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 | | TikTok has released the end-of-year stats for the platform, ranging from break-out stars to the most popular subcultures...read |
|  | KARABO LEDWABA American agency UniWorld Group has put Africa in its global expansion plans for 2023 and beyond...read |
|  | DANETTE BREITENBACH At the beginning of 2022 there was growing opinion that Ogilvy had lost its shine, but now the story is very different....read |
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 | NATALIE BOTHA, ISSUED BY KANTAR The elf on a shelf's view of South Africa's missed festive ad opportunity (ad-pportunity)... Read |
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| |  | JOHANNA MCDOWELL Johanna McDowell takes a look through her crystal ball to see what 2023 might bring the creative agencies and their clients... Read |
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| |  | Kevin Britz and Craig Page-Lee discuss why Gen Z is an important market to tap into... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY KANTAR 2022 was the year that tattooed over our pandemic scars with money woes. And while we're all for a healthy dose of optimism, 2020, 2021 and 2022 did nothing if not teach us to live by the scouts' motto: always be prepared. Signs point to more of the same in 2023, so get ready to rethink, realign and innovate with sharper focus, fast... Read |
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| Advertising |
 | CARL W JONES Kim Kardashian is refining her personal brand. Fox TV is gaining viewers through attention-grabbing headlines. Photographer Gabriele Galimberti is gaining notoriety. All due to a controversial campaign from Balenciaga... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY After a year like this, we all need something light to either take our minds off the world around us... Read |
 | Retailer Game has launched its first-ever festive-specific season advert 'Compliments of the Season'... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BROAD MEDIA BusinessTech's leading position in the business space makes it the first website business owners, company directors, C-level executives, managers, and professionals visit each day... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GREY AFRICA Fran Luckin, chief creative officer of Grey Advertising Africa, has been named the Financial Mail AdFocus Industry Leader of 2022. Industry heavyweight with a career that spans over two decades, Luckin is a respected and much-loved creative mogul... Read |
 | The Odd Number's cofounder and chief creative officer, Sbu Sitole is the Dubai Lynx's Design, Industry Craft jury president... Read |
 | Sasko's new care campaign - 'People who care make things better' - celebrates its people... Read |
 | In the 2022 Epica Awards, there were Grand Prix winners from Germany, Norway, India, the United States, Canada and Brazil... Read |
 | AME Awards has released the 2022 AME Report, a two-tiered ranking report of some of the world's most successful agencies and brands... Read |
 | EMILY STANDER We spoke with Avatar Agency Group CEO, Mzamo Xala, to find out more about how the advertising industry has changed over the past decade... Read |
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| Branding |
 | Luxury Mauritian Hotel Group, Sun Resorts, has rebranded to Sunlife... Read |
 | Musician, actor and entrepreneur, Nandi Madida is collaborating with the South African Cap Classique brand Pongrácz... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ICONTACT BPO iContact BPO, a leading Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider, officially launched its new Johannesburg operation in Houghton on 5 December 2022... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ENGAGEMENT FACTORY, A BLEND360 COMPANY EF, A Blend360 EMEA company, a leading provider of data science and customer experience solutions, announced today that they have been rated as best in world class customer satisfaction in all areas of client and digital strategic services... Read |
| Design |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Through her eponymous fashion label, Durban-based designer Fikile Zamagcino Sokhulu aims to capture the concepts of feminity and nature, and contribute to the elevation of African fashion on the global stage... Read |
 | South African retail cooperative Always Welcome, a multi-brand destination for furniture, decor and homeware products from premier African designers, has opened its first showroom in Cape Town... Read |
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 | KIRSTY BISSET Kirsty Bisset brings home five key takeaways from the Digital Marketing World Forum 2022... Read |
 | MARNA ROOS, ISSUED BY AFRIGIS Have you ever stopped to think of all the things you cannot do unless you have an address?.. Read |
 | Valpak, the American household data, direct marketing and omnichannel media solutions company, outlines key aspects of its ongoing transformation... Read |
 | ISSUED BY VERVE Verve, the experts in culture communities and smart digital insight, has witnessed impressive growth in their northern-based UK team since opening a hub in Manchester and launching ignite@VERVE... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU Dentsu Performance Media (DPM) was launched in August 2021, as a specialised unit with the service delivery arm of dentsu SA... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SO INTERACTIVE Dynamic digital marketing agency, So Interactive, is no stranger to producing award-winning digital marketing and social media marketing campaigns that build brand value... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HOT 102.7FM Plenty of lives changed in the opening week and plenty of tears and relief all around... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY KINETIC EVENTS Anti-fragile organisations needed in a time of accelerated change... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KINETIC EVENTS Emerging payments are all the talk currently in the digital world, and for a good reason. A whopping 95% of all customers have made use of one of the emerging digital payment options available to them in the last year... Read |
 | E! celebrated the best in movies, television, music and pop culture chosen solely by the fans during the 2022 People's Choice Awards... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MULTICHOICE A celebration of local and international cinema with over 60 films screened... Read |
