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New agencies form, online consumer trust dividesTop headlines this week: - Japan's media face the occupational hazard of 'death by overwork', with a ‘100-hour-a-month' overtime cap now in the works.
- Juanita Pienaar finds out how the Demographica-Stein IAS partnership ushers in new growth in the African B2B market.
- I also report back on one of my favourite sessions from Business of Design: Rob Stokes, chairman of Red & Yellow, explained the longevity of creative thinking and its use in not letting robots take your job with the rise of AI. Click here and here for other #BODCT overviews.
- Kantar TNS' latest Connected Life research taps into the ‘consumer trust divide' for brands online globally, with insight into the SA consumer.
In case you missed it... - Research and insights abound this week, with Jessica Tennant reporting on the launch of Crimson Hexagon and YouKnow's social analytics-based consumer trends report.
- On celebrating its 13th year, agency Ireland/Davenport shook things up by changing its name to Collective ID.
- The King James Group has also brought together its digital agencies in Johannesburg and Cape Town to create a combined entity under the banner of King James Digital.
- And Danette Breitenbach covered the #AmasaAwards2017, where Halo Advertising scooped the Roger Garlick Grand Prix for client Jacaranda's 'More music you love' campaign.
A busy week, as always. Click here to download your copy of our Youth Marketing Focus 2017 eBook, as curated by Louise Marsland, and keep us in the loop on your industry-specific news. Leigh Andrews
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[Issued by Kantar TNS] Highly connected but increasingly suspicious: global study reveals ‘consumer trust divide' for brands online... Read | Juanita Pienaar Demographica has become the first agency on the African continent to join Stein IAS' global B2B marketing network. CEO of Demographica Warren Moss and CCO of Stein IAS Tom Stein elaborate on this alliance... Read | Leigh Andrews In addition to his role at Mirum and chairman of Red & Yellow, digital marketing pioneer Rob Stokes is father to four children under the age of five. Little wonder his thoughts often turn to their future and the impact of AI on the world as we know it. Here's why it's crucial to hone your creative thinking skills... Read |
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|  | Cari Coetzee Concepts Collection creates unforgettable luxury experiences. We chat to Christina and Richard Holt to find out how it all started and what it takes to run one of the leading luxury brands in SA... read | | |
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 | Issued by M&C Saatchi Abel Purchasing a car is certainly a reason to celebrate - but so, too, is paying off that car. Hollard gives this landmark occasion its due in a new ad campaign... read | |  | Issued by Havas Johannesburg Havas walked away with a gold award at the Advertising and Media Association of South Africa (AMASA) 2017 Awards under the Pro Bono/Cause Related category for #SheLovesBeer... read | |  | Werner Lindemann With consumers' attention fragmented across multiple channels, leading brands are already implementing multichannel marketing strategies. Regulatory pressure is just one more reason to pick up the pace... read | | |
 | Mike dos Santos In an increasingly interconnected and integrated world, the disciplines of strategic planning and brand design are simultaneously shifting and converging in ways that we, as an industry, have never seen before... read | |  | Jessica Tennant Business of Design is back with a speaker lineup of note. The two-day seminar is held annually in Cape Town and Johannesburg during October and doesn't just focus on design in itself but has a much broader vision for the field in all areas of business... read | | |
 | Issued by Scan Display In light of increased water scarcity in Cape Town, some businesses have decided to proactively find alternatives to relying on the overburdened municipal water supply - such as Scan Display... read | | |
 | Issued by Mindshare South Africa Mindshare SA took home two Gold Awards at the annual AMASA Awards 2017, despite some seriously stiff competition... read | |  | Bekezela Phakathi The three acting executives at the SABC will remain in their posts until the vacancies are filled permanently... read | | |
 | At the 2017 MTN Business App of the Year Awards, which took place on Thursday, 12 October 2017, Shyft was named the overall winner... read | |  | Springster, NGO Girl Effect's global mobile-first platform for vulnerable young women, has partnered with Creative Media Works (operating as BBM Messenger) to launch Girl Talk... read | | |
| Promoted content |  | Issued by Guerrilla IMC Out-of-home media owner Guerrilla-IMC is celebrating its 10th birthday this year. Founded in 2007 by media entrepreneurs Neil Clarence and Daryl van Arkel, the company has grown into one of the most inventive and resilient players in the OOH space... read |
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 | With revenue from Africa's pay-TV market sitting at $4.4 billion and expected to exceed $6 billion by 2021, the time is now to continue the momentum of content production as a significant economic booster for African economies... read | | |
 | Issued by Primedia Broadcasting CapeTalk, Cape Town's only talk radio station on the AM frequency, celebrates its 20th birthday this month... read | | |
 | Issued by Viv Gordon Placements Viv Gordon Placements (VGP), specialist recruitment agency, has announced the promotion of senior consultant, Tamara Wolpert, to the role of general manager... read | | |
 | At a time when trust in traditional media is at an all-time low, it is the crucial factor underpinning radical change and future success in the news industry, according to the World Press Trends 2017 report... read | |  | Havas recently released the latest in its series of Prosumer reports, focusing on people's attitudes on gender and gender equality... read | | |
 | DStv customers who have a fibre optic network installed, can now get signal to their DStv decoders using this network with one centralised satellite dish for their whole estate, complex, or apartment block... read | | |
 | In the last forty years, the number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has increased tenfold... read | |  | Greenpeace Africa has responded with outrage to Eskom's announcement that it would be building and operating a nuclear power plant at Duynefontein, Western Cape... read | |
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