21 Nov 2011 |
Africa | Marketing & Media |
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Marketing & Media, Advertising, Branding, Cinema, CRM, CSI, Design, Digital, Direct Marketing, Education & Training, Events & Conferencing, Exhibitions, Magazines, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Newspapers, Online Media, Out Of Home, PR & Communications, Printing, Production, Promotions, Radio, Recruitment, Research, Retail, Sales, Sponsorship, Trends, TV, Youth Marketing
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Media freedom - still a battleMedia freedom in many parts of Africa is still under threat. In Liberia, a criminal court judge has warned proprietors of three local media houses, after it was recently shutdown by government for allegedly broadcasting hate messages and misinformation, not to repeat such acts. In Zimbabwe, two journalists were arrested and charged with theft, unlawful entry and criminal defamation, after an article, allegedly based on leaked documents, was published earlier this month. In other news, media owners in Africa have pledged their commitment to the development success story of the continent by increasing the coverage of development topics. The winner of the 2011 Freedom to Create Prize, which celebrates the courage and creativity of artists who use their talents to build social foundations and inspire the human spirit, was announced at an awards ceremony and concert in Cape Town. The main prize was awarded to Sister Fa, a female rap artist from Senegal, who through her talents raised awareness on the dangers of female genital cutting. The Malawi-Zimbabwe Executive Twinning Programme, a WAN-IFRA project that matches newspaper groups in Malawi with newspaper groups in Zimbabwe for a series of exchanges, launched the Twinning Programme Brain Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa. The West African Telecom Exhibition, which takes place from 8-10 May 2012 in Lagos, Nigeria, will facilitate business opportunities in the telecom sector, enabling exhibitors to gain access to the Nigerian telecom market that contains over 80 million mobile subscribers. Here's to a good week! Evan-Lee Courie ( @evan1985) Responses to this column welcomed in our online editor's column archive.Send all your Africa marketing news africanews@bizcommunity.com and opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com. Follow Bizcommunity on Twitter @Bizcommunity and join our Facebook page. Today's top stories
Marketing
International marketing communications company Hamman Marketing Associates (HMA) have announced a new partnership deal and office in North Africa to develop and maintain business in the Middle East North Africa region. The new office, based in Tunis, Tunisia, will be managed by business associate and HMA-MENA partner Rym Bedoui Ayari. Read more >>
Special focus on media freedom & right to know
South Sudanese security services on Friday, 18 November 2011, released today two journalists arrested 18 days ago without charges, one of the two detainees Peter Ngor Arol Garang told Sudan Tribune just after his release. Read more >>
Advertising
[Johanna McDowell] Traditionally, advertising agencies have always wanted to be either first or last in a competitive pitch situation fearing that they may be forgotten otherwise by the client, but, in our view, position in the pitch order does not matter. As long as the various pitches take place over a maximum of two days, there is no danger of client becoming confused about the various attributes of the presenting agencies. Read more >>
Digital
Internet Solutions and Paynet have partnered to launch InfoConnect, a new converged solution that provides content or information to service providers through a secure, reliable and highly scalable way of delivering their services to their users or clients via the Internet Solutions managed infrastructure in accordance to the required standards. Read more >>
[Walter Wafula] Ministers responsible for communication in the five East African Community (EAC) partner states have called for the swift creation of policies that will enable the region to migrate to digital broadcasting from analogue on schedule. Read more >>
Events & Conferencing
Sister Fa, an internationally renowned female rap artist from Senegal, who has devoted her work to raising awareness on the dangers of female genital cutting, was awarded the 2011 Freedom to Create Prize, yesterday 20 November 2011 at an awards ceremony and concert at the Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more >>
As the countdown to the official opening of COP17/CMP7 in Durban begins, various players have announced their intentions to ensure that the conference is a successful on in terms of events; however, there seems less confidence on the part of the world that any substantial long-term commitments will emerge before the Kyoto Protocol expires in April 2012. Read more >>
Media
[Muideen Olaniyi] Owners of African media organisations have pledged commitment to the development of Africa's development success story by expanding coverage of development topics and placing people at the centre of their reporting. Read more >>
Mobile
Late last week, the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), a global trade association for the mobile industry, celebrated 56 winners across key mobile categories at the seventh Annual Global Mobile Marketing Awards for Innovation, Creativity and Leadership. South African companies were among the winners to receive the Smarties, the new name unveiled during the ceremony's opening. Read more >>
Retail
The Standard Bank Group is launching a new lending facility that uses a psychometric assessment to provide loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa with the aim to revolutionise the way finance is advanced to the largely informal business sector. Read more >>
LONDON, UK: C Squared, the UK-based publishing and events company for the global marketing and advertising industry and founders of the Festival of Media, has announced that Ivor Falvey (currently director of Commercial Strategy at Haymarket Media) is to join the company. Read more >>
HONG KONG, CHINA: The humble TV commercial has been combined with a mobile app in China, with impressive results that saw the app become the top free app within 15 hours of launch and being downloaded 390 000 times. Read more >>
CANNES, FRANCE: The International Festival of Creativity - Cannes Lions - has announced that mobile will be added as a new awards section, launching at the 2012 Festival. Tom Eslinger, digital creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, will preside over the Mobile Lions jury in its inaugural year. Read more >> More International...
CSI
[Gregory Gondwe, Lilongwe, Malawi] Chikondi Chiumia of Alliance Media Malawi, a Blantyre-based billboard and airport advertising company which is part of the Alliance Media group, says that they have decided to support the Kachanga school because they operate the airport advertising concession at Blantyre's Chileka International Airport. Read more >>
Public Protector Adv Thuli Madonsela on Friday 19 November led her office in bidding farewell to one of its longest serving investigative staff members, Dr Marthinus Schutte. Read more >>
As thousands of delegates from all over the world make their way to Durban for the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) this week, President Jacob Zuma says South Africa is ready to welcome them but warns that the event cannot be a case of "business as usual". Read more >> More Government news...
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] As a motoring scribe my work involves driving some of the sexiest, fastest and most desirable cars on the planet, but it also means that I regularly have to enter the bottom feeder end of the market to drive small, often a tad silly, budget commuter prams with coffee mill engines. Yet, strangely enough, it's in this market segment where unexpected pleasant surprises pop up every now and then. Read more >> More Motoring news...
Etihad Airways has selected Panasonic Avionics Corporation to provide the in-flight entertainment systems and in-flight connectivity, including broadband Internet and live TV, for the airline's entire long-haul fleet of wide body aircraft. Read more >> More Travel news...
The well-known music, culture and current affairs magazine Rolling Stone will launch in South Africa on Wednesday, 23 November, 2011, as a monthly with a cover price of R34.95. It will cover everything from young visionaries and icons to politics, movies and more. Read more >>
The winners of the 2011 Eat Out DStv Food Network Restaurant Awards, together with the Top 10 restaurants, have been announced. The gala ceremony was held at The Rotunda at The Bay Hotel in Cape Town where guests sampled gourmet creations from award-winning chefs. Read more >> More BizLounge news...
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