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|  | DANETTE BREITENBACH The recent IAB Bookmarks Awards winning agencies, their clients and campaigns demonstrate what it takes to produce great digital work...read |
|  | DANETTE BREITENBACH Exposure, function, convenience and experience are necessary ingredients for brand growth...read |
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 | BRENDAN SEERY Are we doing altogether too much navel-gazing when it comes to assessing whether brands are "conscious" or not?... Read |
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 | Uber Eats and MotionAds are teaming up to help drivers earn more cash... Read |
 | A new Warc analysis has found that media inflation is driving up the cost of advertising across channels, with TV most affected... Read |
 | Agency rosters continue to undergo reform in a changing landscape... Read |
 | UAE, US, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany take the lead in 2022 AME Awards... Read |
 | LERATO NIKLAAS AND BERNADETTE VERSFELD SCA ruling allows the Advertising Regulatory Board to retain the power to make rulings on commercials of non-members... Read |
 | TUMI SETHEBE Creativity is code for empathy, connection and endless possibilities. Cannes Lions is a gentle reminder of that for Tumi Sethebe... Read |
 | Marketing is in an existential crisis says a Warc report on trends and themes common to the Cannes Lions 2022 award-winning campaigns... Read |
 | Government must intervene as political will is required to help drive transformation in the advertising sector... Read |
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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Work that wins the hearts and minds of consumers originates from a true client-agency partnership. And this work also wins at Cannes... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY METTLESTATE 1 August marks many things, but most importantly it signifies the start of Women's Month in South Africa. It's the start of dedicating a month to celebrating and uplifting Mzansi's strong women... Read |
| Design |
 | EMILY STANDER Lisa Black from Red and Yellow Creative School for Business was one of the selected All-Stars from Duke Group's Portfolio night... Read |
 | Adidas has launched the first of two ranges developed in collaboration with celebrated South African luxury designer, Thebe Magugu... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HUSTLE MEDIA Time flies when you're making beautiful things! In September 2020, we launched Brand in a Box, an affordable solution to help businesses market their services beautifully... Read |
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 | The Covid-19 pandemic fostered the explosion of influencer marketing, catapulting it into the mainstream. But is this boom a bubble about to burst? Read |
 | JACQUES DU BRUYN There is a divide among corporates on whether companies should be insourcing or outsourcing their digital marketing... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BYTE ORBIT Byte Orbit, a Cape Town-based full-service digital product development company, scooped up a bronze award in the Excellence in Craft: UX category at the 2022 Bookmark Awards... Read |
 | ISSUED BY NEW MEDIA Leading content marketing agency New Media and its in-house tech solutions agency, Swipe iX, have won the Best Use of Technology as Part of a Content Marketing Program category at the 2022 Content Marketing Awards in New York... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ROCKETSEED It's no secret that the tech industry has always been predominantly male orientated. Unfortunately, this is true to an even greater degree in the B2B SaaS world... Read |
| Direct Marketing |
 | CARYN PILLAR South Africans are finding better digital marketing jobs abroad... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY DISTELL South Ahh, we gotta get up, stand up, for our right to laughter because Comedy is a basic human right. That's why the Savanna Comedy Bar is back and not just virtual - live, and coming soon to a town near you... Read |
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 | EARLE HOLMES, ISSUED BY AFDA The Afda Cape Town 2021 honours graduation film, 'Where is Mr Adams?' is making waves... Read |
 | Read more about the films that inspired audiences and impressed juries at the Durban International Film Festival... Read |
 | Local music creatives come together to create a film scoring platform... Read |
| Magazines |
 | ISSUED BY HIVSA HIVSA launched Choma magazine in 2013 in response to an identified need and urgency around reducing HIV prevalence amongst adolescent girls and young women... Read |
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 | MATHABATHA SEXWALE, ISSUED BY BRAVE GROUP Marketing departments have no choice in this new and fast-moving economic paradigm but to assume more control and influence over the sales and customer experience... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ADCLICK AFRICA In South Africa, marketers and agencies alike still rely on traditional media to reach the mass market, sticking to what they know rather than venturing into the digital world of potential... Read |
| Media |
 | The recent International News Media Association (Inma) Africa summit highlighted strategic developments and growth paths in the region. Read |
