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Xolisa Dyeshana, Creative Circle chairperson and chief creative officer at Joe Public.
Creative Circle takes steps towards its new purpose
The Creative Circle is taking bold steps to ensure it is equipped to lead the creative industry into the future... read
#FMAdFocus2017: Some delights, some disappointments
#FMAdFocus2017: Some delights, some disappointments
With the AdFocus Awards only a few hours away, current chairperson Craig Page-Lee, reflects on the Awards' entries this year... read

Entrepreneur Month
Suzane Stevens, executive director of marketing at BrightRock.
Lessons for SA's 650,000 entrepreneurial businesses from BrightRock

Leigh Andrews

Entrepreneurial inspiration from Suzanne Stevens, one of four founders and currently executive director of marketing at BrightRock since 2011, chosen for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women programme in 2013... read
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Marketing
J. Walter Thompson MENA Network ranked #2 at MENA Effies 2017
J. Walter Thompson MENA Network ranked #2 at MENA Effies 2017

Issued by JWT

The J. Walter Thompson network in MENA ranked second overall at the MENA Effies show in Dubai on 15 November... read
Michelle Dobson
#Newsmaker: Michelle Dobson on her promotion to MD of Lumen

Jessica Tennant

Michelle Dobson's recent promotion from business unit director to MD dovetails with digital marketing agency Lumen progressing to the next level... read
Advertising
Current chairperson of the FM AdFocus Awards, Craig Page-Lee.
#FMAdFocus2017: Judging the Student of the Year category

Juanita Pienaar

A few of the judges and current chairperson, Craig Page-Lee comment on the overall quality of the work received for the AdFocus Student of the Year Award and what they were specifically looking for from the entries... read
Sundays are where South Africans get more bang for their buck
Sundays are where South Africans get more bang for their buck

Issued by Ads24

Sunday newspaper readership is made up of upper-middle class and upper LSM communities. They are readers who can afford to make purchasing decisions and are a great target market for advertisers... read
Screengrabs from the ad.
#OrchidsandOnions: When the best part of a Springbok match is the ad at half time...

Brendan Seery

To say that the most entertaining slice of television during the Springbok-Ireland game was an advertisement is not so much a compliment for a clever piece of creative marketing inspiration as it is an indictment of how badly the Boks played... read
FCB Health Global Healthcare Network of the Year
Winners of 2017 Global Awards announced
The Global Awards announced the 2017 award-winners at their annual award celebration taking place at the New York Academy of Sciences in lower Manhattan... read
Branding
Don't forget where we came from: Four ways to appeal to consumers that can cut through modern 'brand fluff'
Don't forget where we came from: Four ways to appeal to consumers that can cut through modern 'brand fluff'

Issued by IGI

The first brands were marks on goods so people knew they could trust what they were buying. We're seeing a return to this 'Branding 101' and consumer mistrust of unfounded brand promises... read
CSI
SHOUT opens libraries in Tembisa and Soshanguve
SHOUT opens libraries in Tembisa and Soshanguve

Issued by DNA Brand Architects

The SHOUT Foundation, a philanthropic organisation founded by popular South African artists Danny K and Kabelo Mabalane have done it again. In raising awareness of childhood literacy the organisation opened two libraries... read
Godllywood Self Help teaches that when a decision to follow God's Word is made, lives change
Godllywood Self Help teaches that when a decision to follow God's Word is made, lives change

Issued by Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

The final meeting of Godllywood Self Help explored the age-old question of why many women feel unfulfilled despite having achieved success in different areas of their lives... read
Design
Keagan Clack, an art direction student at the Stellenbosch Academy.
#FMAdFocus2017: Top student nominee: Keagan Clack

Juanita Pienaar

Keagan Clack, an art direction student at the Stellenbosch Academy, was announced as one of three finalists in the student category of the 2017 AdFocus Awards, taking place this evening... read
Jason Walden, a visual communications student at Vega School of Brand Leadership Johannesburg.
#FMAdFocus2017: Top student nominee: Jason Walden

Juanita Pienaar

Jason Walden, a visual communications student at Vega School of Brand Leadership Johannesburg, was recently announced as one of three finalists in the student category of the 2017 AdFocus Awards... read
How Ikea used affordable and innovative design to transform the homes of everyday consumers
How Ikea used affordable and innovative design to transform the homes of everyday consumers

Dan Lewis

For decades, Ikea has filled homes across the world with bookcases, beds, cardboard boxes and countless tea lights... read
Digital
Digital trends for 2018
Digital trends for 2018

