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 | Issued by Loeries Suhana Gordhan, creative director at FCB Africa, has been named the Loeries' newest chairperson. She takes over the reins from Neo Mashigo who completes his two-year tenure this year... read | |  | Issued by Loeries The Adams & Adams Young Creatives Award, for the exceptional achievement of individuals aged 27 or younger, has been awarded to Katie Mylrea, art director at Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town and Amori Brits, head of design at Shift Joe Public... read | |  | Issued by Loeries Nunu Ntshingila-Njeke, head of Facebook Africa and a veteran of the South African advertising space, has become the first woman inducted into the Loeries Hall of Fame... read | |  | Leigh Andrews Marcel Rossouw, service design lead at Fjord, says design and innovation are at the core of everything they do at Accenture. As a result, Masterclass participants will get hands-on experience in the principles of design-led innovation. read | |  | Leigh Andrews This year's Loerie Awards include a new Public Relations Communication category. PRISA's two-day PR-themed conference also forms part of Loeries® Creative Week™ Durban. Here's why you simply can't ignore PR as part of the creativity mix... read | |  | Facebook is supporting young creative talent by sponsoring the Loerie Student Awards, celebrating the achievements of the next generation of creative professionals who will define creativity in a mobile-first world... read | |  | Francois Rank The more things change, the more they stay the same. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, the first person to ever say that, was a French critic, journalist and novelist - a professional storyteller... read | | Issued by Ogilvy & Mather | | Issued by The Star Film Company | | |
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Four weeks to Assegai entry deadlineEntries for the Assegai Awards close on Friday 9 September. To nominate your work in any of the categories open for entry, go to www.assegaiawards.co.za and email any queries to info@assegaiawards.co.za. read |
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 | Joseph Neusu I am currently reading Ryan Holiday's book, Growth Hacker Marketing, alongside other growth hacking resources, about 33 of them in total... read |
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 | The Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) masterclass presentation at the Loerie Awards ceremony is sold out, with 70 delegates enrolled in the half-day programme... read |
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 | True to its tagline, 'The smart read for smart women', Fairlady announced the winners of its annual Fairlady Women of the Future Awards, in partnership with Santam, at an exclusive VIP luncheon at Summer Place in Hyde Park, Johannesburg this afternoon... read | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg Robyn Farah is a bonafide tech powerhouse. Not only is she the founder of hardware prototyping company Kat-O, but she also runs some of South Africa's... read | |  | Leigh Andrews This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Hayley Upson, managing director at Moon Walk Communications. read | |  | Beverley Klein Abongile Kolisi has been appointed as the brand ambassador for Chivas Regal at Pernod Ricard. Prior to her new role, she spent three years at SA Breweries in sales... read | |  | Inspired by Huffington Post's Sophia project, TEDxCapeTownWomen asked some previous speakers to share their thoughts on time lessons learnt from inter-generational sharing... (video) read | |  | Inspired by Huffington Post's Sophia project, TEDxCapeTownWomen asked some previous speakers to share their thoughts on time lessons learnt from inter-generational sharing... (video) read | |  | The Property Point 'Celebrating Women in Business' workshop, taking place on Thursday 18 August 2016 at Southern Sun Hotel, Hyde Park, offers two leading women in business, as speakers... read | |  | Beverley Klein Bianca Quinn-Diavastos is the sales and marketing director at 25AM, an independent online media agency. Quinn Diavastos gained experience in marketing and digital strategy before moving to 25AM... read | |
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 | Entries for this year's AdFocus Awards close at midday on Monday, 29 August 2016... read |
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 | Beverley Klein On Friday 12 August, Pete Case, chief creative officer at Ogilvy SA, presented his best campaigns of Cannes 2016 and provided some insight into the future of advertising and marketing... read |
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 | South African locals Ryan Wolters and Will van der Merwe are making waves in Europe. The creative duo recently competed in the Cannes Young Lions Awards. As freelancers, they began entering creative advertising competitions and immediately knew they were on to something... read |
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 | Brendan Seery Nando's has been known for its attention-grabbing, sometimes deliberately provocative, advertising... read |
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 | Chris Brewer Over the last few weeks, I've been going through the basics of how to create a good (hopefully great) advertising campaign. If you've been reading them all, I hope that if you're already in the business, it will have reminded you of some of the basics... read |
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 | Enver Groenewald It used to be that people only had a few TV channels to watch and radio stations to listen to. Routines were planned around what time their favourite programmes were aired... read |
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 | Chris Waldburger If political parties and media houses are going to be responsive in the new era of South African coalition politics, they should pay attention to social media... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews In the age of the customer, retailers and marketers need to pay attention to customers and CX like never before. Here's how to get it right... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews It's not about the low-hanging fruit or quick wins, effective customer experience management that results in happy returning customers is all about effective change now to improve the overall future customer experience (CX)... read |
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 | Willem Gous Innovation departments for small businesses are expensive. We just do not have all the resources and cash flow to invest in such initiatives... read |
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 | Rather than obsessing about driving efficiencies, savvy business leaders will look to emerging technologies to find new revenue streams and, more importantly, covert normally fickle customers into loyal supporters... read |
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 | Cari Van Wyk Sea Monster, a company that creates beautiful and unique 2D-animations as well as develop engaging games for work or play is participating in #CoCreate2Accelerate... read |
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 | TurnUp Music, in collaboration with WeChat and Endemol Shine Africa, is a new online music service, dedicated to helping undiscovered musicians build their careers by offering the platform to reach and grow their fan base... read |
