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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 03:57:51 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Shoprite's Low-Duuuma! scores with Benni McCarthy</title>
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	<description>Football legend Benni McCarthy’s Shoprite store aisle jive has struck a rare chord with South African audiences, delighting fans across social media, racking up more than 20 million views in 24 hours.</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 10:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Your customers are unreliable narrators — and your segmentation is built on it</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/your-customers-are-unreliable-narrators-and-your-segmentation-is-built-on-it-512440a</link>
	<description>Most brand segmentations get quietly abandoned by the marketing teams they were built for. Not because the maths is wrong — it usually isn’t. They get abandoned because they were built to describe customers, when what the marketing team actually needed was something that could predict what those customers would do.</description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 09:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Africa 200 ranking reflects growing confidence of Pan-African brands</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.africa/article/africa-200-ranking-reflects-growing-confidence-of-pan-african-brands-067915a</link>
	<description>South African brands dominate the  Africa 200 2026 report by Brand Finance, accounting for 71% of total brand value, with 104 brands worth $44.6bn. Africa’s top 200 brands have grown by 11% to reach a combined value of $62.6bn in 2026, driven by strong performance across the banking, telecoms, and retail sectors.</description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 07:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>MMA Smarties South Africa 2026 winners announced</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/mma-smarties-south-africa-2026-winners-announced-623371a</link>
	<description>The Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA) Smarties South African 2026 were announced last night, 21 May, at a gala dinner in Sandton with Yum!, Ogilvy and Audi TikTok Test Drive taking top honours.</description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 08:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Ask Africa appoints Jezile Dhlamini as its chief client partner officer</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/ask-africa-appoints-jezile-dhlamini-as-its-chief-client-partner-officer-401049a</link>
	<description>Ask Africa, a leading African market research company delivering consumer insights, brand and reputation tracking, and customer experience studies across the continent, is excited to announce the appointment of Jezile Dhlamini, as its chief client partner (CCP), effective from May 1, 2026.</description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 10:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>MMA South Africa Next! Conference 2026: Driving growth in modern marketing</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/mma-south-africa-next-conference-2026-driving-growth-in-modern-marketing-390658a</link>
	<description>The Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA) South Africa’s Next! Conference 2026 will focus on what is working in practice, bringing together the broader marketing industry to explore what drives growth in today’s fragmented and fast-evolving landscape.</description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Legacy car brands face growing pressure in South Africa</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/legacy-car-brands-face-growing-pressure-in-south-africa-178456a</link>
	<description>A new study by consumer insights agency Kla found that challenger car brands have tripled their share of South Africa’s new vehicle market in just four years, as buyers increasingly redefine what they consider value for money.</description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Maps provides 5 year record of consumer behaviour</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/maps-provides-five-year-record-of-consumer-behaviour-170366a</link>
	<description>For the first time, marketers, advertisers and media agencies can trend five full calendar years of South African consumer behaviour, media consumption and spending patterns from a single, nationally representative dataset.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>FNB eBucks and other local brands triumph at 2026 International Loyalty Awards</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/fnb-ebucks-and-local-brands-dominate-at-2026-international-loyalty-awards-392588a</link>
	<description>South African loyalty programmes have secured major victories at the 17th annual International Loyalty Awards, reinforcing the country’s growing influence in the global customer engagement and loyalty economy.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>#BizTrends | Spend Trend 2026 Part 2: Consumers adopt value-seeking spending strategies</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/consumers-adopt-value-seeking-spending-strategies-170306a</link>
	<description>Signalling a cautious but meaningful recovery, in 2025, consumer spending grew 0.8% above inflation for the first time since 2022. However, households are not increasing discretionary spend; they are adapting under pressure</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 09:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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