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 | SID PEIMER "It's not what you know, but who you know" is somewhat of a cliché. However, in a world that has become more technologically connected, yet socially disconnected... Read |
 | Leading digital analyst and content strategist, Carmen Murray has launched Carmen Murray Communications, a new innovative data-driven content marketing business... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA "Agency Scope is the largest and the most comprehensive survey measuring how agencies are perceived by marketers and how they perform," explains Cesar Vacchiano, president and CEO, Scopen... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU Following the recent announcement regarding Lynda Fiebiger's appointment as managing director of FoxP2 South Africa (SA), two additional key leadership appointments have been made... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HOWARD AUDIO Well done to our partners in crime Boomtown for this Creative Circle Award for the radio and audio category. We are proud to have immersed the brand and its consumers into local culture through relevant and rich audio storytelling, bringing our South Africanness to life... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BRAVE GROUP Electrolux South Africa (Pty) Ltd has awarded Motherboard its digital media marketing account. Motherboard is the digital agency that sits within the Brave Group - South Africa's premier integrated services agency... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Savanna: courting customers to forget the bottle is a winner; Defy, on the other hand, loses a loyal one with their cheap Russian parts... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Standard Bank's Significant Moments campaign celebrates when people achieve their goal... Read |
| Branding |
 | ISSUED BY KANTAR Netcare stood out in the most recent Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable South African Brands ranking for delivering superior experience across all branded touchpoints... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KANTAR With so much choice in the realm of retail, convenience has become king, with difference-driven brands raking in the rewards. Clicks is a prime example... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KANTAR There's no denying that the right messages, resonating through memorable devices and stories, are a vital part of marketing. Here's how category leader Vodacom took this to heart... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH African Bank was the idea of a group of Black businessmen in 1964, but their story has been lost, until now... Read |
 | BrandsEye has announced a complete and extensive rebrand to DataEQ in response to accelerated company growth... Read |
| Cannes Lions |
 | Cannes Lions has announced that it will honour Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) as this year's Creative Marketer of the Year... Read |
| CRM, CX, UX |
 | ISSUED BY XNEELO Disruption caused by the pandemic has seen many businesses shift in the way they operate. Customer behaviour has changed too, and this requires another pivot - to meet new customer expectations... Read |
 | NHLANHLA NOBANDA An always-on, hyper-connected world is here. A network that connects people and grants them the ability to create and express themselves as never before... Read |
 | JUDITH MIDDLETON B2B technology marketing has undergone tremendous change in the past few years... Read |
 | Salesforce has announced the appointment of its first two South African leaders: Zuko Mdwaba and Linda Saunders... Read |
| CSI |
 | ISSUED BY ALGOA FM Over 7000 supporters of the 2021 Virtual Algoa FM Big Walk for Cancer raised sufficient funds to pay for a brand-new transporter for the Childhood Cancer Foundation South Africa (CHOC), as well as sporting equipment for a rural club... Read |
 | A CSI initiative from Royal Canin & Imagined Earth has seen 10,000 recycled items giving 10,000 tons of dog food to shelters... Read |
| Digital |
 | ISSUED BY DIGITAL SCHOOL OF MARKETING As the world slowly comes out of isolation and we gradually return to a semblance of what we were pre-pandemic, what is not being forgotten is the digitalisation that we - as businesses and human beings - have undergone during the last two years... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BLUEGRASS DIGITAL Bluegrass Digital has been awarded a prestigious Smarties Award in the 'Mobile App' category for its Bio-Oil Internal Brand Communication app... Read |
 | JULIET GILLIES The percentage of South Africans who are internet users now stands at 66%, above the worldwide average of 62.5%... Read |
 | GREG GATHERER Greg Gatherer, account manager, Liferay Africa asks how far away is the public sector from reaching its digital destination... Read |
 | Meta has launched Facebook Reels globally in over 150 countries... Read |
 | Clickatell recently announced that it has secured $91m (R1.4bn) in Series C funding... Read |
 | The launch of The Metaverse Foundry by Hogarth will be a resource to to all of WPP's clients and agencies globally... Read |
 | Launched 14 years ago, The Bookmarks are more relevant than ever... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY IMC CONFERENCE Just how much are your creative ideas worth? From chief financial officers to kitchen-bench creative entrepreneurs... Read |
