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Independent full-service agency Hero has appointed a new leadership team, with Andrew Hall stepping down as MD and Amanda Lambe taking over the reins, in partnership with new ECD Jabulani Sigege... read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week is just around the corner, taking place in New York City from 6 to 10 May 2019. Here, SA's own Jenny Ehlers shares her experiences as a juror on this year's Art Director's Club (ADC) interactive and integrated panels...read
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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, has been awarded the 2019 Cannes LionHeart in recognition of her advocacy for women, human rights and social justice...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This Worker's Day, we go behind the selfie with Inoba Siwundla, brand manager at Burger King South Africa...read
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Advertising
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BRENDAN SEERY
The Hyundai guys get an Orchid for a feel-good ad - just a love story about two people, and about a car... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
We had been waiting almost an hour. An hour is a long time to wait. You start playing weird games in your head. I will count to thirty. When the big hands gets to the five, I am definitely out of here. You also silently seethe... Read
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ISSUED BY PUBLICIS MACHINE
When hot local upcycling brand Sealand wanted to use the opening of its new store to entrench the brand's philosophy of treading lightly on the planet, it turned to Publicis Machine to re-invent the traditional invitation... Read
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
The Dentsu Aegis Network has announced that Celia Collins has been appointed as the Amplifi Director for South Africa, effective 1 May 2019... Read
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ISSUED BY INTERACT RDT
Customers expect quite a lot these days, and that's because it is being offered to them by other businesses... Read
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The high projected growth of esports streaming and sponsorship revenue in South Africa should not be ignored by local brands. If any brand alignment with the category exists, businesses would be wise to explore the opportunity to invest... Read
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ISSUED BY TECHNIQUE MEDIA
Technique Media was recently granted a tender by Philip Morris International SA (PMI SA) to work on a digital project for their new IQOS 2.4 Plus device... Read
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ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP
Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe & Africa has announced that Deep State season two will air globally in 2019... Read
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Shopping centre owners, mall marketing departments and agencies are invited to enter the South African Council of Shopping Centres' 2019 Footprint Marketing Awards... Read
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THANDO HOPA
For decades, mass media communicated a highly constructed image of beauty to its audiences. The result became quite remarkable - in that our popular culture demanded a standardisation of the human body and human beauty... Read
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The Free State Provincial Government has warned members of the public not to fall victim to a social media scammer, who is promising people jobs in the provincial government... Read
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Africa Month
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week is just around the corner, taking place in New York City from 6 to 10 May 2019. To kick off our #AfricaMonth coverage, David Tshabalala and Sarah Waiswa share their experiences as online jurors on this year's Art Director's Club (ADC)'s illustration and photography panels respectively... Read
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SINDY PETERS
With community and collaboration the key drivers of the co-working revolution, disruption in the traditional office space market seems all but inevitable... Read
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AUBREY HRUBY
Entrepreneurs have a pivotal role to play in Africa's unemployment crisis. Today over a third of the continent's young workforce (those aged 15-35) are unemployed... Read
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YU-SHAN WU
The accuracy of reporting on China's involvement in Africa can be "deeply misleading". What needs to be done to fix it... Read
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UK advertising spend rose 6.3% year-on-year to reach £23.6bn in 2018, marking the ninth consecutive year of market growth and highest annual total since monitoring began in 1982... Read
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#TechBytes is a nine-part video mini-series that shares nine simple steps any business can apply to generate qualified leads... Read
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DANIEL KELLY
The South African athlete, Caster Semenya, has lost her case against the athletic governing body, IAAF, which means that she will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels if she wishes to continue competing internationally in running events... Read
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INGRID WOOLARD
It's well-established that South Africa has one of the most unequal income distributions in the world... Read
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