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 | BRENDAN SEERY Tsogo Sun Gaming ad is simple but effective in passing along a call to action message, while Castle Lite seems to misunderstand the mindset of its largely male, young audience...read |
|  | | The Sunday Times Gen Next survey has announced the finalists across each of the 69 categories of the 16th annual Awards. The winners will be celebrated during an online event on 21 August 2020...read |
|  | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Creativity loves a tight brief - in times of crises we can choose to see our new tighter creative brief (that is social, economic and regulatory constraints) as a source of inspiration rather than confinement...read |
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| |  | NEO MAKHELE, ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA This Youth Month, the country celebrated the 44th anniversary of the June 16th uprising. However, we still suffer from massive youth unemployment and not enough meaningful economic participation for young people... Read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION AND ADVERTISING The new Board of Directors of the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) for the 2020/2021 fiscal were elected at the 73rd Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 24 June 2020... Read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY OPENFIELD How will brands be able to achieve the increased demands for commercial value during this period of diminished marketing budget? There is a solution... Read |  | KEVIN KRUGER, ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH What the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has highlighted is the need for businesses to transform digitally. Ironically, BMi Research had embarked on a journey of organisational redesign prior to the onset of the pandemic... Read |
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 | CHIEDZA GONYORA B2B marketers have, for years, treated DMU's (Decision-Making Unit) as a homogenous group - but it's time to embrace the concept that they're individual people with their own functions, interests and needs, and communicate with them accordingly... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DIGITAL KUNGFU Bad data is costing businesses millions each year... Read |
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 | Design that incorporates empathy and compassion has been gaining momentum for a number of years, with the focus of design increasingly shifting towards solving social issues... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK On 22 June 2020, the annual Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) Global Innovation Award winners were announced at the live Innovation Awards ceremony... Read |
| Online Media |
 | BRENT SMITH, ISSUED BY NEW MEDIA Built by New Media's in-house dev agency, Swipe iX, the new site mixes Food24's 18-year legacy of 15,000 recipes and 7,000 food articles with a new look and smart tech... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR UrbanSigns has combined with Tractor Outdoor to form Urbantrac - which will be run and operate exclusively under the Tractor Media umbrella... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Leading commercial music radio station 947 is excited to announce that all the Darren 'Whackhead' Simpson fans will get a dose of his whacky sense of humour on Andy Maqondwana's show, with the return of a beloved Joburg favourite with the 'Prank'... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BRAND SOUTH AFRICA Brand South Africa annually embarks on a domestic perceptions research project to explore, probe and identify the plethora of these thoughts on 'being South African'... Read |
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 | Global cosmetics company Coty Inc. will acquire a 20% ownership interest in Kim Kardashian West's beauty business KKW Beauty for $200m. Read |
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 | As part of its partnership with Lionesses of Africa, the all-female business network in Africa, Volkswagen has introduced 'The Lionesses Den' and is calling on female-owned businesses in South Africa to share a two-minute pitch... Read |
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