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#Newswatch: When you think 'KFC' you probably think 'eating Kentucky Fried Chicken', and not how to spin your car... read
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KATE WILSON
A recent statistic on female representation in the South African ad industry caught my eye: Just 3% of creative heads are female. There is no questioning the exceptional female creative talent in our industry, so why then are we not seeing more female creative heads?...read
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WAYNE HULL
Wayne Hull highlights that for CEOs and CMOs alike, addressing customer experience will be the key imperative in 2018 - and not merely at the B2C level, but B2B and B2B2C too...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Explaining concepts like the 'missing middle' and various African economic myths and misconceptions, Professor Haroon Bhorat shared the harsh economic realities of growing up in South Africa today, at the launch of the UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing's Youth Report 2018...read
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TERRY LEVIN, ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Cinemark, the official South African Cannes Lions representatives, in partnership with Bizcommunity, hosted the annual Insights and Trends from Cannes Lions sessions, which took place in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 29 August, and in Cape Town on Friday, 31 August... Read
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KIRIGO KAMORE
Caution! Symptoms may include complacency, marketing myopia, and societal regression caused by abrupt discontinuation... Read
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The winners of the 2018 Clio Awards have been announced and eight South African entries have made the grade... Read
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KEITH RATHBONE
Nike stirred up controversy on Monday when it unveiled its 'Just Do It: 30th anniversary' advertising campaign. It featured a variety of superstar American athletes including the polarising quarterback Colin Kaepernick... Read
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ISSUED BY MORTIMER HARVEY
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BRENDAN SEERY
Politicians need to learn that they are not the story. So, City of Joburg, you get this week's Onion for unnecessary ego-stroking... Read
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In an increasingly tough economic environment, businesses must do all they can to not only attract new customers, but look after existing ones - especially those who are categorised as 'high value'... Read
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WERNER THERON
Customers choose brands that value them and understand their needs... Read
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BRENDON BAIRSTOW-KLOPPER
Brendon Bairstow-Klopper suggests that it is more sensible to take a macro-level view by practising the peak-end rule. The peak-end rule says that customers remember their peak-experience with a brand, rather than specific interactions... Read
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Findings from a recent survey revealed that 28% of customers have elected to boycott companies that have been shown to mishandle personal data... Read
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KFC South Africa's Harvest initiative aims to change the way the quick service restaurant industry deals with surplus food in restaurants... Read
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ISSUED BY BOOMTOWN
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Design student Hannah Smith has been named the winner of the Number One Mageu Art & Soul Competition... Read
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Premium private label products are popping up everywhere, despite tough economic conditions in South Africa. Clever retailers are clawing back profit margins by expanding their current private label offerings... Read
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NICK DURRANT
The world has gone digital is a term we hear far too often nowadays, but it's not exactly true. There is an increasing distinction between those who are leading the change and profiting from it, and those who are falling behind and missing the many opportunities... Read
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WPP's wholly-owned global digital agency, Wunderman, has acquired 2Sales International SA, an e-commerce consulting agency... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Gone Digital, an agile digital marketing consultancy has recently launched the Gone Digital Academy, which offers Seta-accredited, digital marketing education to businesses, agencies and individuals... Read
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ISSUED BY PISTOL + HONEY
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The finalists for the 2018 New Generation Awards have been announced, with a record number of entries received, from a record number of agencies, corporates and individuals, representing hundreds of South African brands... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Mann Made recently disrupted themselves before anyone else could with a rebrand. Here's how what started out as a wedding video company by three brothers in 2000 has transformed into a storytelling, forward-thinking, 65-employee strong experiential brand agency that hosts the SingularityU SA Summit... Read
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Digital media consultancy Hoorah Digital has landed a number of clients, including Flight Centre and global pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, which includes brands such as Essentiale, Pharmaton, and Pharmachoice in its stable... Read
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The winners of the 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year competition have been announced with Samuel and Motlapele Molefi, founders and owners of Modi Mining CC, named as the overall winners... Read
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AI Expo Africa is building the largest inclusive Pan-African AI Community to lead the 4th Industrial Revolution on the continent. The expo and conference takes place next week in Cape Town... Read
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ISSUED BY ENGAGE
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Africa's largest technology, media and telecommunications conference and exhibition, AfricaCom 2018, held in Cape Town, 13-15 November 2018, will cover the most strategic digital issues affecting the continent... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Heavy Chef invited Heidi Patmore, to talk about an incendiary topic: sextech, and how it is irrevocably impacting our lives... Read
