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 | JARRED CINMAN This is an open letter to The Loeries from Jarred Cinman, joint CEO of VMLY&R South Africa... read |
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 | BRENDAN SEERY There was a time when Telkom, the formerly wholly state-owned telecoms company, was one of the brands South Africans loved to hate... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC Pepe Marais, co-founder and integrated group chief creative officer at Joe Public, was inducted into the Loeries Hall of Fame at this year's Loerie Awards. This prestigious award serves as an acknowledgment of his impactful career and contributions to the creative industry... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GREY AFRICA Africa and the Middle East's premier creative festival, The Loerie Awards, hosted the 44th edition of this globally renowned festival, and Grey Advertising Africa got to leave with 18 finalists and a whole aviary of birds... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA If your location provider says your digital location campaign is being accurately served in a geofence, all you can do is take their word for it, right?... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The South African Entertainment and Media (E&M) sector rebounded in 2021 and is in a good place in 2022... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DENTSU 17 signifies self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, awareness, and wisdom, and depicts perfectly how the dentsu brands work with our clients and their brands across sub-Saharan Africa. 17 is also the number of finalists we attained at this year's Loeries... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy South Africa finished in a winning position at this year's Loerie Awards, with 25 awards, given for work across multiple brands including Volkswagen, AB InBev, Coronation, KFC, Mondelez and Spotify... Read |
 | ISSUED BY FCB JOBURG Coming out of the premier Loeries Awards, FCB Joburg was one of the highly awarded agencies for the two-day event, snatching awards across multiple categories... Read |
 | ISSUED BY WUNDERMAN THOMPSON Wunderman Thompson SA's recently launched Telkom brand TVC is gaining international attention. The 'Made of Monate' spot, shot in the Cape by Monde Gumede of Massif, was just listed as one of the top five best ads and advertising campaigns of the week worldwide on AdForum... Read |
 | The Courier Guy has released its first-ever television commercial campaign... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU A global network harnessing the power of modern creativity to transform brands and businesses worldwide... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ENTRAVISION 365 DIGITAL Partnership expands Entravision 365 Digital's presence into West Africa... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BOOMTOWN Easigas has introduced its new brand positioning to its distributors, business-to-business clients and end-user customers, across southern Africa with a campaign devised and implemented by Boomtown... Read |
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 | The winners of the fourth South African Loyalty Awards were announced on 13 October at the Truth Leaders in Loyalty Summit in Cape Town... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SMOKE CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE Smoke Customer Intelligence has released their annual contact centre benchmark study, which focuses on customer satisfaction metrics across industries... Read |
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 | Free eye screenings will take place from 8am to 3pm at Ster-Kinekor Cape Gate, Tyger Valley, Watercrest, and more... Read |
| Digital |
 | MATONE DITLHAKE The Equiano 144Tbps, 12 fibre pair cable will ensure faster internet speeds and reduced internet prices when it is switched on before the end of the year... Read |
 | ISSUED BY V5 DIGITAL Few people are genuinely excited to open an email these days. A more common response is to look at the bland generic content, sigh, and send it straight to the spam folder... Read |
 | In partnership with Carry1st, Nasty C will headline a Call of Duty: Mobile campaign across the country... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HAVAS JOHANNESBURG With the 10th Annual New Generation Social and Digital Awards taking place last month, Havas has proudly shone the spotlight on one of their own... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SHAREIT GROUP Sharing has always been a part of our intrinsic makeup, from painting pictures of hunting exploits on cave walls millennia ago for lone explorers to find, to sharing content with the world in an instant via multiple digital platforms. We live in a world with a culture of sharing... Read |
 | EMILY STANDER Leora Hessen has started the African NFT Art Collective in an effort to bring South African artists to the forefront of the NFT market... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ROGERWILCO New creative director adds weight to agency's management team... Read |
| Direct Marketing |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Candice Goodman says it is the direct marketing industry's adaptability and cost-effectiveness has made it resilient... Read |
| Education |
 | ISSUED BY IRVINE PARTNERS Google, in partnership with the UCT Graduate School of Business, has launched a new certified course to grow digital maturity in South Africa... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA Despite a global pandemic and recent economic downturns, progress has been made towards advancing the role and standing of South African women in business. Has it been quick enough?... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA South Africa's longest-running gender-empowering conference is set to take place on 12-13 October 2022... Read |
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 | 15 diverse producers from around the globe have been selected to participate in the second Creative Producer Indaba... Read |
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 | The South African Direct Marketing Industry's (DMASA) Assegai Awards finalists have been announced. Read |
 | ISSUED BY WUNDERMAN THOMPSON "At Wunderman Thompson SA, we're committed to actively building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where people are treated with dignity and respect. We work to inspire growth for ambitious people, so when we were named a finalist of the 'Leading with Purpose for Business Culture' category, we were elated,"... Read |
