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 | ISSUED BY THE BRAVE GROUP Momentum has launched their latest TVC as part of the Forces of Momentum campaign. Produced by the Brave Group and partner agencies, the advert shows that when the brand and its clients combine forces... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION AND ADVERTISING The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) has opened the call for entries for the 2021 Effie Awards South Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HOWARD AUDIO Howard Audio is delighted to share our latest work done for agency House of Brave and client Momentum... Read |
 | MARIO DE LIMA For most brands and marketers, keeping ahead of an ever-evolving digital privacy landscape is a major challenge. Not only are governments and regulators constantly amending data protection laws, but digital platform companies also often change their rules... Read |
 | DAMON STAPLETON When I was growing up I never lived in a house. I lived in many hotels because my father was a hotel manager. This gave me a unique perspective on the chaos that is needed to create order and desirability... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Recognition: Selling unsexy products with flair is an art; Onions on way for PR people who ignore golden rule: Know the media platform you are targeting... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY GREY AFRICA Grey Advertising Africa learned that two of its senior creatives, Fran Luckin and Steph van Niekerk, have been selected as jury members for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2021... Read |
 | Highest ever representation from global brands, platforms, entertainment and technology companies brings breadth of expertise to the Lions awards... Read |
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 | OLATAYO LADIPO-AJAI Africa is currently the world's second-fastest growing region in terms of economic development and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the World Bank... Read |
 | NDAGI JOB GOSHI In today's customer-driven world, the role of the customer service and support team is more critical than ever. Businesses need to shift their mindset... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY JACARANDA FM Jacaranda FM wants to help business owners turn the economic tide by leveraging its two million-strong audience across Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo province... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY WUNDERMAN THOMPSON Consumers' personal data is shared between tech companies in the third-party cookie ecosystem over 500 billion times a day. That is changing... Read |
 | ISSUED BY UPBEET DIGITAL In this five-part digital marketing auditing step-by-step guided journey, we'll be covering the following elements of a digital marketing audit and what the benefits are to your business... Read |
 | ISSUED BY INCUBETA Leading digital marketing group unites specialist teams, knocking down the silos of marketing to build world-class solutions... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Tractor Outdoor recently partnered with Unilever brand Vaseline to launch an exciting new campaign, which used dynamic digital out of home media (DOOH) to serve relevant creative to audiences... Read |
 | Conversation Lab UK has won the digital account of Mi Casa Tu Casa, a high-end luxury villa rental brand in Europe... Read |
 | NUNU NTSHINGILA Ways of working that go back decades were dismantled overnight in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold of the world. South Africa was no exception... Read |
 | ANDREW SMIT & JADE ARENSTEIN The second part of this series explores a future without cookies and looks at how we can prepare for it... Read |
 | FNB data reveals an upsurge in customers who are spending on home delivery, video and music streaming apps for convenient access to services... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MEDIA24 LIFESTYLE The pandemic has turned the world upside down and has significantly altered the wants, needs and values of consumers, and now the big question is: Are these changes here to stay?.. Read |
 | GRANT WAITES, ISSUED BY WORX GROUP At Worx Group, we quickly adjusted our in-person live events strategy to focus on digital and virtual offerings and along with some of our trusted technical partners - the journey into the new age of events began... Read |
 | ISSUED BY VWV It's not that Covid has prevented us from communicating, it's that the pandemic has prevented us from communicating well... Read |
 | JOHN PAUL WAITES, ISSUED BY WORX GROUP Like many, 2020 left a big gap in our revenues and those of our clients. The race is now on to recover not only last year's lost revenue but also to grab every growth opportunity in 2021... Read |
 | In partnership with the Embassy of the Netherlands, the University of Kwazulu-Natal's (UKZN) Centre for Creative Arts will present the inaugural Artfluence Human Rights Arts Festival from Wednesday, 5 May to Saturday, 8 May 2021. The festival will be held online and focus on arts, constitution and democracy. Read |
 | AI Expo Africa is set to have its biggest edition this year as 4,600 delegates and several international and local sponsors have already registered to attend... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA The 16th edition of Standard Bank Top Women Leaders boasts more than 200 pages of quality content, tons of in depth interviews with trailblazing women and critical information regarding top women-empowered companies... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA Human rights and constitutional democracy are the golden threads which run through this bumper April edition of Public Sector Leaders... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DENTSU iProspect recently launched Future Focus 2021: Brands Accelerated as the essential read for conscientious marketers seeking to explore and exploit the latest consumer and industry advancements for brand growth... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ENGAGEMENT FACTORY Engagement Factory helps you understand why automation is essential for your company's digital transformation and how you should go about doing it... Read |
 | ISSUED BY WUNDERMAN THOMPSON Wunderman Thompson has once again achieved 'leader' status in Gartner's magic quadrant for global marketing agencies - an accolade the agency has received every year since 2019... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION AND ADVERTISING The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) invites representatives of the marketing and communication industry to apply for consideration to be selected to the 2021 Effie Awards South Africa judging panel... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Earlier this year, Havas announced the appointment of Mohamed Bhyat as its chief financial officer (CFO), taking over the reins from Andrea Bottega... Read |
 | Bigger Than Me, Box Smart Media and Hashtag Our Stories have partnered together to educate local brands on how to authentically connect with their audience with social impact marketing... Read |
