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Leigh Andrews It's time to celebrate the fact that The One Club for Creativity has just appointed its first ever female chairperson, Susan Credle. She lets us in on her responsibility she has to the industry as a woman taking over the chair position, especially when it comes to diversity and inclusion...read |
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Stadio Holdings has created a 'Multiversity' and after a three-way pitch chose The Odd Number as its creative partner to help launch the concept...read | 
Jessica Tennant Diageo South Africa has appointed Zumi Njongwe as marketing and innovations director for SA, after two years in the same position at Diageo's Meta Abo Breweries in Ethiopia...read | 
Leigh Andrews Xolisa Dyeshana, CCO of Joe Public United and SA representative on the international board of the One Club for Creativity shares his post-Creative Week One Show reflections...read |
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 | Campaigns for Ad Council, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, IDFC Bank and Pril are the top winners of the Effective Innovation category of the Warc Awards... read |
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 | Nick de Beer Within the complex world of advertising, what's really doing the selling: the image or the copy? The reality is that both play an integral part in the selling process for almost every piece of design and campaign. So wherein lies the invisible harmony between eye-catching imagery and cleverly written copy? read |
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 | Brendan Seery When I grew up, there was never much money in the house. And, with Irish ancestry, I have a fear of poverty in my DNA, which can probably be traced back to the Irish Famine. So, I am careful with money... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Andile Khumalo is House of Brave's new non-executive chairman... read |
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 | New York Festivals Advertising Awards has announced its award-winners for 2018 with "Fearless Girl" McCann New York walking off with Best of Show and 3 Grand Trophies... read |
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 | Brand Africa's 100 list of Africa's Best Brands for 2017/18 was released last week at an awards ceremony in Johannesburg, South Africa... read |
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 | Marthinus Van Loggerenberg and Tuelo Lechuti In some ways, Gen Z could be compared to a butterfly. Some are in a state of metamorphosis and some are already spreading their wings. On a more profound level, as they not only go through radical transformation but also radically transform the world that they affect... (Part 2) read |
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 | Derryn Jackson Derryn Jackson unpacks how the digital era has affected brand building... read |
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 | Elizabeth de Stadler GDPR and PoPIA are set to dramatically change the way South African organisations do business - especially how personal data is handled and stored... read |
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 | Bill Buchanan Most of us have been bombarded recently by a barrage of emails from companies begging us to "stay in touch" or "opt in" or informing us of a "policy update". On May 25, an historic date for the internet, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force... read |
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 | Seedstars Africa is once again scouting for the top high growth startups and entrepreneurs to present them with the opportunity to drastically accelerate their business... read |
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 | The Fairlady Santam Women of the Future Awards has selected a panel of respected judges to preside over the awards... read |
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 | The inaugural USIBA Creative and Cultural Industries Awards, which takes place on 31 May at Emperors' Palace, Johannesburg, has been launched... read |
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 | The South African consumer landscape is set for a multitude of shifts in the next ten years, not least of which is the maturing of the local market with growth in the Generation X market segment... read |
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 | More than 500 film, television, digital and video gaming content producers from all over Africa will converge at DISCOP Johannesburg... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews On Friday, 18 May 2018, Cape Town's marketing set descended on the Park Inn Radisson, for Meltwater's latest Biz Breakfast session with Treeshake's Dave Duarte on the art of social storytelling... read |
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 | Wan-Ifra has announced the 2018 Laureates of the Women in News Editorial Leadership Award... read |
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 | Clockwork Media has won the 2018 Africa Consultancy of the Year at the EMEA SABRE Awards... read |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster If there was a theme song for public relations in general and reputation management in particular, it should be the Marilyn Monroe and Frankie Vaughn duet Specialisation from her under-appreciated 1960 movie Let's make love... read |
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 | TAAZIMA KALA-ESSACK Is overthinking one of the problems plaguing the communications industry and, especially, the public relations sector of that industry? read |
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 | Auguste Coetzer A series of corporate communication missteps and ponderous responses has exposed a gap in the skills mix at executive and directorial levels across South Africa ... read |
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 | Jennilee Peremore Jennilee Peremore lists five of the common misconceptions of PR and the qualities you should look for when looking to hire a PR employee or agency... read |
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 | William Smook Around 90% of flight attendants' training deals with saving lives rather than asking "chicken or beef?" read |
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 | The New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards announced the 2018 finalists... read |
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 | The top five finalists in the celeb, sports and entertainment categories of the Sunday Times Generation Next survey have been announced... read |