 | The reach of the 2022 Fifa World Cup extends beyond the field, with other content taking over screens and social feeds... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SO INTERACTIVE So Interactive is proud to have been awarded the 'Best Integrated Marketing Campaign by an Agency' and the 'Most Innovative Social and Digital Media by a Small Agency' at the New Generation Social and Digital Media Awards 2022 for our Pernod Ricard Phakamisa iSpirit campaign... Read |
 | The winners of the eighth annual Santam Women of the Future Awards, in association with Fairlady and Truelove, have been announced... Read |
 | SINDIWE MBIKO With organisations buckling under global pressure to increase representation across all levels of corporate, many have taken this opportunity to reassess themselves and make some indelible and meaningful change within their companies... Read |
| Media |
 | JUSTIN KEATS, ISSUED BY MEDIAHEADS 360 As we enter the final quarter of the year, most of us start feeling the year-end crunch. Crunch time on budgets, time, scheduling, inventory, and ideas... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BROAD MEDIA Daily Investor's readership figures for September 2022 have confirmed it is the site of choice for South African investment and finance professionals... Read |
 | Discovery ranked fourth on the list for the application of its disruptive shared-value banking model, helping people to adopt better financial behaviours - and rewarding them for it... Read |
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| Media Freedom |
 | GARBA MUHAMMAD Zamfara state in northwestern Nigeria ordered five media outlets to close on Sunday after they covered a political rally for the opposition People's Democratic Party... Read |
| Mobile |
 | The funds will help the company grow its market share in South Africa, drive its growth on the rest of the continent and launch its first pan-African payment platform in 2023... Read |
 | Over 15 of the very best coders were recently recognised in the 11th Annual MTN Business App of the Year Awards... Read |
| Online Media |
 | ISSUED BY MANN MADE Media giant, Primedia Pty Ltd, announces plans to enter the Africarare metaverse... Read |
| OOH |
 | ISSUED BY THE MEDIA KRATE When asked what we do as The Media Krate it's easy to say we're wall mural specialists, but what we really do is help brands tell a story... Read |
 | ISSUED BY THE MEDIA KRATE When we trademarked our 3-Dimensional Visual Reality Airbrushing offering, we knew it wouldn't take long for our competitors to see the value in 3-dimensional structures and follow suit. We find it flattering... Read |
 | World Out of Home Organisation (WOO) president Tom Goddard says collaboration is the key for success in the industry... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | PR Management platform Propel has announced the release of its Q4 2022 Propel Media Barometer... Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY OUR SALAD MIX Media content agency Newskoop has joined hands with a new sponsor for its weekday agricultural radio show, AgriSkoops... Read |
| Research |
 | A recent audit by 3M3A of The Marketing Research Foundation's (MRF) Marketing All Product Survey (Maps) has found it to be of a high standard... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ORNICO The question remains, are AVEs still a relevant and accurate indicator of growth? Should companies look into the development and implementation of a customised framework designed to assess their communication and advertising strategy as prescribed by the Barcelona Principles?.. Read |
| Retail |
 | Global retail specialist Smollan has announced a "significant investment" of an undisclosed sum in eComplete, a turnkey end-to-end e-commerce solutions company... Read |
 | ENRICO BONADIO AND ALINA TRAPOVA Supermarket Lidl was recently told to destroy its stocks of chocolate bunnies. The cull was ordered by a Swiss court that decided Lidl's bunny was too close to Lindt's iconic chocolate rabbit... Read |
 | For the first time in a decade, M&M's has introduced the brand's third female character and new spokescandy, Purple.... Read |
| Social Media |
 | ASHLEIGH BURTON Social media is constantly evolving, as are the ways people use it... Read |
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 | Dettol aims to reduce the burden of diarrhoea in South Africa by 50% by 2027. Diarrhoea is the second leading cause of death in children below five in our country... Read |
| Youth Marketing |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Nolitha Mkhwanazi, head of youth strategy at Yellowwood, says what the youth want from brands has not changed from 2021 to 2022... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | EMILY STANDER This week, we caught up with the marketing director at Lactalis South Africa to find out more about his life outside the office... Read |
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 | DR TADESSE T MEKONEN The disparity in healthcare indices between Africa and the developed world is gross... Read |
 | STANIS BUJAKERA The Democratic Republic of Congo has received bids from nine qualifying companies for three gas blocks on Lake Kivu which it has put up for auction... Read |
 | RADHIA MTONGA Rwanda has created a dedicated community of innovators in the field of plastic waste management... Read |
 | ANGE ABOA The initiative was set up after a 2018 declaration by Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's two largest cocoa producers, to define a common sustainable cocoa strategy that would raise prices paid to farmers... Read |
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 | MARIANNE MERTEN The decision by Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance to ensure constitutionally compliant, meaningful public consultations is a win for civil society organisations... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Brendon Williamson believes we've only just scratched the surface of payments innovation and the meaningful impact it can have on our lives... Read |
 | South African miners are losing R815m in export revenue per day... Read |
 | Many South Africans have threatened to boycott Dis-Chem for its enforcement of a moratorium on the appointment and promotion of White employees. But the JSE-listed pharmacy retailer stands by its decision... Read |
 | CHRIS BLAIR Since the Covid pandemic, the world has been affected by many events that are now the new normal and businesses will now have to make strategic changes to the way they operate. 2020, understandably, saw low pay-outs for executives, with targets for 2021 set conservatively... Read |
 | Business liquidations soared 44.8% in the year to August 2022... Read |
 | JOHAN BOTES Flexibility is currency in the new working world, and the ability to onboard staff remotely is of immense benefit to organisations grappling with standardising practices across jurisdictions... Read |
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