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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH As her tenure as the first female Creative Circle chairperson ends, Roanna Williams chats about her term, the industry and the future...read |
|  | | The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has announced that it will confer an Honorary Doctoral degree to branding and marketing icon Thebe Ikalafeng...read |
|  | KARABO LEDWABA Meet Lebo Masekela, a 26-year-old designer whose creative journey is as vibrant as her designs...read |
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 | Audi's Special Editions Drive into the Future with AI-Powered Campaign in South Africa... Read |
| Advertising |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Discussing end-of-life issues is something that Capital Legacy has been doing in an entertaining style for more than a year now... Read |
 | The Warc Creative 100, a benchmark of the world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for creative excellence has been released... Read |
 | Tucker commands a top-tier, global production, and post-production studio that serves the feature film, episodic, and advertising industries... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION AND ADVERTISING The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) is pleased to provide an update on its internship programme, enabled through its collaboration with advertising schools, member agencies and the MICT SETA, a key player in developing skills within the sector, working collaboratively with industry stakeholders to ensure a well-trained and dynamic workforce... Read |
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 | NICK DURRANT, ISSUED BY BLUEGRASS DIGITAL If customers aren’t engaging with your loyalty programme, it’s time to change your approach. Here are a few simple things you can do to boost customer loyalty, today... Read |
 | ISSUED BY POINT Point, a leading marketing solutions provider, is thrilled to announce it has been awarded “Colgate Palmolive’s Most Preferred Supplier of 2023” for the Gulf region... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY PREBO DIGITAL Prebo Digital, a leading performance marketing agency in South Africa, is proud to announce its continued designation, for a third year in a row, as a Google Premier Partner for 2024... Read |
 | ISSUED BY VERVE Verve today relaunches as 'the artificial intelligence, human and cultural understanding business'... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DIGIFY AFRICA To assist entrepreneurs, Digify Africa, in partnership with Meta, is proud to announce the Boost Business Shower to be held on 19 March 2024 from 11am to 3.30pm... Read |
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 | JODI POSWELLETSKI AND KEITUMETSE KHUTSOANE During a recent television news interview, the chairperson of South Africa’s Information Regulator, Advocate Pansy Tlakula, announced the imminent completion of a Direct Marketing Guidance Note aimed at helping the direct marketing sector to adhere to the Protection of Personal Information Act... Read |
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| Education |
 | VERUSHA MAHARAJ, ISSUED BY RED & YELLOW This International Women’s Day, managing director Verusha Maharaj unpacks Red & Yellow’s pioneering initiatives in breaking down gender stereotypes in South Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy is excited to launch a pioneering initiative, called the Creative Technology Academy (CTA). This innovative programme is an expansion of Ogilvy's existing Graduate Programme (OG), underlining the agency's dedication to nurturing emerging industry talent... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | ISSUED BY RAND SHOW The Rand Show is happy to announce that Absa will be the official bank partner for this year’s event at the Johannesburg Expo Centre at Nasrec from 28 March to 1 April... Read |
 | ISSUED BY RAND SHOW The Rand Show is pleased to announce a new partnership with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EAST COAST RADIO Lace up your sneakers, synchronise your fitness gadgets, and get ready for the eagerly awaited KwaZulu-Natal family event – the Suncoast East Coast Radio Big Walk on Sunday, May 26th, 2024... Read |
 | ISSUED BY RAND SHOW The Rand Show is around the corner and is giving visitors even more reasons to go with a bumper lineup of competitions, prizes and rewards on the cards for those in attendance... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ROGERWILCO Rogerwilco, the multi-award-winning digital marketing and customer experience (CX) agency, has been newly appointed to partner with Momentum Metropolitan Holdings (MMH) as the Group’s performance marketing... Read |
 | ARPAN SUR Merriam-Webster selected "authentic" as the word of the year in 2023 due to a significant surge in searches seeking its meaning... Read |
 | It all began with a straightforward tweet: “I’d love to take the broccoli my auntie subjected me to and turn it into KFC so it could actually have a little flavour...” Read |
 | NICK EFSTATHIOU, ISSUED BY OFM RADIO In today's dynamic and diverse world, consumers crave engaging experiences and information presented in ways that resonate with them... Read |
 | ANISA FIELDING For business marketers, communicating is today easier than ever. Dozens of communications channels are now mainstream as consumers show an insatiable appetite for new content... Read |
