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 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA At the recent 2022 Assegai Awards, Ogilvy South Africa was announced as overall Agency of the Year, after receiving a record-breaking 64 awards... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Last night TBWA was crowned the FM AdFocus Awards 2022 Agency of Year... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The FM AdFocus Awards Student of Year is Angelina Faria, a third-year student from the Cape Town Creative Academy... Read |
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 | LARA PETERSEN, ISSUED BY SHERBET YOUTH AGENCY Sherbet Agency is excited to announce the appointment of Raffaele Mc Creadie as its new managing director as of 1 December 2022... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY In this messed-up country of ours, when the going gets tough, the tough get giggling... Read |
 | SIMON CHADWICK The Fifa men's World Cup 2022 in Qatar is arguably the most political in history... Read |
 | KEKE MAHLELEBE I've always regarded the moment Michael Jackson smoothly moonwalked in front of 47 million people in 1983 to be a perfect demonstration of this beautiful global sharing culture wave we are all experiencing right now... Read |
 | MADELAIN ROSCHER Since Balenciaga launched its holiday horror "Gift Collection" advertising campaign featuring disturbing images of young children, public anger has not abated... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TBWA TBWA was named the Overall Agency of the Year at last night's announcement of the FM AdFocus 2022 Awards... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH James Barty and Alistair King have been named the FM AdFocus Awards 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ADVERTISING MEDIA FORUM It's not the first time in history that South Africans have experienced load shedding. However, 2022 has seen a surge of power outages (or rather a decrease in power surges)... Read |
 | ISSUED BY M&C SAATCHI ABEL The M&C Saatchi Group South Africa was shortlisted as finalists in four categories, with specialist agencies within the group being named winners in two award categories at the 2022 AdFocus Awards... Read |
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 | YAEL GEFFEN Brand equity is no longer something only for established companies in the international arena but is now a prerequisite for any business looking to compete in an increasingly competitive marketplace... Read |
 | BRENDON KNOTT How Qatar can learn from South Africa on nation branding... Read |
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 | Cannes Lions have made changes to their processes and categories for 2023, including a revamp for the Pharma Lions... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TINKWE COMMUNICATIONS CX heavy-weights Nathalie Schooling and Brendon Bairstow-Klopper launch "Eat Your Own Lunch"... Read |
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 | The Pantone Color Institute has announced the 2023 Color of the Year: Viva Magenta... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ATKASA - DIGITAL AGENCY With hard lockdowns and restrictions far behind us, brands are looking at new ways of marketing in 2023... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TALKWALKER Market-leading innovation arms marketers with unparalleled speed and agility to accurately categorise millions of relevant social conversations and capture the essence of thousands of customer support emails, reviews and CSAT surveys... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PUBLISHER'S TOOLBOX PT CEO Rich Cheary shares insights and lessons in engagement from sport... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA Despite its low barrier to entry, the cultural sector can be difficult to navigate without business skills, strategic vision and marketing expertise... Read |
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 | EARLE HOLMES, ISSUED BY AFDA Our students from our Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth campuses have once again pulled out all the stops this year at the annual Graduation Festival... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MEDIA24 LIFESTYLE Truelove brand includes the print product as well as the content for diverse projects, such as events, payment gateways, merchandise and brand extensions... Read |
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 | Last week the Hollard Sport Industry Awards recognised the teams and creatives that make sporting events, campaigns and sponsorships possible... Read |
 | As 2022 winds down and the 2023 countdown begins, the team from The Media Shop identifies what they think will be the key trends in travel, beauty and marketing... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU We are delighted to announce that not only are we closing the year off with being ranked the number one network and Carat number one Media Agency in SA, for business maintained and gained, we also have several fantastic key promotions to announce... Read |
 | Unite, WPP's LGBTQ+ community, and Choreograph, WPP's global data products and technology company, have released a new study called Beyond the Rainbow that looks into LGBTQ+ marketing and its future... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JENNY GRIESEL COMMUNICATIONS Excellerate Brand Management (EBM) scooped 58 awards at the recent Footprints Awards... Read |
 | KATE WOLTERS Kate Wolters, director at Flowmesh, gives five highly underrated industry trends for B2B content that you shouldn't overlook in 2023 Read |
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 | IMRAN SALIE #StartupStory: Double Apex Read |
 | Sanef and the PMI are offering the Citizen Developer Course to journalists for free... Read |
