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|  | | The first of our exclusive #BizTrends2023 interviews is with Dion Chang, trend expert and founder of Flux Trends...read |
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| |  | CELESTE SIRIN Employer Branding Africa MD, Celeste Sirin provides five trends driving employer branding and EVP this year... Read |  | YESH SURJOODEEN The global printing industry is amidst a period of reinvention says Yesh Surjoodeen, Southern Africa Regional Director at HP... Read |  | DALE HEFER Dale Hefer, EO of the IMC (Integrated Marketing Council) which incorporates the Nedbank IMC gives her four mega-trends for 2023... Read |  | GUGULETHU KHOJANE Issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion have taken up a prominent position in brands and marketing over the last few years... Read |  | REGINE LE ROUX Regine, MD Reputation Matters, says the creative industry needs to look inward an important stakeholder group, its employees... Read |  | NIAMH NICLIAM A renewed focus on performance in the face of uncertain local and global economies will increase as we move into 2023... Read |  | ISSUED BY STONE Annual report identifies five macro trends projected to shift the relationship dynamic between people and businesses in the coming year... Read |  | MICHELLE CAVE Michelle Cave, MD, Brand Fundi examines the importance of ESG and DEI in the creative industries... Read |  | ISSUED BY INSITES CONSULTING New global study from InSites Consulting reveals 12 'trends' to guide brand action... Read |  | ROAN MACKINTOSH Uncertainty is still an overarching theme for 2023... Read |  | LEBO MADIBA Lebo Madiba, founder of PR Powerhouse says ESG, extended reality, and AI will help businesses persevere through a difficult year... Read |  | |  | It's impact all round, as the month-long #BizTrends2023: BIGIMPACT! festival reaches its climax with Flux Trends partner Bronwyn Williams... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BROAD MEDIA Sponsored articles are the best way to let South Africans know about your brand, products, and solutions... Read |
 | AMANDA REEKIE, ISSUED BY IMAGINENATION ALLIANCE I don't want to age myself and reminisce about the good old days, but...if I think back to the start of my career as a brand manager at Reckitt Benkeisser or Colgate Palmolive, it was marketing at its most pure... Read |
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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Ogilvy Africa's Lesso Lessons is an example of great, award-winning work from Africa that Vikas Mehta would like to see more of... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC The One Club for Creativity closed the book on the 2022 awards season, announcing The One Club Global Creative Rankings for 2022... Read |
 | Warc has revealed the latest quarterly data from the Advertising Association/Warc Expenditure Report... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC Joe Public believes that growth feeds growth. When we grow our people, we are able to grow our product, which in turn grows our clients, and ultimately our country. This is our belief... Read |
 | LAURENT MARTY This era will one day be seen as the advent of the "Great Purpose" in branding... Read |
| Branding |
 | Warc released an insights report examining effective marketing trends after analysis of the winning case studies from the IPA Effectiveness Awards... Read |
 | InSites Consulting has released a new trend report What Matters to People in 2023, the third release of their annual study into consumer behaviour around the world... Read |
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 | Cannes Lions owner Ascential is to split in two, with plans to put WGSN, its digital trends business, up for sale... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HELLOPETER Online reviews are the new word-of-mouth marketing. Although it's not exactly new, it has become even more valuable as more consumers started writing and reading reviews in the past couple of years.... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY SOCIAL PLACES Last call to have your say! The Social Places 2023 Digital Marketing and Customer Journey Survey is coming to a close in less than two weeks... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ATKASA - DIGITAL AGENCY Why ATKASA should be at the top of your list... Read |
 | RUAN FOURIE, ISSUED BY STARBRIGHT SOLUTIONS If you work in digital marketing, copywriting, or SEO and you have been on LinkedIn this year, there is no doubt in my mind that you have seen multiple posts related to ChatGPT... Read |
 | ISSUED BY VERVE Verve, the experts in culture communities and smart digital insight, has launched 'Ignite AI' - an AI-powered consultancy offer which "unlocks the power of unstructured datasets to create new value for clients"... Read |
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 | Google has announced that it will release its own chatbot this year... Read |
 | ISSUED BY WAVEMAKER International media house Wavemaker recently announced that it would be intensifying its approach to data solutions. It has appointed Delia Conde to lead this exciting evolution... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LOCATION BANK We are excited to introduce our newest Reputation Insights Dashboard featuring our recent integration with HelloPeter... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY RAND SHOW The Rand Show is one of this country's most memorable events on the annual entertainment calendar, and the expo returns this April... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MULTICHOICE The Joburg Film Festival (JFF) kicks off across Jo'burg on 31 January 2023, showcasing some of the finest films from over 35 countries across the globe, including 20 African premieres and 27 South African premieres... Read |
| Magazines |
 | ISSUED BY HYBRID MEDIA CONSULTING Warmer days are here, and Objekt South Africa's Issue 38 for summer 2023 has everything to keep you cool with a move towards digital for all who want a glimpse into a life of discerning tastes... Read |
