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|  | DANETTE BREITENBACH The Audit Bureau of Circulations South Africa's (ABC) figures for Q2 2022 show a steady ship....read |
|  | DANETTE BREITENBACH The heroes in the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) of South Africa Magazine category Q2 2022 are Free and Digital Magazines...read |
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 | The finalists of the Santam Women of the Future Awards, in association with Fairlady and Truelove, have been announced... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LOCATION BANK Across almost every consumer-facing industry, from travel and hospitality services to healthcare, online reviews have become an essential part of digital marketing and reputation management... Read |
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 | BRENDAN SEERY A good advertising creative, I've always thought, needs to be a cross between a comedian and a news editor... Read |
 | MERLENE ENGELBRECHT In South Africa infringement of copyright is decided on originality and whether something is identifiable rather than "how much" has been copied... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy South Africa picked up three stellar wins at the Marketing Achievement Awards (MAAs), for the Cadbury 'In your own words' campaign... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC The Story of UN from The Unlimited is a bold brand campaign that unshackles old ways of being and unmutes new South African voices... Read |
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 | CARMIN CORNELIUS The luxury shoe giant, Manolo Blahnik, has won a legal battle to use its own name in China after almost 22 years of litigation... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MAXIMIZER SOFTWARE New Interactions tab means all your customer communications are now in one place... Read |
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 | The Red & Yellow Creative School of Business recently presented Creating Meaning in the Metaverse... Read |
 | ISSUED BY G&G DIGITAL An online presence is essential for all businesses, no matter the industry. However, being online doesn't mean anything if your customers or potential customers can't find you... Read |
 | Portchie has become South Africa's first artist to sell a collection of generative art through non-fungible tokens (NFTs)... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DAXDATA Unlike paper contracts, Acrobat Sign comes with tracking capabilities that help teams know exactly whether a document has been received, reviewed, or signed - no more folders sitting on desks... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DMASA This year's Assegai Integrated Marketing Awards will field the biggest ever complement of local and international judging talent... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DMASA The Assegai Integrated Marketing Awards in conjunction with the IAS introduced a new award category into the 2016 awards programme - the IAS Agency Credentials Award... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EVERLYTIC Email marketing has been shown to get up to a R44 return for every R1 invested. But mastering email marketing, or any bulk communication, isn't something you just do... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DMASA Wednesday, 31 August 2022 is the cut-off date for new entries to be submitted for the Assegai Integrated Marketing Awards... Read |
| Education |
 | ISSUED BY DIGITAL SCHOOL OF MARKETING The Digital School of Marketing has recently launched a suite of graphic design courses... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | The KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission (KZN Film) has opened calls for aspiring filmmakers to apply for internships at production houses... Read |
| Magazines |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA This August edition of PSL focuses on women and on the front cover we feature Professor Thoko Mayekiso, vice chancellor at the University of Mpumalanga... Read |
| Marketing |
 | LAURENT MARTY A shift in focus to cultural strategy is important for marketing success.. Read |
 | BERNARD JANSEN Many business owners confuse marketing tactics with sales and carry this mindset to the trade... Read |
 | KARABO LEDWABA DJ Zinhle's hair brand came under fire for product quality... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HKLM The University of Johannesburg was recently awarded the IABC International Gold Quill Excellence Award for its 4IR website, as well as an IABC Africa Silver Quill Excellence Award for its 'The future belongs to those who reimagine it' campaign, and an IABC International Gold Quill Merit Award for the university's 'Beyond Imagining' ezine series... Read |
 | TIM VAN DER BILT, ISSUED BY INCUBETA Tim van der Bilt, head of global marketplace specialist, Incubeta Maze-One, shares five insights for local marketing leaders when considering how they should respond to Amazon's local launch next year... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION AND ADVERTISING The ACA and Effie South Africa are pleased to announce that the jury for the 2022 Effie Awards South Africa has been confirmed... Read |
| Media |
 | TANIA BROUGHTON Daily Maverick sued a former contributor who claimed the publication was racist... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BROAD MEDIA BusinessTech is the largest and most influential business publication in South Africa... Read |
 | New York Festivals has partnered with Zerotrillion to create a new content series, Carving Stairs into Stone... Read |
 | Entries for the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards (VJOY) have opened... Read |
 | As with consumer goods being subject to and causing inflation, media is also impacted by inflation... Read |
 | There has been an increase in the number of girl children - as young as 10 - being raped and falling pregnant in South Africa: a crisis government can no longer turn a blind eye to... Read |
| Mobile |
