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|  | THOMAS KOLSTER The change at Cannes 2022 was visible, but is it what advertising is so good at overpromising without real impact...read |
|  | DANETTE BREITENBACH Journalism is under threat, especially investigative journalism in South Africa...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM This month congratulations and coronations go to the following contributors whose fresh, relevant content was among the most-read press releases published via Bizcommunity's Press Office newsrooms in June 2022. Read |
 | ISSUED BY HAVEYOUHEARD HaveYouHeard, founded 14 years ago as specialists in word-of-mouth marketing, has grown organically to become a full service integrated communications agency... Read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY MAIL & GUARDIAN Every year, for the past 17 years, the Mail & Guardian has celebrated Youth Month with the recognition of South Africa's exemplary youth who are blazing the trail towards national growth and development... Read |  | EMILY STANDER We spoke with Nkaroleng Matjie, strategist at Penquin and founder of Defining Gratitude... Read |  | SHAN RADCLIFFE In celebration of Youth Month, six young candidate attorneys from Spoor & Fisher chatted to us about children's rights, their wishes for future generations, and shared some sage advice passed on to them from their elders... Read |  | ROBIN FREDERICKS As a young, black female, Makwabe has already conquered scepticism of industry stalwarts and inspired her peers... Read |  | Africa's youth are less optimistic about the future of their countries than they were two years ago - and they're even more pessimistic if they live in Rwanda, Kenya or South Africa... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA The True Location Cup inspires and educates the industry about the power of fresh ideas, creative thinking and innovation. Starcom's Otrivin pollen count campaign exceeded all expectations!.. Read |
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 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy South Africa brought home gold, silver, bronze and seven Shortlist Lions at this year's Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, making the company the most awarded South African agency of the festival... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TBWA Creating relationships with new clients and customers may be the recipe for business success, but most creative agencies today are finding it hard to maintain ties that last even five years... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MOTSEPE ADVERTISING Born out of SA's leading lifestyle and entertainment PR agency, Motsepe Advertising is a leader in business-to-business advertising... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC UNITED Joe Public Cape Town joined forces with South Africa's iconic brand Lucky Star to launch a new TV ad showcasing positivity in times of adversity... Read |
 | ISSUED BY NAHANA COMMUNICATIONS GROUP FCB Joburg and Coca-Cola's BeatCan campaign walked away with a Silver Cannes Lion at the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HUAWEI If you're a new business, you know all too well the challenges faced in building your brand in a very competitive marketplace. This is where Huawei Ads comes in... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU Health is number 3 of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), however when it comes to driving change and influence on the scale needed to achieve all of these ambitious goals, we need to mobilise key power pillars: government, corporates, NGOs and people... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU Today, global changemakers including David Beckham, Pierre Aubameyang, Yemi Alade, Eliud Kipchoge, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie come together with youth voices from across the globe to demand urgent action to end malaria... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Orchid: Proves creativity and humour are just as effective on new platforms; Ad cheapens R1m-plus Jeep by using Photoshopped images... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY NAHANA COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Toyota has been named as one of Africa's most admired brands by Brand Africa, an intergenerational movement established in 2010 to inspire a brand-led African renaissance to drive Africa's competitiveness, connect Africa and create a positive image of the continent... Read |
 | MTN Group releases second instalment of its brand refresh with the Voice brand film... Read |
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 | If you missed Cannes Lions 2022, here is a round-up of the Grand Prix winners... Read |
 | Ster-Kinekor, The Creative Circle and Bizcommunity present Full Circle 2022, a showcase of award-winning work and top trends from Cannes Lions 2022... Read |
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 | The What About The Boys initiative, to curb Gender-Based Violence (GBV), was launched at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BROAD MEDIA There is one thing South Africa's top ICT executives and business leaders have in common - they have all appeared on What's Next with Aki Anastasiou... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EBONY+IVORY Oryx+Crake serves brands as transparency truthsayers for digital campaign clout that doesn't cut corners but cuts the creative cloth based on real-time data-driven insight... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SILVERSOFT South Africa has produced some of the world's brightest and most talented people. Political and sports personalities aside, the likes of Elon Musk, Trevor Noah and Black Coffee currently dominate headlines and are impacting the world in ways they could never have once imagined... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PUBLISHER'S TOOLBOX Hospital Management Asia (HMA), a media, event and awards business for Asia's hospital management community, has become the latest partner to join PT's WebSuite programme... Read |
 | Stimorol has announced the release of a new campaign, Stimorol FlowLab... Read |
 | The SA Social Media Landscape 2022 study, found that South Africans are dipping their toes into the waters of the "metaverse"... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DMASA South Africa's Assegai Awards and America's almost one-century-old Echo Awards are pooling their combined multi-decade expertise to ensure an unforgettable Assegai Awards experience in 2022... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY IMC CONFERENCE At this year's Nedbank Integrated Marketing Conference (IMC), a host of inspiring African and international speakers will provide insights, stories and strategies to help us hit that sweet spot of customer relevance... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | 14 bright, young storytellers have completed and graduated from the 2021 MultiChoice Talent Factory South Africa (MTFza) internship programme... Read |
 | The City of Cape Town has placed a freeze on all Safety and Security tariffs for filming within the city... Read |
