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 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL The old adage talks about how to react when life gives you lemons - but under circumstances unseen in our lifetime, what do you do when life hands you a pandemic? Read |
 | Even before Covid-19, businesses faced increasing pressure to focus on transformation, but after the disruptions of the last year, the pandemic has presented organisations with new challenges to adapt to... Read |
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 | BRENDAN SEERY Two truths: We forget them and think of everyone as pal - and Savanna knows it; Distell's stance of end justifies means deserves a smelly Onion... Read |
 | GREG STEWART All advertising has some sort of purpose after all, writes Greg Stewart... Read |
 | DAMON STAPLETON Well, here I go. This is the advertising equivalent of the charge of the light brigade. I am going to ride my horse of belief right at the cannons of coolness. I am about to fight for a word even I hate. Tally ho... Read |
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 | The IAB SA is hosting its 25th insight event on Zoom this week Thursday, 22 April, featuring speakers Jade Arenstein, Oliver von Wersch and Aisha Mohamed... Read |
 | ANSE LEIGHTON & ANDREW SMIT This third part of the series looks at what marketing leaders need to consider when crafting a strategy to deal with a more privacy-first future... Read |
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 | Pieter-Dirk Uys will open the inaugural Artfluence Human Rights Festival with a keynote address at 3pm on 5 May 2021... Read |
 | In line with its commitment to advance gender equality and inclusiveness in advertising, The One Club for Creativity has announced its latest Right the Ratio Summit taking place 18-20 May 2021... Read |
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 | The 93rd Academy Awards were hosted at Los Angeles' Union Station and the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on the 25 April 2021... Read |
 | South African film My Octopus Teacher has won Best Documentary Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, hosted in Los Angeles on 25 April 2021. Read |
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 | NADINE LERM The current organisational structure of most media agencies is quite flat, and by that, I mean that there are few levels between management and staff level employees... Read |
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 | KYLE OOSTHUIZEN With messages sent remaining private and encrypted at all times, what will this mean for brands that use the app to reach and engage with consumers? Read |
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 | The One Club for Creativity has unveiled the online Creative Week 2021, taking place from 7-11 June 2021... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT Following the recent news of Rapt Creative opening offices in London and Kiev, the agency has expanded its services to include PR and influencer marketing. To head up the new division, they've appointed Khangelani Dziba... Read |
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 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Bronwyn Williams has been re-reading the plays of Oscar Wilde over the last few weeks and what she noticed was that a common trope he used to its full effect with his trademark wit was the idea of characters seeing others as who they wanted them to be rather than as who those others really are... Read |
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 | Former Metro FM DJ Grant Shakoane, affectionately known to his listeners as "Shebabadoo Shebaba", has passed away, as confirmed by fellow radio veteran and close friend Wilson B Nkosi to TshisaLIVE... Read |
 | xNew York Festivals Radio Awards has announced the appointment of award-winning global storytellers Jennie Caltaldo, Helen Shaw and Carole Zimmer to its Radio Awards Advisory Board... Read |
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 | OneDayOnly has released the results of its second ODOmeter, an index the company launched last year to better understand SA's online consumer behaviour... Read |
 | As Earth Day is observed around the world on 22 April, new research on sustainability commissioned by Mastercard reveals a marked increase in consumer passion for the environment... Read |
 | Legal cannabis is set to increase from $30bn in 2020 to over $90bn in 2025, as consumers increase their usage in diverse parts of their lives... Read |
 | BRETT ROGERS How does one value the importance of art? Read |
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 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Kutay Saritosun is a textile engineer and sustainability aficionado dedicated to educating companies on producing more environmentally responsible products... Read |
 | RocoMamas will meet with Rack n Grill food truck owner Muammer Kasu on 20 April, after the Spur-owned burger franchise was called out for "corporate bullying tactics"... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Retail veteran Mitch Slape unpacks the changes in consumer behaviour that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought about, and where Massmart is seeing growth... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT Karien Cherry, director at Giant Films, recently ranked number one director at the Loeries Rankings for 2020. She's the first female ever to hold this position, and this year, also the only female to be featured within the top 20 Loeries Directors rankings... Read |
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 | ADRIAN HILL Coronavirus vaccines have been developed and deployed in record time, but as global rollout has progressed, too few doses have been made available in low-income countries... Read |
 | MICHAEL HEAD Some diseases are more likely to enter public conversation than others. Covid-19 has dominated the public discourse in 2020... Read |
 | BOBBY MADHAV The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement came into effect on the 1 January 2021. A total of 54 of Africa's 55 countries have agreed, in principle, to participate in the agreement... Read |
 | In terms of handset sales, Tecno Mobile has outdone tech giant Samsung across Africa... Read |
 | Zimbabwe has approved a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) aimed at building nuclear energy capacity in the African country to mitigate its energy crisis... Read |
 | The recently released Knight Frank Africa Horizons Report 2021/22, ranked Nairobi as the top city in Africa for innovation, followed by Cape Town in second... Read |
 | NJ AYUK If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I'd probably blurt out the first thing that comes to mind, Greenpeace... Read |
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 | RUCIEN PETERSEN There are many challenges businesses could face when it comes to building a brand on social media... Read |
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