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JESSICA TENNANT
Some high-level findings from the IAB SA Digital Landscape Report for 2020, as presented by Ryan Smit, MD at BMIT and head of the Measurement Council for the IAB... read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Managing and strategy director of The Jupiter Drawing Room, Michelle Beh's account of work-life in the time of Covid-19, part of a series of articles looking into how agencies and agency folk are responding to the crisis and viewing it through a creative lens...read
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SIMON DE HAAST
Start practising the art of outside-in innovation. Pretty soon you'll see things that aren't reflected in research documents or analytics data...read
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JESSICA TENNANT
This week, we go behind the selfie with Hestelle Robinson, COO of Homemakers Media Holdings...read
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IAN GABRIEL
As the country and the film and advertising industry gears up to confront the post lockdown new normal, a great deal of attention has rightly been focused on the fresh creative and communication challenges the industry will confront in the days ahead... Read
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ISSUED BY BORDERLESS ACCESS
With every aspect of their lives being affected by the impact of Covid-19 and the national lockdown, consumers are expecting more from their brands than ever before... Read
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ISSUED BY TQ GROUP
Forward-thinking digital media agencies, TQ Group and Craft Creative Brew House, have joined forces in a campaign offering free digital creative executions to the value of R40,000 to companies wishing to communicate Covid-19-related messages with their customers and staff... Read
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NIGEL HOLLIS, ISSUED BY KANTAR
As the economic and social ramifications of the 'Great Lockdown' make themselves apparent there is a lot of discussion about what consumer behaviours will change when we reach a new normal after Covid-19... Read
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JENNI-RUTH COGGIN, ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH
In partnership with Borderless Access, BMi Research conducted an online survey to understand how the lockdown impacted media consumption... Read
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Advertising
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The final shortlist has been released for the Warc Awards 2020. 21 campaigns have made the Effective Social Strategy shortlist, which links social strategies to business success... Read
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ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA
Post-lockdown time is the time to harness Location targeting to communicate what's available and where... Read
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ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) South Africa is pleased to announce the appointment of Clare Trafankowska as managing director of iProspect South Africa effective from 1 May 2020... Read
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Film & Cinematography
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DANIEL DERCKSEN
Daniel Dercksen chats with Tertius Kapp, who wrote the screenplay for Griekwastad, the true story of the cruel acts which shook the world to its core in 2012... Read
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Marketing
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ROBYN DALY, ISSUED BY MANN MADE
Anyone, anywhere, can watch the videos you've posted to your social feeds or on your site. But they need to capture imagination through storytelling and to be slick and well-produced in order to grab attention... Read
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Media
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ISSUED BY NEWZROOM AFRIKA
Newzroom Afrika celebrates its one-year anniversary on 2 May 2020 at a time when a trusted information service is more important than ever... Read
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One Show Awards
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The One Club's annual in-person Creative Week in New York has transformed into Creative Month 2020, with more than 60 sessions with creative leaders from around the world streaming free of charge from 4-29 May... Read
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Research
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JOHANNA MCDOWELL
The chart below details what the average investment in marketing communications is as a percentage of the client company's turnover... Read
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Retail
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The Edcon group announced today that its board has passed a resolution authorising it to file for business rescue in the course of the next few days... Read
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Consumers have switched to digital shopping alternatives, with 37% of South Africans saying they are shopping more online... Read
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JUSTINE DAVIES
On 2 April, Sierra Leone reported its second Covid-19 case. The government reacted quickly, the country was on lockdown for 72 hours and borders were closed... Read
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ANDRE VAN HEERDEN, JACQUES VAN WYK, AND BRADLEY WORKMAN-DAVIES
How do we calculate the benefits payable to employers, on behalf of their employees, in terms of the Covid-19 TERS...? Read
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The sale of cigarettes and alcohol will remain prohibited... Read
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DR COBUS OOSTHUIZEN
While the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to sideline the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are in fact more vulnerable now than ever... Read
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STEPHEN KENNEDY-GOOD AND AKHONA BOLOKO
SA law requires that directors must exercise their powers in the best interests of the company, and with the degree of care, skill and diligence that may be reasonably expected of a person carrying out those functions. Directors can be held personally liable, and are now having to take tough decisions in the context of the pandemic... Read
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PayFast has seen a 226% year-on-year increase in new business account registrations in the food industry since Covid-19 restrictions were put in place... Read
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BIASE DE GREGORIO
Covid-19 has provided an opportunity for society, business and government to embrace uncertainty. This global crisis will force us to solve highly complex problems in new and creative ways... Read
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No-one knows what the long-term economic effects of the Covid-19 epidemic will be... Read
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