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 | Promise Johannesburg led the way of agencies in South Africa in The One Show 2021, as announced by The One Club for Creativity during the online global Creative Week 2021... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Dashni Vilakazi has been appointed as the new managing director for The MediaShop Johannesburg, effective 1 July 2021. We find out more about her appointment...read |
|  | JESSICA TENNANT With a week 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, Steph van Niekerk...read |
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| |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE As part of our #YouthMatters feature for Youth Month, we chat to Hamilton Zwane, copywriter at Grey Africa... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE It can be said that the youth are Africa's best asset and this June we're celebrating youth who are making a difference in various sectors. Meet Connor Rogers, senior sales manager at VDX.tv... Read |  | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Tristan Shaun Henry is among the talented cohort of young designers forming Design Indaba's class of Emerging Creatives for 2021... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Starting out as a copywriter over a decade ago, Ashleigh Burton has a passion for using digital platforms to tell stories. Today, she is head of social media at Weber Shandwick Africa... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE The recent Metropolitan 'My People. My Everything' campaign kicks off with a TV advert that pulls at the heart strings. The TVC was directed by award-winning TV commercials director, Zwelethu Radebe from Egg Films.... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE From East London to some of South Africa's most storied agencies. After winning on global stages and achieving what she set out to on the inside of the corporate advertising machinery, Leigh-Anne Salonika is living her purpose... Read |  | RUTH COOPER Phumelela Malinga, the 27-year-old mechanical designer-turned-fashion designer, chats to us about switching gears, founding his androgynous designer apparel brand By Phume and being invited to be part of the 2020 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme... Read |
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| |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our ongoing #BehindtheBrandManager series, we interviewed some of the Marketing Achievement Awards' Rising Star finalists. Next up, Robyn Hobson... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Mediology has appointed industry heavyweight, Boniswa Pezisa as executive director... Read |
 | The One Club for Creativity's Young Ones Student Awards for 2021 have announced the winning schools and students from across the globe, with Brigham Young University Provo named School of the Year... Read |
| Advertising |
 | ISSUED BY GREY AFRICA Grey applied pareidolia to remind people to adopt and not shop to further Sandton SPCA's cause in finding homes for the many doggy friends spending the winter with them... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU FoxP2 has increased its recognised Black ownership from 45% to 51% through an investment in the agency by the Vumela Fund... Read |
 | ISSUED BY NAHANA COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Debonairs Pizza, the leading quick service restaurant in the pizza category, has launched its Real Deal pizza TVC... Read |
 | EMILY STANDER Today, I report on a panel hosted earlier this week, 'One size does not fit all: the importance of cultural nuance in advertising'... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Impressive: Top Gun-type advert promotes China's armed forces; But scatter-gun approach to offer CEO's ramblings would make any journo weep... Read |
 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL The Ad Forum Global Summit - the third virtual one that has been held - took place over six days with morning and afternoon sessions... Read |
 | Brand design consultancy NorthVCA has been named the 26th company to join By The Network and chosen to represent the Sub-Saharan region of the continent... Read |
 | The negative perception of Africa has always been linked to media and advertising. This has led to the stereotypical view of Africa as a dark continent... Read |
| Branding |
 | EMILY STANDER I sat down with Dono White to discover more about him, VMLY&R and how the Proud Pronouns Project came to fruition... Read |
| Cannes Lions |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU FoxP2's '16 Days of Light' campaign for 1st for Women has been shortlisted for a Glass Lion for Change, an award bestowed by judges at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity to recognise work that implicitly or explicitly addresses issues of gender inequality or prejudice... Read |
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 | Since its initiation in 2012, the Scouting Menswear Competition set out to select the best of the best within a large pool of young menswear design talent. SAFW is calling for entries... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY IAB SOUTH AFRICA The IAB SA has released two critical reports that reflect on the year that was 2020 in the context of South Africa's digital media and marketing industry... Read |
 | MACIEJ NAPIERALA, ISSUED BY ENGAGEMENT FACTORY Digital transformation - it's the digital marketing buzzword of the 2020s, and hailed as the future for companies across industries, nations and sizes. But what if I were to tell you that you don't always need digital transformation... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BORDERLESS ACCESS Borderless Access conducted a 15-country study to explore active and passive participation in e-sports. Today, we look specifically at viewership of e-sports in sub-Saharan Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JELLYFISH SOUTH AFRICA Jellyfish is delighted to announce that it is now an agent partner with Everlytic, a cloud-based software company... Read |
 | YouTube Music is opening applications to the #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund Class of 2022... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY REED EXHIBITIONS Reed Exhibitions Africa is delighted to welcome Judith Judy Goddard, named the new event director of Fame Week Africa... Read |
