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 | MUSA KALENGA The day has come when we must comply or face the consequences. The additions to the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) came into effect on 1 July 2021 and aim to protect companies against data breach and the misuse of personal information... read |
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|  | | The IAB SA recently hosted its 27th insight event and speakers addressed how they use purpose-driven marketing to make a significant change...read |
|  | | Kantar, the global data, insights and consulting company, has appointed Chris Jansen as group chief executive officer, effective 1 November 2021...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Ster-Kinekor along with Bizcommunity invite you to Cannes Trend Talks 2021 presented by Ann Nurock... Read |
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| |  | REFILOE KHUMALO, ISSUED BY WAVEMAKER It is 45 years later after students marched in Orlando, Soweto against an unjust system. Is the struggle still the same or has anything changed? How is the celebration of this day relevant to the Youth of today?... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE As part of our #YouthMatters focus, we chat to Keowin Knowlden, up-and-coming PR professional... Read |  | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Trivern Chetty, marketing manager innovation and insights for KFC at Yum Brands Africa, shares his career journey and his approach towards the professional development of himself and others... Read |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | WILLIAM KUAN There are three key components to achieving synergy when managing teams across multiple geographies... Read |
 | SYLVIA SCHUTTE Are businesses turning to smaller agencies to assist with their marketing, digital, advertising and PR activities? Read |
 | The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) recently launched a global census of the marketing and advertising industry. The deadline to take part has been extended to 31 July 2021... Read |
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| Advertising |
 | CHRIS BORAIN, ISSUED BY UNITED STATIONS In line with the growth seen in local digital audio, United Stations bolstered its offering by concluding an agreement to be the exclusive local commercial partner for Wondery... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SOCIAL PLACES If you're a franchised business, deciding on where and how to spend your media budget can be challenging... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GREY AFRICA This month's Creative Circle Ad of the Month in the Print category goes to Grey - which wins first place for its SPCA initiative... Read |
 | ISSUED BY WUNDERMAN THOMPSON Wunderman Thompson South Africa is proud to announce that it has been awarded the full-service lead agency account for BCX, Telkom's B2B business... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TBWA TBWA\South Africa has won Agency of the Year at the Purpose Awards. The agency also bagged the Brand-led Best Advocacy Campaign category for its "Wear it for Me" campaign for MTN... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Orchid to Douwe Egberts: Ad makes clever and bold assertion; Hello Delicious, you get an Onion... Read |
 | KEVAL RAMRAJ I recently read a rather thought-provoking article on how important it is to: Firstly, stay true and focussed to your core roots. And secondly, keep the passion burning.... Read |
 | BELINDA UNTERSLAK We live in a world where our interests are tracked by our online searches, our social media is open to the public eye and someone can get to know you by simply typing your name in a search bar... Read |
 | Facebook has announced the expansion of its tools and policies... Read |
| Branding |
 | ROB MEYERSON While conducting brand strategy work in Southeast Asia presented difficulties, my biggest challenge was creating new company and product names that worked well across such a diverse set of cultures and languages... Read |
| Cannes Lions |
 | EMILY STANDER Nkgabiseng Motau, CCO and founding partner at Think Creative Africa, was once again selected to be part of the jury for Cannes Lions 2021... Read |
| Digital |
 | ISSUED BY TECHSYS DIGITAL The Virgin Active Quest campaign is all about motivating their members to stay active and complete a set of fitness challenges in a fun and engaging way... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LOCATION BANK Location Bank ensures brands have identical data across the digital universe and their own store locator. Such clean and consistent data has major local SEO benefits... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PUBLISHER'S TOOLBOX Launch of official Lions Fan Zone will provide platform for global fan base to engage with Lions brand and fellow supporters - and be rewarded... Read |
 | EMILY STANDER YouTube hosted a festival that focused on showing marketers and advertisers what can be achieved through using YouTube... Read |
 | Facebook has launched a standalone newsletter service called Bulletin that lets writers send free or paid content out to subscribers... Read |
| Education |
 | ISSUED BY RED & YELLOW Red & Yellow places great emphasis on preparing students for an unpredictable future by empowering them with industry-relevant and future-focused tools and knowledge that enables them to adapt and thrive, no matter the obstacle... Read |
 | A new locally produced university textbook is helping South African students learn about the intricacies of the local marketing landscape... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY MICT SETA The MICT SETA hosted a dynamic 4IR-powered Virtual Capacity Building Workshop on Career Development Services and a roundtable with industry and key role players in the sector and a 3D Career Expo on 22 June 2021... Read |
