Essential reading ahead of Cannes Lions 2017!
The 64th annual Cannes Lions' International Festival of Creativity takes place from 17 to 24 June, covering all aspects of creative communications. Our roving reporter Ann Nurock will provide exclusive coverage on the ground, so keep an eye on our
Cannes Lions special section as well as our social media feeds throughout. As exclusive online media partner in collaboration with Cinemark, we'll also be hosting our Case Studies from Cannes round-up of key industry themes, winners and trends in Cape Town and Gauteng, with three of this year's South African Cannes Lions' jury chairs also set to share their feedback at the presentations. Keep an eye out for your exclusive invitation.
To get you in the spirit, I chatted to one of my favourite interviewees -
FCB Global CCO Susan Credle - about her post-One Show Creative Week
feedback. With international award season in full swing, this is obviously a time of celebrating work that makes an impact, but it's also a good time to reflect on the industry as a whole and network with big players from around the globe to understand the true state of creativity.
As its
#YouthMonth, Juanita Pienaar chats Safaraaz Sindhi, who won the
Cinemark Young Lions competition in 2015 with Hanro Havenga. Sindhi reflects on his 2015 Cannes Young Lions experience and shares his thoughts on this year's SA winners, Amri Botha and Carina Coetzee from 99C, who are packing their bags to compete in the 2017 competition.
Click here for a reminder of Pienaar's interview with them, on the day they were announced as winners.
We also have some of the top insights from last week's Wan-Ifra
World News Media Congress or #WNC17, held at the Durban ICC.
Click here for thoughts on gender bias in reporting and how media and advertisers represent these as well as the next big thing when it comes to news publishers' business models. Highlights from the
first day included a roundtable on sports news as a major driver for media innovation, as well as how to take a pragmatic approach to data, press freedom and the Golden Pen of Freedom Award announcement. #WNC2017 was also host to the first ever
Women in News Summit, an endeavour to increase women's leadership and voices in the news. Click through if you missed it or if you'd like a recap.
It's clearly time to get clued up and ready for an exciting ride as we near the end of the first half of 2017.
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 | The full content programme for Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking place from 17-24 June 2017, has been announced... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar One of the winners of the 2015 Cinemark Young Lions competition, Safaraaz Sindhi reflects on his experience and gives some valuable advice to the 2017 winners... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews With Cannes Lions just a few days away I chatted to South African Kyle Findlay, director of data science at the Kantar Global Innovations Team about his silver essay win at Admap, which will be celebrated during the international festival of creativity.,, read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Vega student John Mashiri received the Pencil Award, sponsored by the Pendoring Advertising Awards, for graduating with top honours in brand management last month... read | |  | Leigh Andrews This week we go behind the selfie with technophile Sonja Winkler who heads up Meltwater's Johannesburg office as the youngest MD in the company's 16-year history, making her the perfect fit for our #YouthMonth feature and an example of another step towards the organisation's mandate of global female empowerment... read | |
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 | Douglas Kruger How much do bad rules really cost you? read |
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 | Jessica Edgson The creative. The upseller. The client-pleaser. The new business rockstar. The number cruncher. The strategic genius. The speedster. These are the people advertising and marketing agencies are always on the lookout for... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Thursday, 1 June saw experiential agency OLC (Offlimit Communications) launch its new office at 34 Impala Road in Chislehurston, Sandton, in collaboration with Flux Trends' Dion Chang, who shared insights from this year's 'The State We're In' presentation called Dazed and Disoriented: The Impact of Being Woke... read |
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 | Cleve Gibbon A personalised experience has the right mix of context and content... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews I chatted to the four recently revealed international jury presidents for the Loeries. Next up is Bavarian-born creative director, Markus Maczey... read | | |
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 | Young Guns 15, the ad/design industry's international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition celebrating creatives 30 years old and under, has opened for entries... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Halo MD Dean Oelschig explains while there is no secret to overnight success, there is a magic ingredient for creative trust - time. Here's how much of it you'll need... read |
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 | The 2017 Global Awards for the World's Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising is open for entries with a new judging system and expanded categories... read |
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 | IDidTht's May SA Film Reel was judged by Bridget Johnson, executive creative partner at M&C Saatchi Abel Johannesburg, who selected Dead Fish Eyes by Dirk Van Niekerk at 7Films for Best of Reel for Direction Craft... read |
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 | Brendan Seery Kagiso Rabada may be the Destroyer-in-Chief for the Proteas cricket team (and the number one ranked one-day bowler) but he still has an innocence and naivety about him, which is appealing... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews NEWSWATCH: While news that Telkom is set to restructure into four specific business units by the end of March 2018 has been positively accepted, its current marketing RFP pitch process is raising concerns - here's their official response... read |
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 | Chris Brewer I know the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has come under a lot of flak over the years and perhaps rightly so. However, it seems grossly unfair that they seem to have attracted such massive amounts of bad press for a relatively small proportion of their decisions... read |
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 | Robin Fredericks Winners of the #REDExperiment - a collaboration between Radisson Red and the Youngblood Africa Foundation - were announced at the Youngblood Art Gallery in Bree Street, Cape Town... read |