Allon Raiz

Digital trends inform business owners on how to improve their content marketing efforts... read
Entrepreneurship
Success league: Here's who won at the 2017 National Business Awards
Success league: Here's who won at the 2017 National Business Awards

Issued by Topco Media

Where are you most likely to find the winners of this year's National Business Awards - known as the 'Oscars of South African business' - a year from now? Well, dominating the 2% of South Africa's economy that is forecast to grow in 2018... read
Exhibitions
EXSA forms an alliance with international federation, IFES
EXSA forms an alliance with international federation, IFES

Issued by Scan Display

A reciprocal membership agreement between the Exhibition and Event Association of SA and the International Federation of Exhibition and Event Suppliers is a landmark event... read
Media
#Newsmaker: Kriya Gangiah shakes things up
#Newsmaker: Kriya Gangiah shakes things up

Jessica Tennant

'Info-tainment professional' and Jacaranda FM's digital lead, Kriya Gangiah, while still on air for the Saturday Top 20 show, recently left the station's midweek evening drive show to focus her time and energy on some undisclosed opportunities... read
Mobile
Smartphone sales in SA rise 28% as average selling price falls
Smartphone sales in SA rise 28% as average selling price falls

Issued by GfK South Africa

South African smartphone sales climbed 28% year-on-year to three million units in the third quarter of 2017, while basic mobile phone sales were up 6% to 1.6 million units for the same period... read
OOH
Radio to Road - Primedia delivers a first for South African clients
Radio to Road - Primedia delivers a first for South African clients

Issued by Primedia Broadcasting

Primedia's Broadcasting and Outdoor divisions have come together to offer an exciting, responsive multiplatform client campaign that will be a South African first... read
Pendoring
Joe Public United at #Pendoring2017.
Praat met... Joe Public United

Leigh Andrews

Here's why the Pendoring Awards' second-ranked Joe Public United believes Madiba's sentiment that when you speak to someone in their mother-tongue, you really do speak to their hearts. read
PR & Communications
(From Left to Right) - Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, Founder and CEO of APO Group and Abdelaziz Bougja, Chairman of World Rugby's African association, Rugby Africa during the signing ceremony of the agreement under which APO Group becomes the main Official Sponsor of Rugby Africa, at Royal Garden Hotel on November 12, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for APO Group).
APO partners with Rugby Africa
APO Group and Africa's rugby governing body, Rugby Africa, sign a ground-breaking strategic partnership to develop the sport across Africa... read
Radio
Kaya FM Sound Supreme Picnic
Kaya FM Sound Supreme Picnic

Issued by Kaya FM 95.9

Usher in the sunny summer season at Sound Supreme Picnic brought to you for the first time by the home of the Afropolitan, Kaya FM, on Saturday, 25 November... read
Research
Black Friday - Stats show trend on the rise in SA
Black Friday - Stats show trend on the rise in SA
Digital advertising agency Jetweb, has kept a close eye on Black Friday through social listening data for the last three years and says the trend is on the rise... read
Social Media
The ingenious Facebook trap: Is it time for ensnared brands to cut their losses?
The ingenious Facebook trap: Is it time for ensnared brands to cut their losses?

Ewoudt Cloete, Issued by Wunderman

Facebook was silently plotting increasingly creative ways to monetise brands' presence on the platform and implemented an ingenious strategy to ensnare unknowing brand custodians... read
Business
#NewCampaign: SweepSouth gives back Friday
#NewCampaign: SweepSouth gives back Friday

Jessica Tennant

Inspired by the global trend towards giving back instead of getting on Black Friday, local home cleaning company SweepSouth is transferring the savings it would usually give to its customers on a day like this and handing them back to its 'SweepStars'. Here's how it works... read
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IBM
@IBM
RT @IBMWatson: Is there a code of #ethics that brands using #AI should follow? Short answer: yes. Long answer: https://t.co/K9X6yHau1k http...
AdobeExpCloud
@AdobeExpCloud
Companies must design with data, design for data, and design by data. Hear why @nannayak of @fjord believes data sc... https://t.co/44H83XfuM2
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The Fact Foundry is a content and skills development company. We create relevant learning content that we deliver as products and services which impact the individuals and communities we serve. Read more >>

The Annual ICT Summit
Imbizo Events - 23 Nov 2017 to 24 Nov 2017, East London


Stephen Clarke Seminar
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Northmead Square - 25 Nov 2017 to 26 Nov 2017, Johannesburg | 26 Nov 2017, Johannesburg


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