was designed for Capitec Bank... Read |
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| PR & Communications |
 | Facebook has launched its JoziPlug Community City Guide in Johannesburg - the first city on the African continent where the global initiative has been introduced... Read |
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 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS This week Bronwyn Williams reviews Pepe Marais' new book, 20 Habits that Break Habits and shows some correlations between it and Train Naked, a book her good friend Pierre DuPlessis published a few months ago... Read |
| Radio |
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| Research |
 | 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 |
 | Retailers will need to adapt to changing customer expectations to secure much-needed profits... Read |
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| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG "The world is not as it was, and neither is retail. A new approach was needed that challenged the status quo and offered a way for local brands to be seen and bring excitement back to shopping malls..." Read |
| Sales |
 | LOUISE ROBINSON For anyone in sales, 2020 has been a challenging year. Going forward, we will see this hardship continue into 2021 and how we respond to the new demands will be critical... Read |
| Social Media |
 | MPUMI ZONDI As social media has become a part of everyday life and a key component of how many consumers and brands maintain relationships, we've seen maturity and sophistication emerge in the influencer space... Read |
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| Streaming |
 | Netflix reveals the films and series South Africans have been watching in 2020 - a year in which we've spent more time on the streaming platform. Read |
| TV |
 | Shark Tank, the award-winning reality show that has reinvigorated entrepreneurship in America, now returns to African shores... Read |
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 | The Digital4Agriculture Initiative aims to foster African startups in the agricultural sector and strengthen the long-term living conditions of local small farmers by increasing productivity and quality... Read |
 | The 6th edition of Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) conference and awards held on 2-3 December 2020 hosted more than 60 African and global thought leaders across business and politics who shared insight and thought leadership... Read |
 | ADEJUWON SOYINKA Over nine months into Covid-19 outbreak in Nigeria, there are concerns about how well the country has managed the pandemic.... Read |
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 | COLIN TIMMIS Small and medium enterprises tend to take the hardest knocks in an economic downturn. Nothing illustrates this better than the unravelling impact of Covid-19, which left many SMEs teetering on the edge of collapse... Read |
 | The Health Department will launch the Covid SA travel system, a digital screening platform that allows travellers to complete the required travel health questionnaire on their personal devices ahead of their arrival at ports of entry... Read |
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 | Applications are now open for The Global Young Innovators Programme - an exciting opportunity for young South African entrepreneurs and innovators to gain support for their business idea while tackling global issues... Read |
 | According to data from the World Bank, SMMEs represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment globally. In emerging economies, like South Africa, it showed that formal SMMEs contribute up to 40% of national income... Read |
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