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|  | | Branding and communications group, Joe Public has announced the launch of its Cape Town agency, as the newest addition to the Joe Public United family, enabling the group to expand its capabilities and extend its unique offering to markets outside of Johannesburg...read |
|  | | Three creatives from Africa are among the global jury of 88 creatives from 25 countries announced for Next Creative Leaders competition, run jointly by The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY FACEBOOK This month's Marketing Mastermind is Arne´ Rust, Carling Black Label brand director. He discusses The Bravest Thing; a campaign that showcased how brands can quickly pivot during the time of Covid-19, while making great impact within their communities... Read |
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| |  | When the tourism industry ground to a halt in response to Covid-19, Matt Davison, founder of Travel Tractions, had to make a plan for his 18 young employees to keep their jobs... Read | ISSUED BY BRAND SOUTH AFRICA | NEO MAKHELE, ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA |
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| | ISSUED BY REGENT BUSINESS SCHOOL | ISSUED BY OPENFIELD |  | THEMBI SEHLOHO It goes without saying that "business as usual" left the chat some time ago and marketers are faced with their biggest challenge ever in the face of the modern era's biggest pandemic. A new approach to existing marketing strategies is a necessity during these trying times... Read | ISSUED BY ARORA ONLINE | ISSUED BY DIGITAL KUNGFU | ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK | KEVIN KRUGER, ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH |  | This past week the Gauteng Province has shown some of the highest numbers recorded on a single day... Read | CARL UNGERER, ISSUED BY MEDIOLOGY |
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 | CARL W JONES But even though brands are stepping up and making statements, the broader industries behind these messages also need interrogating. Decolonisation, for example, is rarely discussed in my field, advertising - and it needs to be... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE From music and culture to fashion and food, Samantha Joshua, CEO of S&S Culture, believes we are connected on so many levels. However, what's even more important is understanding what makes the consumer tick... Read |
 | 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 New York Festivals AME Awards has released the 2020 AME Report... Read |
 | The White Square International Advertising Festival has announced its shortlists for 2020... Read |
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 | VIRESH HARGOVAN Organisations are on an accelerated journey; evolving digital experiences and assets, aligning their goals to their customers. In the new phase of business; organisations take experiences to the next level; ramping up engagement opportunities and solving for the needs of their customers... Read |
 | 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 |
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| Design |
 | 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 |
 | Despite, or perhaps because of, the current crisis, CWDi has announced that the company will once again host the annual 67 Logos, but this year the initiative is a virtual one... Read |
| Digital |
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 | JUANITA PIENAAR CEO of Simulpass, Michael Kramer explains how he's working on resetting expectations for digital privacy through this new app... Read |
| Education |
 | Talented scholars are being challenged by AAA to demonstrate their potential to become game-changers in the advertising and marketing world... Read |
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 | JUANITA PIENAAR We talk to Black Coffee Films' Amanda Dlamini and David Leite about how their startup has tried to represent black directors in the country and consciously adding female and young directors to their roster... Read |
 | A total of 10 short films, including two from South Africa, have been selected for the African Women in the Time of Covid-19 Short Film Competition - which is being held by the Ladima Foundation, in partnership with DW Akademie... Read |
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 | The Marketing Achievement Awards (MAA), endorsed by the Marketing Association of South Africa (MASA), is confirmed to take place in February next year... 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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 | KESHIA PATCHIAPPEN The way organisations operate has shifted considerably in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. While much still seems uncertain, the key to surviving - and thriving - is based on the speed, tenacity and dexterity with which businesses need to adapt... Read |
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 | GRANT MCEWAN During these strange times with no live sport to satiate our thirst for epic clashes, there is a new rivalry playing out in our industry between marketing teams and bottom-line focused executives... Read |
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 | LWAZI PITI Consumers are migrating from traditional media as we know it to new age media because of the vast differences in approaches taken by the two mediums. There is an obvious shift in consumer behaviour and a growing hunger for in-depth and meaningful discussions... Read |
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 | We talk to Stephen Werner, station manager for Kfm 94.5 about the third anniversary of the KFM rebrand... Read |
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 | The results of the 2020 South African Digital Customer Experience (CX) Report reveals that brands need to adopt new strategies to engage, acquire and retain their customers... Read |
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 | BRETT ROGERS Brett Rogers explores the edges of culture and how things are changing, providing valuable insights for brands wanting to understand who and what is shaping culture... Read |
| Retail |
 | FREDERIC DIMANCHE Retail was in trouble long before Covid-19 hit. The past five years saw daily reports of store closures and retailer bankruptcies. The growth of online commerce eroded many retailers' top-line revenues... Read |
 | Cash-strapped consumers are not just concerned about pricing when grocery shopping, but also about the measures taken by retailers to ensure shopper safety during the pandemic... Read |
 | 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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| Women's Month |
 | The seventh instalment of the GirlCode Annual Hackathon, dubbed "Hack from Home" will be a virtual hackathon to overcome the Covid-19 challenges... Read |
| Youth Marketing |
 | 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 |
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 | One of the most significant backbones of Ghana's economic and social development for a very long time has been small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs)... Read |
 | Drones are being successfully deployed to support medical and humanitarian projects across Africa, but for greater, more sustainable impact, they will need to be fully integrated into supply chains within an enabling regulatory environment. Read |
 | HAILAY GESESEW The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently noted that "researchers are working at break-neck speed" to understand SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease (Covid-19)... Read |
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 | The road to recovery for South African businesses will be a long and difficult one, especially for the small players... Read |
 | ANDREW ROBINSON We used to work in offices. For the past few months we've worked at home. Until fairly recently, those were really the only two options that most office workers had... Read |
 | GREG NOTT The weeks wear on under lockdown and Covid-19 cases are ramping up in South Africa. As we cling to semblances of life before the pandemic, I'm convinced that if we're going to come out victorious, it's going to be hope for the future that sees us through this especially difficult time in global history... Read |
 | Flexiroam Africa, a Cape Town-based travel technology will be providing a connectivity solution for the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020: Virtual) taking place from 6-10 July 2020. Read |
 | Vodacom launched a campaign called 'Be the light' to call everyone's attention to the scourge of GBV in South Africa... Read |
 | HARTMUT WINKLER On 14 June the South African Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy issued a controversial statement initiating a process that could lead to the construction of new nuclear power station... Read |
 | MOHAMMED AMIN As countries around the world start to think about what "work" looks like post the pandemic, we need to look at what this means for businesses... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE It goes without saying that when we need to set a certain mood, music is definitely a key factor. It's even better when you find a playlist that's already been curated... Read |
 | Social investment fund manager Tshikululu has initiated a project to map the interventions of social investors throughout South Africa... Read |
 | ADAM KAMRADT-SCOTT Around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating. While some countries such as Australia and New Zealand have managed to flatten the curve, in many other parts of the world the number of cases has continued to reach new highs... Read |
 | 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 |
 | TERRENA RATHANLALL South Africa is into the third month of lockdown and many entrepreneurs still don't know if they will be able to reopen their businesses when the lockdown is over. However, this hasn't stopped them from opening their hearts and wallets to those in need. Read |
 | June is Youth Month in South Africa and this year, Pride Factor Academy kickstarted the conversation with Bizcommunity, by launching the 'Have Your Say' campaign... Read |
 | JARED DANIELS In much of the world, the LGBTQ+ community has made great strides toward 'equal' even though the odds have been against them... Read |
 | The Section 12J Association of South Africa has released a report outlining the details the impact which the Section 12J incentive has had on the SA economy... Read |
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