 | GRANT WAITES, ISSUED BY WORX GROUP As the world starts to get a grip on the pandemic, we need to discuss the safety of in-person and hybrid events for both guests and the corporates that host them... Read |
 | The panel of judges for the 2021 Santam Women of the Future Awards, in association with Fairlady and TrueLove has been announced... Read |
 | The One Club for Creativity has announced new leadership to its National Board of Directors... Read |
 | Ster-Kinekor has announced the content agenda for Cannes Lions Live... Read |
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| Film & Cinematography |
 | In collaboration with the Realness Institute of Africa, Locarno Film Festival has announced the introduction of the Southern Africa-Locarno Industry Academy... Read |
 | New York Festivals TV & Film Awards has announced the finalists for the 2021 competition, including South Africa's award-winning My Octopus Teacher... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DENTSU Dentsu South Africa has announced the launch of the second edition of Female Foundry; applications are open now until 30 June... Read |
 | For its Crafted Beyond Compare campaign, Nescafé Gold has teamed up with South African jewellery brands Xesha Time Pieces and Nungu Diamonds... Read |
 | The rise in popularity of content marketing is largely thanks to how much it is about the customer rather than the marketing or the company... Read |
 | As June marks Pride Month 2021, digital marketing agency, AccuraCast, has released findings into how the level of awareness around the month has grown over the past 13 years... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY SPARK MEDIA Bridgette Manamela, business unit head at Spark Media looks at how local newspapers reach various categories of shoppers, appealing to many sought-after market segments... Read |
| One Show Awards |
 | EMILY STANDER Bizcommunity and The Creative Circle hosted the Global Media Talks, where the panel discussed the unique creativity in South Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TBWA TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg has walked away with two Pencils at The One Show 2021 in New York during Creative Week... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Tractor Outdoor is expanding its roadside presence with an additional three roadside digital (RSD) sites in Cape Town... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA OUTDOOR Samsung partnered with Primedia Outdoor in launching the all-new Samsung Galaxy S21 5G Series smartphone with an out of home campaign... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR This is the story of Baaa Health, one of the beneficiaries of Tractor's #20in21 SME initiative... Read |
 | Combining media types when trying to target consumers can sometimes surface unexpected synergies - where the outcome of your efforts is more than the sum of its parts. That's the case when combining Out of Home (OOH) and search advertising... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY CLOCKWORK Clockwork is proud to announce the appointment of Penny Motsamai as public relations director... Read |
 | ISSUED BY CLOCKWORK Clockwork walked away with big wins in some of the stronger contested categories at the Sabre Awards EMEA 2021... Read |
 | ISSUED BY APO GROUP APO Group has signed an exclusive agreement with Getty Images that will make images - and press releases - about Africa instantly available to tens of thousands of media organisations all over the world... Read |
 | When launching a new business, service, or product, it can be as challenging as it is exciting. Most of us want to reach the market with a new offer that can make businesses or consumers' lives better... Read |
| Production |
 | New property-themed reality TV show Listing Jozi will launch on BBC Lifestyle this coming Wednesday, 16 June. The show follows five realty brokers... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY EXPOSURE MARKETING Pampers South Africa believes that the celebration of motherhood should extend far beyond the traditional gifts and spoils that we are accustomed to seeing on Mother's Day... Read |
| Publishing |
 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS This week, Bronwyn Williams read Democracy Works, by Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Herbst, and Tendai Biti, published by Picador... Read |
| Radio |
 | Given the previous lack of available RAMS data due to Covid, the Broadcast Research Council of South Africa (BRC), has now released an interim radio dataset, surveyed by Ask Afrika... Read |
| Research |
 | Introduced in 2017, Socio-Economic Measure (SEM) offers advertising media planners and advertising placement decision makers a tool that realistically describes how people live now, not merely what they have in their homes... Read |
| Retail |
 | ISSUED BY INSIGHT SURVEY Insight Survey's latest South African Coffee Industry Landscape Report 2021 carefully uncovers the global and local coffee market (including the impact of Covid-19)... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ARAMEX We are proud to announce that we are meeting the need for on-demand, real-time, door-to-door delivery service with Click-Way, the latest addition to our service offering... Read |
 | CNA, South Africa's 125-year-old books and stationery retailer, has been placed into business rescue, its management team confirmed... Read |
| Social Media |
 | ALEXIS AKWAGYIRAM Nigerian television and radio stations should not use Twitter to gather information and have to de-activate their accounts, the broadcast authority said following the move to suspend the U.S. social media giant in Africa's most populous country... Read |
 | ASHLEIGH BURTON Find out about the key social media trends Ashleigh Burton saw in the D&AD Awards... Read |
 | Apps like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, which tailor content to the user's interests and behaviour, have allowed a new generation of spenders to create a personalised online shopping mall experience... Read |
| Sponsorship |
