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The Loeries has appointed Preetesh Sewraj as its new CEO from 1 April. This comes after Andrew Human, who served as CEO for 15 years, stepped down in 2019... read
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YouTube announced the appointment of Alex Okosi as managing director of emerging markets for YouTube in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective April 2020...read
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JESSICA TENNANT
New York Festivals Advertising Awards announced Ahmed Tilly, CCO at FCB Joburg as one of the first 20 members of the 2020 NYF executive jury...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Last week saw The One Club for Creativity's first-ever Right The Ratio Summit, aimed at advancing workplace equality and fostering a more gender-balanced environment for agency decision-makers, from the corner office all the way to the intern pool. I found out more from gender equality program manager Kasia Karolak and CEO Kevin Swanepoel...read
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King Price's latest TV commercial uses wit and humour to poke fun at South Africans' occasional cultural misinterpretations... Read
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ODETTE VAN DER HAAR
The business world is highly competitive and this applies to the largest of corporations all the way to the smallest of entrepreneurs. The economy has been merciless and no-one in business has been unaffected. In order to stay in business, one needs to stay abreast with technology and remain up to date with the latest innovations... Read
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BRETT ROGERS
When it comes to the youth segment, the drivers of popular culture hinge on their expression of themselves within the Zeitgeist, and are often a rebellion and reaction against the dominant forces trying to shape them... Read
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PAULA HULLEY
Collectively participating in open-source, collaborative thinking across industry, hierarchy, speciality, culture and most importantly competitors might seem like a risk, but one worth taking to create success in today's economy... Read
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KIRK GAINSFORD
I am suspicious of trends and you should be, too. I am less suspicious of how transient trends are than how comfortable following a trend will make you feel. If you are #ontrend, you must be OK. Right? But, when budgets are down and anxiety is up, when marketing teams are stretched and consumers even more stretched, you cannot afford to be following trends. Do you remember your mom asking you what you'd do if everyone else jumped into the fire? We all know the line, when everyone zigs... Read
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SIZAKELE MARUTLULLE
Tricky as it can be to 'gaze into a crystal ball ', applying one's mind to what might come to pass is still a worthy undertaking. The shape and format of the marketing and advertising sector continues to evolve and as it ebbs and flows, I suspect more than predict that the CMOs existence as a marked person will prevail... Read
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JOSEPHINE BUYS
In his state of the nation speech in 2019, President Ramaphosa pledged to ensure that within the next five years, every 10-year-old child would be able to read for meaning. I applaud this vision, but realise it's not without its challenges and government cannot do this alone... Read
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GEE MOTSEPE
With the greatest anticipation that the African marketing and communication industry will thrive and strengthen in the foreseeable future, it is important to note that the way we as South Africa and the greater continent consumes media will determine the speed at which we progress as a nation in that regard... Read
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ELOUISE KELLY
It's one thing having the people and the resources to create culturally relevant work, but to be really effective, agencies must build the systems to support them... Read
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NICOLA COOPER
In today's society, the youth are ageing at a faster rate than ever before. But are our educational facilitators ready for this, or are they in need of a reboot? Read
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AVSHARN BACHOO
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the ability of computers to learn, gain experience and make decisions, just like humans... Read
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BEATE STIEHLER-MULDER AND MARIËTTE FRAZER
It's a new year and a blank page is ready to be filled with the retail story of 2020... Read
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DOV GIRNUN
For the retail sector as a whole - and for physical stores in particular - 2020 will be a year of reinvention where retail will get faster and smarter. Read
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ERICA ELK
In the face of increasingly tough systemic and complex challenges, there is an emerging global trend in the public sector towards using a design thinking approach to unlock new and innovative solutions... Read
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ZYAAN DAVIDS ANTER
Companies spent an estimated R10.2bn on corporate social investment (CSI) in South Africa in 2019 - a 5% year-on-year increase in nominal terms (2018: R9.7bn), but flat when taking inflation into account, reflecting a subdued economy... Read
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NTOMBIZAMASALA HLOPHE
Enough has been said about the impending Fourth Industrial Revolution to leave most of us in two camps; nervously awaiting the changes or mildly panicking and signing up for every digital course available... Read
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CAMILLA CLERKE
Four of the largest trends influencing the marketing industry, and their predicted impact on South Africa in the coming months... Read
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Design Indaba speaker, Dutch fashion designer Bas Timmer is changing the world one Sheltersuit at a time... Read
