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Newswatch: As reported on News24 yesterday, the Sunday Times has apologised and announced that it will return all awards and prize money received for three now-discredited reports - on the Cato Manor police unit dubbed as a 'death squad', the SARS 'rogue unit' and Zimbabwean 'renditions'... read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
If you've attended a talk by Clem Sunter, you'll know all about the importance of being more fox than hedgehog in business - here are the red flags to watch for as we approach 2019, in the hope of a once-again thriving economy and what your business needs to focus on to play its part...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Ever thought the answer to breaking the country's poverty cycle was as simple as improving basic education for females? Economist Dr Dawie Roodt explained the implications at last week's Ads24 Food for thought session...read
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ALICE JAKINS
Yes, your social media team can be spread out across the globe. What matters is that they share your work values and that they rock in their zone of genius when it comes to delivery...read
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Advertising
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The winners are out! At the Amasa Awards gala event held at the Hilton Sandton last night, sports management consultancy Playmakers was named the inaugural Agency of the Year and overall Roger Garlick Award winner! Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
NEWSWATCH: Some fear the demise of SA's Advertising Standards Authority will lead to a drop in advertising quality, but self-regulation will remain a core focus for the new Advertising Regulatory Board, set to start swinging stronger than before... Read
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Newswatch: The automotive giant has appointed BBDO as its new lead creative agency, after 75 years with WPP, effective 1 November... Read
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IDidTht's September SA Film Reel Monthly Craft Awards were judged by Bridget Johnson, consulting ECD at Wick, who selected MTN's 'The Steve Tshwete Story' by Zee Ntuli from Darling Films for Best of Reel... Read
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D&AD has released the briefs for New Blood Awards 2019 and has also launched Make and Break, a WPP-sponsored podcast series which aims to bring insight from the New Blood Academy to the wider world... Read
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ISSUED BY SPARK MEDIA
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ISSUED BY KANTAR MILLWARD BROWN
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Branding
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REBONE MASEMOLA
Local brands, marketers and creators need to get better at designing campaigns and content that reflects intersectional narratives and imagery that include LGBTQI+ communities, people with albinism and the disabled... Read
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The multibillion-rand structural redevelopment of Fourways Mall in Johannesburg is being accompanied by a new brand and corporate identity... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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HANS ZACHAR
African businesses must ensure they stay a step ahead to survive and thrive by finding intelligent solutions which totally re-imagine customer experiences... Read
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Across all industries, at least 84% of consumers say their experiences with using digital tools and services fall short of expectations... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
The 17th Annual Orange Index Customer Service Awards saw Woolies Food take the top spot with Burger King and Woolies (Clothing) second and third were respectively... Read
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The overall top 10 winners of South Africa's premier service excellence benchmark, as well as 29 industry category winners, were announced at the recent 2018/19 Ask Afrika Orange Index Awards... Read
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BERNARD FORD
E-commerce is growing rapidly and many will increase their online spend to get better deals, for its convenience and savings on shipping... Read
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Design
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Digital
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CARMEN MURRAY
We now live in an age where our physical selves live along our digital selves. What you do offline is shared online and "peacocking" has become prevalent for digital citizens of the 21st century... Read
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Brand and digital agency Wonderland Collective has acquired UK design agency Studio Aura... Read
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We stand at the precipice of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which promises to be the most globally impactful revolution to date... Read
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JG BEZUIDENHOUT
Is it a snack? Is it a game? No! They are the technical terms for the most exciting thing to ever happen to digital marketing... Read
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Education
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Entrepreneurship
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LOUISE MARSLAND
Growing women's economic empowerment in Africa and creating the number one globally recognised platform for female entrepreneurship in Africa, is what AWIEF is about... Read
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MIKE VACY-LYLE
Traditionally, being viewed as a "hustler" was perceived as a negative connotation - recently, however, to survive as an entrepreneur it is seen as necessary to succeed - everyday I'm hustling...! Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
"I'm so pleased we're wearing aprons as this is so slurpy!" This might not be typical business dialogue, but these and similar exclamations were par for the course at the Cape Town version of Ads24's Food For Thought event... Read
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This year's Business of Wine & Food Tourism Conference, which takes place on 17 October at Spier near Stellenbosch, has lined up several high-profile international and local speakers, some of whom will discuss the role of big data as part of the event's wider theme of innovation... Read
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Developed by SoftBank Robotics, Miss Pepper, who is capable of interacting with humans and can adapt her interaction according to a human's emotions, was unveiled during the three-day Biomion World Nutrition Forum 2018 conference... Read
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The 2018 Joburg Film Festival will be held at venues across Johannesburg from 9-18 November 2018. More than 40 curated releases are set to showcase the best in African and international cinema... Read
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With a focus on African storytelling, the African Movie Channel has launched a production hub to develop and produce movies and TV series... Read
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Magazines
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JESSICA TENNANT
Kojo Baffoe rejoined Destiny Man last month, succeeding editor Thabiso Tema... Read
