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 | KARABO LEDWABA Zkhiphani editor-in-chief Mandisa Ntsinde has died after a long battle with cancer...read |
|  | KARABO LEDWABA .The Audit Bureau of Circulations South Africa's (ABC) figures for Q3 2022 show daily newspapers are down on both a y-o-y and quarter-on-quarter basis...read |
|  | KARABO LEDWABA Nando's has complained to the advertising regulatory board (ARB) about Pedros alluding to its brand in three advertisements...read |
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 | KARABO LEDWABA According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) of South Africa the magazine category for Q3 2022 has remained relatively stable despite some publications missing declarations... Read |
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 | YouTube has announced its third #YouTubeBlack Voices creators and artist cohorts... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GREY AFRICA Grey Advertising Africa has been awarded the above-the-line business for Albany after a three-way agency pitch... Read |
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| Advertising |
 | ISSUED BY OLIVER Neli Zuma, content and community manager at Oliver's U-Studio in-house agency, is a shining example of how perseverance and a passion for what you do can help one rise above extreme adversity and challenges... Read |
 | LESLIE ADAMS After years of cloaking its viewership statistics in secrecy, Netflix recently announced that it would join the UK's Broadcast Audience Research Board... Read |
 | The Competition Commission has welcomed a ruling by the Competition Tribunal in which it confirmed, as an order, a settlement agreement between the Commission and Johannesburg-based media firm, Corpcom Outdoor... Read |
 | Kia South Africa has released a new campaign with an emotive music video for the festive season... Read |
 | Ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Adidas has revealed the next chapter of its Impossible is Nothing story to the world... Read |
 | The awards aim to recognise the advertising industry's specific contribution to society... Read |
 | Mike Sharman, the founder and chief creative officer at Retroviral has been selected as the only South African to be included in this years PRoke Media's #Innovator25 EMEA list... Read |
 | Scotland has launched a consultation on proposals to restrict alcohol advertising in public, supermarkets and sporting events... Read |
 | Woodlands Dairy has released its second The Soft Life campaign for its product First Choice Custard. Read |
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| Branding |
 | The South African Breweries (SAB) has announced its repositioning plans which include a new logo... Read |
 | Media group Highbury Media, has re-branded to Habari Media... Read |
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| Design |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Forming part of Pick n Pay Clothing's localisation journey, its Futurewear initiative has the added goal of nurturing emerging creative talent and fostering the growth of the local design-led clothing industry... Read |
 | South African designers and brands were awarded for their implementation of sustainable, ethical, circular and regenerative design in fashion... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HOORAH DIGITAL Hoorah has announced that it has won Newcomer Agency of the Year and seven more awards at this year's Assegai Direct and Integrated Marketing Awards... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BURNESSEO The usability and utility of a website, rather than its visual design, determine whether or not it is successful... Read |
 | ISSUED BY INCUBETA The acquisition will help accelerate Incubeta's investments in its proprietary technology, sales and marketing efforts, and M&A-led market consolidation... Read |
 | BIBI BURNESS, ISSUED BY BURNESSEO The use of search engine optimisation (SEO), an essential component of marketing, contributes to the enhancement of a website's visibility in response to relevant queries... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BRAND AVATAR Brand Avatar will officially relaunch this week with a revamped website that gives users more options and better functionality... Read |
 | GEORGE SENZERE We should encourage and foster agility amongst workers which is why digital resilience is key; it allows organisations to adapt to business disruptions... Read |
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| Education |
 | ISSUED BY MACHINE_ An inside scoop into how creative agency Machine_ run their internship programmes and development initiatives... Read |
| ESG |
 | ISSUED BY EUROMONITOR INTERNATIONAL Global market research company Euromonitor International has announced the launch of a new product to help organisations attain their sustainability and climate action goals... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA With over 700 attendees and a combination of over 30 phenomenal women across Africa, and organisations advocating for gender equality and women empowerment that have been honoured for their work at the Standard Bank Top Women Awards 2022... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TECHSYS DIGITAL Where your typical summit can be quick to come and go, Momentum Health's recent online summit was anything but for the delegates who attended... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | LARA KAHN, RYAN SMITH, RAINER NOWAK, LEIGH LAMBRECHTS & NALEDI MBABA The Covid-19 pandemic, and resulting economic restrictions, presented various operational and cashflow challenges that adversely impacted many businesses, including Ster-Kinekor. In a pre-emptive move by the board of directors, an assessment was conducted to determine whether Ster-Kinekor was in financial distress and whether a voluntary business rescue was the best course of action in light of the financial pressure caused by the government-imposed economic lockdown in 2020... Read |
 | EARLE HOLMES, ISSUED BY AFDA Afda is proud to announce that the annual Afda Graduation Festival showcasing work from our final year undergraduate and postgraduate degree students will kick off from the 15-27 November 2022... Read |
 | Sunshine Cinema is offering an online professional development course on Film Impact Screening Facilitation... Read |
| Magazines |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA This November edition of PSL focuses on the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children and is covered in depth in our feature article... Read |
| Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA The City of Cape Town has chosen Ogilvy South Africa as its lead agency, after a rigorous tender process against a full roster of other Cape Town based agencies... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SHOWMAX Showmax was named Marketing Team of the Year at the 2022 Promax Africa Awards, the leading awards for the entertainment marketing community... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU It has just been announced by COMvergence through the release of their global report for Q1-Q3 2022 that dentsu is ranked as the number one Network in South Africa, and Carat as the number one Media Agency in South Africa for business retained and new business gained for this period... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JENNY GRIESEL COMMUNICATIONS Various shopping centre campaigns and projects acknowledged with wins across the portfolio... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MOTION ICON Combining Out-of-Home (OOH) media with the power of online influence and data, delivers the ultimate communication campaign for marketers... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DMASA The Assegai Integrated Marketing Awards, in conjunction with the IAS (Independent Agency Search and Selection) is proud to announce the winner of the prestigious IAS Agency Credentials Award - Ogilvy who achieved a Gold Award.... Read |
 | ISSUED BY AFRICASCOPE/GEOSCOPE Bob Currin addresses the importance of spatial data in developing sound marketing strategies, especially in regard to our burgeoning township markets, and presents some of the data sets developed by AfricaScope specifically for this purpose... Read |
 | ARGYRO ELISAVET MANOLI Fifa's choice of Qatar as host of the 2022 men's football World Cup has been controversial since day one... Read |
 | SCOTT THWAITES Brands should consider three things this coming Black Friday... Read |
 | Grant Macpherson has been appointed as chief marketing officer for KFC Africa... Read |
 | Game will join the metaverse through a branded Roblox game, and plans to grow its offering in the virtual world... Read |
| Media |
 | 5FM will be hosting 5's Fives, its inaugural 5-a-side football tournament in aid of youth sports development, later this week... Read |
 | South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) is partnering with Project Management Institute (PMI) to make available a digital-based course to upskill and reskill journalists... Read |
| Mobile |
 | Founded in 2017 by Algerian native and Stanford PhD Noureddine Tayebi, the Yassir mobile app has quickly taken the continent by storm... Read |
 | Clickatell's Chat Commerce Trends Report: Retail Edition has revealed new insight about how today's consumers prefer to communicate and make purchases with retail companies through mobile and chat messaging conversations... Read |
| Online Media |
 | BRENDAN SEERY This week, I have seen the brighter glow amid the gloom and see what some of our marketers can do... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | ISSUED BY ORNICO AMEC's chairman Aseem Sood, takes us through the measurement and evaluation of communication journey - in this year's PR Measurement webinar hosted by Ornico... Read |
| Printing |
 | ISSUED BY SAPPI Highlights for the year included strong demand and the implementation of higher sales prices to offset rising costs, combined with a focus on product and customer mix optimisation, supported margin expansion in all product segments... Read |
| Promotions & Activations |
 | ISSUED BY TRADEWAY Save your brand from supermarket-shelf obscurity with mall activations from Tradeway... Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING The winners of the CapeTalk Small Business Awards, in partnership with Lulalend, have been announced... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ALGOA FM A total of three new shows will be introduced to 'feel good weekends' on Algoa FM while Garden Route listeners can look forward a new afternoon drive show starting Monday, 28 November... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING The 702 Small Business Awards recognise companies that offer exceptional services to their customers, while they are also growing their bottom-line... Read |
| Research |
 | Certain brands are now so reliant on Black Friday sales to achieve their targets, that if they were to stop their Black Friday promotions it would have a significant negative impact on their annual performance, reveals NiesenIQ... Read |
| Retail |
 | Uber Eats announced that its drivers have received a sum of R1.9m in extra earnings through the top box advertising opportunity since launch, and unveiled plans for its dark grocery store concept Uber Eats Market... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HELLOPETER Black Friday might have its origins in the United States, but it has become a massive calendar event in South Africa, showing no signs of slowing down in 2022... Read |
| Social Media |
 | ISSUED BY CAPSLL, INC. Where do you save your memories? At best our memories are scattered across social media if recorded at all, and impossible to pass on. Enter Capsll!... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TALKWALKER Talkwalker has teamed up with Twitter to dig into the finance conversation, revealing the topics and trends making it tick... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MELTWATER As critical figureheads, chief executive officers play a key role in how corporations are perceived by the public, and so it's vital that organisations keep their fingers on the pulse of CEO-focused media... Read |
 | Snacks is a weekly delivery of news, inspiration, great work and WTF moments from the global zeitgeist... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BULLION PR & COMMUNICATION Over the years, social media has become such a significant part of our lives that 56% of the world's population has a social media presence of some description... Read |
 | Social media network Twitter is reportedly losing employees after new owner Elon Musk sent out an email saying employees need to be "hardcore."... Read |
| Sponsorship |
 | ISSUED BY LEVERGY 10 years that changed the local sponsorship industry... Read |
| Streaming |
 | ISSUED BY EMEDIA In just 15 months since launch and counting nearly 600,000 registrations, eVOD is on a journey to wow streamers with amazing content... Read |
 | The broadcaster will migrate all TelkomONE's existing customer base. Subscribers will be notified and transferred to the new SABC platform at launch... Read |
| Youth Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY FUNDICONNECT Online student platform, FundiConnect, has partnered with South African online shopping store, Planet54, to launch a brand-new giveaway for students... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | EMILY STANDER We caught up with the magnanimous managing director of full-service marketing-communications agency PR Worx, Madelain Roscher... Read |
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 | VIRUSHA SUBBAN The AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative (GTI) is the latest development designed to boost trade in the Africa's continent-wide free trade zone... Read |
 | KATE ABNETT AND YASMIN HUSSEIN Timmermans also said the EU will provide €60m for loss and damage... Read |
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 | NELLIE PEYTON Koeberg 1 will be offline from 8 December until June 2023 for routine maintenance and refuelling... Read |
 | In the three months between July and September 2022, South Africa experienced more load shedding compared to the previous years... Read |
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