SA speaks out on social media about Bell Pottinger, new YouTube logo
South Africans' eyes have been on the news that
Bell Pottinger UK CEO James Henderson has stepped down this weekend, yet retains his stake in the company. Interesting timing as the UK's PRCA is set to hand down an announcement on its sanction of Bell Pottinger later this week. Many are sharing their views on social media.
Julia Breakey writes that content creators are also sharing their opinions about
YouTube's new logo and layout for mobile and desktop - some say the ability to change playback speed on the app, and a dark mode on desktop are just surface-level fixes and that bigger issues like the faulty subscription feature, notification and monetisation should have been top of mind.
Juanita Pienaar also find out how HaveYouHeard or
hyh's new identity offers a more holistic approach to advertising, with cofounder Ryan McFadyen sharing the creative challenges they faced during the rebranding process as well as how the agency now offers fully integrated creative, design, digital, media, events and communications services for both new and existing clients under the hyh umbrella.
We also still have this year's Loeries' winners front and foremost. I caught up with Graham Lang, CCO at Y&R South Africa and Africa, on the agency network's collaborative year of firsts, which range from Y&R Dubai bringing home their first-ever Grand Prix to Y&R Cape Town being awarded the inaugural SANBS Public Service Award and wins for each of Y&R's six contributing offices.
Click through to find out why Lang calls this an
exceptional year for Y&R in Africa and the Middle East, from a creative point of view.
Then if employer branding is your cup of tea, click through to the
special focus section Louise Marsland has curated, with her overview of the
top eight employer branding trends identified for 2017/18, and keep an eye out for our comprehensive PDF download of all the content.
Have a productive marketing week!
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Issued by Bittersuite | |  | Leigh Andrews While award shows celebrate the agencies and brands doing amazing work, those behind-the scenes don't often get a chance to step into the spotlight. Step aside for illustrator Sarita Immelman, whose work garnered 11 Loeries and two Cannes Lions awards this year alone... read | |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Leana Less, vice president of global connections and media at Coca-Cola, explores the benefits of agile marketing if done correctly at this year's Pamro conference... read |
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 | Louise Marsland In this new world of tech disruptors and the rise of robotics, employer branding becomes even more important in talent acquisition and the crafting of internal brand strategies to transform organisations to meet the challenges of the decade to come... read | |  | What's the secret behind Getsmarter's mission to become the best place to work in Cape Town? read | | Dave Nemeth | | Gareth Hawkey | |  | Employer branding is about your total employer identity. The goal is for your employer brand to be viewed as an organisation that offers a great employee experience. Employer Branding Focus sponsor, Top Employers Institute, asked some of South Africa's current certified Top Employers 2017 to share some of their best tips for developing a positive employer brand... read | | | |
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 | The Advertising Standards Authority is seeking applications for a permanent CEO and is offering BEE scorecard points against the new ‘Responsible Social Marketing' element in exchange for financial support... read |
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 | The Windhoek Beer account is out to pitch after parting ways with advertising agency, The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town... read |
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 | Facebook said that pages that make a habit of linking to bogus news stories will no longer be able to advertise at the world's leading online social network... read |
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 | Forrester's social media advertising forecast, 2017 - 2022 indicates that global social ad spending continued to grow robustly in 2016... read |
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 | Brendan Seery While all our attention has been focused on the campaign to save rhinos from poaching, another massacre has been unfolding, almost un-noticed... that of Africa's elephants, which are being shot out for their ivory... read |
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 | In a branding partnership with global payment and technology company, Mastercard, Table Mountain Cableway has unveiled a new look for its cable cars... read |
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 | Mathew Weiss Why the relaunch of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra reminds us of the real value of branding... read |
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 | African Animation Network and Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau have partnered to launch the FupiToons Festival... read |
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 | Nico Gous South African banks take on average 31 hours and 56 minutes to respond to customer complaints, according to a report released on Tuesday, 29 August, by the online business review website Hellopeter... read |
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 | Heartlines has launched a campaign on crowdfunding platform, Thundafund.com, to bring to life, ‘What's your story?', a project inspired by the film ‘Beyond The River'... read |
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 | The Cape of Good Hope SPCA is launching #LoveMeBack campaign, a unique initiative that lets homeless pets wear their hearts on their paws... read |
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 | Michelle Jones Content marketers needn't battle with artificial intelligence (AI). The advent of AI is inevitable. Instead, we should learn to embrace it, writes Michelle Jones... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Wayne Hull, MD of Accenture Digital, spoke at Pamro 2017 on the topic of consumer expectations transcending traditional industry boundaries... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Magnus Anshelm, MD of the MMS joint industry committee in Sweden, spoke of an advanced hybrid model for the total video currency for TV and online video at Pamro 2017, as the future is here... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Brian Fuhrer, SVP of product leadership for national TV audience measurement at Nielsen USA, spoke at Pamro 2017 on the topics of return path data (RPD) and TV audience measurement (TAM) integration, with today's connected consumer a core consideration... read |
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 | Babalo Ndenze Prospective SABC board member, Nomvuyiso Batyi, has been accused of "corruption" for not reporting former communications minister Faith Muthambi to the police for trying to "unduly influence" her... read |
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 | Genevieve Quintal New Infinity Media owner Mzwanele Manyi has provided share certificates showing he is the sole shareholder of Lodidox‚ his company which has bought the Gupta's media assets... read |
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 | A steamroller was used to destroy a hard drive containing unfinished works by late British comic fantasy author Terry Pratchett, in accordance with his wishes... read |
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 | To help raise awareness and drive water saving in the Western Cape, 140 BBDO and Smile FM have launched H2Zero, a water saving initiative... read |
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 | Chris Brewer Sometimes, when I'm wandering around I'm absolutely amazed at how many traders get it wrong. With a little thought they could do so much better. It's just mostly simple and obvious things... read |
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 | Samsung wins again at the 2017/18 Ask Afrika Youth Brands Awards, South Africa's youth endorsing it as their brand of choice across the Smartphone, Tablet Devices and Cellular Phone categories... read |
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 | Hein Kaiser from Mix 93.8 FM chats to Brendan Seery about the recent print campaign from the Endangered Wildlife Trust and Matthew Weiss about the localisation of brands when marketing on the African continent, on his latest Marketing & Media show. - View/Rate |
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