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 | EMILY STANDER What is an NFT? This question has seemingly plagued the online sphere of late, so we spoke to Dr Raeesah Chohan to answer it... read |
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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Africa has a vibrant growing media industry, with the largest Out of Home (OOH) market share in the world...read |
|  | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy South Africa was awarded two first-place wins during the recent Creative Circle Awards, which took place last week...read |
|  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Google continues to show its commitment to supporting economic recovery through the launch of the Hustle Academy...read |
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| |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Find out about the bizarre state we're in from futurist-in-chief, Dion Chang, founder of Flux Trends... Read |  | EMILY STANDER For her presentation in #BizTrends2022, Khumo Theko focused on brand connection in the knowledge-based era... Read |  | EMILY STANDER Moky Makura of Africa No Filter explains why soft news with hard data could be the way forward for media in Africa... Read |  | DANETTE BREITENBACH Dali Tembo unpacks why empathetic trend research, that changes data to insights, tells stories for the greater good as opposed to the binary of data... Read |  | DANETTE BREITENBACH #BizTrends2022 speaker, Franklin Ozekhome, calls Afrobeats music and its signature pop sound the new frontier for marketers... Read |  | KATJA HAMILTON When it comes to the digitisation of the human body, mind and soul there has been a quick and deep drive into the metaverse, Bronwyn Williams says... Read |  | PETER BABOL Despite the ever-growing number of trends divulged at the start of any given year, one thing always remains - marketing in this day in age can be tricky... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA It's been an explosive year for Vicinity Media... Read |
 | GRANT LAPPING With advertisers, particularly retailers, allocating a larger share of their ad spending to digital channels, many are debating how they can best access the skills and resources they need to execute their campaigns... Read |
 | The PHNX Awards, now in its third year, is once again calling for entries from people behind great creative work... Read |
| Advertising |
 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC UNITED Joe Public United (JPU) is best known for being the number one creative agency committed to serving the growth of its clients, people, and country... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY True ad: Billboard turbines keep turning, despite loadshedding; Kudos for Nedbank, who put their money where their mouth is... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Super Bowl 56 takes place this Sunday (Monday 01:30am SA time), but for many of us it's the ads that are important... Read |
 | MullenLowe has been selected by KFC as its new creative agency of record... Read |
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| Branding |
 | ISSUED BY BOOMTOWN Boomtown has relaunched Exxaro Resources' two renewable energy companies... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KANTAR Brand equity makes the business world go round... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BRAND INFLUENCE How do you get social sampling right? With over a decade's experience in influencer social sampling and consumer reviews, hundreds of successful case studies, and innumerable brand narratives... Read |
| CRM, CX, UX |
 | ISSUED BY GREY AFRICA Grey Advertising recently welcomed seven new wolves to the social media team... Read |
| CSI |
 | Learn about how VMLY&R achieved bronze in the SA Workplace Equality Index... Read |
| Design |
 | Nando's has opened entries to its fourth Hot Young Designer talent search, which seeks to unearth innovative new designs for Nando's restaurants around the world... Read |
 | The Goethe-Institut has announced the three finalists for the Henrike Grohs Award 2022. They are Gladys Kalichini from Zambia; Temitayo Ogunbiyi from Nigeria and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi from Ghana... Read |
| Digital |
 | ISSUED BY ROCKETSEED In the rapidly-evolving world of digital marketing, it's essential that you and your business are up to speed with the latest digital marketing trends if you're going to succeed... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PREBO DIGITAL Johannesburg-based digital performance agency founded by former Googler - has achieved 2022 Premier status in the Google Partners Programme... Read |
 | ISSUED BY G&G DIGITAL Today's customers want it all-excellent service, quality products and solutions, and brands that engage with them in a relatable manner... Read |
 | ISSUED BY V5 DIGITAL Dave Duarte will take us on a journey of digital advocacy, movement marketing, online engagement strategy, community growth and conversational momentum... Read |
 | JULIET GILLIES South Africans spend a reported whopping 10.46 hours per day on the Internet... Read |
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| Education |
 | ISSUED BY HENLEY BUSINESS SCHOOL Henley Business School Africa is inviting journalists and media practitioners to apply for its annual Sol Plaatje Scholarship... Read |
 | LANA HINDMARCH In the advertising and marketing industries there remains a level of acceptance about being always-on and rewarding people who work long hours... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY RAND SHOW Following two years of notable absence due to Covid-19, one of Johannesburg's proudest and longest-standing traditions is back. Rand Show 2022 returns to Nasrec in the week of 13-18 April 2022... Read |
| Exhibitions |
 | Prominent décor, design and lifestyle exhibition Decorex Africa is being relaunched with a new brand identity, location and enhanced virtual features... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | ISSUED BY SHOWMAX Critically acclaimed South African sci-fi Glasshouse is now streaming on Showmax in Africa, as well as on Sky, iTunes, Amazon, Google, Xbox and other digital platforms in the UK... Read |
 | Six African filmmakers will have an opportunity to develop their fiction film story ideas and work-in-progress scripts in a three-month residency in the 2022 edition of the Realness African Screenwriters' Residency... Read |
| Magazines |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) of South Africa's Q4 2021 figures for magazines are like the sound of a soft rain... Read |
| Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA After a recent pitch process for KFC's Youth segment, Ogilvy has been confirmed as the agency partner of choice... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GFK SOUTH AFRICA In today's fast-changing business environment, organisations must be agile to keep up. They need to be able to extract meaningful signals from the noise to respond to market fluctuations quickly and to predict changes before they happen... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MARKETING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Now more than ever before, strategic marketing is a critical tool for business success with remarkable potential to catalyse business growth... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Sharon Keith was recently appointed as marketing director for Heineken SA and we find out how things have been in the new role... Read |
 | MATTHEW CAMPBELL Here's everything businesses need to know about the end of third-party cookies... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Cleverly, and with lightning speed, Checkers pounced on the Tinder Swindler hype to amuse Sixty60 shoppers and drive culturally relevant word-of-mouth marketing in the process... Read |
 | Agency Scope 2021/22 most respected company is Nando's and its best campaign is Chicken Licken... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY WAVEMAKER On 1 February, Wavemaker South Africa's digital lead and business unit head, David Shields, started a new position at the Group M and Wavemaker Japan offices in Tokyo... Read |
 | MIRANDA LUSIBA The responsibility of being the face of an organisation or even a personal brand is not an easy one. It means that you are responsible for keeping a company's reputation or brand safe... Read |
 | MIRANDA LUSIBA As much as we receive coverage from mainstream media, we found that the ratio of interviews, stories published or even media attendance at our events was never equal, writes Miranda Lusiba, founding director of Strange' Consulting: PR... Read |
 | The National Awards programme is an initiative set up by the World Photography Organisation and Sony to support local photographic communities around the world... Read |
 | Popular actress and media personality, Kuli Roberts, passed away on 9 February at 49 years old... Read |
| Mobile |
 | The Mara smartphone factory, which was launched in 2019, is empty and on auction... Read |
 | The Gauteng High Court has found that Vodacom needs to pay Nkosana Makate, the inventor of the Please Call Me, more than R47m... Read |
| Newspapers |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Newspapers ABC Q4 2021 impacted by significant occurrence... Read |
| Online Media |
 | TARA TURKINGTON, ISSUED BY FLOW COMMUNICATIONS Remote working is a cultural tidal wave: it will either drown your company ethos, or you can choose to surf it... Read |
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 | Damon Galgut's 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, has been included in the shortlist for the Rathbones Folio Prize... Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING CapeTalk and sponsor Simply Asia have announced that Moonstruck - a popular event on the Cape Town social calendar - returns as a hybrid music experience this year... Read |
 | NICOLAS POMPIGNE-MOGNARD Radio has always been an integral part of the African mass media writes Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard... Read |
 | ISSUED BY APO GROUP Radio News Release will reach hundreds of radio stations all over the continent, providing a diverse feed of quality soundbites with the potential to reach millions of Africans... Read |
 | GERAINT CRWYS-WILLIAMS When Unesco proclaimed World Radio Day in 2011, it was to recognise radio's unrivalled ability to celebrate humanity in all its diversity.... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE "It's hard to believe that I'll be celebrating 15 years in radio this year," says Sibongile Mafu, better known as Sibs, a sports anchor on the Kfm 94.5 Breakfast Show... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Celebrating World Radio Day looking at the state of radio in south Africa... Read |
| Research |
 | 2022 is already in full swing for the Marketing Research Foundation (MRF). Four releases of MAPS (#marketingallproductsurvey) are planned for the year... Read |
| Retail |
 | Are we facing a fleeting fad or a new world that is opening the doors to a powerful business model? Read |
| TV |
 | CLAIRE HERMAN From a Full House of Golden Girls to Game of Thrones and Squid Game - the evolving story of TV in our lives... Read |
| Behind the Mask |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE This week we go behind the mask of Marius Greeff, founder and director of Turn Left Media... Read |
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 | STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG Judges at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday ruled that Uganda must pay $325m in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in conflicts in Congo's resource-rich Ituri province. Read |
 | A Nigerian rights group has asked the High Court to force the government to publish an agreement with Twitter that led to the restoration of the social media company's services last month following a six-month ban... Read |
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 | YERSHEN PILLAY We are in an era where significant action must be taken through all phases of education to ensure that women are represented at every level of STEM careers... Read |
 | JACQUES VAN WYK AND ANDRE VAN HEERDEN Those who experience side effects due to the Covid-19 vaccination may be eligible for compensation in cases where vaccination is a mandatory job requirement... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON "South Africa faces steep and daunting challenges, but we will never be defeated because the spirit of resilience is deeply embedded in our DNA." - President Cyril Ramaphosa... Read |
 | The National Minimum Wage for each ordinary hour worked has been increased from R21.69 to R23.19 for the year 2022 with effect from 1 March 2022... Read |
 | Directors and business leaders should view climate risks and opportunities as more than a reporting or disclosure matter... Read |
 | Delivering the State of the Nation Address on Thursday evening, 10 February, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the strategy to implement... Read |
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 | BANELE REWO Banele Rewo discusses four mistakes start-up entrepreneurs or first-timers in the world of business should avoid... Read |
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