 | The best way to see if your phone is helping marketers target you is by setting up a trap. Here's how to do it... Read |
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 | WAMBUI WAMUNYU Until the arrival of the world wide web, the media model that worked revolved around money made from selling advertisements and from revenue from subscriptions or copy sales... Read |
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 | South Africa's mobile data is now cheaper than developed countries such as the US, Canada and New Zealand. Here's where the nation ranks now... Read |
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 | ANDREW BOURNE When it comes to selling newspapers, persuasive and relevant "above-the-fold" content has always been a necessity... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Submissions are now open for Tractor Outdoor's #20in21 SME Initiative... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA OUTDOOR Primedia Outdoor is able to position brands in an impactful and scalable manner to the right audience at the right time in the ideal environment conducive to a buying action... Read |
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 | MIRANDA LUSIBA Covid-19 definitely caught a lot of us small business owners napping. It brought with it challenges that we did not expect and forced us to think quickly on our feet... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DNA BRAND ARCHITECTS Proudly South African local brands Steers and Bathu have joined forces to inspire South Africans with the Bathu X Steers #FuelYourJourney campaign... Read |
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 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS This week, Bronwyn Williams has been reading a version of Aesop's Fables written for adults and her favourite of these is the one about the frog king... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HOT 91.9FM Hot 91.9FM today announced exciting new changes to the weekday lineup including a brand-new show with Ursula Chikane... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KAYA FM 95.9 Kaya Breakfast, hosted by David O'Sullivan, Thabiso Sikwane and Jason Goliath, concludes on 29 April 2021... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OFM RADIO Since April, The Sound of Your Life has been sounding a bit different. OFM has some fresh new voices complementing the current favourite presenters... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EAST COAST RADIO After years of generating audience data and insights, Kagiso Media Radio has officially launched a first-party radio listener data collection service called SoundInsights... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EAST COAST RADIO East Coast Radio wants to help business owners turn the economic tide by leveraging its platform as a leading commercial radio station in KwaZulu-Natal... Read |
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 | DAREN POOLE, ISSUED BY KANTAR Kantar's Creative Effectiveness Awards reveals the world's most effective ads of 2020, and what makes them great... Read |
 | BRETT ROGERS For some 'hair' is just 'hair', but for many others it's far more important than that. For many it's a crown and statement to the world about who they are. We use our hair to tell the world our story, and the world also reflects back at us what it feels about it... Read |
 | Covid-19 accelerated e-commerce around the globe and forced retailers to shift to digital... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY OLD FRIENDS YOUNG TALENT (OFYT) The relationship between agencies and their clients was either challenged or grew from strength to strength during a time of uncertainty. The Crazy Store and its agency partner, Old Friends Young Talent, was one of the latter... Read |
 | Earlier this year, Nestlé Smarties globally announced its switch to 100% recyclable paper packaging. The sustainable packaging solution was introduced to the South Africa market in March... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP The second series of Fox and Canal+'s War of the Worlds will premiere on Mondays at 8.45pm (CAT) from 24 May 2021 on Fox... Read |
 | Tech brand Stuff is expanding into television with a new show called Stuff on eNCA... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE This week I chat to Jacki McEwen-Powell, founding partner and strategist of Eclipse Communications... Read |
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 | DALINDYEBO SHABALALA The world has a Covid-19 vaccine access problem: Almost half of all doses administered so far have been in Europe and North America, while many poorer countries have vaccinated less than than 1% of their populations... Read |
 | Coca-Cola system's 5by20 women empowerment programme has equipped 2 million women entrepreneurs in Africa... Read |
 | SEBASTIAN STERL For several years, political tensions between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been escalating in a conflict over the near-complete Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd)... Read |
 | RICHARD KWAKU KUMAH Ghana is among the top two gold producers in Africa. . What has caught little attention, however, is the fact that more than 35% of total gold output in Ghana comes from artisanal and small-scale miners... Read |
 | The Women of Music Business (Womb) is set to launch a new 'masterclass' training programme in partnership with Sony Music Africa. The training programme aims to support women working in the African music industry and help to build the next generation of senior female music executives in the continent. Read |
 | The telephone search engine and caller ID service announced the launch of a new identity solution for businesses. Here's how it works... Read |
 | With the growth of economies across Africa, competition law has remained one of the key drivers for effective market participation, consumer protection and fair business practices... Read |
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 | SHAN RADCLIFFE UCT's library has been destroyed and students evacuated after the fire that started on the slopes of Table Mountain near Rhodes Memorial yesterday spread onto the Rondebosch campus... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Emergency relief efforts are under way in Cape Town after a runaway fire destroyed parts of the Rhodes Memorial restaurant and caused unknown damage to... Read |
 | PETER MALEBYE With the adoption of fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies in all aspects of our lives, it is no surprise that buildings are getting a lot 'smarter' too... Read |
 | The AA predicts that if the global fuel price and Rand stay on a similar trajectory until the end of the month, there's a chance of a fuel price decrease for May... Read |
 | Deloitte's latest State of the Consumer tracker shows South Africans are currently most concerned about finances - even more so than the health impact of Covid-19... Read |
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