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The New York Festivals Advertising Awards has announced the inaugural 2020 Financial Category executive jury (formerly Midas), including SA's Tom and Dana Cullinan... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
King Price's 'cultural appropriation' ad has the desired impact, and because of effective marketing, Alonso crash was a positive for Toyota... Read
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CANDY DEMPERS, ISSUED BY MEDIAHEADS 360
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Warc has revealed that 84% of respondents to Warc's Marketers Toolkit survey said conscious consumerism and sustainability would have a significant or some impact on marketing strategies in 2020... Read
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You can't run a successful franchise without a strong brand. Yet many franchisees don't know this and struggle to make sales because of this very problem... Read
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Amazon makes history as the first brand in Brand Finance Global 500 ranking to exceed $200bn value mark and retains title of world's most valuable brand for the third consecutive year... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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Nathalie Schooling, CEO of nlighten, urges companies to prioritise CX spend this year, and shares five simple steps to get started... Read
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Although there are still no clear indicators as to when the long-awaited Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI) will come into force, there have been some recent PoPI related developments... Read
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South African designer lighting company Willowlamp recently picked up four international awards, two LIT Design Awards and two D'Arc Awards. Read
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Japanese designer and founder of French luxury fashion house Kenzo, Kenzo Takada, recently introduced the world to his new luxury home and lifestyle brand, K三... Read
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The Radisson RED Hotel V&A Waterfront, Cape Town is once again embarking on a #REDexperiment competition, to offer South African designers and creatives the opportunity to design the hotel's new staff uniform, which includes a T-shirt, a cap and a long-sleeve jacket; with entries closing on 31 January 2020... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Technology companies have the opportunity to thrive as key players in the age of the digital revolution. With the agenda of the 4IR currently at the forefront in South Africa, the empowerment of small tech businesses is critical especially as they are the backbone of the economy... Read
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The fourth instalment of the International Public Art Festival (IPAF) will explore the theme of "digitalisation" in and around Salt River in Cape Town from 12 to 16 February 2020. The festival will also act as the opening of Art Month in Cape Town... Read
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TANJA LATEGAN
As artificial intelligence (AI) become increasingly pervasive, so have headlines about robots taking people's jobs. While there's undoubtedly truth in that (in as much as new technologies have always rendered some jobs obsolete), the societal impact of these new technologies is frequently misunderstood... Read
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The Ekasi Techfest & Gaming Expo, now simply known as the Techfest Expo, will return for a fourth time at the Soweto Theatre from 26 to 27 June 2020... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
After buying 21st Century Fox in a $71bn deal last year, Disney is reportedly removing the word "Fox" from the production company's future branding... Read
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I Did That has announced its official I Did That Craft Awards Rankings for 2019... Read
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NICOLA VAN AST
"10x the business. Enable compound customer growth. Drive exponential growth returns."... Read
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LEIGH CRYMBLE
As marketers, our main aim is to persuade someone to do something. Being able to compel someone to act in a certain way is an invaluable skillset and having the framework to guide this can be the difference between brand success and brand failure... Read
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ASHISH WILLIAMS, ISSUED BY MEDIACOM
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Warc has announced a total of eight winners - one Grand Prix, two Golds, two Silvers and three Bronzes - have been awarded in the Effective Use of Tech category... Read
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The Entertainer's 2020 South African bundle is now available to purchase. The global digital lifestyle brand unveiled its 2020 products with offers in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban... Read
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The One Club for Creativity's One Screen has announced its 2020 shortlist... Read
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Nominations are now open for The World Out of Home Organisation Awards and the organisation has announced that Katrin Robertson, CEO of BlowUp media will head the Organisation's panel of judges for its 2020 Awards... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
In case you missed it, M&C Saatchi Group South Africa has launched a new strategic PR agency called Razor, to expand its service offering into the PR and influence space. The agency has appointed Dustin Chick from Ogilvy South Africa, where he spent almost 10 years as head of strategy: influence and public relations... Read
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Fully integrated and hybrid advertising agency, Iconic Collective has announced a new PR division, Fableist & Co... Read
