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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Two of South Africa's most admired communicators, Victor Dlamini and Mike Stopforth, have teamed up to create 48H, a social media crisis consultancy...read |
|  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Renowned in the industry as one of the foremost digital minds, Mark Tomlinson has become the latest addition to the top team at Hoorah Digital...read |
|  | | Design Indaba will use 2021 as a year to plan and execute a number of significant Do Tank projects and launch its new Design Indaba Inside offering. Therefore, The Design Indaba Conference and Festival will not take place in February 2021...read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT This week, we go behind the mask with Lanre Adisa, founder and CCO at Noah's Ark, Lagos, Nigeria... Read |
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| Advertising |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Eskort ad: brand is clearly prepared to take a cheeky chance; Salome completely misses the mark with unbalanced portrayal of very sensitive subject.... Read |
 | DAMON STAPLETON Damon Stapleton thinks of entrenched positions and what creativity can do to find options and other answers. How do you break out of only two choices? Read |
 | Epica has announced its shortlisted entries for the 2020 competition, thanking all the agencies, production companies, creative talents and clients who supported the awards during this difficult year... Read |
 | The pitch for one of the largest accounts on the continent has concluded with Vodacom selecting VMLY&R South Africa to handle its advertising account... Read |
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| Biz Takeouts |
 | Lindiwe Johnson, the skills development project manager of GreenCape and Genesis Cleveland's regional project officer, FNF, discusses the Green Economy Decision-Makers course and why it's so important to develop skills for the green economy... View |
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 | Mike Mulcahy, the CEO of GreenCape, and Cecelia Kok, the head of research and advocacy projects at FNF, discus "greenshoots at grassroots" in the green economy and why we should be concerned with growing the green economy in SA... View |
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 | ANDREW BOURNE Customer experience has always been a crucial differentiator for businesses, but in 2020, it became a matter of survival... Read |
| Design |
 | ISSUED BY JUST DESIGN Just Design Jhb brings retro-futurism to a family favourite... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT The IAB SA recently hosted its 22nd insight webinar on Zoom, featuring IAB SA members Jarred Cinman, Ann-Mari Höfinger, Noah Makholwa, Karyn Strybos and Melissa Kariuki... Read |
| Digital |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE There's a new digitally savvy way to revolutionise one's business opportunities and has launched locally in the form of Vault Share - a social card and app in Africa that encourages authentic and meaningful interactions in any social or business setting... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our #EvolutionofWork content feature, Boomtown's all-female digital department shares what the future of work looks like from their point of view and how they're navigating the 'new normal' in the aftermath of Covid-19... Read |
 | ALLAN DICKSON Why have so many retailers been glacially slow in adopting technology-based innovation? It arguably comes down to myopic control of IT spend... Read |
 | Google has introduced a new mobile-only feature that makes people more discoverable on Google Search. People Cards allow people to create their presence on Search in the form of a card... Read |
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| Film & Cinematography |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Motheo Matsau, who was appointed as deputy CEO in September 2019 recently took over the reigns from Ryan Williams, who had been CEO since January 2018... Read |
 | On Friday, 27 November, the International Tourism Film Festival Africa (ITFFA) was finally able to celebrate its first official awards ceremony of The Lockdown Edition of the ITFFA 2020 at the Radisson Red Hotel, V&A Waterfront... Read |
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 | RAMATSOBANE MASEMOLA Thriving in a digital world demands the ability and the willingness to adapt. Agile methodology in marketing has moved beyond the testing phase and has proven that it can transform the capabilities of marketing teams... Read |
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| Media |
 | In 2010, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation was the biggest news media company in the English-speaking world - and it was about to become even bigger with the planned acquisition of broadcast giant, BSkyB. Fast-forward to 2020, Press Gazette reveals the Top 50 news media companies in the world... Read |
 | APO Group announced Zimbabwean journalist Debra Matabvu as the winner of the 2020 APO Group African Women in Media Award at the 6th Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum Virtual Conference and Awards held 2-3 December 2020... Read |
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 | Production has started on M-Net and Fremantle's eight-part contemporary crime drama Reyka, which will star South African born actress Kim Engelbrecht and British actor Iain Glen... Read |
| Promotions & Activations |