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 | GRANT MCMULLIN The internet is an ever-evolving beast and we're now into what is seen as its third major iteration: Web3. But what does this mean? Read |
 | DASHNI VILAKAZI As marketers, we have often questioned if there is any real value in being woke... Read |
 | Cifft Circuit, the competition for tourism ads, promotional and social media videos, is open for entries until 31 January... Read |
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 | Juniper Research has released a new study that says the value of the communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) market will reach $29bn globally by 2025; rising from $16bn in 2022... Read |
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 | AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG, EDWARD MCALLISTER, WILLIAM MACLEAN The body of a prominent Cameroonian journalist was found on Sunday, five days after he was abducted by unidentified assailants... Read |
 | A study has found that using AI to generate content for media publications comes with some risks... Read |
 | TOBY STERLING Prosus NV and its South African parent Naspers are cutting up to 30% of jobs at their corporate offices, the Dutch technology investor said... Read |
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 | The 2Africa Consortium includes eight international partners, China Mobile International, Meta (Facebook), MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, center3 (STC), Telecom Egypt, Vodafone/Vodacom and Wiocc... Read |
 | OMAR H. FARES The recent release of the ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022 has generated significant public interest... Read |
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 | On 1 February the biggest solar-powered mega-format Digital Out of Home (DOOH) screen on Johannesburg's N1 highway will switch on... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TWIGA COMMUNICATIONS For brands to achieve maximum exposure coupled with consumer 'buy-in', they not only need to identify premium media locations, but identify those locations that provide access to a desired target audience. This is key to ensuring that advertising campaigns are effective... Read |
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 | A crisis or annoying chatter? A new free crisis diagnostic app helps businesses tell the difference... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TBWA The award-winning TBWA\ Hunt Lascaris welcomes Windhoek South Africa... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING The search is on for the Western Cape's hottest high school band!... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Celebrated Afrikaans singer Kurt Darren will add his special brand of catchy tunes and contemporary dance beats to the mix when he joins the star-studded Galaxy KDay lineup... Read |
 | MARTIN MYERS Martin Myers takes a look at the state of the music industry in South Africa today and in the future... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING Lindile Xoko, Primedia Broadcasting CEO, makes a bold move that will benefit sports fans across the nation and beyond, by signing an exclusive deal with Robert Marawa for his highly acclaimed sports show, Marawa Sports Worldwide (#MSW)... Read |
| Research |
 | 2Stories has joined a structured six-month trial with 4 Day Week Global... Read |
| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Unilever has confirmed that Hellmann's Mayonnaise has been discontinued in South Africa, citing low consumer demand and delistings by the major retailers... Read |
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 | NITA BHALLA Rights groups are calling on Meta Platforms to seize the opportunity to improve its content moderation in Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ONPOINT PR Becoming the social media influencer you've always wanted to be... Read |
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 | The Type Directors Club has opened the call for entries for its global Ascenders competition, celebrating international typographers, letterers, and type designers aged 35 and under... Read |
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 | MultiChoice has announced the launch of a new channel called DStv Switch'd on to combat the load shedding crisis... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EMEDIA Everyone at the e.tv family is deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Bongani Njoli. As the most recognisable voice of our Friday Action Night movie promos and weekend blockbusters, "Bongs" was a true legend... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JNPR It's a discussion which happens in most, if not all households, can TV really be educational?.. Read |
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 | EMILY STANDER This week, we go behind the selfie with the head of communications at Binance Africa, Samantha Fuller... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MULTICHOICE The Joburg Film Festival powered by Multichoice is an annual six-day festival, running from Tuesday, 31 January - Sunday, 5 February 2023, that showcases the best in global cinema and celebrates African cinematic excellence... Read |
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 | JONATHAN COLMER Kenya, Malawi, Gabon, Nigeria and Togo have already indicated their intention to collaborate with the market... Read |
 | VINCENT OBISIE-ORLU Successful ESG measurement systems on the African continent must be responsive to local contexts... Read |
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 | RACHEL SAVAGE AND KOPANO GUMBI While Godongwana said a transfer would happen in phases to keep South Africa's debt-to-GDP levels stable, he did not provide details... Read |
 | HARTMUT WINKLER From big companies down to small households, entities are considering whether it is possible to disconnect from the Eskom grid entirely... Read |
 | ANJA VAN BEEK More businesses are seeing the value of a human-centric strategy as change and upheaval in the workplace continue... Read |
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