 | Professional make-up brand, Kryolan, is launching a nationwide search for 70 to 100 professional women in sport, in an effort to support those who are often not considered for sponsorships... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY NEWZROOM AFRIKA Newzroom Afrika has entered into an agreement with two of South Africa's regional TV stations, 1KZN TV and Mpuma Kapa TV... Read |
 | ISSUED BY FOX NETWORKS GROUP Genius: Aretha will premiere exclusively on National Geographic across Africa from Wednesday, 30 June 2021 at 9pm (CAT)... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EMEDIA On Monday, 19 July, e.tv will introduce a new high fashion drama series, produced by Bomb Productions and VideoVision Entertainment: House of Zwide... Read |
| Youth Marketing |
 | KELLY MCGILLIVRAY In honour of Youth Month we're getting to know our Zoomers better. Zoomer is another word for Generation Z, people born between 1997 and 2015, with age 24 being the oldest... Read |
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| Behind the Selfie |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE This week I chat to David Jenkins, founding partner at Mickey Llew, a specialist performance marketing and SEO agency... Read |
| D&AD Awards |
 | EMILY STANDER With the D&AD Award Winners for 2021 revealed, I spoke to Odd Number's executive creative director, Terry McKenna on winning two graphite pencils... Read |
 | EMILY STANDER With the D&AD Award Winners for 2021 revealed, I spoke to director at Massif, Marc Sidelsky, on winning a wood pencil... Read |
| Prism Awards |
 | ISSUED BY DNA BRAND ARCHITECTS DNA Brand Architects made history at the 2021 Prism Awards by becoming the first Black-owned agency to win the prestigious Best Large PR Consultancy of the Year award... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DUKE Positive Dialogue recently picked up four accolades at the 2021 Prism Awards... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Retroviral won Campaign of the Year at PRISM Awards 2021 for work done on #MyKreepyTeacher... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE PRISM Young Voices (PYV) is PR land's under 30 talent set to take the industry by storm. Sicelo Vilakazi of DNA Brand Architects, was announced as the PYV of the Year for the 2019 cohort as voted for by his peers.... Read |
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 | ANDY JURY Financial inclusion is not happening fast enough, even though the virtues of fintech's potential to bring hundreds of millions of people who are outside the mainstream are constantly touted... Read |
 | EUGENE YIGA Africa is booming in terms of cryptocurrency adoption, according to the 2020 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report by Chainalysis... Read |
 | NNEKA CHILE Scores of small and medium-sized businesses across Africa's most populous nation - and largest economy - are reeling from the indefinite suspension of the social media site... Read |
 | A new Visa report states that the top market contributors to e-commerce in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last three years were South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, with Ghana also showing growth... Read |
 | Africa has the largest workforce in the world. A recent report indicated that the continent will, by 2030, be home to a capable labour force of over 1.6 billion... Read |
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 | ANNELIZE OOSTHUIZEN President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a series of new tax- and finance-focused bills into law on 20 January 2021. Even though they primarily deal with administrative and technical issues, but there are a number of changes that will affect your work-related claims... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA President Cyril Ramaphosa's surprise announcement that the embedded generation threshold from 1MW to 100MW, as the country reels from stage 3 and 4 loadshedding, is a major step... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA Sharing knowledge that helps people make better investment decisions is a huge reward factor for Nicholas Riemer. The 31-year-old heads the investment education space within FNB Wealth and Investments... Read |
 | RICHARD RATTUE The advent of Protection of Private Information Act (PoPIA) from 1 July 2021 will make us all look at how we collect information from subjects and to question what is necessary to gather... Read |
 | JOHN WATLING Recent Accenture global research shows that 95% of consumers are making significant and lasting changes to how they live, work and shop. South Africa is no different... Read |
 | KATE COLLIER, SHANE JOHNSON AND HEATHER MUDAU A revised Covid-19 Direction on Health and Safety in the Workplace sets out the regulations on vaccines and guidelines for employers considering mandatory vaccinations of employees... Read |
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 | Led by a dynamic sister duo, Lindy Levinthal and Beverley Sollinger, Datafin continues to flourish alongside the tech industry as one of South Africa's top Tech, Marketing and Financial recruitment agencies sourcing highly skilled candidates for cutting-edge companies in technology-driven industries. |
 | Bridgena Barnard Personnel Group (BBPG) supports the corporate and SMME sectors by supplying high performing talent, thoroughly screened candidates and align all our recruitment processes within the framework of South African legislation. |
 | AdClickAfrica is the leading and fastest growing independent video and display advertising network in Africa. |
 | SME South Africa is a daily online news portal that provides strategic business content to enable SMMEs to unlock their growth potential. |
 | The Innovator Trust was created to support the growth of small black-owned Information and Communications Technology (ICT) businesses in South Africa. Our programmes facilitate training that develops their skills as business owners. |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Bettr.App, is set to merge the worlds of gaming, content creation and banking.... Read |
 | ALLON RAIZ Raizcorp CEO Allon Raiz has identified a number of pitching techniques critical to attracting investors and funders looking to back small businesses... Read |
 | When Uber and Spotify partnered up a few years ago to give users custom music for their rides, it was a massive win/win for both companies... Read |
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