23 Jan 2012 |
Africa | Marketing & Media |
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New year, new beginnings...We're heading to the end of January 2012 already and almost everybody should be back at work by now. With a new year, comes new beginnings. In Zambia, Airtel launches its 3.75G platform in the country and promises significant changes to how subscribers can experience the web. The African Press Organisation announced a distribution agreement with global news and business information research tool, Dow Jones Factiva, which will see APO providing the global company with Africa-related news. The African Media Initiative and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers launched a strategic partnership to provide professional training and other forms of technical support to develop media businesses across the continent. In other news, Malawian journalists are considering whether or not to boycott the president's press conferences, also know as 'press rallies', after journalists were threatened in November 2011 in which media had to seek protection from the police. The International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands, have confirmed charges against Joshua Arap Sang, a Kenyan radio broadcast journalist who was accused of establishing a network with the goal of gaining power in the Rift Valley Province by committing crimes against supporters of the Party of National Unity. In our 2012 Biz Trends Report Series, Oresti Patricios, forecasts Media trends in Africa for 2012, while Deloitte reveals their 2012 media predictions and says that the 'catch up commuter' will become a force in the electronic market. So while this is just the beginning of the year, it appears that this is the start of great things to come. Here's to a great week! Evan-Lee Courie ( @evan1985) Responses to this column welcomed in our online editor's column archive. Send all your Africa marketing news to africanews@bizcommunity.com and opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com, also take a look at our guide "How to contribute to Bizcommunity, from op-ed pieces to news". Follow Bizcommunity on Twitter @Bizcommunity and join our Facebook page. Today's top stories
Marketing & Media
[Walter Pike] In 2012, things will stay the same. Everyone still believes that marketing has not changed and that social is a channel. Yes they are starting to understand how important channel is but they have not and will not grasp just how much. Read more >>
Media
[Carole Kimutai] The International Criminal Court (ICC) has today confirmed charges against radio broadcast journalist Joshua Arap Sang and three other Kenyans. Read more >>
Zambia's Drug Enforcement Commission on Saturday [21 January 2012] seized bank accounts for Zamtel, which is 75% owned by LAP Green of Libya, as part of a probe into the sale of the state-run telecom. Read more >>
[Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi] Malawian journalists are considering whether or not to boycott president Bingu wa Mutharika's organised press conferences, called 'Press Rallies', since it is done in the presence of political party cohorts who heckle journalists whenever they ask questions. Read more >>
Mobile
The Kenya ICT Board and All Amber Ltd, organiser of mobile-related events in Africa officially announced a partnership to deliver Mobile Web East Africa for a second time. This conference will take place on 22-23 February 2012 at the Southern Sun Mayfair hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. Read more >>
Newspapers
[Walter Wafula] Vision Group, a multimedia house in Uganda, expects The Kampala Sun to lift its advertising revenue as it picks up in the market, says the head of marketing, Susan Nsibirwa, in an interview last week. Read more >>
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN: First Grade Judge Duoth Kulang on Saturday, 21 January 2012, ruled the case opened against The Citizen in favour of the newspaper. Read more >>
Online Media
PUMA.com recently launched an African football content programme ahead of the Orange African Cup of Nations tournament that kicks off over the weekend in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The programme will give a cultural insight into the world of African football through the eyes of high profile PUMA partnered players. Read more >>
Retail
African economies are set to continue growing faster than many developed economies, while shifting trade patterns towards China and India will continue to gain momentum in 2012, says Anushuya Gounden, head of the Africa desk at Deloitte, who was speaking at last weeks Africa's Frontiers Forum, a seminar on Africa's political, economic and financial outlook for 2012, hosted by Frontier Advisory. Read more >>
Sales
[John Boe] Have you noticed that when a sports team wins a championship game, both the players and the coaches talk in terms of a "team victory" and appear to truly enjoy sharing the accomplishment? While on the other hand, teams who are going through a losing streak tend to make excuses and point fingers. Read more >>
TUNIS, TUNISIA: The Arab Free Press Forum opened today, 23 January, in Tunisia with a celebration of the gains that have been made in Middle East press freedom, but with a reminder that much more needs to be done. Read more >>
NEW YORK, US: The Art Directors Club ( www.adcglobal.org), one of the premier organisations for creatives in integrated media and the claimed to be the first global creative collective of its kind, has announced the full international Interactive jury for the global ADC 91st Annual Awards. Read more >>
NEW YORK, US: More than 300 of America's leading advertising industry professionals gathered on the evening of 17 January 2012 to honour Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs, creative Paula Green and director/producer Joe Pytka, 2012 inductees in Creative Hall of Fame. The One Club for Art & Copy also bestowed honours on Robert Lawton, co-founder of Creative Circus/Atlanta, as the inaugural inductee in its new Educator Hall of Fame. Read more >> More International...
Media
There are certain images that the publishing markets rate higher than others. And some that sell over and over again. Africa Media Online's picture library focuses on images taken by Africans in Africa and they have created a gallery of their best sellers in 2011. Read more >>
The government has undertaken to meet the financial commitments and debt obligations of the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) after the e-tolling project was indefinitely suspended. Read more >>
President Jacob Zuma is to depart for Qatar today to strengthen political and economic relations between South Africa and that country as well as promote peace and security in Africa. Read more >>
Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, has described allegations that South Africa was to procure a warship as wrong, unfair and unethical. Read more >>
The Gauteng government has denied that a sheriff was detained when she arrived at the offices of Gauteng Premier, Nomvula Mokonyane's office with an attachment order to remove furniture from the premises. Read more >> More Government news...
Used vehicle sales gained ground in the last quarter of 2011 compared with new cars sales, boosted by price inflation which dropped to its lowest level in two years. Read more >> More Motoring news...
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] Red Carnation Hotels take their Guest Preference Forms seriously. Would you like foam or feather pillows; neck and back support pillows; an ironing board; a bed board; extra hangers or an extra bed? Would you like a yoga map and an instructive DVD or a fax/copier/printer? Then there's the menu of extras available at the tick of a box and the swipe of a credit card - rose petals and chocolate dipped strawberries? Check... Read more >> More Travel news...
[Duan Wanty] I have the idea that whenever people of different ages, races and genders gather in a certain space, and ABBA's songs start playing, you will have a party. I am yet to be proven wrong. Read more >> More BizLounge news...
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