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 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy claimed the top position at the annual Creative Circle Awards last week... Read |
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 | KARABO LEDWABA Muzi Mthombeni has been appointed head of strategy at Wonder... Read |
 | Warc Media 100, has announced the most awarded campaigns and companies in the world... Read |
 | Dubai Lynx, Mena's Festival and Awards for creative excellence in branded communications, has revealed this year's winners at the live Awards Ceremony... Read |
 | White Square, one of the largest international creativity festivals in Europe has announced its jury for 2023... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JOE PUBLIC This month, Joe Public proudly celebrates 25 years of growth within the South African advertising industry... Read |
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 | The annual event will feature a list of international and local speakers all within wine tourism, a major contributor to the GDP of the Western Cape... Read |
 | Kellogg Company has revealed the names of the two independent public companies that will be created when the 117-year-old packaged food giant splits itself into two distinct standalone businesses later this year... Read |
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 | Purpose rallies people around a greater cause, but purpose alone is not the silver bullet... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SAS Joint SAS survey with CMO Council highlights how the digitised customer journey has changed the CX strategy of most companies... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HUMAN8 InSites Consulting, the global consumer insight and collaboration agency, is rebranding to Human8, the new human-driven consultancy connecting brands with people and culture to drive positive change... Read |
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 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG The Vans collaboration broadens Mami Wata's reach, allowing the local brand to present its fresh narrative of surfing and Africa to the world... Read |
 | Johannesburg street artist Dbongz Mahlathi teamed up with Disney+ to create a proudly South African mural for the launch of Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3... Read |
| Digital |
 | AI is ready to make a big impact for marketers but don't cheers just yet warns Incubeta, proceed with extreme caution... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ESET As AI technology like ChatGPT evolves, so do the strategies and tactics used by cybercriminals. Steve Flynn, sales and marketing director at ESET Southern Africa, says ongoing awareness is crucial in understanding how to manage potential cybersecurity challenges... Read |
 | PAUL MORGAN Technology such as ChatGPT, like all human inventions, is a double-edged sword (or ploughshare) and can be used for good or ill... Read |
 | WILTON ACKEER, ISSUED BY ROGERWILCO I've worked in traditional ad agencies my whole career. Now I work at a digital agency. My role is to add a new - better - dimension to their strategic creative value... Read |
 | MARCEL SCHARTH OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY GAGASI FM Radio Gagasi FM and the Hollywood Foundation are excited to announce their partnership in the refurbishment of toilets for Nhlanhleni Primary School in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal... Read |
| Exhibitions |
 | As a growing industry that employs thousands of events professionals, professional development is crucial in supporting members of the MICE industry in opening doors to more opportunities, and elevating credibility... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) People On The Move photo exhibition will showcase work from Luca Sola, an Italian-born documentary photographer, visual artist, and lecturer based in Johannesburg, South Africa and many other visual artists... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TENACITYPR Doctors Without Borders (MSF) 'People on the Move' exhibition which will be hosted at the Indaba Hotel on Thursday 16 March 2023, showcasing art pieces by some of Africa's top artists... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MEDIA24 LIFESTYLE Kuier welcomes Lara Atson as our new editor from 1 April 2023... Read |
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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Ogilvy EMEA CEO Patou Nuytemans' ultimate objective is to create impact... Read |
 | Four South African entries feature on the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2023 competition shortlist... Read |
 | A report has unveiled distinct correlations between the economy, consumer trends, and other determinative events and how people connected with companies and their email content... Read |
 | In SA, MASA is leading an aliiance of industry bodies to support the second WFA Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Census... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HUSTLE MEDIA The boutique media agency achieves a lofty goal... with some valuable lessons learned along the way... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Tractor Outdoor has added new key sites to its Western Cape network of digital out of home (DOOH) inventory: four new screens flanking the N2, and a stone's throw from Cape Town International Airport... Read |
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 | KARABO LEDWABA This week I spoke to Jacaranda FM's marketing manager Leith Smith... Read |
| Research |
 | ISSUED BY BRANDMAPP BrandMapp publishes SA Blackout Report... Read |
 | The fieldwork for Agency Scope South Africa 2023/2024 is set to make tracks in May... Read |
 | The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is calling for responses for its Wave II of the Global DEI Census... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DEMOGRAPHICA Demographica's research unit, Labyrinth Behaviour Collective (Labs), is now an official member of the Selbey Labs faculty... Read |
| Social Media |
 | The US has threatened to ban TikTok in the country unless the apps Chinese owners divest ownership... Read |
 | KELLY FINCHAM Gary Lineker's tweet criticising the UK government re-ignites the debate about impartiality in journalism and the way news organisations deal with social media... Read |
| Sponsorship |
 | ISSUED BY DOTGOOD One of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of batteries, Energizer, gave top South African athletes a boost this week, helping them over the finish line at the Durban International Marathon... Read |
| Streaming |
 | Spotify officially went live in South Africa five years ago... Read |
 | LESLIE ADAMS There was a massive spike in load shedding last year: by the end of 2022, we saw a 200% year-on-year (YOY) increase from 2021... Read |
 | NITESH SINGH, ISSUED BY STONE Although streaming has opened a new way for people to access content, the experience has become unwieldy, unfriendly, and expensive... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING The new television game show, Deal or No Deal SA, delivers its first big win as an ordinary South African, Siya N, walks away with a life-changing R250,000 in a daring episode of this global game-show sensation!... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EMEDIA e.tv dramas have been voted tops by South African viewers. The winners of the best local dramas were announced at the sixth Annual Royalty Soapie Awards, held at the Galleria in Sandton, on Saturday evening... Read |
 | ISSUED BY URBAN BREW STUDIOS Channel 340 brings you a four-part Easter Special premiering tomorrow, 17 March at 5pm. This is the perfect way to gear up for the Easter weekend!... Read |
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 | NELSON BANYA The deal will see Gold Fields and AngloGold owning 67% and 33% of the joint operation, respectively... Read |
 | Cape Town International Airport has won its eighth consecutive award for Best Airport in Africa and third consecutive award for Best Airport Staff in Africa at the Skytrax World Airport Awards... Read |
 | The fund - targeting 15 to 35-year-olds - comes at a time when there are concerns locally about the failure of US startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group... Read |
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 | VUYANI NDABA South Africa's Reserve Bank will raise interest rates for the last time in this cycle... Read |
 | Old Mutual Ltd reported on Tuesday (14 March 2023) a 10% rise in full-year profit as it benefitted from a drop in mortality claims in its biggest life-insurance business... Read |
 | The annual Buy Local Summit & Expo will return to the Sandton Convention Centre later this month... Read |
 | The largest negative contributions were made by petroleum, chemical products, rubber and plastic products; and motor vehicles, parts and accessories and other transport equipment... Read |
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