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|  | BRENDAN SEERY Refreshing: Orchid for Cell C for reviving big brand storytelling; Capitalises on aspiration - which drives many to search for better lives...read |
|  | EVAN-LEE COURIE This week I catch up with Melissa-Joy Ohlsson, head Of strategy for Volt Africa, an integrated digital service provider based in South Africa which specialises in creating customised digital strategies suited for your brand...read |
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| |  | On 12 February 2021, African and international podcasters and podcast enthusiasts alike celebrated #AfricaPodcastDay by participating in the inaugural Africa Podfest... Read |
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| Advertising |
 | ISSUED BY GREY Even though Savanna is well known for its quirky, dry sense of humour, the brand decided to take a stand and create an awareness campaign that drives a very important message to its consumers: Drinking and driving is no joke... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MEDIAHEADS 360 Level one BEE media specialist agency, MediaHeads 360, continues to activate, captivate and amplify two years after its relaunch... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ADCHECK Advertising monitoring and insights business, Adcheck, celebrates its 50th birthday this year... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION AND ADVERTISING During the Effie Awards South Africa 2021 online workshop, the ACA will provide guidelines, tips on how to enter, requirements, case study presentations and more from 10.30am-12.30pm on Tuesday, 23 February... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DUKE Duke recently signed up as the first South African enterprise to partner with Copysmith, the AI copywriting and content generation platform... Read |
 | New York Festivals Advertising Awards has announced its 2021 NYF executive jury, featuring jury president Ralf Heuel, CCO and partner of Grabarz & Partner Germany and jury member PJ Eales, ECD at Machine Cape Town, South Africa... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY JACARANDA FM Five lessons from Jacaranda FM's marketing manager, Leith Smith... Read |
| Cannes Lions |
 | Lions has published the agenda for its March edition of Lions Live. Designed as a toolkit for the creators of tomorrow, the interactive digital experience has been created to drive measurable gains in both personal and professional development... Read |
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| Covid-19 |
 | ISSUED BY SCAN DISPLAY "South Africa's exhibition industry has a proven track record of providing quick and affordable solutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. From testing and isolation centres to field hospitals, the exhibition industry's temporary structures have allowed us to re-purpose our stock and create solutions in response to this health crisis," says Justin Hawes... Read |
| Digital |
 | ISSUED BY PUBLISHER'S TOOLBOX PT SportSuite and Major League Rugby (MLR) have announced a multi-platform deal that will transform the league's digital media capabilities... Read |
 | KEVIN SOUTH To unlock the power of true digital transformation, leaders need to find ways to put digital first, encouraging everyone in a company to start thinking about... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT In August last year, Uyanda Manana joined Conversation Lab from sister agency, BE, in a merger and grassroots ownership deal... Read |
 | Times have changed, and so has what consumers want and expect of brands. When we think about shopping now, our concerns lie a little deeper than whether the item is in stock or not. Now shoppers are thinking about how to get hold of said product while staying safe and avoiding crowded spaces... Read |
| Education |
 | ISSUED BY MACHINE_ With the aim of addressing inclusion and diversity in the advertising and communications industry, Machine_ has launched The Forge - which aims to find, mentor and grow young creative talent... Read |
 | London International Awards has created a coaching and networking programme to develop, educate, inspire and grow young creative talent... Read |
 | Educo Academy has launched a Sales and Marketing Seta-accredited programme, free to qualifying students between the ages of 18 and 28... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | The Cheeba Cannabis Academy will host the 2021 Craft Cannabis Summit on 25 and 26 February. The two-day virtual event will include nine webinars... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | The City of Cape Town's Film Permit Office has revealed they are currently facilitating and monitoring 10 productions, including four feature films and six television series... Read |
| Magazines |
 | ISSUED BY NEW MEDIA Woolworths Taste continues to hold its own, with a 13% increase in circulation in 2020 Q4 and unprecedented online performance in January 2021... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA Publishing celebratory stories and current development insights, the Public Sector Leaders digimag highlights the success of public servants, catering to a monthly audience of more than 40,000 readers... Read |
| Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU This article provides you with a starting point, a way to begin honing your perspective and identifying the susceptibility of disruption in your industry: by gauging the past, the present and the yet-to-come... Read |
 | ZUBEIDA GOOLAM Humans create ideas and technology helps us share them. Finding a team that can marry the two, will give any brand a competitive edge. The human behind the tech always has to ensure that their ideas are culturally relevant to the audience... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE 2Stories is a new content collective by serial entrepreneur Joanne Hope and seasoned content director Anelde Greeff... Read |
 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL Right-housing is vital to the success of leading customers through the sales funnel, writes Johanna McDowell... Read |
 | Marketers are used to thinking and speaking in demographics, since dividing a market up by age, gender, ethnicity, and other broad variables can help to understand the differences and similarities among customers... Read |
 | MediaCom's pioneering creative work on behalf of clients such as Uber, PlayStation, and Dell Technologies landed them the Adweek Global Media Agency of the Year award... Read |
| Newspapers |
 | ISSUED BY SPARK MEDIA Free and sold local papers make up just over 78% of the total 6.1 million newspapers in circulation in the last quarter of 2020. Leaving the remaining weekend, weekly and daily titles to make up 22% of the total newspapers in print... Read |
| OOH |
 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Tractor is pleased to announce that Lizelle McConnell has been appointed as sales director. With her in-depth experience in the industry, she has been pivotal to Tractor's growth... Read |
| Publishing |
