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LEIGH ANDREWS
CapeTalk radio host Africa Melane served as MC for the recent #BI4Gov Behavioural Insights conference in Cape Town. After a quick tea break chat, he inspired me to share my thoughts on how we need to both be the best we can be and give a hand up, not just a hand out... read
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One Show Awards
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The One Club has launched its first international chapter: The One Club for Creativity-Cairo... Read
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Advertising
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JESSICA TENNANT
Giant Films recently completed an ad for Carling Black Label offering a fresh take on masculinity... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
Carmaker Toyota gets our heritage right with a giant bead ad, but Tonneau King's bakkie braaiers are just plain stupid... Read
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CHÉLIN RAMOS
As creatives, we often face the daunting task of having to present our work to a client... Read
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ISSUED BY CHILLPILL FILMS
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ISSUED BY GREY
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Branding
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CHRIS MOERDYK, ISSUED BY CHRIS MOERDYK
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CRM, CX, UX
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LEIGH ANDREWS
When it comes to content marketing, do you offer interactive tools and snappy content aimed at solving your customers' problems, or just keep regurgitating your static 'company profile' text? If your answer is closer to the latter, Narrative content director Robyn Daly explains why you need to put user experience first... Read
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ISLA PRENTIS
Isla Prentis says that big data was pegged as a trend at the beginning of this year, for the sixth year in row. Something's wrong with this picture... Read
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CSI
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ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA OUTDOOR
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Design
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ISSUED BY STELLENBOSCH ACADEMY OF DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY
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Digital
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The MMA SA Smarties shortlist has been announced, as part of the global mobile marketing awards programme that honours innovation and creativity while measuring the impact and success of mobile on business... Read
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JONATHAN HOUSTON
What too many organisations overlook when embarking on a digital transformation is the cultural and leadership readiness for the change. Both are essential to the success of any initiative... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
Lately, I have been followed. The man who is following me has good hair and dead eyes. It would seem wherever I go on the internet, he pops up. He is young, very young, but is constantly telling me that he has the wisdom and the secret stuff that can help me... Read
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Education
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ISSUED BY GORDON INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS SCIENCE
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Events & Conferencing
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RUTH COOPER
FOOD XX, a brand-new food conference, brought to you by Studio H will be launching in Cape Town next year... Read
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Africa's first LGBTIQ+ network set to create meaningful dialogue within the LGBTIQ+ community at global network session... Read
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The 2018 Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival will be held across Johannesburg from 24-29 September 2018... Read
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Film & Cinematography
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NICK HEDLEY
Tiso Blackstar Group, the owner of Business Day, will sell certain locally produced films to global and local streaming platforms, CEO Andrew Bonamour said on Thursday... Read
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Africa in Motion Film Festival has announced the final short list of its annual Short Film Competition... Read
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DANIEL DERCKSEN
Safta (South African Film and Television Awards) award-winning writer and actress Nkuli Sibeko shares a few thoughts with Daniel Dercken about her screenplay for film Table Manners... Read
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DANIEL DERCKSEN
Writer-director Johannes Ferdinand 'Ferdi' van Zyl shares a few thoughts with Daniel Dercksen about his astounding film The Recce, a film that poignantly shows that without a past, there is no future... Read
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Marketing
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PAULA SARTINI
BrandQuantum recently hosted a marketing roundtable to debate the role of marketing in today's digital business environment. Heavyweight marketers from leading financial institutions and the entertainment industry shared views on some of the key challenges they are facing today... Read
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SHAUNE JORDAAN
Stats SA's recession announcement in early September only served to confirm what we've all known for a long time: The South African economy is struggling. In those circumstances, companies are bound to start looking for places to tighten their belts... Read
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BRIAN HOLMES, ISSUED BY SCARLET LETTER
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Media
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Kenyan TV presenter wins BBC World News Komla Dumor Award... Read
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Online Media
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DANIELLA SHAPIRO
Fake news is a pervasive epidemic. Insidious distortion of truth, fueled by hidden (or blatant) agendas is now accepted as a fact of life. Read
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OOH
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ISSUED BY THE JUPITER DRAWING ROOM CAPE TOWN
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PR & Communications
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MIMI KALINDA
Africa is perceived in a certain way because of the stories being told about it... Read
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Research
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The Publisher Research Council and Nielsen launched a 'fused' survey, called Fusion - said to change the face of research in South Africa - in Johannesburg and Cape Town last week... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Ever wondered how nudges turn into true behavioural change that benefits society? With the Western Cape's recent #DayZero success as a prime example, all was revealed at SA's first-ever two-day #BI4Gov Behavioural Insights conference, held at the CTICC over 27 and 28 September 2018... Read
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Retail
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ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA
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CECIL UNGERER
Despite challenging global economic conditions, retail sales in South Africa rose 1.3% year-on-year in July. Even though this is in line with expectations, it is still a positive sign... Read
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ALUN WITHEY
Personal grooming has perhaps never been so important, so popular and so well-served by "product". For men at least. Male grooming products are now part of a huge industry... Read
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Social Media
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JESSICA TENNANT
As a 2018 finalist in the New Generation Awards' 'The New Generation Social Wiz Award' category (taking place at Montecasino's ballroom this evening) I interviewed Kevin McLennan, social media strategist at Artifact Advertising, to find out what he believes it takes to be a 'social wiz' in 2018... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have announced their resignation from Facebook... Read
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Facebook introduces Community Leadership Programme winners for Africa... Read
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Sponsorship
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ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
2019 is almost here and with it your annual invitation to join BizTrends... Read
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TV
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LOUISE MARSLAND
Discovery Inc talks about investment in the African broadcast content market through diversification and a multi-partner model... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we got behind the selfie with Luke Peters, CEO and founder of Gone Digital and the Gone Digital Academy, aimed at enhancing skills and resources in the media and marketing industry... Read
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NEWSWATCH: It's been reported that WPP will merge creative agency Y&R and digital network VML to create a new entity called VMLY&R, marking new CEO Mark Read's first significant move just weeks after being appointed. Read
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The impacts of technology are widely felt across all sectors. The advancement of technology as it pertains to the logistics sector is detailed in Broll's Logistics Report... Read
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JOACHIM JARREAU, CRISTINA MITARITONNA AND SAMI BEN
The share of internal trade in Africa remains low, as reflected by official statistics. This is despite numerous regional trade agreements that have led to tariffs removal within the trading blocs... Read
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The Franchise Association of South Africa's latest franchise survey, shows that of all the business formats and across all sectors, franchising, through its unique business format, continues to show growth... Read
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