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 | ISSUED BY LOCATION BANK Location Bank has always considered return on investment to be the ultimate goal of marketing, so we have always put our clients' ROI at the centre of our efforts... Read |
 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL A successful revolution in marketing is dependent on the right ecosystem... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA Relevance is key to the success of Caltex's Big Flex campaign. Fuel prices at an all-time high, Caltex cleverly utilised Vicinity's True Location data and 4D targeting technology\ to advertise their Big Flex competition to specific audiences and locations... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY THE MEDIA KRATE There's nothing that our team loves more than something spicy, and that's what Simba gave us... Read |
 | JACQUES BURGER, ISSUED BY M&C SAATCHI ABEL "We love a good problem." Five small words that underpin the M&C Saatchi Group's Smart Thinking proposition and drove its approach to work and strategy throughout the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION AND ADVERTISING Tickets for the 2022 Effie Awards events are now on sale and the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) and Effie South Africa encourage early booking in order to avoid disappointment as tickets are limited... Read |
 | South African sports fashion retailer, Sportscene, has produced a fashion and performance-focused TV Commercial with rising Amapiano star and trailblazer, Doowap... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GREY AFRICA The Effie Awards 2022 judging commenced this week, and Grey Advertising Africa has two representatives on the judging panel... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Checkers Sixty60's Locker Room sketch delivers faster than Mapimpi at speed... Read |
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 | In celebration of this milestone, the brand announced the launch of its upgraded packaging... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MAKEREIGN The Bookmark Awards sets the benchmark for tech, digital and leading edge innovation. The award-winning work inspires and educates the industry about the power to build brands through creative and high-impact digital executions that deliver measurable results... Read |
 | EMILY STANDER We spoke to SA All-Star Hayden Metcalfe about his work, how he got into graphic design and more on his future... Read |
 | ISSUED BY FEED THAT BIRD COMMUNICATION CONSULTANTS What goes into award-winning wine and spirit packaging design?... Read |
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 | Icasa said the tenure of its long-standing CEO Willington Ngwepe comes to an end on 15 October... Read |
 | The 4th Connected Womxn event, in celebration of Women's Day, has been announced by the IAB South Africa Transformation Council... Read |
 | Consumers are increasingly immersing themselves in the digital world and a growing number of brands are listening and entering this space... Read |
 | EDWARD HERRIDGE With the advent of language models such as Open Source's GPT-3, AI is experiencing an exponential explosion of intelligence... Read |
 | Public relations management platform Propel graduates from Meta B2B Disruptors Program... Read |
 | Nielsen advances and brings scale for the digital measurement of the open web in South Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY G&G DIGITAL There's a reason TikTok and Reels are so popular. These short-form videos are engaging and entertaining and when produced effectively with sound strategy in mind, they can leave a lasting impression... Read |
 | Africa's first and only metaverse venue SodaWorld has secured venture capital funding from Switzerland-based CV VC... Read |
 | The global mobile apps market is expected to slow down in its growth in 2022... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY IMC CONFERENCE On 29 July 2022, marketers were given a platform on relevance: marketing's 'big ask'. More than 2,000 delegates logged in from 15 countries around the globe to watch the Nedbank Integrated Marketing Conference (IMC)... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA Highlights from day one of the 7th Annual Top Empowerment Virtual Conference... Read |
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 | The organisers of the Joburg Film Festival, in partnership with the MultiChoice Group, have announced the return of the festival... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TLC MARKETING WORLDWIDE So, a difficult and complex question to define in just one line, yet it's at the core of every woman's existence. Some can articulate it; others just live it... Read |
 | Influencer marketing is an invaluable tool for marketing in the modern world and not just about popping bottles... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy PR has launched a new business influence offering that will enable clients to access the burgeoning influence business economy at the B2B level... Read |
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 | Santam has officially been elected co-sponsor of the Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year awards... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EMEDIA Bring your love-affair with Turkish drama to life and stand a chance to win a trip to Turkey... Read |
 | Fame Week Africa, which is set to take place in Cape Town from 24-26 August at the CTICC, has partnered with NPO iKasi Creative Media... Read |
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 | A government body has censured data network provider Rain for offering a proposal to merge with bigger rival Telkom SA... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HOWARD AUDIO Netflix's first Afrikaans series, Ludik, is about to hit the small screen and Howard Audio is one of the first South African sound studios to mix a locally produced Netflix show in Dolby Atmos... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ALGOA FM Since its establishment in the 1950s, commercial radio in South Africa has been at the forefront of technological innovation - and Algoa FM has been among the leaders since privatisation 26 years ago... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HOT 102.7FM Hot Cares put the seal on a thrilling seven-week Hot 102.7FM on-air journey that captured the imagination of its listeners, when it welcomed home triumphant mountain climbers Warren Eva and John Black with a surprise gift... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Kfm 94.5's Best of Cape Awards has announced its winners for 2022... Read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON Organisations that recruit, retain and nurture neurodivergent individuals gain from new skills, ways of thinking and problem-solving... Read |
 | ISSUED BY IPSOS Global market research company, Ipsos, is pleased to announce the appointment of Kim Larsen as service line lead: brand health tracking for Ipsos in South Africa... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BATELEUR BRAND PLANNING Only half of women in South Africa report being generally happy with their lives (51%). The other half report being either in a neutral state regarding happiness (32%), or worse still, either unhappy or very unhappy (18%)... Read |
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 | Instagram's NFT expansion hopes to revolutionise social media and promote ownership... Read |
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 | The One Club for Creativity has announced five creatives from MENA and Africa who are part of the initial global jury for Next Creative Leaders... Read |
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 | GIULIA PARAVICINI Ethiopia has completed the third phase of filling the reservoir for its huge dam on the Blue Nile river... Read |
 | Swindon Property has signed an associate agreement with Nigerian-based property service firm Troloppe... Read |
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 | PROMIT MUKHERJEE South African lender, Nedbank has shown an interim profit increase of 26%... Read |
 | Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, on Thursday announced that his department is set to recruit 10,000 unemployed young graduates for the digitisation of its civic paper records... Read |
 | PARESH PREMA Consumers are desperate for relief given SA's rising fuel and food costs, which is why the Council for Medical Schemes is recommending 2023 medical-aid scheme contribution increases be capped. Read |
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