Marketing & Media Video South Africa

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.

Mike Mulcahy, the CEO of GreenCape, and Cecelia Kok, the head of research and advocacy projects at FNF, discus “greenshoots at grassroots” in the green economy and why we should be concerned with growing the green economy in SA.

Lindiwe Johnson, the skills development project manager of GreenCape and Genesis Cleveland’s regional project officer, FNF, discusses the Green Economy Decision-Makers course and why it’s so important to develop skills for the green economy.

Tine Fisker-Henriksen, the Innovative Finance Lead for Bertha Centre for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, and a member of the Green Outcomes Fund Advisory Committee, shares details of the Green Outcomes Fund, what it means to be a green business and how green SMMEs can apply for funding.

The Africa Brand Summit was established in late 2016 and launched in 2018. Its awards ceremony has become popular for many aspiring brands who do great development work that uplifts communities and deserving individuals around Africa. Here, my chat with the Summit convenor himself, Solly Moeng about the summit, Moeng's passion for Africa and his vision for the event going forward....

Ticket sales to this year's virtual and in-person Africa Brand Summit are open. Select the category that suits you and your organisation best, whether in Cape Town, Joburg, Nigeria or elsewhere; the summit is ready to launch from 7 to 8 October 2020. Read more here.

The forthcoming episode of #ACACaresCovid19 features CEO Mathe Okaba of the ACA Association for communications and Advertising, in conversation with Brian Yuyi CEO MASA in the last of our series on Liquidity and the Economics of Advertising, made possible by the ACA.

The penultimate in our ACA series features three senior IAB SA executive board members, Claire Cobbledick, GM Gumtree South Africa and vice-chair IAB SA; Avani Singh, founder and co-director Alt Advisory and IAB SA Regulation Council chair; and Fahmeeda Cassim-Surtee, CEO of DStv Media Sales, discussing the increasing value of digital advertising and marketing, privacy, PoPIA and FPB legislation, connected TV and the future of digital audiences and content, hosted by Rutendo Nyamuda....

The rate of change in the media landscape in putting more pressure on media agencies, brands and advertisers, around optimising budgets and delivering on campaign goals. Agencies are better informed than ever before about consumers, however, knowing which consumer insights to reference and how to interpret them for improved media mix decisions is becoming ever more complex.

Following two years during which the annual brand summit focused on the evolving image of South Africa and its implications for socio-economic development, the hybrid 2020 event , now called the Africa Brand Summit, will pay more thematic attention to the evolving image of Africa, at a broad level, and seek to find answers to a series of questions that look at global perceptions about Africa and being African. Perceptions shape destination brand image. Africans should work harder at eliminating practices that inform negative perceptions over time while they also enhance things that inform positive perceptions, as it is the latter that attract investments, business and leisure tourists, as well as other foreign exchange earning opportunities, including rare, special skills....

Ann Nurock senior partner, Relationship Audits and Management and Rorisang Setlogelo MD and founder of Roth Media, a Black-owned, female-owned agency share powerful insights about how every step of the value chain contributes to greater representation, sharing economies and the importance of female voices in boardrooms.

Watch now as Abey Mokgwatsane, managing executive at Vodacom SA and Africa and Preetesh Sewraj, CEO of the Loeries add their voices to how together SA business and the creative communications sectors are creating a new "better normal" in the 7th episode of Bizcommunity's video interview series, made possible by the ACA, Association for Communications and Advertising, hosted by Rutendo Nyamuda.

"This is an exciting time to be a Global South African and there's no time like the present to become part of a movement and community that is committed to positioning South Africa as a competitive global player," so said Acting Chief Marketing Officer at Brand South Africa, Ms Thoko Modise, at the livestream launch of the Global South African (GSA) portal.