| Media |
 | ISSUED BY DAILY MAVERICK Daily Maverick’s highly anticipated event, The Gathering: Twenty Twenty-Four, scheduled for 14 March 2024 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, has officially sold out of all available tickets for the in-person experience... Read |
 | NATHAN GEFFEN Google seems to have stopped showing search results for a notorious spam news website called BNN Breaking... Read |
 | GEORGINA CROUTH Commission chairperson James Hodge accused the search engine’s representatives of being overly defensive and evasive in their responses... Read |
 | ISSUED BY VICINITY MEDIA Excitement is building as we finesse our targeting for the inaugural Vicinity Media Padel League that hits off this week! Get ready to witness local sports history in the making!... Read |
| OOH |
 | Tim Bleakley, CEO of Ocean Outdoor Group, emphasised the importance of measurement at the World Out of Home Organization Forum in South Africa this week... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | NTANDOKAZI NTOZAKHE In anticipation of International Women's Day, we spoke with Siki Msuseni, the founder of Amplified PR... Read |
| Production |
 | ISSUED BY HOWARD AUDIO Howard Audio is very proud to have been the full turnkey audio solution for final mix and sound design in stereo and 5.1 surround for In Bloom. Howard Audio attended the launch of the project last week... Read |
| Radio |
 | 2024 marks a significant milestone as the Radio Industry commemorates 100 years of radio in South Africa... Read |
 | Johannesburg-based commercial radio station HOT 102.7FM has announced a strategic partnership with financial media group Moneyweb and launched a new business in an effort to strengthen its existing on-air offering... Read |
| Research |
 | ISSUED BY BRANDMAPP In the aftermath of Covid-19, a health scare, global in scale and far-reaching in its local impacts, South Africa’s middle to top-end of the market are today feeling pretty good about their health... Read |
| Retail |
 | SERENA HO Serena Ho, director and head of consumer market at BDO South Africa, shares some insight around what appears to be shaping the sector as we approach the end of the first quarter of 2024... Read |
 | TFG (The Foschini Group) has signed a franchise agreement with JD Sports Fashion to be its exclusive retail partner in South Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MEGAVISION MEDIA Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers in South Africa have a massive array of advertising channels to consider when strategically planning their marketing budget... Read |
| Social Media |
 | TikTok at risk of US ban following House legislation approval... Read |
 | TikTok has announced a partnership with the African Union Commission's Women, Gender, and Youth Directorate, aimed at bolstering online safety awareness among the youth... Read |
| Sponsorship |
 | ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA In an environment where the creative sector often navigates challenges related to career sustainability, the Cultural Producers Programme steps forward to empower young talent... Read |
 | ISSUED BY KAGISO MEDIA RADIO Kagiso Media Radio (KMR) has announced a new sponsorship deal with the non-profit organisation, Creative Circle (CC)... Read |
| Streaming |
 | ISSUED BY THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY AFRICA The visually stunning six-part series turns the lens on the world’s most extraordinary visual storytellers, pairing them with today’s leading documentary directors... Read |
| The One Club of Creativity |
 | The One Club for Creativity's Where Are All The Black People (WAATBP) diversity conference returns to New York on 26-27 September 2024... Read |
| TV |
 | ISSUED BY EMEDIA An all new drama with family and community at its heart... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EMEDIA E.tv brings you an exclusive documentary on the Johslin Smith tragedy, tonight at 10pm... Read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON The United Nations Environment Assembly focused on One Health, linking human-, animal-, and environmental health, urging global collaboration amid crises... Read |
 | MAYTAAL ANGEL Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around the world are likely to soar... Read |
 | ANGE ABOA Ivory Coast's market regulator warned cocoa exporters on Tuesday, 12 March, against paying above the mandated price for beans delivered to their facilities at the top growing country's ports, threatening offenders with fines and the loss of their licenses... Read |
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 | LINDSEY SCHUTTERS South Africans have been reporting widespread internet service outages which started with Microsoft 365... Read |
 | Mastercard and MTN Group Fintech partner to link millions in Africa to digital payments, boosting financial inclusion and SME growth... Read |
 | LINDSEY SCHUTTERS Seacom and Liquid Intelligent Technologies offer a word of encouragement to the continent facing internet disruptions... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON The two-pot retirement system looks set to kick off in September pending the approval of the 2024 Draft Revenue Laws Second Amendment Bill... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON The country is preparing itself for a new bank, SAIFSC, initiated by the DWYPD, which aims to serve marginalised groups... Read |
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