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| |  | ISSUED BY MAIL & GUARDIAN For nearly two decades, the Mail & Guardian has featured 200 Young South Africans on their journey to positively impact the world through future-focused innovation and passion, leaving an indelible mark for the generations to come... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY M&C SAATCHI ABEL Africa is being touted as the next big growth market for alcoholic beverages. But big brands hoping to tap into this growth must take a step back to make sure their messaging isn't being lost in the wake of Africa's cultural revolution... Read |
 | Read more about the Epica Awards early bird entires and other important dates... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MACHINE_ Creative solutions agency Machine_ is diversifying their client compliment with another pitch win, this time with cutting-edge, education solutions business, Setanta Institute... Read |
 | Learn more about Karan Beef's Making The Cut, which was launched in March... Read |
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 | STEPHEN HORN Clean Creatives recently launched in South Africa and more than 27 local agencies and creatives that have already signed up... Read |
| Design |
 | ISSUED BY HASSO PLATTNER D-SCHOOL AFRIKA Serial tech entrepreneurs Matthew Westaway and Lethabo Motsoaledi used a customer-centric approach to build their latest venture Voyc - a speech analytics service - into an award-winning company that currently monitors a million customer interactions a month in the UK and SA and helps clients cut customer complaints and build value... Read |
 | Architecture and design magazine Deezen founder, Marcus Fairs, has passed away at 54... Read |
 | New grant funding round for cutting-edge local technologies... Read |
| Digital |
 | ISSUED BY G&G DIGITAL Gen Z is the generation after millennials, born between 1997 and 2010. They have grown up with social media and on-demand entertainment and their influence over what's cool, trending, and important shouldn't be underestimated... Read |
 | GOMOLEMO SEGABUTLE As product designers, we have a responsibility to help teams create high-quality digital products that meet our users' needs... Read |
 | Covid propelled Junk Mail into a new way of transacting from traditional print business to an online auction marketplace... Read |
 | Elon Musk has said he is terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY IMC CONFERENCE What do neurons have to do with marketing? A lot more than you may think! At this year's Nedbank Integrated Marketing Conference (IMC), a virtual one-day conference that will take place on 29 July, delegates will hear about what neurons - the brain's information messengers - have to do in the development of marketing messages that are deeply relevant to consumers... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ENGAGEMENT FACTORY, A BLEND360 COMPANY Engagement Factory is celebrating the anniversary of its incorporation into global data science and talent solutions company, Blend360... Read |
 | BERNARD JANSEN It's a question we often get: "Should I outsource my marketing to an agency, or bring it in-house and do it myself?"... Read |
 | Ivan Moroke and Asha Patel look at how companies can build meaningful customer relationships to drive growth... Read |
 | The Modern Marketing Association South Africa (MMA SA) has announced the winners of its 2021 Smarties Business Impact Index (BII)... Read |
 | The qualifiers, across 15 categories, for the 3rd annual Marketing Achievement Awards (MAA) have been announced... Read |
| Media |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Primedia Group CEO, Jonathan Procter, has announced the appointment of Tsholofelo Maimane as Group chief talent officer... Read |
 | KATE WOLTERS Why wouldn't AI be a good replacement for those tired old writers smashing their sad way on keyboards across the land?... Read |
 | eNCA had the biggest audience gain, while Radio 2000 saw an increase of more than one million listeners over the past year... Read |
 | The work of journalists is specifically excluded from the Protection of Personal Information Act... Read |
| Media Freedom |
 | The Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) launched a new tool, TRFilter, to strengthen journalists' resilience to online violence... Read |
| Mobile |
 | Huge Group has announced that it acquired Tethys Mobile, the company formerly known as Virgin Mobile South Africa... Read |
| Online Media |
 | The finalists in the Wan-Ifra's 7th annual edition of the African Digital Media Awards have been announced... Read |
| OOH |
 | ISSUED BY JCDECAUX AFRICA JCDecaux, the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, has announced the appointment of Dele Odugbemi as chief revenue officer for JCDecaux Africa... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | MIRANDA LUSIBA In PR, it doesn't matter how good your strategy is and how well these documents are drafted - we are judged on output... Read |
 | The PR Management platform (PRM), Propel's, Q3 2022 Quarterly Pitching Barometer is out... Read |
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| Promotions & Activations |
 | Nando's is inviting Mzansi to Make Your Table Bigger by exploring tables outside their regular haunts... Read |
| Publishing |
