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 | SA's The Odd Number has been shortlisted in the Sound Design & Use of Music / Audio Composition category... read |
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|  | CHRIS BREWER The advertising industry is in big trouble. It seems to be on a suicide mission assisted by those young people with pimples who think they know best but who, in fact, know little about calculating reach and frequency and other analyses and ably assisted of course by our Military Junta...read |
|  | JESSICA TENNANT To assist South Africans affected by the coronavirus, Red & Yellow Creative School of Business is donating R2m worth of digital marketing certifications, specifically its Digital Marketing Aptitude Test (DMAT) to 1,000 unemployed South Africans that want to prove their worth in the job market...read |
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| |  | JORDAN RITTENBERRY As the Covid-19 pandemic disrupts lives and damages economies, society is looking to big business for leadership and solutions. So far, however, the private sector has not lived up to expectations, Edelman's most recent Trust Barometer data shows... Read |  | MAHLATSE MAHLASE, ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING This past weekend, my Facebook timeline was flooded with notifications of watch parties. For those not on the social media platform, the Live feature allows someone to stream an event on Facebook in real time for all their friends or a selected group of people to see... Read |
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 | New York Festivals AME Awards has announced the 2020 award winners, with AMVBBDO UK earning AME Best of Show and Regional Platinum - Europe... Read |
| Digital |
 | DEREK NEL, ISSUED BY 8BITSTUDIO Building a WhatsApp bot couldn't be easier! No developer needed, drag, drop and let your bot do the rest. Use rich media and automations creating an amazing experience for customers!.. Read |
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 | EARLE HOLMES, ISSUED BY AFDA The 2019 third year Afda Johannesburg graduation animation film, Hadeda, directed by Nuha Suliman, has been selected as a semi-finalist at the Lagos International Festival of Animation, Lifanima, in Nigeria... Read |
| Magazines |
 | The judges for the 2020 Santam Women of the Future Awards have been announced... Read |
| Mobile |
 | ANDY WALKER Just last week Facebook started rolling out its Messenger Rooms group call service to users of the eponymous chat app... Read |
 | ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA Over the last five years Vicinity Media has grown into Africa's leading location-based mobile ad network and technology company... Read |
| One Show Awards |
 | A total of 68 Cubes were presented in Motion/Film/Gaming Craft and Publication Design on the fourth day of the week-long online ADC 99th Annual Awards... Read |
| Online Media |
 | ISSUED BY DUKE ADVERTISING The Duke Group created the Jive #5SecondsOfFunny Challenge, taking some of Cape Town's best-loved comedians online for 30 days of short, sharp five-second comedy snippets... Read |
| Research |
 | Salesforce has released its sixth annual State of Marketing report, including South African data for the first time. The report shows that, locally, marketers are at the forefront, with 76% in South Africa leading customer experience initiatives across their companies... Read |
| Streaming |
 | ISSUED BY SHOWMAX The fifth and final season of The Magicians is now available to binge first on Showmax. Season 5 has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is "without a doubt a satisfying conclusion to an amazing five-year series," according to TV Fanatic... Read |
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 | Innovate Now, Africa's Assistive Technology Accelerator, is seeking applications from innovators across the African continent who are dedicated to developing mobile based technologies designed to assist people living with disabilities. Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE #LockdownLessons explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on businesses... Read |
 | French Tech Cape Town & Johannesburg has announced a series of initiatives to support South African tech entrepreneurs to help mitigate the effect of Covid-19... Read |
 | As South Africa slowly moves out of lockdown, Howler has used its technology platform to develop a self-screening tool to aid in the early detection of Covid-19 symptoms... Read |
 | A smart helmet that can scan the temperatures of up to 200 people every minute is now available in South Africa... Read |
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