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 | ADAM HUNTER, ISSUED BY HOOK, LINE & SINKER As Pride Month draws to a close, it has continued to showcase the critical importance of both authentic and inclusive communications in the media and marketing world... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EXPOSURE MARKETING Leading your brand to survive and thrive in a dynamic marketplace is Marita le Roux, sales and sponsorships manager at Exposure Marketing... Read |
 | McDonald's South Africa has been awarded the MEA Creative Effectiveness Award 2021... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Mid-year sees so many activations and accolades, that we've proclaimed July as Media Month on the 'media's media' on Biz... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA) invites registered small and micro enterprises within the cultural and creative industries to apply for the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP3) grant funding... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ADVERTISING MEDIA FORUM The symbiotic relationship between agencies and clients continues to evolve and due to decreasing marketing budgets year-on-year, getting more complex. A once traditional approach has morphed into practices that are often unrecognisable to those who have been in the industry for a long time... Read |
 | CANDY DEMPERS, ISSUED BY MEDIAHEADS 360 At the beginning of June we discussed the internship journey that many young graduates embark on post their studies... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MEDIA24 LIFESTYLE Vive Teens, a South African personal mental wellness app for young people, was recently named as one of the winners of the Young Mental Health Challenge during a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Switzerland... Read |
| Newspapers |
 | The Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards 2022 are a reminder of the important role that journalism plays in South Africa's democracy... Read |
| Online Media |
 | ERKI KOLDITS Building direct, mutually beneficial, relationships with their fans is a future revenue model for creators... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY APO GROUP The PRovoke Africa SABRE Awards are Africa's leading public relations awards... Read |
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 | The Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg calls for proposals for the 2023 edition of the Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS)... Read |
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 | KFC is expanding its popular Kentucky Town pop-up to Cape Town, hosting the experience at Canal Walk Shopping Centre from 7 to 17 July... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HOT 102.7FM Look out for a Hot 102.7FM-branded VW in your area, following the news that Joburg's newest commercial radio station has strengthened its partner network by concluding a strategic deal with Strijdom Park Volkswagen... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING It was dark days indeed in 1980 as Channel 702: 'Your rainbow of sound' took its first breath on an AM signal in a little studio in Ga Rankuwa, Bophuthatswana... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KAYA 959 Kaya 959 is pleased to announce some noteworthy changes to the radio station's on-air line-up... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY WUNDERMAN THOMPSON Study shows more than 85% of surveyed South African shoppers say retailers need to get better at giving them the products, service and experience they want... Read |
 | AMNA KARIMI SA's consumer confidence plunged to minus 25 in the second quarter of 2022, the lowest in more than three decades - barring 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit - as consumers tightened their purse strings... Read |
 | The National Film and Video Foundation has released the annual South African Box Office Report... Read |
 | The ANA, Warc, and Lions have announced a unique long-term research partnership... Read |
| Retail |
 | Puma is expanding its presence in the metaverse by partnering with 10KTF Shop, an NFT project that includes a virtual 'New Tokyo' city and digital clothing for profile picture avatars... Read |
| Social Media |
 | Snacks is a weekly delivery of news, inspiration, great work and WTF moments from the global zeitgeist... Read |
| The One Club of Creativity |
 | The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement have opened the call for entries for Next Creative Leaders 2022... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP Nearly 30 hours of new, epic programming and over 60 hours of enhanced content will span four weeks across National Geographic Wild... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EMEDIA One of the core findings against the Minister of Communications by the Constitutional Court is that her imposition of an analogue switch-off date was unlawful and irrational... Read |
 | The #SaveFreeTV campaign has welcomed the decision of the Constitutional Court to delay the switch-off of analogue broadcasting... Read |
| Youth Marketing |
 | BABALWA NYEMBEZI A brand needs to demonstrate how it resonates with the values of young consumers and this requires a youth-centric marketing approach... Read |
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 | EMILY STANDER This week we caught up with Shivani Pillay, marketing director for Michelin Tyres... Read |
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 | AGBAJE LATEEF Nigeria's cotton output fell from 602,400 tonnes in 2010 to 51,000 tonnes in 2020. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the country's textile industry had 180 textile mills employing over 450,000 people, supported by 600,000 cotton farmers... Read |
 | FNB's R200m transformational equity commitment gets private equity boost from Raise Africa Investment... Read |
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 | PROMIT MUKHERJEE Eskom said on Sunday, 3 July, it would extend daily power cuts all through the next week as the generation capacity shortage continues... Read |
 | Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter says the power utility will be taking action against workers who embarked on an illegal strike over the past week... Read |
 | ANDRE CILLIERS Global risk assets were at the epicentre of a selling spree as investors kicked off the second half of the year with recession concern front and centre,,. Read |
 | KARIEN SPENCER Globally, employers are arming themselves for war. But this war is not taking place on a battlefield or in the trenches - it's taking place in the boardroom... Read |
 | WHO confirms eight African countries now have confirmed cases of monkeypox, including Nigeria, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo where it is endemic, but also Benin and Ghana where the virus is not normally found... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG As the pandemic subsides and shoppers return to physical stores, what's needed to build on the momentum of e-commerce growth in SA? PayFast's David Kusel weighs in... Read |
 | BHARGAV ACHARYA AND NELLIE PEYTON Eskom has said there is a high risk on Tuesday, 28 June, of Stage 6 load shedding after 10 of its generation units went offline... Read |
 | In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia made bond payments due in May but the fact they had been blocked by Euroclear because of Western sanctions on Russia was "not our problem". Read |
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