 | Media publishers like Buzzfeed are recruiting talent while others downsize... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BROAD MEDIA Daily Investor launched on 1 August 2022, offering South African investors the latest business news, investing insights, and financial data to make informed decisions... Read |
| Media Freedom |
 | Traditionally, political debates have been shaped by mainstream media. Kenya's mainstream media, however, remain strongly wedded to factional ethnic and class interests... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY THE MEDIA KRATE The way someone takes their tea says a lot about them... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ICANDI CQ It's Women's Month - that time of year when every company becomes 'woke' to the issues affecting their female employees... Read |
| Production |
 | ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP As part of its Planet Possible initiative, which aims to inform, inspire and empower consumers to live more lightly on the planet, National Geographic invites photographers across South Africa to participate in the 2022 edition of the National Geographic Photo Competition... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING The first instalment of the annual Kfm Best of the Cape Awards has won a bronze award at Bookmarks 2022. The win was in the category 'Publisher Brand-Building Campaign'... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Leading political journalist Matshidiso Madia has been appointed associate editor: politics at Primedia Broadcasting... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JACARANDA FM Fans get more music with Danny Painter, Thabiso Khambule, and DJ Jazzy D... Read |
| Research |
 | Google released data on the questions and topics that interested South Africans the most in July... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ASK AFRIKA Township consumers in South Africa represent an important market for brands given that 50% of the country's urban population live in townships or informal settlements... Read |
| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Is retail dead? Are stores even relevant anymore? Retail guru Ron Thurston's stance on the matter is this: as we become more technology entrenched, we will all crave better physical store experiences... Read |
 | H&M has launched a new activewear brand with a vision to "democratise sportswear". The campaign is headlined by fitness icon Jane Fonda and acclaimed choreographer JaQuel Knight... Read |
 | JAMES BAYHACK If you're gearing up to make the most of this year's Black Friday frenzy, here's what you can learn from the big fish, according to CM.com's James Bayhack... Read |
| Social Media |
 | Meta is shutting down the Facebook Live Shopping feature to focus more on Reels, saying that consumers' viewing behaviours are shifting to short-form video... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA At Business and Arts South Africa NPC (Basa) we are driven to create meaningful, sustainable relationships between business and the arts... Read |
| The One Club of Creativity |
 | The One Screen 2022 Short Film Festival jury includes South African Simone Bosman, OSU Creative Production and Linda Notelovitz, LifeDesign... Read |
| TV |
 | Now is the time for viewers to have their say by voting to ensure their favourite stars take home the coveted Golden Horn... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | EMILY STANDER We speak to newly appointed internal communications manager at Bryte Insurance, Koni Magatshavha... Read |
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 | Leading innovators, investors, and policymakers from around the world will gather at the CTICC from 2-4 November 2022... Read |
 | The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced the finalists for its 2022 AWIEF Awards... Read |
 | Teraco Data Environments has announced the successful completion of the previously announced agreement by Digital Realty to acquire a majority interest in Teraco... Read |
 | Nigeria asked Google to block the use of YouTube channels and livestreams by banned groups and terrorist organisations in the country... Read |
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 | Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu says Banyana Banyana's victory at the maiden Women's Africa Cup of Nations will go a long way in positioning the country as an attractive sports tourism destination... Read |
 | MICHAEL GULLAN The success of an organisation rests on the quality of its leadership. Leaders - whether within teams, departments, or c-suite - set the tone, culture, and ultimately the success of your organisation. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, in their book Extreme Ownership, explain that there are no bad teams, just bad leaders. Read |
 | HOWARD FELDMAN Twelve of us were sitting around a table. It was a strategy session, and it was going well... until we stopped for lunch... Read |
 | ALEXANDER WINNING AND BHARGAV ACHARYA The principle that the South African government will take on some of Eskom's debt has been agreed... Read |
 | Vegetable oils and cereals lead the food price index lower... Read |
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 | Brainbow Conscious Creatives is fast-growing global leader in trans-media diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) storytelling. |
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