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The finalists of the 2019 New Generation Social & Digital Media Awards have been announced.read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
When former SA creative Matthew Bull started the SoloUnion talent collaborative in New York, he quickly realised this was just the model SA needed, so he recruited Rob McLennan and Gillian Rightford to lead this industry game-changer. Neither an agency nor a collection of freelancers in the strictest sense of the word, here's how their 'heads without the overheads' sharing economy creative solution works...read
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ISSUED BY OGILVY & MATHER
Ogilvy South Africa is bidding farewell to Group Managing Director Luca Gallarelli, as the industry leader takes leave of the agency 17 years after he first joined...read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
For the second year running, Joe Public United was recognised as Agency of the Year at the Loeries... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
For the second time in a row, TBWA\ was recognised as Regional Agency Group of the Year at the Loeries Awards, which, this year, took place on Saturday, 24 August 2019 at the Durban ICC... Read
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MAROEFAH SMITH
TBWA Hunt Lascaris recently won the Internet & Mobile Audio Commercials Grand Prix at the Loeries... Read
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ISSUED BY LOERIES
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Women's Month
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
As open source becomes more prolific, benchmarking will become more important... Read
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Advertising
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BRENDAN SEERY
Ford's video/ad featuring a cute dachshund gets an Orchid, while North West University shows big-city campuses are not the be-all and end-all of the creative world... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
This is Salvator Mundi. The world's most expensive painting. It recently sold for 450-million dollars at Christie's in New York... Read
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JOHANNA MCDOWELL
It is not a new issue, but one that continues to create angst for marketers and agencies - writes Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) and Scopen partner... Read
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The Epica Awards is offering a special discount to entries from South Africa... Read
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Branding
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ISSUED BY SUMITOMO DUNLOP
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CRM, CX, UX
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DAVID ALVES
Acquiring today's customer is a lot like getting a dog. They provide an endless amount of value and the feel-good sense of confidence that you're doing a good job... Read
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NATALIE MCCRAE
We all know the adage; it is five times more expensive to acquire a new customer than to retain an existing customer... Read
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JANE STEVENSON
It's a common question that we assume everyone knows or understands. But assuming versus engaging, in order to know, are vastly different... Read
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CARMEN MURRAY
Sentiment analysis could expose some deep insights about our customers... Read
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CSI
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SINDY PETERS
Wandisile Nqeketho is the CEO and founder of 18 Gangster Museum, a social enterprise based in Khayelitsha that targets at-risk youth in the community, drawing their attention to the perils of gangsterism... Read
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Design
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South African talent Thebe Magugu, 26, is the winner of the 2019 LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers. Magugu is the first designer from Africa to scoop the coveted award... Read
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The winners of the inaugural Clout Designers' Industry Days Fired Up By Nando's have been announced... Read
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Digital
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STEVE LAUTER
Instead of examining the advantages and disadvantages of digital banking versus traditional banking, it should rather be accepted that digitisation is the direction in which all banks need to move... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
The Mobile Marketing Association of SA's (MMA SA) recent thought leadership event, The Future of Attribution, focused on MTA with guest speaker, Joel Rubinson... Read
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JENARÉ HARDCASTLE, ISSUED BY THE WEB SHACK
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Education
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CARLA ENSLIN, ISSUED BY VEGA SCHOOL
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The lineup for the newly-renamed FNB Art Joburg has been announced. The annual art fair will be held in Johannesburg from 13 to 15 September 2019... Read
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ISSUED BY HOMEMAKERS
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Marketing
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Jason Bagley, CEO of Firing Squad, presented Meltwater's August 2019 webinar, on how to win at email marketing. Here's why this digital marketing dinosaur is still relevant today, along with an overview of Bagley's top five email marketing myths debunked... Read
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The Association for Alcohol Responsibility and Education's (Aware.org) new underage drinking campaign aims to address the underage drinking in South Africa... Read
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JENNILEE PEREMORE-OLIVER
When I was growing up, I remember my highlight about watching TV was not the movies or sitcoms, but the commercials... Read
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The renewal of a shared marketing agreement between New York City and the Mother City has been marked by Cape Town Tourism and NYC & Company... Read
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Media
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
The future of journalism is about the future of democracy, but all over the world journalism is in a crisis - a crisis that threatens not only the journalism sector but democracy itself... Read
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JOSEPHINE BUYS
Publishing platforms offer a rare opportunity to communicate effectively, writes PRC CEO Josephine Buys... Read
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PRINCE NDLOVU
What happens when the brief delves into the Lowveld areas such as Nelspruit, White River, Lydenburg, Baberton and Hazyview? Read
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TINI SEVAK
With more choice, power and information at their fingertips than ever before, today's consumers are making quicker, more connected decisions about everything from how to spend their money to which media they consume... Read