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ISSUED BY HOMEMAKERS
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DANIEL DERCKSEN
Writer Amy Jephta shares a few thoughts with Daniel Dercksen about writing the screenplay for Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story... Read
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In this video, Nyiko Chauke of Marketing Fridays looks at the marketing process and how this is built on asking the right questions. Our marketing can only get better if we are able to continually reflect on our efforts and customers. Read
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Yellowwood, a marketing and brand strategy consultancy, has created a simple diagnostic tool to help organisations that want to take advantage of the opportunities presented by women... Read
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ROBIN FREDERICKS
Sharon De Leur, marketing manager for Peermont Group, shares why she chose a career in hospitality marketing, the challenges she has faced and why it's important to have a month dedicated to women... Read
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The 2018 Warc prize for Mena Strategy winners includes campaigns for Byblos Bank, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Nissan and Saudi Telecom Company... Read
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MARCUS 'THE MALTESE FALCON' BREWSTER
At the end of August, I wrote that Malta has no hate crime on the statute books. A week later, an initiative has been launched aimed at tackling the proliferation of hate speech and bringing together a basic understanding of the dangerous discourse that has swamped social media... Read
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Investigative journalism is under threat as newsrooms continue to shrink, with technology disrupting media and collapsing its funding model... Read
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ISSUED BY MOBILE MARKETING ASSOCIATION
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PATRICK BYRNE AND KAREN HUDSON-EDWARDS
Nearly five billion people worldwide will use a smartphone by 2020... Read
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TIFFANY MARKMAN
Six tips for achieving better search traffic to your website... Read
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TAAZIMA KALA-ESSACK
Is the debate about cost versus worth in the communications space truly a PR problem, or a communications industry problem...? Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
There is a demand for insight into African markets and much of the data collection is done via mobile, social media and CRM... Read
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South Africa's second-hand trading industry has a potential value of R1.4 trillion, according to a survey conducted by Gumtree... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The launch of the UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing's Youth Report 2018 explained the confusing terminology of 'millennials', 'Gen Z', 'born frees', 'generation jobless' as well as the often-misquoted numbers... Read
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57.6% of South African marketers indicated that they would prefer to work with integrated agencies rather than several specialised agencies. Here's why... Read
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September 2018 marks 80 years that Cadbury Dairy Milk has been enjoyed in South Africa. The chocolate brand will be celebrating the anniversary by launching eight heritage packs, showcasing some of its designs throughout its history... Read
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SEBASTIAN ISAAC
For years, the threat of online shopping to brick-and-mortar has dominated the conversation in retail. The 2010s saw technological devices become more savvy and buying things online became easy... Read
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The Coca-Cola Company will acquire coffee chain Costa Limited, which was founded in London in 1971 and has grown to become a major coffee brand across the world... Read
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Grocery stores have been given the green light to once again stock processed meat on shelves and pack them in lunch boxes... Read
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JOSH DA COSTA, ISSUED BY R-SQUARED DIGITAL SA
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KEENAN BOUWER
Currently, there is a lot of talk about influencers and their effect on the consumer audience and whether or not they are still a relevant option as a marketing tool to market to specific audiences. Is the influencer a dying breed or are brands either overusing or generalising the influencer? Read
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MIKE SAUNDERS
Social media is not a marketing channel, rather it's a mosh pit of conversations that surround our marketing channels. If it were a channel, we would be able to control its distribution and conversation better... Read
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ISSUED BY HDI YOUTH CONSULTANCY
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we got behind the selfie with Robin Adams, commercials director at Egg Films... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The third session of the UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing's Youth Report 2018 release was presented by Martin Neethling, director of groceries at Pioneer Food, and was all about the 18- to 24-year-old market, the changing definition of teenagers and the game-changers in this regard... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Impact BBDO Dubai took home a Grand Prix for La Libanaise Des Jeux's 'Lucky Face' in the integrated campaign category at this year's Loerie Awards on Saturday, 18 August at the Durban ICC... Read
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NICK DURRANT
The world has gone digital is a term we hear far too often nowadays, but it's not exactly true... Read
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Standard Bank has launched a social campaign on Twitter to turn tweets into tangible educational tools... Read
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Ella Woodward "When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day." Henry Miller "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." Thomas Carlyle "Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." Thomas A. Edison "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Jef I. Richards "Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'" |
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