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|  | JESSICA TENNANT With the D&AD Awards taking place tomorrow and Thursday (26 and 27 May), we connected with local jury president of this year's D&AD Radio & Audio jury Tseliso Rangaka, FCB Joburg's CCO...read |
|  | JESSICA TENNANT Cannes Lions and its official representative in South Africa, Ster-Kinekor recently announced this year's jury. With only one month to go until two years' worth of Lion-winning work is awarded, we touched base with some of the local jury members for a preview of what to expect. Next up, Lufuno Mavhungu...read |
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| |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Charlotte Nsubuga-Mukasa fills us in on Momentum's recent brand campaigns and the rationales behind them... Read |  | EMILY STANDER For OPPO's Avashnee Moodley, it is essential to be conscious of the impact social matters have on managing a brand reputation... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE "Marketing and communication is my passion," says Marion Zeller, brand manager at Raizcorp, who has 10 years experience in these fields across corporate SA... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE "I am excited to join Riverbed as its core ethos of producing brave, effective work deeply resonates with me..." says Itumeleng 'Tumi' Sethebe, as the agency's new ECD... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Bringing 17 years of experience to her role, Katlego Mashishi has been appointed as the new managing director at Idea Engineers.... Read |
 | EDWARD HERRIDGE For all intents and purposes, our bodies are meat suits that serve as a 'space suit for the soul'... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE We catch up with Illé Potgieter who stepped up from business partner to M&C Saatchi Abel Cape Town's managing director in April... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY People's cars: VW's advert continues the brand's fine tradition; This is your typical South African story; race and language are irrelevant... Read |
 | Ad Stars has confirmed that Nkgabiseng Motau, co-founder and CCO at Think Creative Africa will represent South Africa on its Executive Jury... Read |
 | Spotify In-House, Goodby, The New York Times Magazine are top finalists in the historic ADC 100th Annual Awards... Read |
 | The three-day Pitcher Awards Festival 2021 culminated on 22 May with the Pitcher Awards which was streamed at the Pitcher Festival website and broadcast on television networks of TVC Entertainment and TVC News... Read |
 | This year, agencies from 35 countries and 5 continents, including Africa, participated in Wina... Read |
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 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG ZX Ventures is a global innovation division within brewing giant AB InBev with a mandate to nurture, support and grow the products of the future... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY WITS PLUS In the first episode in this series with Wits Plus, Professor Beatrys Lacquet, the director and head of Wits Plus, shares the introduction of Wits Plus 2.0, the impact of the digital age on upskilling, and how part-time study can be achieved while working... Read |
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 | ERNEST NORTH The pandemic has created conditions in which a new breed of companies can thrive. There are three major characteristics new generation businesses have in common... Read |
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 | JOHAN WALTERS & ANSA LEIGHTON Johan Walters and Ansa Leighton of Incubeta take a look at how local companies have fared with Google's DMT programme... Read |
 | MATHEW CONN The importance of retaining a business' current customer base is often overlooked... Read |
 | EDWARD HERRIDGE We humans inherited this ability to 'speak' reality into being... Read |
 | Soccer Laduma, South Africa's popular soccer publication, has never rested on its laurels. From its print beginnings, it has agilely transformed across media platforms and will now step into the esports arena... Read |
 | #BCXDIA recognises organisations that transform their businesses through technological advancements and digital transformation despite challenging times... Read |
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 | EMILY STANDER On 27 May 2021, Kantar, in partnership with Affectiva, presented a webinar on how inclusive portrayal in advertising is important for the progression of media... Read |
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 | To mark Africa Month, the KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission (KZNFC) will hold a roundtable discussion on the state of film on the continent post-Covid-19. This discussion will take place on Monday, 31 May 2021 from 2pm to 4pm and 6pm to 8pm (SAS)... Read |
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 | SYLVIA SCHUTTE With the B2B sales environment getting increasingly more competitive and decision-makers seeing little or no differentiation between competitors, there is a clever tactic that marketers should pay more attention to... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM For just a special registration fee of just R125, students get an all-access pass to all five days of Creative Week 2021 programming... Read |
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 | GARY ALLEMANN With a month to go before the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) comes into effect on 1 July, companies that have left their compliance program to the last minute can follow these steps... Read |
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 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Bronwyn Williams has just finished reading Hustling, Happiness and a Blow-Up Doll Named Percy by Dale Hefer... Read |
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 | YVETTE GENGAN Covid-19 has been one of the main reasons for digital transformation across many markets, particularly in the e-commerce space... Read |
 | Fintech startup and buy now pay later (BNPL) provider Payflex says that its customer base has soared from 70 merchants in 2019 to over 700 active stores this year... Read |
 | The Shoprite Group has a fundraising drive in an effort to combat stunting - an issue which impacts 1,5m South African children... Read |
| Social Media |
 | Whether you're a new online business or a wannabe influencer, here's what you need to up your social media photography game... Read |
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 | According to the Broadcast Research Council of South Africa (BRC), the core of South African TV measurement, the TAMS (TV Audience Measurement Survey) panel, is in full working order... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE This week I chat to Lester Kiewit, seasoned journalist and host of 'The Morning Review' on CapeTalk... Read |
| D&AD Awards |
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 | D&AD announced the Pencil winners across the Craft, Next, Advertising, Side Hustle and Collaborative categories... Read |
 | In the second virtual ceremony, on 27 May at 7pm, D&AD announced 3 Black Pencil winners, alongside the President's Award and the remaining Pencil winners across the Culture, Design and Impact categories... Read |
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 | JOHN LUIZ For all its stutters and missteps, there can be little argument that the European Union (EU) has largely lived up to its ambitious billing: to create stability and growth on a continent... Read |
 | TANISHA HEIBERG Gold miner AngloGold Ashanti said on Wednesday it would suspend its annual production and cost guidance for its Ghanaian Obuasi mine after operations were suspended when a miner went missing... Read |
 | PETER B JAMES, ABDULAI JAWO BA, AMIE STEEL, JON ADAMS & JON WARDLE West Africa's Ebola outbreak between 2013 and 2016 was the most widespread in the history of the disease. By the end of the outbreak, more than 28,000 people were infected and 11,000 succumbed to the disease... Read |
 | The goal was to create a commercial iteration of the beverage to be bottled and made available in Southern Africa, where it's previously only been consumed at family gatherings of Africa's diaspora... Read |
 | Dream VC, a remote venture capital upskilling institute, has launched a new fellowship programme dedicated to providing more access and opportunities to traditionally under-represented individuals in the African venture capital space... Read |
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 | IMRAN SALIE The Automobile Association (AA) is forecasting that petrol users are set for some month-end relief at the pumps... Read |
 | The R150m Covid-19 and National Health Insurance communications service contract awarded to Digital Vibes was "irregular" and that disciplinary action against all those implicated is underway... Read |
 | Nico Swart, general manager of Richards Bay Minerals, was killed in a hail of bullets early on Monday morning, but police are still finding a motive to the murder... Read |
 | South Africa has moved to Adjusted Alert Level 2 today to combat the rising number of Covid-19 infections in some regions of the country... Read |
 | MIKE MULLER After good summer rains, the dams that supply water to Johannesburg and much of South Africa's economic heartland are full... Read |
 | The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is conducting a study into the feasibility, desirability and appropriateness of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)... Read |
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