 | ISSUED BY NSBC.AFRICA Join thousands of business owners and entrepreneurs from all over South Africa and register now... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MARKETING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS The MAA, in association with Kantar, will be hosting a four-part series set to share actionable insights into how to create and develop lasting brand value, while building a strong brand that can travel into the future... Read |
 | The Craft Beer Marketing Awards is the only global awards competition to recognise and celebrate the importance of craft beer marketing and design as a key to success in this highly competitive marketplace... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | An impact facilitator takes an impact film into communities, so it is seen, activating conversation and response... Read |
| Magazines |
 | New Media has unveiled Visi Style, a standalone special-edition print magazine from the makers of Visi... Read |
| Marketing |
 | LAURENT DURANT, ISSUED BY TRADEWAY Over the past two years, the world has undergone some immense changes. As a society, we've experienced lockdowns and isolation, had the option to shop in-store stripped away and been deprived of attending countless in-person events... Read |
 | NEIL PURSEY You've invested in your marketing, but your CFO is putting pressure on you to show a return on investment... Read |
 | The American Marketing Association New York (AMA) has announced four industry leaders as inductees to the Marketing Hall of Fame... Read |
| Media |
 | CANDY DEMPERS, ISSUED BY MEDIAHEADS 360 Brands looking to extend their reach need look no further than the palms of their hands... Read |
 | ISSUED BY NOVUS GROUP The annual State of the Nation (SONA) address by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 10 February has been predominantly met with neutral media sentiment. However, 28% of publications found something positive to report on while 22% of media coverage was negative... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ORNICO Ornico's vision is to disrupt the media monitoring and advertising industry with a fresh take on how marketing professionals engage with marketing data using a simple, intuitive, and unified platform... Read |
 | CARLA COLLETT AND PETER GREALY The Film and Publication Board has published draft guidelines for public comment on the classification of films, games and certain publications... Read |
 | FRANZ KRÜGER For more than a century, journalism education prepared young people for the role of full-time professionals employed by sizeable news organisations... Read |
 | Several sources have confirmed that the 34 year old rapper and fashion icon, Riky Rick, passed away this morning... Read |
 | The Google News Initiative (GNI) has officially opened the third Innovation Challenge in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa... Read |
 | Media coverage of the annual State of the Nation has been 28% positive and 28% negative, with the dominant sentiment neutral... Read |
 | Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) has announced a content partnership with APO Group... Read |
 | Wan-Ifra and the World Editors Forum called for journalists covering the Russia-Ukraine conflict to be afforded the maximum protection... Read |
| Mobile |
 | All the winners of the 2021 South Africa Smarties Awards have been announced... Read |
 | Pep and Ogilvy's Wishing the World Well caapign wins a gold Smartie... Read |
| Newspapers |
 | ISSUED BY SPARK MEDIA The print category has become quite the divergent one. Local newspapers have a disparate trajectory from its daily and weekly/weekend counterparts... Read |
| Online Media |
 | World Wide Worx has introduced an automotive technology magazine, titled GadgetWheels... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Shorn Khumalo is a creative guru who has worked with some of the biggest brands in the country. He is the brains behind The Client Media... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Tendani Tsedu, group manager of strategic communication at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), was recently been recognised as an Accredited Public Relations practitioner (APR) by the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa... Read |
| Production |
 | EMILY STANDER One of the things that Covid-19 has unceremoniously taken from us is the spirit and allure of live music... Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY OFM RADIO This March, the OFM team will travel all over their beautiful region to explore the gems of the Free State, Northern Cape, North West and Vaal, and broadcast live from selected towns on selected days... Read |
 | Now in its 12th year, the Radio Awards will open entries for 2022... Read |
| Recruitment |
 | ISSUED BY PULA CAPITAL PARTNERS Pula Capital Partners, LRMG's investment arm, is pleased to announce a strategic investment and partnership with Khokhela Remuneration Advisors... Read |
| Research |
 | ISSUED BY VERVE Verve, experts in community panels and smart digital research, has opened its Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Johannesburg and has also announced its first new global client win... Read |
| Retail |