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 | Brand Finance has just launched the results of a report listing South Africa's most valuable brands in 2018... read |
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 | The new Maps research will commence at the start of July. The research will fill the products and brands research void left by the demise of Amps... read |
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 | The 2018 Retail, Design and Development Awards (RDDA) and the Footprint Marketing Awards have officially opened for entries... read |
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 | Brian Mechem The fall of traditional outbound marketing strategies has seen the meteoric rise of influencer marketing This is due to its potential to grow your business manifold. It can help you to engage with your audience and improve your brand's visibility. read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg Manufacturing Indaba 2018 promises to be bigger and more innovative than ever before, providing the broader manufacturing industry with a roadmap and the connections to unlock their growth potential and deliver accelerated GDP growth... read |
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 | Trevor Chueu Reputation is 100%-dependent on landscape comprehension, so brands in Africa need to understand cultural diversity across the continent... read |
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 | Vanessa Ferguson Africa is an ideal market for brand holders and counterfeiters as growth in brand investment creates demand... read |
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 | Cobus van Zyl Uganda is one of the most entrepreneurial countries in Africa according to research stats... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg The Shoprite Group has trailblazed trading in Africa in many respects. Since kicking off its expansion into the continent in 1990, the retailer now has its footprints firmly planted in over 460 locations across 14 African countries... read |
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 | Healthcare is getting increasingly high tech, and nurses in Africa are at the forefront of using innovative solutions to improve patient care... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Philip Kiracofe calls himself an 'adventure capitalist'. Here's how the Startupbootcamp initiative he co-founded is solving problems corporates didn't know they had while giving African startups a boost, and how you can get involved... read |
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 | The evolution to electronic foreign currency trading in Africa, given its fragmented markets and lack of legacy infrastructure, was slow to start, but has gained in traction. read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Sharon Keith made a name for herself as marketing director at Coca-Cola Africa, but is now bubbling over with the need to pursue other professional and personal interests... read |
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 | Natalia Rosa Although it's certainly not feasible for Africa to have thousands of city pairs because the traveller demand simply doesn't exist, there are several hundred city pairs that would certainly be sustainable... read |
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 | Pavithra Rao Interest in cryptocurrency, a form of digital currency, is growing steadily in Africa. Some economists say it is a disruptive innovation that will blossom on the continent... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This #AfricaMonth, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Wade Moonsamy, senior designer at Grid Worldwide, currently ranked as top designer in Africa and the Middle East based on the most recent Loeries rankings... read |
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 | Cannes Lions has announced it will host a two-day "Change for Good" Hackathon, to be held live on 19-20 June at the 65th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity... read |
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 | Cannes Lions has announced the 413 jury members chosen to award and celebrate the best creative work from around the world... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Juanita Pienaar chats to graphic designer, Prince Zwane and copywriter, Kaylee Germann from Publicis who have won SA's Cinemark Young Lions competition... read |
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 | The Creative Circle has released its final Rankings for 2017 for individual agencies and groups... read |
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 | Ad Stars has announced that Anna Qvennerstedt of Forsman & Bodenfors in Sweden is joining Ad Stars 2018 as an executive judge... read |
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 | Giovanni Chiarelli As we move closer to the era of 5G technology, the mobile network industry is gearing up for what this will bring to the technology landscape... read |
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 | While Schengen Area countries have traditionally topped the index as a result of their open access to Europe, developed Asian nations have been able to secure equally high scores in recent years thanks to their strong international trade and diplomatic relations... read |
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 | Sindy Peters Claire Janisch, founder of Biomimicry South Africa, took to the podium at this year's African Utility Week to share how biomimicry could influence the future of utilities... read |
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 | nicolas baker For any company, from small entrepreneur to blue chip corporate, Google AdWords provides the tools to unlock a wealth of new business. But, just as pay-per-click (PPC) may provide amazing opportunities and leads aplenty, if not set up correctly, it has the potential to blow ad budgets and quickly snowball marketing costs to devastating levels... read |
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Zsa Zsa Gabor "Macho does not prove mucho." Ezra Pound "Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." Henry David Thoreau "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." Tom Brokaw "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." Ethel Waters "We are all gifted. That is our inheritance." |
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Dealing with the mediaIAJ - Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - 31 May 2018 to 1 Jun 2018, Johannesburg |
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