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 | Terry Levin Not a regular attendee of foodie events, I wandered from the furthest reaches of the CTICC parking to collect my accreditation... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Promise Group CEO James Moffatt discusses Spanish-based Scopen and the IAS's extensive research and analysis project of the SA marketing and advertising agency community, as well as why client satisfaction and CRM are so important in this current era of consumer power... read |
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 | Along with nine individuals and companies who have made extraordinary contributions to PET recycling in SA during the course of 2016, Bizcommunity Managing Editor Sindy Peters was named one of the Petco Award winners... read |
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 | The National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) gave Vega students 12 hours to design its new logo in a Design Jam... read |
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 | Chris Botha The South African lexicon and news has been filled with a bunch of new phrases over the past few years. These include "monopolies", "foreign capital" and "local first" which are all "symptoms" of a consumer market kicking back against what appears to be the product of a global economy... read |
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 | Kirsty Barkhuizen The annual EMEA Adobe Summit in London is a huge calendar event for us at Cognifide, as part of the WPP Adobe Alliance... read |
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 | AFDA has been incorporated into the Curro Holdings' wholly owned tertiary education subsidiary, Stadio Investments, the AFDA board of directors and co-founders, Garth Holmes and Bata Passchier, have announced... read |
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 | Leadspace, in partnership with 1776 and Revolution, is inviting startups to apply for Challenge Cup Lagos where 15-20 startups will pitch for the chance to win a paid trip to New York City for the Global Final round... read |
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 | The third Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) conference and exhibition event will take place at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape Town on 5-6 October 2017... read |
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 | The Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (Wan-Ifra) has called on the South African government for renewed solidarity in the wake of threats to media freedom... read |
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 | Key findings from the Wan-Ifra's annual World Press Trends survey were presented at the 69th World News Media Congress and 24th World Editors Forum in Durban... read |
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 | New Generation Awards announces 15 judges that have been selected for 2017's New Generation Social & Digital Media Awards... read |
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 | Day 2 of the World News Media Congress began with a breakfast panel discussion, particularly for women in news, around the gender biases in reporting and how media and advertisers represent these... read |
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 | Today Google announced its support for a Digital Journalism initiative that will see 6,000 African journalists trained in data journalism skills by the end of February 2018... read |
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 | DURBAN: Following the Women in News Summit, the men were ready as ever to take the stage, with the second half of Day 1 at the World News Media Congress kicking off with a roundtable on sports news as a major driver for media innovation... read |
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 | DURBAN: Today, 7 June 2017 marks the inaugural global Women in News (WIN) Summit, which commenced at the ICC in Durban earlier today... read |
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 | ‘Styled By Marie Claire' is a new digital platform offering on-trend, shoppable looks curated by stylists and influencers such as editor Jackie May... read |
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 | Twitter and The Secret Life of Pets won global awards at the annual Fepe International OOH Congress, held in Stockholm on 7-9 June 2017... read |
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 | Vincent Magwenya By now you would have observed that some of the individuals whose names appear in the leaked emails by members of the Gupta family and their associates, were not necessarily people involved in their business dealings... read |
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 | Due to an objection from FB Photo Copyright Fight SA @SAPHOTOGS regarding the format of the competition and the suitability of the prize, AutObarn has cancelled its SuperHatch photographic competition... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Having achieved national fame through his notorious ‘Whackhead' pranks, Darren Simpson will soon host the KFM breakfast show between 6am and 9am, bringing his brand of fun, funny, relatable radio to Western Cape listeners - and yes, there will be a daily prank... read |
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 | We Communications' inaugural ‘Brands in Motion' study uncovers four realities that allow brands to embrace motion... read |
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 | The 18th annual PAMRO conference will take place from 27-30 August 2017 at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Businesses are slowly but surely switching their big data outlook from one of fear to one of appreciation of its usefulness. Gareth Mountain, Olico executive, explains how you can use responsive lead generation to effectively turn your marketing into a profit centre... read |
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 | Noah Greenhill Few companies realise the impact social media has on shaping investors' views... read |
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 | DURBAN: Turkish journalist and former editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper, Can Dündar is the deserving recipient of the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers... read |
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 | Global news with an Asian perspective will be brought to the African continent by Zee Africa, which has launched its gobal English news channel, WION... read |
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 | CNN International will air special coverage of the UK election with special programming, beginning at 10pm BST on Thursday 8 June... read |
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 | Twenty entries from across the globe have made the Warc Awards Effective Strategy shortlist, the second such list for the 2017 awards... read |
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 | The government should not be in the business of providing healthcare to all South Africans... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg The concept of pop-up retail has soared in popularity over the last number of years. Done right, these temporary retail spaces... read |
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