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MOLLY FITZ-PATRICK, ISSUED BY RED & YELLOW
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PR & Communications
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PRINELLA PILLAY
For many industry practitioners, the most common complaint is described in one word - millennials... Read
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NEERAN NAIDOO, ISSUED BY HEWERS
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Printing
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Radio
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Cape Talk has appointed Refilwe Moloto as its new breakfast show host, making her Africa's first black woman to anchor and host a commercial talk radio breakfast programme solo... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Jon Savage and Catherine Grenfell created their own radio "station", borne out of the sheer frustration for commercial radio and its confines. Now in its third year, they are starting to unleash its full potential... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Kagiso Media's Radio division recently announced the launch of a new business unit, Expedite, that is being spearheaded by Kevin Fine, former GM of Jacaranda FM. Here, he shares more... Read
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Research
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Shoprite took the title as South Africa's favourite retailer in the 2019 Sunday Times/Sowetan Shopper Survey. Clicks and Pick n Pay came 2nd and 3rd respectively... Read
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Retail
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
To be successful today, bricks and mortar stores must move from selling as their main purpose to providing consumers with a combination of products and experiences that are engaging and inspirational... Read
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High mobile penetration, secure payment options and changing spending habits, and female consumers, are driving SA e-commerce... Read
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Social Media
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Local media - social media in particular - has covered the general sense of unrest and discomfort in the country this week, following the most recent spate of femicide cases that spurred the nation to say #Enoughisenough and ask #AmInext? In addition to marches, a number of platforms have been voicing their support... Read
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ANDY WALKER
Late last week, South Africa was harbouring hope of finding missing 18-year-old UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana... Read
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According to research from We Are Social and Hootsuite, South Africans on average spend more than eight hours a day online... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
South Africa's outrage following the rape and murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana continued into Tuesday morning with several more hashtags calling for action against gender-based violence in the country... Read
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TV
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The search for SABC 3's new feel-good breakfast show presenter has been narrowed down to 10 hopefuls... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Mike Barnwell, chief creative officer at HelloFCB+... Read
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Banjoman Films director Dermot Malone has directed Brown Thomas's first brand campaign... View
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The King James Group created Sanlam's new TVC and through-the-line campaign... View
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Johnson & Johnson announced the winners of the Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0... Read
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The new African free trade zone came into effect at the end of May 2019. All of the African Union's (AU) member states are now legally bound to allow African goods to be traded without restraint throughout the continent... Read
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African startups Shopit, Exportunity and Wakulima from South Africa, Benin and Tanzania respectively, emerged the winners of the Nestlé Research and Development sub-Saharan innovation challenge... Read
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JEFF CONROY-KRUTZ
In Africa new data suggests citizens' support for press freedoms is in sharp decline... Read
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Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur is a female youth empowerment, entrepreneurship and acceleration programme aimed at young girls in high school... Read
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The Entrepreneur of the Year competition, sponsored by Sanlam and Business/Partners, announced this year's overall victor, as well as five category winners... Read
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Minister of the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams and Clayton Naidoo, general manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at Cisco, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining key areas of cooperation for South Africa's digital future... Read
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YORK ZUCCHI
Without clients, a business is essentially just a hobby. Too many startups, innovators, entrepreneurs and SMEs focus too much time on product and service... Read
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LUKAS VAN DER MERWE
The recent ransomware attack on Johannesburg power utility City Power shows how easy it is for organisations to fall victim to cybercriminals... Read
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Supporting entrepreneurship is the task of our time as we look to tech innovation to unlock solutions in healthcare, energy, education, agriculture, financial inclusion, the green economy and others... Read
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NICCI BOTHA
One of big questions being asked ever since National Health Insurance (NHI) was first mooted is what medical aids will look like and whether they would even exist under NHI... Read
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As per the latest petrol price adjustment for September 2019 by the Department of Energy, motorists are in for a hefty petrol and diesel price increase from Wednesday, 4 September 2019... Read
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Leonardo da Vinci "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death." Walter Anderson "Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilised by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." Miranda Kerr "I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too." William Golding "I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been." Khalil Gibran "March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path." |
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