 | ISSUED BY IMC CONFERENCE In the race towards winning over the conscious consumer, some critical considerations are being overlooked, says Nedbank IMC Conference CEO Dale Hefer... Read |
 | DJ DINO BRAVO I want to talk about how to incorporate music and entertainment into online meetings and webinars... Read |
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| Exhibitions |
 | Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) recently selected 12 women artists to participate in the 2021 RMB Talent Unlocked career development programme... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | The winners of the Programmer's Choice Awards were announced at the 2021 Encounters South African International Documentary Festival recently... Read |
| Marketing |
 | JD ENGELBRECHT, ISSUED BY EVERLYTIC Everlytic offers automated voice as a messaging channel. Does this make us hypocrites? No, and I am going to make the argument for why not... Read |
 | ISSUED BY JACARANDA FM Jacaranda FM marketing manager Leith Smith shares his insights and lessons from creating a brand experience in VR... Read |
 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL Fieldwork for Agency Scope UK 2021/2022 - the biennial study that discloses what marketers really think - was completed in April 2021... Read |
 | CLAIRE HERMAN If you don't keep up with digital advancements, you will be left behind... Read |
| Media |
 | FRANZ KRÜGER It is difficult to imagine a bigger journalistic disaster than the recent decuplets story... Read |
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 | Media agency UM has been crowned the Global Media Agency of the Year by Campaign magazine... Read |
| Newspapers |
 | 2 July 2021 marked the 19th birthday of the Daily Sun... Read |
| OOH |
 | ISSUED BY JCDECAUX The JCDecaux marketing insights team has produced a report informing the industry about the operational traffic levels compared to the pre-lock-down period... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KEYS COMMUNICATIONS Ultra-high-definition airbrushing by Keys Communications challenges you to think beyond words and forces you to bring imagery and product realism into your advertising... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR This is the story of Khayelitsha's Finest Wines, one of the beneficiaries of Tractor's #20in21 SME initiative... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PROVANTAGE MEDIA GROUP Adidas has partnered with Outdoor Network to take ownership of an iconic Johannesburg out of home (OOH) site and drive awareness of one of its most memorable campaigns... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | ISSUED BY HOOK, LINE & SINKER How a bunch of tech fundis are breaking conventions and changing perceptions for some of the world's largest computer software and technology brands... Read |
 | SASHA KUPRITZ Today's PR approach requires a deeper understanding of the elements that lead to news coverage... Read |
| Production |
 | CALVIN FISHER According to Wyzowl, the number of businesses using video as a marketing tool has increased by 41% since 2016... Read |
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| Promotions & Activations |
 | INA OOSTHUIZEN The retail industry is becoming more competitive by the day and promotions can be an effective way to increase demand... Read |
| Publishing |
 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Bronwyn Williams shares her insights after reading The Revelations by Erik Hoel... Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY HOT 102.7FM At 6am this morning, Hot 102.7FM, the first new commercial music station to launch in the Johannesburg market this century, made its presence known with the McFadden and Whitehead hit "Ain't No Stopping Us Now"... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HOT 102.7FM The forthcoming launch of Hot 102.7FM has created a lot of excitement in the advertising marketplace. That's the feedback from Richard Wilkinson, consulting GM sales at Hot 102.7FM... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GAGASI FM In another strategic move to drive the growth and sustainability of the business, Gagasi FM is realigning its operations... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KAYA 959 Kaya 959 has announced an exceptional weekend lineup starting from Saturday, 3 July 2021... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OFM RADIO OFM will, once again, be the exclusive electronic media sponsor of the Toyota Cheetahs... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Brand manager and show host, Siyabonga Sangweni has announced on Instagram that he will be leaving CliffCentral.com... Read |
 | Dan Maswanganye, technical manager at Primedia Broadcasting in Johannesburg, passed away in hospital on Tuesday night, 29 July 2021, due to Covid-19 complications... Read |
 | Interim radio listenership data, released by the Broadcasting Research Council of South Africa (BRC) for Q1 2021, show a high listenership amongst the youth of South Africa... Read |
| Research |
 | Shoppers are beginning to return to physical stores in significant numbers as pandemic measures lift around the world, according to new global research by Mood Media... Read |
 | The Marketing Research Foundation (MRF) has released the next quarter's Marketing All Product Survey (Maps)... Read |
| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Wellness Warehouse has opened three new-look stores, reflecting the company's brand refresh and offering an elevated in-store customer experience... Read |