 | ISSUED BY JUTA AND COMPANY Juta and Company is delighted to announce that it has recently acquired MedicalBrief, South Africa's leading, authoritative weekly digest of local and global medical matters... Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY HOT 102.7FM Helen Fava of PHD Media and her husband are on their way to London to watch the Abba Voyage concert live, thanks to Hot 102.7FM... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Kfm 94.5, the Cape's biggest commercial radio station has announced that 'The Kfm Best of the Cape Awards' is back!... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OFM RADIO One of OFM's biggest competitions of the year, the #OFMFanWall, reached its epic conclusion with the awarding of the grand prize of R20,000 cash on 1 July 2022 - OFM's 36th birthday... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Nedbank, along with Primedia Broadcasting's talk radio stations 702 and CapeTalk, have announced the latest winners in South Africa's longest-running business mentorship programme... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JACARANDA FM Deutsche Welle (DW), Jacaranda FM, and East Coast Radio partner for Africa's first international broadcaster collaboration... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Primedia Broadcasting hosted Community Radio Days 2022, which saw a gathering of community stations in JHB and Cape Town for a full day of workshops, panel discussions and networking sessions. Read |
| Research |
 | ISSUED BY AFRIGIS AfriGIS is the first and only company to offer verified and validated geospatial data on Africa's administrative boundaries... Read |
 | Agency Scope study finds China has a similar profile to Mexico, the UK, and South Africa working with specialist agencies... Read |
 | The Agency Scope China 2021/22 has found that, despite an improvement from the previous edition, the Net Promoter Score (NPS) for creative agencies in China is negative. Read |
| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Philip Morris International has openly committed to a move away from the cigarette business and continues to expand the retail footprint for its Iqos smoke-free brand... Read |
 | ZUKO MDWABA For retailers, social media should be at the forefront of any marketing strategy, notes Salesforce South Africa's Zuko Mdwaba... Read |
 | The acquisition supports Diageo's ambition to provide customised brand experiences across all channels... Read |
| Social Media |
 | ISSUED BY HUSTLE MEDIA We know from experience that brands must invest the considerable effort in selecting and vetting their chosen influencers for influencer marketing to be successful... Read |
 | ASHLEIGH BURTON Pinterest is seeing a marked increase in usage... Read |
 | KERRY ROBERTSON Chances are that you see LinkedIn mainly as a platform to promote your personal brand and to make professional connections... Read |
 | Cybersecurity company Kaspersky says it has witnessed an unusual scam where attackers promote fake crypto services on YouTube... Read |
| The One Club of Creativity |
 | The One Club for Creativity's Young Guns 20 diverse jury includes SA's Mpho Twala and Suhana Gordhan... Read |
| TV |
 | ISSUED BY MLA SA Much is made of the onscreen chemistry between characters in a movie, whether it is the relationship between romantic leads, family and friends or even between protagonist and antagonist. As important to the success of a show, however, is the behind-the-scenes chemistry between the principal creative team... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | EMILY STANDER Learn more about the personal and professional life of award-winning account manager Asbo Ofori-Amanfo... Read |
| Prism Awards |
 | EMILY STANDER With the upcoming Prism Awards, juror and managing director of Tribeca Relations Nicky James has some insights to share... Read |
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 | Africa-focused payments giant, Flutterwave, which has been taken to court on account of money-laundering, says it engages regulatory agencies to stay compliant... Read |
 | MACDONALD DZIRUTWE Secretary-general of Opec Mohammad Barkindo has died, aged 63. Barkindo was due to step down at the end of this month... Read |
 | The African Energy Chamber has released its State of African Energy Q2, 2022 report, providing an oil and gas market outlook... Read |
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 | Job Masoko has been appointed as head of operations: risk and compliance at African Bank... Read |
 | Margaret Nienaber is Standard Bank's new chief operating officer Read |
 | The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has announced a price increase of at least R2.30 for all fuel variants from Wednesday, 6 July... Read |
 | DAVID TAYLOR The Malaysian carmaker is on its way back to SA after a hiatus and will be launching its X50 and X70 SUVs in September 2022. Here's what's on offer... Read |
 | Economics, academics and property specialists all agree, a Sarb repo-rate hike is on the horizon, and the bets are hedged on it being a 50bps increase... Read |
 | BHARGAV ACHARYA AND NELLIE PEYTON Eskom and workers' unions signed a wage deal on Tuesday, 5 July, paving way for a possible resolution to its worst power cuts in two years... Read |
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 | Accenture 10th Gender Mainstreaming Awards - 6 Oct 2022 , Gauteng and Nairobi
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