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The 23rd Time of the Writer International Festival will take place from 16 to 21 March 2020 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), hosting the event in partnership with eThekwini Municipality... Read
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New York Festivals Radio Awards will host its inaugural Storytellers Gala on Tuesday, 21 April, celebrating 100 years of radio... Read
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The latest Scopen's Agency Scope Report reveals the most valued campaigns, the companies most respected for their marketing and the most admired marketing professionals in South Africa... Read
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18 January saw the relaunch of Beyoncé's athleisure brand Ivy Park, in collaboration with Adidas, to the delight of the singer's loyal fanbase commonly referred to as the 'Beyhive'... Read
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TANJA LATEGAN
E-commerce offers its practitioners a lot of advantages over traditional brick-and-mortar stores... Read
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JOHAN BOTES
On 11 December 2019, the Minister of Labour in South Africa issued a notice calling for interested parties to make submissions on his proposal to deem persons in the film and television industry as employees for the purpose of selected portions of South Africa's employment law... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go behind the selfie with Atisha Gopichund-Lutchman, techno marketing director at Saint-Gobain sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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IAN SCOONES
There has been much about a major Africa investment summit being hosted by the UK. Attended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and an array of royals, a great deal of hopeful win-win-win rhetoric abounded linked to forging new partnerships for a post-Brexit future... Read
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There is a $197bn opportunity for private-sector investors in five high-growth markets in Africa to help achieve the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals... Read
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When it comes to energy, it's not just the traditional advocates of renewable energy that are leading the way, it is the world's major emerging economies such as China and India that are driving this clean energy transition... Read
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REHANA CASSIM
A legal battle between Old Mutual, the South African-based pan-African investment, savings and insurance group, and its chief executive officer Peter Moyo has dominated news headlines in the country for the past eight months... Read
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RIRIN RAMADHANY
Scientists are still trying to analyse a new strain of coronavirus that caused a pneumonia outbreak in China, with around 300 people infected and six people dead as of 21 January... Read
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PRABASHNI NAIDOO
Cybersecurity professionals see some threat actors or outside-parties as the enemy. However, challenging this mindset is important; you can better protect your organisation against outside-parties if you understand how they think and operate... Read
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With only 10 years to go to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a great deal of work to be done if business is to contribute meaningfully to national efforts... Read
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DR JOHN DEMARTINI
Dr John Demartini unpacks some important lessons that new entrepreneurs would be wise to take into the new year... Read
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2019 was a tough year for South Africans, but challenges often build resilience and confidence, particularly for business entrepreneurs, believes David Seinker, CEO and founder of co-working space company, The Business Exchange (TBE)... Read
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XOLILE SIZANI
Competition has become increasingly fierce. In 2019, we saw the expansion of price wars and the battle to remain relevant. It has become clearer that the companies that will survive are those which over the years have invested in... Read
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Entrepreneurs who are starting new businesses are urged to carefully consider the legal status and type of business being registered... Read
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CATHERINE BLACK
Artificial intelligence is our shiny new toy. We're dazzled by its potential to help us make our lives more efficient, more productive... just... better... Read
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GRAEME PALMER
Are expenses incurred in maintaining a content and motivated workforce part of the costs of a taxpayer's income-producing operations...? Read
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It's no surprise that January and February weigh in as the least productive months of the year with most South Africans still stuck in a post-holiday slump, which can last for several weeks... Read
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FAAN COETZEE
South Africa has 13 official public holidays and in 2020, enjoys 14 as one falls on a Sunday. Employers should consider the effect on the workplace and implement measures to address the impact on work... Read
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The United States Government has invited South Africans interested in pursuing a Master's or Doctoral degree to apply for a Fulbright scholarship to study at any accredited tertiary institution in the US... Read
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On 6 January 2020, South Africans learned of the passing of Dr Richard Maponya, a legendary business icon and activist. Here are four leadership lessons we can learn from "the grandfather of black business"... Read
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Growth of the entrepreneurial sector is key to addressing South Africa's unemployment crisis, especially amongst the youth... Read
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