 | ISANA CORDIER If we can find ways to positively drive change in consumer behaviours, we potentially have the ability to re-imagine our local economy, says Absa's Isana Cordier... Read |
| Social Media |
 | ISSUED BY ORNICO The South African Social Media Landscape Report 2021 was launched 30 June 2021. The annual report gives insights on what brands are intending to do on the social media platforms in the next year... Read |
 | ISSUED BY NAHANA COMMUNICATIONS GROUP The Hellosocial team lists their top picks... Read |
 | ISSUED BY G&G DIGITAL Studies by Hootsuite found that consumers trust social media more than brand websites for feedback on products and customer testimonials... Read |
 | JOHANNES MASITENG Twitter, recently launched its first-ever subscription service, Twitter Blue, with a lineup of exclusive features that include an undo tweet feature that enables users to undo and 'edit' their tweets... Read |
 | According to Reboot Online, South Africans are among internet users most likely to quit social media... Read |
 | TikTok published its Q1 2021 community guidelines enforcement report and reveals that 61,951,327 videos were removed for violating TikTok's community guidelines or Terms of Service... Read |
| Streaming |
 | A new streaming option is available on Netflix. Here's all you need to know about the mobile plan... Read |
| Behind the Selfie |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Nontokozo Madonsela, group chief marketing officer at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings, will speak at this year's Nedbank IMC on the topic of 'Jerry Maguire: Leading with Purpose'... Read |
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 | NINA TRIANTIS Nina Triantis, global head of telecoms, media and technology at Standard Bank, unpacks why Africa's data centre market is poised for growth... Read |
 | DEORAJ CAUSSY The abrupt arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world, creating havoc for economies and social fabrics and taking heavy tolls on lives and livelihoods... Read |
 | LIBBY GEORGE & CAMILLUS EBOH Both chambers of Nigeria's parliament have passed a bill that overhauls nearly every aspect of the country's oil and gas production, putting a project that has been in the works for two decades one step closer to presidential sign-off... Read |
 | The United States will begin shipping the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines it has donated to Africa from this weekend, a special envoy of the African Union said... Read |
 | Blockchain technology could finally give intra-African trade the lift off similar to other, successful, trading coalitions, despite years of false starts and the Covid setback... Read |
 | Zimbabwe's central bank will allow large-scale gold mining companies to directly export a portion of their bullion, an official said, as the bank gradually eases its control of gold trading in the country... Read |
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 | SHABIR A MADHI South Africa is in the grip of another resurgence of Covid-19. Gauteng province, the country's economic hub, where 25% of the population live, is the epicentre... Read |
 | UMBERTO BACCHI & BEH LIH YI China's sweeping ban on cryptocurrency mining delivered a blow to an industry criticised for its environmental impact, but emissions from the sector could grow... Read |
 | ALEXANDER WINNING Eskom, Africa's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, is pitching a $10bn plan to global lenders that would see it shut the vast majority of its coal-fired plants by 2050 and embrace renewable energy. Read |
 | SCHALK MALAN In these uncertain times, group risk cover is a good vehicle to protect employees against the possibility of something happening to them where their ability to earn a living is compromised... Read |
 | ALEXANDER WINNING South Africa should set a more ambitious emissions reduction target in the leadup to a United Nations climate conference this year for economic and health reasons... Read |
 | Africa could be one of the last places Volkswagen sells petrol engines... Read |
 | When you're young and just started working, your financial planning is the furthest thing on your mind, but the biggest lesson you can learn... Read |
 | Escalating vandalism and violence has driven Rio Tinto to halt its mineral sands mining operations in Richards Bay and declare a force majeure on its clients' contracts... Read |
 | A recently released study reveals the true costs to South Africa of importing power from the planned Inga 3 hydropower scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)... Read |
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 | TenacityPR is a generator of content for ideas, angles, pitches and storytelling. We see content differently, and through our expertise in multi-platform PR, we have worked across the board for well known brands from financial to arts and entertainment. |
 | District Media is a 100% Black Owned Level 1 BEE contributor. District has offices in KZN and JHB. |
 | eNCA is South Africa's most trusted independent TV channel and online news brand. It launched on June 1st, 2008 on DStv channel 403 as the country's first 24-hour television news service. |
 | Girls and Boys Town established in 1958 to heal the overturned lives of South Africa's broken-hearted young. Today, our 10 family homes, 60 therapeutic professionals and a staff of 150 dedicated people work together to restore the resolve, love and light to the neglected and overwhelmed youth placed in our care by the Children's Court or community organisations. |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Empowerment Capital Investment Partners has appointed Bongumusa Makhathini as its first chief executive officer. We find out more about the appointment... Read |
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