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The healthy Cannes Lions roar and more! Cannes Lions 2017 is in full swing, with the Pharma and Health & Wellness Lions award ceremony already done and dusted this weekend. Click here for all the results - Y&R SA and 7Films have already done the country proud! Our roving reporter Ann Nurock also chatted to Mandi Fine, CEO of F/NE and juror for the Cannes Lions Pharma Lions as part of Lions Health live in Cannes, about awarding work that's truly changing people's lives. Cannes Lions runs through 24 June 2017, with Cinemark as the official local representative for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Click through to our Cannes Lions special section for all the latest updates! As we're midway through June, our #YouthMonth coverage is also well under way. Sharon Piehl, MD of FleishmanHillard's Johannesburg office wrote on Youth Day, 16 June, about how best to harness the skills of the future. She identifies five major themes or trends that will have a noticeable impact on the workplaces of the future and the skillsets of the people in them - best you get clued up ASAP. Keeping things future-themed, Tom Fels feels the changing face of digital agencies is actually an ultimatum to adapt or die as the underlying disruptor is changing business structures, strategies and methodologies at a fundamental level. That's because ‘digital' is no longer a medium, but a method. Lastly, Danette Breitenbach explores the ‘sweet opportunity' offered by micro influencers, based on IndaHash's 2017 International Influencer Report. She spoke to some of the speakers at MediaCom and IndaHash's 'The State of Influence' event last week and finds that while marketers tend to collaborate with macro influencers to give their brands reach and relevance, it's the micro influencers, who might not have the numbers, that have the resonance required to get their followers to engage with the brand and take action. Lots to learn from and reflect on as you get started with your week. Comment online in our Ed's Column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
|  | [Ann Nurock] I chatted to Mandi Fine, CEO of F/NE and juror for the Cannes Lions Pharma Lions as part of Lions Health, live in Cannes, France... read |
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The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity kicked off on 17 June with the Cannes Pharma and Cannes Health & Wellness Lions award ceremonies, where Y&R SA did SA proud... Read | Tom Fels Over the past two decades, the digital world has undergone a rapid evolution - from marketing mix newcomer, to a mandatory (yet not fully understood) element of brand communications... Read | Danette Breitenbach Paid advertising is not trusted and ad blocking is only growing. Even bloggers are failing when it comes to communicating and engaging with consumers, as trust between brands and consumers continues to fall. But there is a new kid on the block and he is eager to engage; enter the influencer... Read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Cannes Lions kicked off this weekend, and we have ten SA jurors across the various categories. I spoke to Michael Lees-Rolfe, creative director at FoxP2 and Cannes promo & activation juror, about the areas he predicts SA agencies' work will excel in this year, and more... read | |  | Leigh Andrews Cannes Lions kicked off this weekend, and we have ten SA jurors across the various categories. I spoke to Fran Luckin, CCO of Grey Africa and Cannes print and publishing jury president, about the areas she predicts SA agencies' work will excel in this year, and more... read | |
|  | Sharon Piehl Whitney Houston perhaps summed it up best when she crooned about the children being our future... read | |  | In celebration of Youth Day, UCT researchers at the Poverty and Inequality Initiative (PII) are launching an interactive online tool, Youth Explorer, that provides a range of information on the status and wellbeing of South Africa's young people... read | |  | Issued by Ogilvy & Mather The ‘This is Your Time' campaign from Vodacom aims to give the youth a platform to speak about the power of education... read | |
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 | Issued by ACME Digital Independent publishing network ACME Digital has deepened its relationship with programmatic powerhouse AddSuite in a move that will match discerning buyers with quality audience segments and inventory... read | | |
 | Ilse van den Berg In the #StartupStory spotlight this week is Flexpay: a product created in response to the high demand in the market for purchasing goods via piecemeal payments... read | | |
 | Ruth Cooper Hosted by Stellenbosch 360 and in partnership with Wesgro and the South African National Convention Bureau, the first ever Business Tourism Indaba was held at Hofmeyer Hall in Stellenbosch on Tuesday, 13 June 2017... read | | |
 | Issued by Provantage Media Group Now in its fifth year, the DStv Delicious International Food and Music Festival, taking place at Kyalami in Johannesburg on 7 and 8 October, is set to attract over 40,000 consumers over two days... read | |  | Issued by HOMEMAKERS The 2017 Port Elizabeth Homemakers Expo celebrates your home with the theme, “A Tribute to Your Home”... read | | |
 | Issued by New Media Bankmed has appointed New Media Publishing to publish Bankmed Bounce magazine. New Media will be producing two printed magazines per annum, with a print run of over 115,000 copies... read | | |
 | Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng intends to challenge the outcome of a disciplinary inquiry that resulted in his being booted out of the SABC... read | | |
 | Issued by Mbongiworks To help South Africans with their busy on-the-go lifestyles, Mbongiworks launched two amazing experiences that will dial up the morning smiles... read | | |
 | Black Coffee has expressed disappointment over the return of "old American music" on radio stations since the SABC's u-turn on the 90% local content quota... read | | |
 | mike broom In the 40 years I have worked in marketing research, the elephant in the room has been using focus groups to ‘evaluate', ‘investigate', ‘dipstick', ‘research', ‘copy test' or any other of the politically correct terms for ad testing... read | | |
 | Unilever South Africa has relaunched its Unilever Deals with a new name, social media support and Vodacom as a strategic partner... read | | |
 | Issued by Boston College Boston College is offering one-day workshops which provide the real “how to” in social media, with step-by-step live demonstrations and case studies... read | | |  | The Warc Awards have announced its final shortlist of 20 entries in the ‘Brand Purpose' category... read | | | More International | |
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 | Recognising and celebrating the significant role of Wi-Fi in connecting global communities and driving socio-economic development, is World Wi-Fi Day on Tuesday, 20 June 2017. read | |
 | Along with nine individuals and companies who have made extraordinary contributions to PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) recycling in South Africa during the course of 2016, Bizcommunity's managing editor, Sindy Peters, was named one of the winners as part of the Petco Annual General Meeting, held on 7 June at the Radisson Blu Sandton Hotel in Johannesburg. - View/Rate | |
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