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This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with future thinker and Flux Trends partner, Bronwyn Williams.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with Ndeye Diagne, the managing director West, East and Central Africa at Kantar.

Grid Worldwide’s Picks of the Week is a platform we developed during lockdown to showcase best in local music, food, literature, art and culture along with SMEs for exposure. For Youth Month, Grid will profile the best in (youth) class curating culture in South Africa every week for the month of June.

The World Independent Advertising Awards (WINA), has released a video clip explaining how advertising can play an integral role in reviving economies post Covid-19. The video features 26 creative leaders from five continents who share the values of advertising to the economy. The judges and participants in the video are from various countries, including Germany, Colombia, Thailand, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, and the WINA team. Watch the video below:.

eMedia Investments is proud to announce that one of South Africa's most respected and loved television icons, Devi Sankaree Govender, has found a new broadcast home.

Insurance company King Price has released a new TV commercial that has left South Africans in stitches once more, reports The South African. The advertisement is the latest in King Price’s “when others don’t make sense” series of advertisements and shows how checking someone’s temperature or the word ‘permit’’ can be misunderstood. In the advert, a woman approaches a roadblock, where a police office check her temperature and asks her for a permit, which has become a reality of SA’s lockdown situation. Watch the advertisement below:...

Google, in collaboration with Net#work BBDO, has released a video commemorating Africa Day. The message on the video centres around unity, reinforcing the brand’s “helpful” role. The video celebrates everything African using YouTube videos from content creators from across the continent. This is part of Google’s Africa Day roll-out this year, with the YouTube x Viacom Africa Day concert ieaturing talent from across the continent and the African diaspora. Watch the video below:...

Blood & Water is a South African teen drama series that will premiere on Netflix on 20 May. The entertainment service gathered five talented young local photographers Neo Baepi, Jonathan Ferreira, Lindsey Appolis, Tegan Smith and Mosa Hlope to capture a range of behind the scenes imagery of the cast and crew.

SaSalutes, an initiative driven by Mediclinic and the Dentsu Aegis Network, is a platform created for the public to share their thank you's with all South Africa's healthcare teams on the frontline every night.

Reputation management consultancy, Magna Carta, is using animation to educate people on the symptoms of the novel coronavirus and encourage them to practice physical distancing to curb the spread of the virus. The animated short video will be translated into 20 commonly spoken African languages and will also be available for anyone outside of Africa to translate it to a language of their choice for distribution to the communities outside of the continent.   The video includes education around washing hands, cutting non-essential travel, avoiding or cancelling large-scale public gatherings, physical distancing and remote working and is ideal for social media sharing.   Watch the video below:...

The Women of Excellence business leadership event took place at the Alfajiri Hub at Johannesburg's Maboneng precinct on 18 March, despite coronavirus (Covid-19) concerns. The speaker panel at the event included Alesimo Mwanga from Youth Entrepreneurship Exchange Program (YEEP) Africa, OYA co-founder, Rehema Isa, and the United Nations Women South Africa program associate, Thobela Gceya. The panellists discussed, among others, topics on how to develop action plans, recognise strengths and weaknesses, as well as general business, lifestyle and relationship issues. Here are the highlights from the Women of Excellence business leadership event:...

Global network for women in advertising and creative industries, SheSays, held its first Cape Town event of 2020 on 10 March. SheSays Cape Town co-director Anelde Greeff moderated the panel, which included head of marketing and communications at Zeitz Mocaa Annicia Manyaapelo, CEO of RushTush Rushda Moosajee and media consultant and author Vanessa Raphaely. The panellists shared ideas and stories on reinvention, handling failure, and staying motivated, creative and innovative.

Veli Ngubane - MD & Founding Partner of Avatar Agency and Head of Transformation, Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Transformation Council in conversation with Rutendo Nyamuda about 'Front Row' the IAB's initiative to provide support and opportunities related to transformation within the digital media & marketing industry by providing the youth with access to information, events and industry's top leaders.