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 | Jason Ried In 2011, artist Amir Baradaran shocked and delighted French citizens by creating an augmented reality (AR) app that transformed their beloved Mona Lisa painting... read |
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 | Alexander Grosu After Pokémon Go going viral in just one week, it would be an understatement to say that things are simply changing. Humanity is rapidly heading toward a future we've only seen in science fiction movies... read |
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 | This year's SA Innovation Summit, taking place 21-24 September 2016 in Ekurhuleni, is hosting a co-creation day in Cape Town as part of a lead-up event, followed by a 24-hour Hackathon in Khayelitsha in August... read |
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 | The 2016 Women on Wheels (WOW) Car of the Year Award goes to the Hyundai Tucson and the Range Rover Sport takes the overall Reader's Choice Award... read |
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 | The finalists of the 2016 Responsible Drinking Media Awards (RDMAs), selected from over 200 entries, have been announced. The winners will be revealed at the official awards ceremony on 31 August 2016... read |
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 | The International News Media Association (INMA), a global community of market-leading news media companies, will hold its first Global Media Summit Africa on 14-15 November 2016 at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Despite the internal and externals that journalists face every day, the industry is strong, delivering excellent work in newspapers. This excellence was on display last night... read |
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 | The winners of the Publishers Support Services' (PSS), (previously Print and Digital Media South Africa (PDMSA), Standard Bank Sikuvile Awards have been announced... read |
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 | Beverley Klein The MMA SA (Mobile Marketing Association of South Africa) Smarties Awards 2016 took place at the beautiful Sky Bar at the Maharani Elangeni Hotel... (list of winners) read |
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 | The recently released EY report, 'Internet of Things: Human-machine interactions that unlock possibilities', indicates that media and entertainment (M&E) companies can capitalise on increased opportunities, as billions of devices are expected to be connected in the coming years... read |
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 | Flare, the in-house content division of BBDO is launching in South Africa. Heading up Flare is Johannesburg-based Tara Dales, who has experience in the world of content from her time at National Geographic, BuzzFeed and Rubicon Entertainment... read |
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 | Hadlee Simons The internet has largely delivered on its promise to revolutionise the way we access information and news in general. Unfortunately, we've also seen the rise of fake news websites, as people share these stories without question... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach With branded headsets and the production of virtual reality (VR) campaigns, VR is a wonderful new, innovative way to reach high-end audiences, and it is here... read |
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 | Outdoor was the most popular category at Cannes this year with a total number of 5367 entries. Out of this 127 Lions were awarded... read |
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 | A new study in partnership with PRISA and the IABC, has found that business acumen is regarded as an important skill by 51% of communication practitioners, up from only 5% in the 2015 study... read |
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 | Chris Verrijdt Public relations (PR) has always tried to plug the gap between journalism and advertising and as journalism changes, so too are PR and advertising... read |
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 | Greg and Lucky, who have built a fan base with their nighttime show on 947 for the past three years, move to the lunchtime slot, from noon to 3pm, Monday to Friday, from 22 August 2016... read |
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 | Pinterest on Wednesday introduced video ads as it moved to cash in on a growing appetite for videos at the popular online bulletin board. read |
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 | Social media users fond of posting a hashtag could find themselves on the wrong side of the law... read |
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 | Today, 19 August 216, ShowMax celebrates one year of business, 10 million views and more than 700 years' worth of TV shows and movies. Now, it is also ready to share its lessons on video on demand (VOD) learnt over the past 12 months and from a survey of 1,000 people. read |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter announced on Thursday that it had cut off 235,000 accounts during the past six months in a heightened crackdown on use of the global messaging service to promote violent extremist causes. read |
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 | A St Petersburg design studio, Petersburg Studio Oneione, has designed a transparent plastic bus that will offer visitors unparalleled viewing of the city during the FIFA World Cup in 2018... read |
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 | Univision has won the bidding for embattled Gawker Media, which recently filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay $140 million to Hulk Hogan for releasing his sex tape... read |
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 | The Cape Town-based design company, Formula D Interactive, has beaten thousands of entries from 46 nations to win a prestigious Red Dot Award in the category Interface Design... read |
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 | Arianna Huffington, founder of the online Huffington Post news site that has become a global phenomenon, announced on Thursday she was stepping down to launch a nonprofit group focused on health and wellness... read |
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 | A global survey of over 200 reporters and editors found that 72% agree that traditional media outlets are the most trusted news sources... read |
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 | Scott Zambonini Location-based mobile game Pokémon Go is perhaps the best commercial example of augmented reality (AR) gaming to date... read |
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 | The Unilever Brunch took place at California Dreaming on 20 August 2016 in Durban, South Africa as part of Loeries Creative Week. Bizcommunity interviewed Nunu Ntshingila, Head of Facebook Africa. - View/Rate |
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 | The DStv Seminar of Creativity took place at the ICC on 19 August 2016 in Durban, South Africa as part of Loeries Creative Week. Bizcommunity interviewed Sarah Personette, Vice President, Global Business Marketing, Facebook New York. - View/Rate |
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