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Image by Lesley Svenson, Bizcommunity. The ABC Q3 2024 figures have been released

Newspapers

ABC Q3 2024: A quiet quarter for newspapers

Danette Breitenbach 8 hours

Image by Lesley Svenson, Bizcommunity. The ABC Q3 2024 figures have been released

Magazines

ABC Q3 2024: Magazine momentum continues to build with some good performances

Danette Breitenbach 7 hours

Source: © 123rf South Africans are demonstrating resilience and adaptability in response to inflationary pressures, but this has led to a decline in alcohol and fast food purchases

Retail

Inflationary pressures see alcohol and fast food purchases decline

Danette Breitenbach 12 Nov 2024

Source: © 123rf Competition for viewership remains fragmented across various platforms, as multi-platform behaviour highlights high levels of social media interaction while watching television and radio listening

Media

Maps highlights high levels of social media interaction while watching TV and radio listening

Danette Breitenbach 11 Nov 2024

BrandMapp's Stuart Lowe passes away, industry pays tribute

Media

BrandMapp's Stuart Lowe passes away, industry pays tribute

Danette Breitenbach 31 Oct 2024

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

PR & Communications

Elite of the elite: SA's Razor PR, Clockwork and Magna Carta excel at Global Sabre Awards

Danette Breitenbach 30 Oct 2024

Marketing

Siemens' Keshin Govender's ‘glocal’ approach to build local resonance for a global brand

Danette Breitenbach 21 Oct 2024

Source: © Avid Following a settlement, the details of which have not been disclosed, Unilever has been dropped from the lawsuit by X

Advertising

Is Elon Musk winning the legal war or losing the ad battle as Unilever and X settle

Danette Breitenbach 16 Oct 2024

Source: © Gallo Images Lanre Adisa, Founder/Chief Creative Officer of Noah’s Ark communications based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries: How Noah’s Ark turned Airtel into Nigeria’s most loved brand

Danette Breitenbach 11 Oct 2024

Source: © Gallo Images The Creative Circle hosted a panel discussion on the state of SA's advertising industry

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries: The state of advertising in SA - Ambition. Deliberate. "Let's go, let's do it"

Danette Breitenbach 11 Oct 2024

Source: © Gallo Images Joe Public is the Loeries Awards Agency of the Year

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries All the winners, Agency of the Year is Joe Public

11 Oct 2024

Source: © Gallo Images The Open Chair event,Friends in High Places in partnership with Nedbank, hosted 65 young women in mentoring session on the Cape Wheel

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries: Young women soar at the Open Chair Cape Wheel mentoring event

Danette Breitenbach 11 Oct 2024

Source: © Gallo Images (Left) Preetesh Sewraj, CEO The Loeries, (centre) Bridget Harpur, head of marketing: Volkswagen South Africa was named Marketer of the Year, and (right)
Kabelo Moshapalo, incoming Loeries Chairperson and CCO Ogilvy Johannesburg

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries: All the winners, VW's Bridget Harpur named marketer of the year

10 Oct 2024

Source: © Gallo Images The Student Expo is an important part of Loeries Creative Week. This year the Expo is sponsored and powered by Publicis

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries Student Expo inaugural launch brings students and agencies together

Danette Breitenbach 10 Oct 2024

Source: © Gallo Images The Mayor of the City of Cape Town welcomes Africa and the Middle East’s best creatives and agencies to the City as well as international jury presidents from around the world to the City at the Mayor's Brunch

Loeries Creative Week

#Loeries and Cape Town: A perfect fit says Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis

Danette Breitenbach 10 Oct 2024

Mike Sharman, chief creative officer and founder of Retroviral (Image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Mike Sharman - "Are you not entertained?"

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Mbali Bhengu, marketing lecturer to third-year students at Red & Yellow Creative School of Business (Image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Mbali Bhengu - How my students have made me a better marketer

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Matthew Bull, founder, SoloUnion and chief creative adviser for AB InBev and Kraft Heinz (Image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Matthew Bull – It's time for the world to laugh again

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Marko Stavrou, the Gen Z Guy, CEO and Genlink (Image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Marko Stavrou - Unveils the secrets to marketing to Gen Z

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Source: © Bizcommunity Musa Kalenga, group chief executive of the Brave Group

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Musa Kalenga - AI, run for the hills or the opportunity to unlock value

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Mzamo Xala – building a better world through the lens of marketing

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Nicky Verd, a digital futurist and author of the book, Disrupt Yourself or Be Disrupted (Image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Nicky Verd – the future of marketing and business is data-driven

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Founder, EDC squared, Scott Thwaites (image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Scott Thwaites – Time for brands that act and feel like people

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Steve Babaeko, CEO / chief creative officer of the Lagos-based communications agency X3M Ideas (Image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Steve Babaeko – Advocacy through creativity to overcome challenges

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Source: © LinkedIn Mike Wright, a Red & Yellow marketing student

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Mike Wright – Making the right cut, lessons from butchery for marketing

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Frank van den Driest, founder of the Institute for Real Growth (Image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Frank van den Driest - How marketers can drive more humanised growth?