 | Science journalism in South Africa is in a critical need to be developed and invested in... Read |
 | The third annual Elevate Scholarship class of 50 media professionals includes 20 media professionals from Africa from a total of 31 countries... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY NEWZROOM AFRIKA Accomplished broadcaster Njanji Chauke has today joined Newzroom Afrika as editor-in-chief, among several changes to the editorial management designed to build the newsroom of the future... Read |
| Mobile |
 | ISSUED BY SHAREIT GROUP Gaming is commanding a growing share of consumer attention with little indication that this trend will be abating any time soon... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TWIGA COMMUNICATIONS Outdoor Network, one of South Africa's leading out of home (OOH) media owners is a step ahead of its competitors boasting its first digitised billboard in the Western Cape... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | DAN MOYANE Dan Moyane says communicators have a tough time ahead of them as the world is not getting any less complex... Read |
 | ISSUED BY M&C SAATCHI ABEL The agency has had a highly successful 2022, having also been named African Agency of the Year and shortlisted as the World's Best Corporate Agency by Provoke... Read |
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 | M&C Saatchi Abel has launched a free publication to help develop young South African's entrepreneurial skills... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MACHINE_ Machine_'s content marketing team took home multiple wins and awards at the 2022 SA Publication Forum Awards for work with its long-standing clients, Sanlam and Sanlam Reality... Read |
 | The European Commission has announced that Agence France-Presse (AFP), will be part of five new hubs dedicated to the fight against disinformation in 10 European countries. Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY JACARANDA FM Jacaranda FM wins four SA Radio Awards... Read |
 | ISSUED BY THE PUBLICITY WORKSHOP Music industry veteran, Benjy Mudie, was officially inducted into the South African Radio Hall of Fame at a star-studded event on Saturday, 26 November 2022... Read |
 | PATRICIA SAUNDERS Patricia Saunders explains how radio is a sustainable advertising choice... Read |
| Research |
 | SA consumers are budgeting an average of R5,968 each for extra expenses over the festive period... Read |
 | Price will be paramount this holiday season as shoppers grow increasingly concerned about inflated costs and tighter budgets, reveals a new Oracle Retail consumer research study... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MELTWATER Black Friday is one of the biggest and most important shopping days of the year and is a revenue must for retail businesses of all sizes... Read |
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 | Takealot.com had a record-breaking Black Friday with 33% growth in gross merchandise value and more than 3 million site visits on the day. The biggest single basket value was R190,179... Read |
 | LiveShopping.co.za has soft-launched in South Africa, bringing an element of 'shoppertainment' to the online retail experience... Read |
 | Raru cofounder, Waine Smith, confirmed the e-tailer's closure, citing "poor trading conditions, the Covid-19 pandemic, and supply chain issues"... Read |
 | The winners of the South African Council of Shopping Centres' (SACSC) Footprint Marketing Awards 2022 have been announced... Read |
| Social Media |
 | CRAIG HANNABUS Craig Hannabus examines the Twitter Musk debacle... Read |
 | SAM SPILLER, ISSUED BY CLOCKWORK Since concluding his acquisition of Twitter in October, Elon Musk has ushered in a wave of disruption that shows no sign of dissipating anytime soon... Read |
 | Last week, Meta hosted its first-of-its-kind mixed reality event showcasing creativity and imagination as keys to the metaverse for its #FlexNaija campaign... Read |
 | Spotify has announced the arrival of South Africa's Wrapped 2022, the platform's deep dive into the music that defined the year... Read |
 | YouTube has released its list of the top trending videos, music videos, shorts and creators in South Africa... Read |
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 | EMILY STANDER On 3 December, we were all sitting on the edge of our seats, waiting to see who would win... Read |
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 | The 12th Annual JA Africa Company of the Year Competition, Africa's largest high school entrepreneurship challenge, will take place from 7-9 December in Lagos, Nigeria under the theme, "Fueling Changemakers"... Read |
 | IMRAN SALIE Microsoft recently hosted a meet-up for startup founders and entrepreneurs as one of its initiatives to achieve its goal of accelerating startups on the continent... Read |
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 | WENDELL ROELF AND ALEXANDER WINNING Cyril Ramaphosa's future as president hung in the balance on Thursday, as his office said it was about to make an announcement a day after a panel report found preliminary evidence he may have committed serious misconduct... Read |
 | WENDELL ROELF Ramaphosa delayed a scheduled appearance in parliament to answer questions from lawmakers on Thursday, asking the chairperson of parliament's upper house for time to "carefully consider ... the next course of action to be taken,"... Read |
 | Diesel prices are expected to decrease by around R1.55/l. Illuminating paraffin is expected to decrease by 49c/l... Read |
 | Electronics, appliances, beauty and fashion, drove the bulk of sales over this year's Black Friday weekend, with mobile payments comprising 70% of total sales transactions versus 30% on desktop... Read |
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