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Source: © Provoke Media Razor PR, Clockwork and Magna Carta excelled at the recent 2024 Global Sabre Awards

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Source: © Provoke Media Razor PR, Clockwork and Magna Carta excelled at the recent 2024 Global Sabre Awards

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Image supplied. The Agency Scope 2023 – 2024’s Top 10 top creative agency professionals have been revealed

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Source: © Shopright Holdings The perception some clients have of agency environments is often ‘creativity coupled with chaos, overseen by someone called traffic’, writes Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) and Scopen partner

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Source: © Careers Publicis Groupe in Paris, France. Publicis is putting AI at its core to become the industry’s first intelligent system

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Sphelele Mjadu is the founder of Defined PR. Source: Supplied.

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Le Pub's Neo Segola to preside over radio and audio jury at D&AD Awards 2024

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Source: AdWeek Mark Read, CEO of WPP

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The ACA welcomes Gillian Rightford, ensuring smooth transition following former CEO's departure

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Image supplied. VML launches the tenth edition of ‘The Future 100: 2024’ today

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Source: WEF Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Marc Benioff, chair and CEO of Salesforce; Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer; Jeremy Hunt, chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK; Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture; and CNN host Fareed Zakaria speak about technological advances on 18 January

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APO Group appoints Rania El Rafie as vice president of public relations and strategic communications

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Image supplied. , Castle Lager, the national beer of Bafana Bafana, has launched an Afcon campaign with AI, to reward South African fans for the nation's every corner and shot on goal

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Clockwork welcomes Sergio Santos-van Vuuren as public relations director

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Tendai ‘The Beast’ Mtawarira selects APO Group as exclusive PR partner of the Beast Foundation

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Source: © Shopright Holdings The perception some clients have of agency environments is often ‘creativity coupled with chaos, overseen by someone called traffic’, writes Johanna McDowell, CEO of the Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) and Scopen partner

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Source: Monstera Production Angela Bruwer, of the IMM Graduate School, emphasises the significance of strategic opportunistic marketing on special occasions such as Valentine's Day

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Source: © Careers Publicis Groupe in Paris, France. Publicis is putting AI at its core to become the industry’s first intelligent system

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Warc Awards announces top industry and agency experts for Middle East & Africa 2024 juries

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Sphelele Mjadu is the founder of Defined PR. Source: Supplied.

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Le Pub's Neo Segola to preside over radio and audio jury at D&AD Awards 2024

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Source: AdWeek Mark Read, CEO of WPP

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Image supplied. VML launches the tenth edition of ‘The Future 100: 2024’ today

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Image supplied. , Castle Lager, the national beer of Bafana Bafana, has launched an Afcon campaign with AI, to reward South African fans for the nation's every corner and shot on goal

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Clockwork welcomes Sergio Santos-van Vuuren as public relations director

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Hill & Knowlton Nigeria leadership buys agency, forms Skot Communications

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Image supplied. With the Sabre Awards EMEA and Africa late deadline on Monday, 15 January, Provoke Media gives 8 tips on crafting a winning entry...

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L to R: VML has named Diane Wilson chief operations officer, Jarred Cinman its CEO and the WPP country manager for South Africa, Tebogo Skwambane as executive chairperson. Images supplied. Image by @Lesley Svenson, Bizcommunity.

Jarred Cinman and Diane Wilson take up VML top leadership positions

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Source: © 123rf Ronelle Bester, MD of Red Ribbon Communications, delves into some of the key PR trends anticipated to define 2024

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Ronelle Bester 8 Jan 2024

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The One Club for Creativity’s Global Creative Rankings 2023 have been announced with ? and us Dubai named the Regional Agency for the Middle East and Africa.

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South Africa's Retroviral the world's most creative agency

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Dentsu celebrates the appointment of Chishimba Musonda as managing director in Zambia

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Dentsu 14 Dec 2023

Image supplied. Tara Turkington and Tiffany Turkington-Palmer of Flow Communications reflect on 18 lessons in marketing and communications

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Stork delivers a taste of the country using the world's first delivery billboard

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Source: © 123rf In 2024, in the PR industry, ESG is the area in which most investment is expected, AI tools mastery is the most important skill says a new ICCO report

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PR professional shortlisted for SA’s Business Entrepreneur of the Year 2023

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