 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS This week Bronwyn Williams has been reading Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem, which illuminates the un-separation of church (morality), business and the state. "By conflating of virtue with value, brands and businesses place themselves in a no-win situation..." Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Primedia Broadcasting announced that Muhammad Cajee will be joining the group as chief digital officer, effective 1 March 2021... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OFM RADIO OFM is celebrating its 35th birthday by giving away a total of R35,000 in cash with the Spot OFM's Yellow Fleet competition... Read |
| Research |
 | KANGWE MONKOANE, ISSUED BY KLA Mo's already read, from research carried out by KLA, that participants in a recent blind tasting survey couldn't tell the difference between boxed and bottled wine... Read |
 | The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that South Africans now trust business more than any other institution, and are looking to CEOs to solve societal challenges that have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis... Read |
| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Bos Brands is ramping up its direct-to-consumer offering with the launch of a subscription service. This follows a revamp of the company's online store last year... Read |
 | AMANDA RABINOWITZ-MULLER Shopping mall marketing teams, together with events agencies, are creating new and unique ways to involve tenants in their marketing strategies... Read |
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 | HEMANT HARIE Resellers and managed service providers may seem to be in competing lines of business, but in reality, the opposite is true... Read |
 | How are South Africa's top performing businesses meeting their revenue targets during one of the toughest operating environments of the past decade? Read |
| Social Media |
 | LERATO SIBANDA Lerato Sibanda writes that we are missing out from many opportunities and basic social interaction as a result of the uprising of social media apps... Read |
 | NJONGO MATO Brands have this obsession to only want to work with established content creators, completely ignoring many who are building a very loyal following on various platforms.... Read |
 | Creative Agentz in collaboration with TikTok have launched a bespoke TikTok booth available for creatives to use free of charge at the Creative Agentz premises in Johannesburg at The Zone @ Rosebank.... Read |
| Streaming |
 | ISSUED BY SHOWMAX African streaming service Showmax has licensed its first international reality TV series format, Temptation Island... Read |
 | BBC Studios and ITV's joint streaming venture BritBox will launch in South Africa in the second half of 2021.... Read |
| TV |
 | ISSUED BY SAMSUNG SOUTH AFRICA For those who are hard of hearing, the deaf, people with low vision and the blind, accessing basic TV features like sound controls and screen settings can still prove challenging... Read |
| D&AD Awards |
 | D&AD New Blood Shift New York held its first all digital showcase last week. The culmination of the four-month night school programme for 2020 saw 18 aspiring creatives present their portfolios... Read |
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 | WILDU DU PLESSIS AND MORNE VAN DER MERWE In Part 1 of this series, we analysed merger-and-acquisition data in sub-Saharan Africa - here we look at country specific M&A activity in SA, Ethiopia and Ghana... Read |
 | SALIOU SAMB CONAKRY - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections... Read |
 | MOSOKA FALLAH News of a new outbreak of Ebola in Guinea is indeed distressing... Read |
 | CHARNÈ HUNDERMARK With substantial offshore gas discoveries of over 100-trillion cubic feet, Mozambique has seen an influx in foreign investment in its liquified natural gas (LNG) developments... Read |
 | CD Baby has appointed music business manager and independent music advocate Sakhele Mzalazala to lead its expansion into southern Africa. Read |
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 | MICHAEL CHERRY AND NATHAN GEFFEN A study led by authors from the National Blood Service, shows that a large percentage of the population has likely already been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and that there are striking differences in prevalence between blacks and whites. Read |
 | MICHAEL CHERRY University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers are expected to start a phase one clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine candidate, hAd5 T-cell, later this month... Read |
 | FABIO LONGANO Who knew a year ago, when we left our offices "for a couple of weeks" to work from home, how different our lives, and our businesses would be now? Read |
 | TRENT ODGERS Most strategic discussions in boardrooms around the world will include cloud-based offerings because the services offered have become fundamental... Read |
 | MOHAMMED AMIN 2020 can only be described as an unpredictable year, and one that brought with it some of the most dramatic shifts we've seen in the way we live and work... Read |
 | HOWARD PLAATJES It's safe to say that the past 10 years of technology have been stratospheric in the disruption they've brought and the changes they've wrought... Read |
 | VUYANI NDABA South Africa's consolidated fiscal deficit is expected to narrow this year because of an economic rebound, although the long-term trend of higher debt remains unchanged due to Covid-19 and pre-existing spending... Read |
 | Following a year of pandemic and lockdowns, South African employees and companies are looking ahead to the annual Budget Speech on 24 February with a sense of foreboding... Read |
 | Further steps to ensure tax enforcement and collection are more likely to be the message in the upcoming Budget Speech than the introduction of a wealth tax. Read |
 | Founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk has launched the XPrize Carbon Removal competition which aims to create... Read |
 | In a bid to minimise the rate of infection, the Covid-19 regulations places a greater responsibility on workplace compliance with fines being touted for transgressors... Read |
 | South Africa is now ready to manufacture and commercialise hydrogen fuels technology, after over a decade of research and development... Read |
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 | NONTOKOZO MADONSELA The side gig economy has become much more than an alternative to formal employment. It now takes on a new layer as a necessary supplement to an existing income... Read |
 | Successful marketing is just as much about following the right processes as it is about creative (and effective) outputs. You can't expect magic to happen without applying some method... Read |
 | The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is calling for applications for its 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. With the deadline fast approaching on 31 March 2021... Read |
 | The National Empowerment Fund (NEF) in partnership with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) has established an Economic Distress Fund to provide concessionary business loans to Black-owned and managed enterprises... Read |
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