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Marketing
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Feeling a bit state-capsized, swept along by more waves than a cryptocurrency chart? Here are some life-saving festive content ideas... Read
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In this video, Nyiko Chauke of Marketing Fridays interviews Khumo Theko of I See Africa about her role as a trends specialist and some insights into the African consumer... Read
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MIKE SALOMON
Tough financial times are pushing businesses to cut costs in order to strengthen the bottom line. The mistake many organisations make is to cut the budgets, instead of first analysing marketing expenses and determining which avenues are offering the best return on investment... Read
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Mobile
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VICTOR KOAHO
I remember growing up on the dusty streets of the Vaal as a radio addict who used to love listening to Radio Bop... Read
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DOROS HADJIZENONOS
As mobile computing - especially using personal devices - becomes more common, the potential for network compromise is increasing... Read
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Online Media
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In South Africa, podcast consumption has grown by 50% in the past 12 months alone and represents the fastest growing sector of media consumption in South Africa... Read
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PR & Communications
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The SACAA, mandated with promoting, regulating, developing, enforcing and improving aviation safety and security in South Africa, has appointed Artifact SA as its communications partner... Read
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Nhlanhla Nene's recent testimony at the Zondo Commission on State Capture, which has ended in his resignation as finance minister, once again highlights the importance of ethics in leadership and reputational management... Read
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Earlier this year, Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe global communications agencies merged, creating BCW, which has a strong network across Africa... Read
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Information has been released on memorial services to be held in both Cape Town and Johannesburg for Keith Rose next week... Read
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Radio
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CHRIS JORDAN
Chris Jordan writes about a recent workshop he presented to the marketing team at Tuks FM... Read
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Recruitment
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Youth Employment Service (YES) chief executive to headline the first LinkedIn South Africa Talent Awards... Read
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Wrapping up the two-day Jobs Summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on all stakeholders to roll-up their sleeves and create the much needed jobs in the country... Read
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Research
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5M2T aims to take the guesswork out of doing business in South Africa's dynamic informal sector by providing brands and wholesale distributors with detailed data analysis of informal retail... Read
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TOM JACKSON
Seedstars Maputo winner WenaData may only be active in Mozambique for now, but the startup has big plans for taking its innovative research techniques across the continent... Read
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Retail
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The 2018 Sunday Times/Sowetan Shopper Survey, conducted by Kantar TNS South Africa, has announced South Africa's favourite retailers... Read
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BOGOSI MOTSHEGWA
Bogosi Motshegwa writes that the way social media is being done is not efficient, nor does it allows for the extraction of the full potential and true value of social media... Read
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ANNE DOLINSCHEK
Fake followers have been a contentious bone for years, but even though everyone warns against it, it's still rife... Read
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NEWSWATCH: Facebook has warned of a new viral hoax message that is fooling users into thinking their account has been 'cloned' by cyber criminals and to forward on the message to all of their Facebook friends... Read
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JOSH DA COSTA, ISSUED BY R-SQUARED DIGITAL SA
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TV
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LEIGH ANDREWS
'Cord cutters' and 'cord nevers' are proud of the fact that they don't fall into the description of a typical TV audience, but the SABC is now calling on all who watch televised content to pay up for TV licences - even if they don't watch on traditional TV sets... Read
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YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM
DStv has recently rolled out a channel to promote locally made entertainment content. Pearl Magic channel will provide programs like music, reality shows, films and telenovelas... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we got behind the selfie with Terry Murphy, publisher at Marketing Mix Conferences who will open next week's Social Media Landscape Briefings 2019 in Sandton and Cape Town... Read
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Pendoring
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The 2018 Pendoring Awards finalists have been announced... Read
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MARCUS 'THE MALTESE FALCON' BREWSTER
If you already have a yacht and two airplanes, guess what the latest status symbol is? Russian oligarchs already know the punchline - a Maltese passport - but it's no laughing matter (and it's certainly not cheap either)... Read
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London International Awards (LIA) has announced the shortlists for Ambient, Print, Poster, Billboard and Verbal Identity. In addition to this, LIA has also revealed the shortlists for Design and Package Design and for the Medical competition... Read
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The shortlist for the 2018 Clio Entertainment Awards has been released... Read
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The 2018 Clio Awards revealed its Grand Clio winners on Wednesday, 3 October... Read
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EBEN ESTERHUIZEN
2018 has been a year of great retail activity and by August we had reached a technical recession. A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth... Read
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More than 40 entrepreneurs and startups participated in the 2018 Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP-SA) of the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) at the SABC Education SA Innovation Summit last month... Read
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With October being International Cyber Security Awareness Month, people should be more responsible when it comes to what they do on the internet... Read
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