 | ISSUED BY LOCATION BANK Location Bank has seen tremendous growth over the past year, not only within our business but for our clients as well... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG An above-inflation excise hike could see SAB shifting investment to other African countries, and diversifying costs by procuring fewer raw materials locally... Read |
 | Matthew Barnes, executive creative director at OneDayOnly, shares his view of both past and future trends in the e-commerce space... Read |
| Social Media |
 | ISSUED BY ENCA Currently eNCA has 3.2m followers on Twitter, 2.6m followers on Facebook, 1.1m YouTube subscribers and over a quarter of a million Instagram followers. It's also the television news channel with the largest audience in the country... Read |
 | BCW Sports, the sports practice of global communications agency BCW, recently released its 2021 International Sports Federation Social Media Ranking, which aims to capture the social media footprint of international sports federations (IFs)... Read |
| Streaming |
 | According to reports, South Africans have responded with outrage over DStv's new and limiting one-device-at-a-time streaming policy, including calls for a boycott... Read |
| TV |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Ziyanda Ngcaba will take the helm at Rapid Blue from 1 April 2022, following the news that Duncan Irvine, CEO, will be stepping down after 30 years... Read |
 | FERIAL HAFFAJEE SABC board member instructed Phathiswa Magopeni to interview Ramaphosa's wife... Read |
| Behind the Mask |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE This week we go behind the mask of Christopher Smith, creative director at 99c... Read |
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 | MOHAMMAD AMIR ANWAR Some gig economy platforms openly state that clients do not have to pay if workers fail to meet the target or if clients are not satisfied with the work... Read |
 | Google has launched its Africa Developer Ecosystem Report 2021... Read |
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 | Anna Vasilyeva has been appointed new CEO of Mediaplus Group Russia. Find out more about her new role and what this means for the company... Read |
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 | ANDRE CILLIERS Big move to the dollar and other safe-haven assets; West imposed even heavier sanctions on Mosco... Read |
 | #BudgetSpeech2022: "The only way to reach a growth rate that can address our structural issues is if we do more to boost the private sector, by cutting red tape, boosting incentives, and creating efficiencies in the system."... Read |
 | Old Mutual experts provide commentary on the Budget Speech 2022... Read |
 | #BudgetSpeech2022: South Africans will have more money in their pockets not only through an adjustment of the personal tax brackets in line with inflation, but also, as a result of no increases in the fuel levy... Read |
 | Established to recognise, celebrate, and connect young talented people, the 2022 IAMS Rising Star Awards is currently open for nominations... Read |
 | Electricity tariffs will increase by 9.6% from 1 April for Eskom customers and from 1 July for municipal customers... Read |
 | The congressman from New York and chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee was speaking on investment in Africa during a visit to the African Development Bank Group... Read |
 | GARY MOORE Land Reform Audit: The Expropriation Bill states that it may be just and equitable for nil compensation to be "paid", "where land is expropriated in the public interest"... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana delivered some key surprise announcements at his 2022 Budget Speech... Read |
 | NIAMH NICLIAM Crafting a great digital marketing RFP (request for proposal) can be a challenging endeavour. Brands are often unclear about what it is they actually require, and bureaucratic oversight can add layers of complexity... Read |
 | DAVID SEINKER A recent study by Advanced Workplace Associates found that only 3% of the 10,000 white-collar workers surveyed want to return to the office full-time... Read |
 | REUBEN VAN NIEKERK, ISSUED BY MOTUS The risk of being hijacked is ever increasing in South Africa but simply being alert can go a long way... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON South Africans made history when truckers and motorists took to Cape Town's highways in convoy to protest vaccine mandates... Read |
 | NQOBILE DLUDLA The Department of Labour is negotiating a possible out-of-court settlement with a subsidiary of China's Huawei Technologies, which it accuses of... Read |
 | ANDRE CILLIERS Russia has invaded Ukraine, the world markets are eruptive... Read |
 | A product recall has been issued for Similac Alimentum 400g Infant Formula in South Africa, as part of a global voluntary recall issued by US-based manufacturer Abbott Laboratories-Nutrition... Read |
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 | SIMONE COOPER South African Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana is scheduled to deliver his maiden budget speech tomorrow (23 February). Read |
 | Applications for the 12th annual SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards and 7th annual Disability Empowerment Awards are open for entry... Read |
 | The Innovation Hub has announced the winners of the 2021 Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) Innovation competition... Read |
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