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| Publishing |
 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS This week Bronwyn Williams (finally) finished reading Hilary Mantel's "epic" Wolf Hall Trilogy... Read |
| Radio |
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| Research |
 | South Africans will each spend an average of R5,673 over this festive season, over and above their usual monthly expenses, according to research conducted by Wonga... Read |
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JENNI PENNACCHINI, ISSUED BY KLA |
| Retail |
 | Salesforce data shows global online spend of $270bn... Read |
ANDREA RADEMEYER AND DR AMELIA RICHARDS, ISSUED BY ASK AFRIKA |
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| Social Media |
 | AMELIA NEATE With influencer marketing continuing to grow at a rapid rate, digital marketeers are needing to justify their expense. Amelia Neate, senior manager at Influencer Matchmaker explains why brands should be considering personalisation over popularity as a better metric to help reach your goals... Read |
| Streaming |
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 | ISABEL SMIT Well, in line with the 2020 plot, here's another surprise! Rhythm City's last episode will be aired on e.tv on 16 July 2021... Read |
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 | BENJAMIN KAGINA Scientists are working around the clock to develop and test vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of Covid-19... Read |
 | TAU MASHIGO The digital revolution has officially engaged a higher gear, raising a great deal of curiosity and speculation on technological innovation, adoption, AI and the future of the digital economy... Read |
 | Total electricity generation in Africa stood at 870TWh in 2019, an increase of 2.9% from 846TWh in 2018. Africa's electricity generation capacity has grown at an average of 4.8% per annum since 2008... Read |
 | Informal retail micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) are set to receive a technological and operational boost for their businesses, thanks to Nestlé, Nomanini and Standard Bank... Read |
 | Leading figures within sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing sector will convene virtually at the Manufacturing Indaba 2020 to debate pressing issues impacting the region's industrial landscape... Read |
 | A six-month Financial Technology Accelerator program designed for high-potential technology businesses looking to scale their business, create partnerships and explore North African markets is calling for applications... Read |
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 | RUTH COOPER One of the latest endeavours to emerge from South Africa's burgeoning cannabis industry is the launch of the Cheeba Cannabis Academy... Read |
 | DHESIGEN NAIDOO We are once again in the throes of a familiar predicament. 2020 has, unfortunately, yielded even more reason for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence... Read |
 | ALLON RAIZ In the startup years, the adage "the customer is king" remains fresh and deliberate in your mind. You have probably convinced your customers (and yourself) that by using your company they will receive much better service than from the "big guys."... Read |
 | YAEL GEFFEN By supporting local businesses, we are in turn supporting the local economy and ensuring that significantly more money enters and stays within the community... Read |
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 | ACS was jointly established in 1999 by the Airlines Association of Southern Africa AASA), the Board of Airline Representatives of South Africa (BARSA) and the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) to provide operational support services to international and domestic airlines operating from, into and within South Africa. |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Yogavelli Nambiar, CEO at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and Young Presidents' Organisation (YPO) member firmly believes that shaping an entrepreneurial mindset starts at school level... Read |
 | KARL WESTVIG Black Friday and Cyber Monday may have shone the spotlight on retail, but small business owners in the sector need as much support as possible to comprehensively bounce back, scale and build future resilience... Read |
 | The search is on for sub-Saharan African startups with tech solutions aimed at addressing access to energy, agriculture, mobility issues... Read |
 | Enygma Ventures has made one last call for applications for investment of the year. Female entrepreneurs and innovators who are problem solvers in the SADC are encouraged to apply... Read |
 | South Africa still has some of the most expensive mobile data rates on the continent. In fact, from lowest to highest data tariffs, Research ICT Africa's Retail African Mobile Pricing (RAMP) Index ranked South Africa 33rd out of 46 African countries this year... Read |
 | The local winners of the Seedstars World Competition (SSW) 2020 have been announced with 25 startups from Africa included in the batch... Read |
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Anatole France "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." Og Mandino "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." Thomas Jefferson "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." Robert Louis Stevenson "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Margaret Mead "Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." |
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