 | Icasa intends to initiate the second phase of licensing radio frequency spectrum in the low and mid-bands to prospective licensees... Read |
 | The bursary is aimed at first, second, and third-year university students that are pursuing further education within STEM fields... Read |
 | Rain intends to submit a formal non-binding proposal to bigger rival Telkom in due course... Read |
 | ISSUED BY AFFLE INDIA Affle's MAAS today announced it has strengthened its global footprints with the launch of its flagship Unified Audience Platform in Africa to empower app advertisers in the continent to achieve their user acquisition goals... Read |
 | South Africa's app economy is seeing impressive growth, largely fuelled by the massive penetration of mobile smartphones in the country... Read |
| Online Media |
 | ISSUED BY HELLOPETER Chances are, the name Hellopeter is familiar to you. However, not for what it is but for what it used to be. Here's what the brand means to customers and businesses alike in 2022... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Tractor's new events platform allows community members to advertise events across its nationwide network of digital billboards... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | DAVINA MALAN Davina Malan, senior consultant, Tribeca Public Relations says public relations is the perfect career... Read |
 | LERATO MPHOLO, ISSUED BY OPINION & PUBLIC BCW PR practitioners who are the natural custodians of an organisation's information distribution, play an essential role in the management of non-quantifiable costs of cyber-attacks... Read |
 | ISSUED BY FLOW COMMUNICATIONS Flow Communications and Flow Travel are both featured in a brand-new premium coffee-table book, the inaugural edition of Innovate South Africa, launched at the Innovation City innovation and development hub in Cape Town yesterday... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING In the end, the true measure of a remarkable human, is what he or she has done for humanity and on this score, Jeremy Mansfield, the master of the mic, has made an impressive mark... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KAYA 959 Kaya 959 celebrates a milestone this August - 25 years on the air. 1997 was a watershed year when Kaya FM 95.9, as it was known then, disrupted the airwaves as the first privately-owned commercial radio station to be licensed by ICASA... Read |
| Research |
 | The Publisher Research Council (PRC) has announced their new readership currency Read2021 (Reader Audience Data) release - available today... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TALKWALKER Talkwalker, the leading consumer intelligence company, and Dubai TV Channels Network (part of Dubai Media Inc.) published a case study that shows how real-time consumer intelligence data accelerates the decision-making process... Read |
| Retail |
 | Around 40% of Pick n Pay company-owned supermarkets will be converted to Pick n Pay QualiSave... Read |
 | BELINDA CLUR Belina Clur believes we are in the age of a renaissance and the shopping experience is part of this... Read |
| The One Club of Creativity |
 | The latest group of The One Club for Creativity Portfolio Night All-Stars has been announced... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DSTV MEDIA SALES After two years of virtual gatherings on Teams and Zoom with media partners and advertisers, M-Net and DStv Media Sales brought the advertising industry together in a series of M-Net content showcases hosted in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban... Read |
 | ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP First-of-its-kind in Kenya, nature-based, tech-infused set design for 26-episode series, based in Nairobi... Read |
 | ISSUED BY URBAN BREW STUDIOS Urban Brew Studios (UBS) is delighted to announce the appointment of Yandiswa Nkonde as the acting head of channels... Read |
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 | EMILY STANDER We catch up with marketing manager of TCL, a global electronics brand that entered South Africa last year... Read |
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 | JAMES MACHARIA CHEGE AND OTHERS Kenya braced on Tuesday for a protracted legal battle after William Ruto was declared the victor in a closely fought presidential race over the objections of more than half the electoral commission, stoking fears of political violence... Read |
 | CHRIS MFULA Zambia hopes that the International Monetary Fund's executive board will approve a $1.4bn lending programme... Read |
 | Tarek Amer is Egypt's new presidential adviser... Read |
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 | Imvelo Venture is new investor to CTSE... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON Old Mutual launches new retail share scheme which is set to support a culture of investment and savings among low-income consumers... Read |
 | SAFIYYA PATEL AND TEBOGO MOLOKO The B-BBEE Commission's latest report on empowerment trends shows a decrease in overall Black ownership, as well as in Black women ownership... Read |
 | Global business leaders need to prioritise the shift of their sustainability strategies from planning to implementation... Read |
 | The Department of Employment and Labour has called on employers to take sterner action to stem the tide of harassment in the workplace... Read |
 | JACQUES VAN WYK AND ANDRE VAN HEERDEN The dismissal of employees who have reached and worked beyond the normal retirement age has been found to be fair. Employers do not waive their rights to enforce the normal retirement age by serving salary adjustment letters after their employees reach the normal age of retirement... Read |
 | LYNDY VAN DEN BARSELAAR Women make up more than 50% of the global workforce, yet less than 25% have senior leadership roles... Read |
 | JOE BAVIER AND PROMIT MUKHERJEE Thanks to his rooftop solar panels, Pierre Moureau only notices load shedding when complaints pop up on his neighbourhood WhatsApp group... Read |
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