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|  | | The Liberty Group has announced its brand refresh and new payoff line, 'In it with you'. Liberty's chief marketing officer Thabang Ramogase tells us more...read |
|  | BRENDAN SEERY Many marketing and advertising "gurus" seem to view selling products and services as something akin to waging a military campaign; hence the liberal quoting from Sun Tzu, the Chinese general, philosopher and author of the seminal treatise The Art of War...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY LOERIES Gallo Images and the Loeries believe it is time to #GetReal through real stories from real women. Share a pic of yourself, or of a woman in advertising that you admire, along with a 250-word explanatory story to join this movement... Read |
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| |  | SABRINA ANDREUCCI Sabrina Andreucci, strategic director at Social Media 101 writes that the Covid crisis has created an ideal opportunity for brands to engage with their consumers through social media... Read |  | President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the South African media for its in-depth coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic, despite the industry itself being confronted by daunting challenges... Read | ISSUED BY ASK AFRIKA |  | JARRED MAILER-LYONS Jarred Mailer-Lyons, head of digital at The MediaShop shares his views on SA's new Covid-19 tracing app... Read |
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 | TAMMI PRETORIUS The short answer is "no...and yes". Here's the long answer... Read |
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 | TYRONE VAN HEERDEN Tyrone Van Heerden, head of strategy at Iris, looks into the continuous trend of the cancel culture, the impact that it has on brands and how communications professionals can try and reduce the risk... Read |
| Biz Takeouts |
 | ISSUED BY HUSQVARNA SOUTH AFRICA Jenna Robinson, regional marketing manager for Husqvarna Africa, shares the backstory about the Husqvarna brand's recent campaign, featuring rugby icon Beast Tendai Mtawarira as brand ambassador... Read |
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 | LOUISE HEFER How do you ensure a person buys your product over someone else's, especially when there's no real differentiation? Read |
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 | JAMES BAYHACK While 'conversational commerce' is not a new concept, the phenomenon is gaining momentum, driving innovation and customer experience in an ever-changing e-commerce landscape... Read |
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 | LIVIA DYER AND NADINE MATHER Livia Dyer, partner, and Nadine Mather, senior associate, Bowmans explain how PoPIA will impact and potentially change, the parameters of direct marketing... Read |
| Education |
 | EARLE HOLMES, ISSUED BY AFDA The new three-year Afda BA Creative Writing programme will be structured to be responsive to this rapidly changing landscape, while offering integrated, rather than isolated creative writing projects... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT Dianna Games, chief executive of Africa @ Work shares some important things to consider when looking to do business in the African market... Read |
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| Film & Cinematography |
 | The 2020 Durban International Festival (DIFF) came to a close with the announcement of the winners of the DIFF Awards... Read |
| Magazines |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA The Government Communication and Information System's (GCIS) Public Sector Manager magazine September edition is out now... Read |
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 | WARREN MOSS Warren Moss, CEO of Demographica writes that our B2C marketers are globally-renowned and regularly win international recognition for campaigns - so why don't B2B marketers, also?... Read |
 | DEV NAIDOO AND LEO REDELINGHUYS There are millions of companies buying products and services in SA. While B2B marketing has its own methods, it pays to remember there's a real person making those business decisions. New Media B2B GM Dev Naidoo and Swipe iX MD Leo Redelinghuys talk digitalisation without audience alienation... Read |
 | The MMA SA Smarties has launched its Business Unusual Categories alongside its core categories for 2020, as well as a new submission process. Thanks to its partners, it will be free to enter this year's MMA SA Smarties... Read |
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 | JUANITA PIENAAR With her experience in the aesthetic business in the last eight years Fara Naomi Macias has been able to deliver tremendous results by launching the GCA brand in Mexico in 2014 with distributor Grupo Venta Internacional. Here, Macias shares with us more about her career journey and what it took to get to where she is today... Read |
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 | FILIP VON REICHE Filip von Reiche, senior vice president, Enablement Services at Acceleration, lists eight steps you can take to streamline your business via marketing automation... Read |
 | LAURENT MARTY Joe Public United's group chief strategic officer, Laurent Marty, tackles the subject of a new age in marketing - namely, the rise and growth of science-based advertising. Here, he describes how strategic planners should embrace essential new insights in order to reach maximum efficiency through creative campaigns... Read |
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 | Cape Times editor Siyavuya Mzantsi has been announced as the Africa grand prize winner and one of the winners in the Leadership category at the International News Media Association's 30 Under 30 Awards... Read |