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Tom Manners, co-CEO at Clockwork (Image supplied)

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2024: Tom Manners - Clockwork's game show provides honest industry conversations with laugh

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Leagas Delaney debuts in SA, aims for top mid-tier agency spot with 10 bespoke clients

Marketing

Leagas Delaney debuts in SA, aims for top mid-tier agency spot with 10 bespoke clients

Danette Breitenbach 3 Oct 2024

Source: © VOA News Meta will ban RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads

Media Freedom

Meta bans Russia state media across all platforms as “covert influence” operations threaten US election

Danette Breitenbach 17 Sep 2024

#WomensMonth: Tatjana Smith, SA's most successful Olympian, "Every month should be Women's Month"

Sport

#WomensMonth: Tatjana Smith, SA's most successful Olympian, "Every month should be Women's Month"

Danette Breitenbach 31 Aug 2024

#WomensMonth: Leadership Lessons from Laura Thomas: Empathy, Creativity, and Humility

Women's Month

#WomensMonth: Leadership Lessons from Laura Thomas: Empathy, Creativity, and Humility

Danette Breitenbach 28 Aug 2024

Image supplied. For Courtney Mocke, integrated strategist, Joe Public, Women’s Month is a profound reminder to honour and celebrate the incredible women who have surrounded her in every area in her life.

Women's Month

Courtney Mocke, Joe Public: #WomensMonth - A reminder to honour the women in your life

Danette Breitenbach 27 Aug 2024

While Deidre Lodwig, managing director MTN United, an agency outfit that services MTN across 17 markets in Africa looks at how women can eventually stop having to fight for their space. Image supplied.

Women's Month

#WomensMonth: Deidre Lodwig, MTN United MD – One day we can stop fighting for our space

Danette Breitenbach 26 Aug 2024

#WomensMonth: Edna Mohale-Maphita, head marketing Kenvue SSA – From chemical engineering to marketing

Women's Month

#WomensMonth: Edna Mohale-Maphita, head marketing Kenvue SSA – From chemical engineering to marketing

Danette Breitenbach 22 Aug 2024

ABC Q2 2024 Newspapers: Dailies and local newspapers buck the general continuing decline

Newspapers

ABC Q2 2024 Newspapers: Dailies and local newspapers buck the general continuing decline

Danette Breitenbach 22 Aug 2024

Source: Image generated by Karabo Ledwaba using Leonardo.AI

IAB Bookmarks Awards

#Bookmarks2024: AI, audacity and the human touch

Karabo Ledwaba 20 Aug 2024

Source: © The Bookmarks These second IAB South Africa Bookmark Awards Finalists’ Showcase discussed artificial intelligence (AI), audacity and creative collaboration featuring host and moderator Ann Nurock

IAB Bookmarks Awards

#Bookmarks2024: Finalists’ Showcase encourages AI use, audacity and creative collaboration

16 Aug 2024

$Source: The Bookmarks The IAB SA Bookmark Awards' winners have been announced with TBWA \ Hunt Lascaris being the big winner on the night$

IAB Bookmarks Awards

#Bookmarks2024: All the IAB SA Bookmark Awards 2024 winners

Danette Breitenbach 16 Aug 2024

Ann Nurock, Cannes Lions trend spotter, will host and moderate the 2024 Bookmarks Finalists’ Showcase (Image supplied)

IAB Bookmarks Awards

#Bookmarks2024: Finalists’ Showcase hosted and moderated by trend spotter, Ann Nurock

12 Aug 2024

Image supplied. Blue Ribbon Bread’s latest TTL campaign from Retroviral plays on the insight that moms always get us and know everything

Advertising

#BehindtheCampaign: Blue Ribbon's The Mmmm Yum Taste that makes mom great

Danette Breitenbach 8 Aug 2024

Kalay Maistry, partner and client services director for Razor PR feels she has to carry forward that bravery that the women of 9 August started. Image supplied.

Women's Month

#WomensMonth: Kalay Maistry – Carrying forward the bravery of the 1956 women

Danette Breitenbach 8 Aug 2024

Source: © LIA Michelle Marais, senior copywriter at Dentsu Creative and a 2024 Cannes See It.Be It. recipient talks about being a female in the creative industry at the tip of Africa

Women's Month

#WomensMonth: Michelle Marais - Working in advertising takes guts; as a woman even more so

Danette Breitenbach 6 Aug 2024

#WomensMonth: VML SA's Ana Rocha - "Women need to take up and own their own space"

Women's Month

#WomensMonth: VML SA's Ana Rocha - "Women need to take up and own their own space"

Danette Breitenbach 1 Aug 2024

Branding

Adidas' brand sentiment plummets after dropping Bella Hadid

Danette Breitenbach 29 Jul 2024

Source: © WPP At the recent Creative Circle Full Circle held in Johannesburg this year's South African Cannes Lions jury members' gave their insights into some of the world's best advertising campaigns

Cannes Lions

#Cannes2024: Insights on some of the world's best creative work

Danette Breitenbach 29 Jul 2024

Source: © Olympics The Paris Olympics official mascot is the Olympic Phryge, in the shape of the traditional small Phrygian hats

Branding

#Paris2024: Meet the Olympic Phryge mascot, a symbol of freedom

Danette Breitenbach 25 Jul 2024

Ascential, the Cannes Lions festival owner, as been bought out by its rival Informa

Advertising

Cannes Lion Festival bought out by rival business, informa

Danette Breitenbach 24 Jul 2024

Adidas' Olympics retro campaign steps into controversy

Advertising

Adidas' Olympics retro campaign steps into controversy

Danette Breitenbach 23 Jul 2024

Source ©: Sikuvile Awards The Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards were announced on Saturday evening, 20 July

Media Freedom

All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards winners

Danette Breitenbach 21 Jul 2024

Source: © south African government This year, the Mandela Day theme is '#ItIsInYourHands' and aims to combat poverty and inequity

ESG

#ItsInYourHands: Celebrate Mandela Day

Danette Breitenbach & Evan-Lee Courie 17 Jul 2024