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The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week 2019 has come to an end. Here's how SA scored at the ADC and One Show award ceremonies held throughout the week... read
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Seven South African creatives have been selected as judges for this year's Cannes Lions...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Nike's Dream Crazy campaign has won favour across the globe, having just scooped up top honours at the One Show Awards in New York. Caster Semenya, who features in the campaign, has also further proved her place on the winner podium...read
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ANN NUROCK
Ann Nurock interviews Chris Bergeron, VP of content experience of Cossette Montreal at The One Club Creative Summit in New York to find out more about the dual challenge in reinventing herself, in terms of her personal life as a transgendered woman and career shift from journalism to advertising...read
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Africa Month
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that 13-million people die from infectious diseases each year... Read
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Production levels in Angola are expected to soar by 2020 following the reorganisation of the state oil company Sonangol, and a drastic revision of country's legislation related to oil and gas... Read
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One Show Awards
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ANN NUROCK
Ann Nurock interviews Kevin Swanepoel, CEO of The One Club at the One Show in New York to find out what the non-profit organisation has been up to over the last year... Read
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ANN NUROCK
Ann Nurock interviews Marcel Marcondes, CMO of Anheuser-Busch InBev US after his talk at the One Club Creative Summit in New York to find out more about the pillars making Anheuser-Busch relevant in 2019... Read
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The colours of the 711 winners of the 98th global ADC Annual Awards were revealed on the first evening of the One Club for Creativity's Creative Week, held on 6 May 2018 at Metropolitan West in New York, with a Merit Award coming home to SA, for Grid Worldwide's #HopeJoanna... Read
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The first of two award nights for One Show 2019 is done and dusted, having taken place at the Ziegfeld Ballroom earlier on Wednesday, 8 May, with Africa bringing home 1 gold and 4 bronze pencils... Read
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The second of two award nights for One Show 2019 is done and dusted, having taken place at Cipriani Wall Street earlier on Friday, 10 May, with South Africa bringing home a further Silver and Bronze Pencil... Read
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Advertising
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BRENDAN SEERY
Defy and Finish, pick up your respective Onions. And remember: I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate... Read
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KHANGELANI DZIBA
The reality is, we all know the economy has not been performing great in the last few years and even more so in the last year, which has ultimately put an extreme amount of pressure on businesses to perform at a level that will continue to showcase value... Read
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DAWID DE VILLIERS, JOHANN SCHOLTZ AND JESSICA DU TOIT
The draft Conduct Standard - published for public comment on 3 May 2019 - aims to introduce requirements applicable to banks, mutual banks and co-operative banks that promote the fair treatment of financial customers of banks... Read
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Branding
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REFILWE MALULEKE
Brands need to show up in relevant environments with tailored offerings and a seamless purchasing journey... Read
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CSI
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Cell C's Take a Girl Child to Work is one of South Africa's largest collaborative acts of volunteerism, with more than 550 organisations to host girl learners aged 13-18 in their workplace over three days this year... Read
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Design
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MATHOTO MASETLA
Fans of the award-winning series, Game of Thrones, were eager to watch the premiere of the long-awaited eighth and final season that started on 14 April 2019 and, as is evidenced on social media, has them enthralled... Read
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Following a successful launch last year, the second edition of the Dezeen Awards is now open for entries... Read
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The Cape Town Homemakers Expo has launched a competition ideal for animal-loving designers... Read
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Digital
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By 2021, only one-quarter of midsize and large organisations will successfully target new ways of working in 80% of their initiatives, according to Gartner, Inc. New ways of working include distributed decision-making, virtual and remote work, and redesigned physical workspaces... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
The giant mural, which was unveiled by the South African Minister of Tourism, Derek Hanekom, was created by four artists and represents Durban as well as broader South African society. Read
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PATRICIA FURSTENBERG
The second edition of the SA Indie Film Fest (SAIFF), a showcase for local and international short-form indie filmmakers, will open on 18 May at The Bioscope in Joburg and will continue with screenings at The Labia Theatre in Cape Town on 26 May 2019... Read
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Magazines
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
The magazine category offered no surprises in the Audit Bureau of Circulations of South Africa's (ABC) first quarter (Q1) of 2019, with declining circulations of the past few years continuing... Read
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Marketing
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TIFFANY MARKMAN
Explainer videos. Also known as whiteboard animations, illustrated stories, and fast-draw videos. They're either the best thing ever for your product, service or brand, helping you to unpack what you do quickly and compellingly. Or they're an expensive piece of website filler that few visitors watch, and almost no one views all the way to the end... Read