 | ANTON HARBER Politics editor Thabo Leshilo asked the Anton Harber, the veteran South African journalist, editor and journalism professor at the University of the Witwatersrand to provide the highlights of his new book: For the Record: Behind the Headlines in an Era of State Capture... Read |
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| PR & Communications |
 | ADAM HUNTER Adam Hunter, head of Hook, Line & Sinker Communications comments on the value of integrated marketing and PR during economic upheaval... Read |
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 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Bronwyn Williams reflects on Dan Carlin's The End Is Always Near and Ariel and Will Durant's The Lessons of History and says the choice is ours to learn the lessons of history or to repeat the mistakes of the past... Read |
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 | The CMO Council report also addressed how Covid-19 increased the importance to deliver cohesive messaging... Read |
| Retail |
 | The reimagined retail space now offers free Wi-Fi and a kids' play area, and incorporates innovations such as self-checkout counters and QR codes on products that link to Game's online store... Read |
 | Approximately 5,200 retail industry jobs will be saved, as Edcon announced this week that the sale of parts of the Edgars business in South Africa to Retailability Ltd has been implemented... Read |
 | Amazon has unveiled a new premium shopping experience on its mobile app, called Luxury Stores, that will focus on both established and emerging luxury fashion and beauty brands... Read |
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 | ROMAN MAGIS Roman Magis, principal director: Video, Advertising and Content for Accenture in Africa, explores how post-millennium viewership and instant culture in broadcasting presents a unique opportunity for content creators in South Africa... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | JESSICA TENNANT This week, we go behind the mask with Jacques Du Bruyn, MD at Flume Digital Marketing... Read |
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 | Jenna Robinson, regional marketing manager for Husqvarna Africa, shares the backstory about the brand's recent campaign, featuring rugby icon Beast Tendai Mtawarira as brand ambassador. As South Africans begin to emerge from one of our most challenging periods to date, the campaign offers an empowering message of our own resilience, of our strength, and our ability to triumph over adversity. View |
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 | PATRICK BRANDFUL COBBINAH, ELLIS ADJEI ADAMS & MICHAEL ODEI ERDIAW-KWASIE Health crises are not new in Africa. The continent has grappled with infectious diseases on all levels, from local (such as malaria) to regional (Ebola) to global (Covid-19)... Read |
 | The Anzisha Prize has revealed its top 20 finalists for 2020. Winners will be announced at this year's Anzisha Prize Conference on the 27 October 2020... Read |
 | ZUNEID YOUSUF Back in May 2019, the World Bank launched its Climate-Smart Mining initiative. It was the first fund dedicated to making mining for minerals climate-smart and sustainable... Read |
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 | ONYI NWANERI Friday, 18 September, is International Equal Pay Day, the most ludicrous day on the global calendar. How can it be that in the year 2020 some people continue to earn more because of their gender or race? Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE digiToken is a new and convenient platform that enables consumers to buy airtime, electricity and water online - all from the comfort of your home by practising safe social distancing... Read |
 | Hola Business is now offering online business plan training for South African entrepreneurs. Read |
 | The GoDaddy Global Entrepreneurship Survey, which looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the world's smallest businesses, has been released... Read |
 | PHILANI SANGWENI For years, we've been told that entrepreneurs are key to South Africa's economic growth and job creation... Read |
 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Bronwyn Williams has observed the ways businesses and brands have responded to the crisis, the one being cynical crisis capitalism and the other, authentic brand empathy... Read |
 | The V&A Waterfront has taken the next step in making the Western Cape's first inclusive kitchen incubator a reality by calling for applications... Read |
 | ROBIN FISHER During the early stages of the crisis, organisations had to prioritise their most mission-critical functions to stabilise and pivot. Digital transformation emerged as one of those high-priority areas... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT VMLY&R's global CEO Jon Cook shares his views on what's happening from a diversity, equity and inclusion standpoint... Read |
 | Google has announced plans to help businesses, job seekers, educational institutions and vulnerable populations as they grapple with the "new normal"... Read |
 | Wall Street, the historic headquarters of some of the largest US brokerages and investment banks, however, as Africans we can recreate this and build our own "Wall Street" on the African continent... Read |
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 | From Zoom to Netflix, cyberattacks are getting clever about getting your attention... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Every year, UCT's postgraduate management students who specialise in entrepreneurship are required to start a profitable business. Six students, who met through the course, founded Collars4Africa... Read |
 | "So few people have a vision for the future beyond what they don't want to happen. Very few are saying what could come next." Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE The amount of women and children who go missing in South Africa is cause for national concern... Read |
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