Awards after awards. Enough already

[Rolf Akermann] Advertising awards are plentiful. Cannes Lions, Loeries, Pendorings, CIO, AAF, AotW, CRESTA and LIA to name but a few, and all these awards are about creativity...

[NewsMaker] Mike Sharman

[Louise Burgers] Mike Sharman, the co-founder of Retroviral Digital Communications, will be the new head of Bidvest Media's Retroviral subsidiary as Chief Creative Strategist...

Data-driven journalism wins in today's digital world

[Leigh Andrews] If you thought digital journalism had devolved into a sticky web of cut-and-paste sameness, clearly you're not up to speed on the latest trends in data-driven journalism, which incorporate the best of original writing and creative use of technology alike...

#BehindtheSelfie - and Cannes Lions judging insights - with... Andy Rice

[Leigh Andrews] This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Andy Rice, conference speaker, strategist, Chairman of Yellowwood and the only SA judge on the Cannes Lions 2015 Creative Effectiveness panel...

Feeding the hungry mouth - internet journalism

[Marion Scher] There's been a lot said about the demise of print journalism. Replacing it we have online journalism in the form of both electronic and print media organisations rushing to refresh their pages every hour...

A passionate and masterful Lost River

[Daniel Dercksen] You will never forget Lost River, a consummate masterwork from Ryan Gosling that weaves elements of fantasy noir and suspense...

Taking vehicle branding above and beyond

[Beverley Klein] Out of home branding is a trend that's growing in leaps and bounds, with billboards, digital signage and more. But there's one that's been the business of Graffiti for the past 16 years: vehicle branding...

Meandering in Malaysia: Reasons why you should visit

[Evan-Lee Courie] Malaysia has never been on my bucket list, but when you begin to research the destination, you'll be surprised at what you will find...

Facebook just did something you should know... it's about email

[Warren Harding] Facebook just made an announcement about the Facebook Messaging App, which has been kept pretty quiet, but I think it has a big long-term play for the social media giant...

Cannes. A Cathedral of confidence?

[Damon Stapleton] This is the strangeness of Cannes. Russian tour guides, hustlers, believers, charlatans and sometimes you occasionally meet a genius who may or may not be a hustler...

Sorento oozes comfort and class

[Henrie Geyser] Kia has just unwrapped its latest Kia Sorento which brims with so much class, new technologies, safety features, good looks and ride quality refinement that it moves from also-ran to quite a few jumps ahead of most of its competitors.

Broaden your focus from big data to the data implications of POPI

[Leigh Andrews] So much has already been said about POPI, the Protection of Personal Information Act, but so much of that has led to confusion. Danny Aaron, director of 3Way Marketing, explains...

Added value at hotels more important than ever

[Brian Berkman] Getting value for the money spent on a hotel stay is more important than ever before...

Night shift transport: employer or employee obligation?

[Hugo Pienaar] Section 17(1) of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, No 75 of 1997 (BCEA) defines night work as work performed after 6pm and before 6am the next day...

Selling out: The daily dilemma of the independent agency

[Mike Silver] When you first set out to start an agency, you do so because you believe the current market offering is lacking something and that you, if you get it right, can make something that will bring home the bacon...

Disadvantaged SA creatives get a boost onto the career ladder

[Leigh Andrews] I met the first-ever 60 participants of the Cape Town One Show Diversity Boot Camp first hand, walked away feeling a little more inspired about the state of South African advertising, and got the scoop on what's coming to One Show 2016: Quarterly entry for all categories...

Why is it so difficult to set objectives?

[Chris Brewer] I'm constantly amazed at how few businesses (agencies, clients and media) write meaningful sets of objectives. Often they don't exist at all and, perhaps of more concern, is how bad many of them are...

Making sense of the MadWorld of advertising

[Leigh Andrews] MadWorld: It's not just the title of an Eighties classic by Tears for Fears, it's also the name of an advertising agency. Here, Adelaide Potgieter - Founder of MadWorld and Mad Advertising - shares her dreams for this often 'mad world'...

Google and content: Still dating after all these years

[Catherine Black] Back in the late 90s, when Dolly the sheep was being cloned and The Spice Girls were still Botox-free, Google was just a child. Because of this, its relationships with websites were simple prepubescent crushes...