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Media
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Media Freedom
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Mobile
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DANIEL K. MADUKU
Mobile technology will arguably go down in history as the most successful innovation of our lifetime. Mobile devices, especially phones, are ubiquitous in large parts of the world... Read
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Newspapers
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
In the first quarter of 2019, the Audit Bureau of Circulations of South Africa shows a decline for all categories of newspapers on the prior year and the previous quarter, except for the local newspapers category... Read
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Online Media
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PR & Communications
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The African Public Relations Association (APRA) will host its annual African Public Relations Conference, in Kigali, Rwanda from 13 to 17 May 2019... Read
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Printing
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Radio
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FRANZ KRÜGER
Beyond the choreographed photo opportunities and big rallies, there is a local dimension to South Africa's election campaign that is going largely unnoticed by the national media. As a result, important insights into political dynamics are being missed... Read
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Research
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As fieldwork for Agency Scope 2019/20 has begun, Scope partner and director for the UK and South Africa Johanna McDowell says the value of the information gleaned from face-to-face interviews with marketers has seen the number of participants grow... Read
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Retail
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LVMH, the world's largest luxury group, has announced the launch of a new Paris-based luxury fashion house, developed by Robyn Rihanna Fenty... Read
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Nike has launched a new in-app scanning solution in the US, called Nike Fit, that provides customers with their recommended shoe size in each of the company's footwear products... Read
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JEAN-NOËL KAPFERER
The April 2019 fire at the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral came as an immense shock to the people of France, as well as throughout Europe... Read
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LEO VAN DE POLDER
One of our Shop members, Leon Nicholas, VP of retail insights and solutions at Westrock, explains the importance of POP and describe 4 big trends in the area of the retail environment... Read
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Sales
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SELINA BIEBER
If you're looking to market your small business, consider celebration days, special events and public holidays as the perfect reason to reach out to your customers with messages, deals and promotions... Read
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TV
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week we go behind the selfie with Mikhaila Hunter, manager: strategic relationships and marketing at Fort... Read
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Design Month
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LEIGH ANDREWS
There's been renewed emphasis on issues of inclusion and diversity in the corporate and advertising world lately, but that often leads to a sense of being the 'first, only or different' - at least in the early stages. That's a lonely place to be. Here's how to enhance a sense of belonging in your workplace... Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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LEIGH ANDREWS
I chatted to the international jury presidents ahead of the upcoming Loeries Creative Week. Kicking off the series is this year's design jury president Katja Thielen, creative director and founder of the UK's Together Design... Read
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African businesses are being challenged to wake up to the economic, social and environmental power of the Blue Economy... Read
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Asoko Insight and African Business magazine announce African Business DealRoom partnership... Read
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With mobile money continuing to dominate the continent's commerce growth, opening doors to business to everyone from a rural farmer to an entrepreneur, and cross-border seeing inter-country transactions on the rise, the continent is making a play to be the world's biggest e-commerce opportunity... Read
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AfricArena has announced the delegation of startups they will bring along and showcase at the "World's Rendezvous for Startups and Leaders", VivaTech... Read
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The winners of the Digital Lab Africa Pitch competition have been announced and the 10 winners each receive R42,000 in cash and residence period in France... Read
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WAN-IFRA announces 2019 Laureates of the Women in News Editorial Leadership Award... Read
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Growth continues to top the list of CEO business priorities in 2019 and 2020, according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner... Read
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The City of Cape Town calls for innovative and smart ideas that will help to mitigate the current energy crisis... Read
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BigFive Digital has chosen Cape Town as host for its inaugural summit... Read
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ZIA MEHRABI AND NAVIN RAMANKUTTY
Governments need to think about global ways agricultural policies may affect the stability of the food system as a whole, beyond locally focused efforts to increase resilience in production... Read
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Better customer experience (CX), which leads to improved customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy, is a goal across many organisations... Read
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The SA Innovation Summit has launched ANDZA, a competition for entrepreneurs to win investment funding and acceleration... Read
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