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 | The hospitality industry has showcased not only its resilience over these past few years, but also its ability to adapt to new and challenging environments... Read |
 | CRAIG HANNABUS, ISSUED BY ROGERWILCO Our fourth annual South African Digital Customer Experience Report, released last quarter, showed that local websites and retailer apps are still where most people do their shopping, coming in at 67% and 63% respectively... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DENTSU We design for people. At the heart of this lies our proprietary tool, Consumer Connection System (CCS). It is through CCS that we place real people at the center of our decision making... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LEVERGY The 2022 agency awards season closed off in style for Levergy, as they walked away with two major company awards... Read |
 | Absa has announced the appointment of three Group executives, with effect 1 January 2023, signalling further progress in its ambition to create a winning, talented and diverse team. Read |
 | ISSUED BY EVERLYTIC Everlytic recently opened submissions to the first-ever You Mailed It Email Awards... Read |
 | ISSUED BY NAHANA COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Recently at the annual Financial Mail AdFocus Awards, which have become a landmark in the South African marketing and communications landscape; Nahana Communications Group was recognised with the Transformation Agency Award... Read |
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 | M&C Saatchi Group and Saatchi Gallery have announced the six regional winners of its annual art initiative... Read |
 | ASIF SHAHZAD Pakistan's Supreme Court set up a panel of five judges on Tuesday to supervise an investigation into the death of a prominent journalist who was shot and killed in Kenya, the court said... Read |
 | The National Assembly (NA) has approved the recommended candidates for consideration to serve on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board... Read |
 | The South African National Editors Forum has issued a statement expressing its disappointment in Media24... Read |
| Online Media |
 | Google's Year in Search is an annual analysis that reveals the top trending lists and spotlights what the world searches to see, learn and do. Read |
 | ISSUED BY DOMAINS.CO.ZA As a business owner, you must ensure that your WordPress website is seen by as many people as possible. To do this, you need to follow SEO best practices... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY KENA OUTDOOR Home to the roots of Kena Outdoor, Soweto proves to be a prime location for Vodacom as the brand takes its message to the heart of South African townships... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | TONYA KHOURY Advertising Value Equivalent, commonly known as AVE, has been the main measure of success for public relations firms since the 1940s... Read |
 | IMRAN SALIE Nkosi has taken over from Izak Louw, who has returned to the company's product and pricing department... Read |
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| Publishing |
 | The Oxford Word of the Year 2022 is goblin mode... Read |
| Research |
 | The Marketing Research Foundation (MRF) has prioritised the implementation of the auditors' recommendations to further improve its Marketing All Product Survey (Maps)... Read |
 | Edelman and LinkedIn's fifth annual B2B Thought Leadership Impact Report]], offers insight into B2B buying behaviour during an economic downturn... Read |
| Retail |
 | Makro Riversands in Johannesburg has opened the doors to its Johnnie Walker Reserve Room in partnership with premium spirits company Diageo... Read |
 | SANET YELLAND The big question for retailers, marketers and analysts is: how do we manage risks and still aim for calculated growth in the valuable retail sector? Streamline Advertising CEO Sanet Yelland unpacks... Read |
| Social Media |
 | India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was announced as the most influential world leader on Twitter in the 2022 World Leader Power Ranking report from BCW's Twiplomacy, the global communication agency's digital diplomacy initiative... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MSC ARTISAN ACADEMY Most social media users would like to believe that they are reasonably tech-savvy when it comes to any suspicious content that they may encounter on their phones, via email, or simply on the net... Read |
| Streaming |
 | GWEN ANSELL Musicians worldwide have been placing their tracks with global streaming platforms such as Spotify for many years... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MULTICHOICE MultiChoice and Irdeto, the world leader in digital platform cybersecurity welcomes the Bellville Regional Court's decisive judgment on another copyright infringement perpetrator... Read |
| The One Club of Creativity |
 | The One Club for Creativity has announced that two creatives from South Africa will be serving on the jury for the ADC 102nd Annual Awards... Read |
 | Vumile Mavumengwana, cofounder and ECD of Odd by Dsgn Johannesburg is a jury member for design for The One Show 2023... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | EMILY STANDER This week we caught up with the cofounder and co-CEO of Panda, a free-to-download digital app for mental health information... Read |
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 | BERNADETTE VERSFELD Businesses that export goods to Kenya, have until 1 January 2023 to register their Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) with the ACA... Read |
 | SAM TOBIN The environmental campaign group's legal action over the decision failed in a lower court... Read |
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 | Eskom acting chief nuclear officer, Sadika Touffie, said the decision to delay the refuelling and maintenance outage is necessary... Read |
 | The 2022 Q3 Credit Stress Report shows some alarming trends in the four most credit-active South African customer segments in the Eighty20 National Segmentation (ENS)... Read |
 | NEIL THOMAS STACEY Boiler-tube failures are the leading cause of load shedding... Read |
 | An incredible 95% of consumers surveyed in the 2022 report felt it was essential to support local businesses... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Marko Stavrou is a fourth-generation Cypriot who started his business career at the tender of 13. Now at 18, he's running HustlersGlobal, and a consulting company called Stavrou Consulting... Read |
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