Marketing & Media South Africa

Top company and news stories 10 December 2018 - 10 Dec 2018

By Leigh Andrews

  • We've announced our speaker lineup for BizTrendsLIVE!
  • Mail moc.ytinummoczib@pvsr to book for the event taking place January 2019
  • McCann SA and 1886 Advertising merge to form McCann1886
  • Unilever CMO Keith Weed has announced his retirement
  • APO Group has appointed Lionel Reina as CEO
  • Pantone's #ColorOfTheYear for 2018 is Living Coral
  • #NewCampaign: Jawitz Properties' #RealLifeRealEstate
  • Leigh Andrews goes #BehindtheSelfie with Dillon Warren of The Brand Cartel
  • Andrews chats to Ryan McManus on orchestrating experiences for connected brands
  • Evan-Lee Courie interviews Mike Butcher of TechCrunch on the African startup battlefield
  • Maroefah Smith explains how to localise global trends for the SA consumer in two parts
  • Andy Walker shares SA's hottest Twitter hashtags
  • Sheida Neman unpacks Facebook's 2018 Year in Review
  • Sinesipho Maninjwa questions whether influencer marketing offers a financial ROI
  • Leago Monareng expresses his opinion on PR metrics
  • Jarred Mailer-Lyons shares his thoughts on Comic Con, YouTubers and the business of gaming
  • In #FutureFit Yourself Carmen Murray talks to Kimberleigh Stark on the art of persuasion

    Jessica Tennant
    Editor-in-Chief: Marketing & Media SA

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    Leigh Andrews

    Leigh Andrews

    Andrews was on the inaugural Marketer of the Year (MOTY) jury for the 2019 Marketing Achievement Awards (MAA) as well as an #Inspiring50 2018 nominee herself, and judged over 500 entries for the most recent Epica Awards - the only creative prize awarded by journalists working for marketing and communications magazines around the world. She's also serving on the IAB (SA)'s #Bookmarks2020 Publisher panel.

    Responsible for keeping a finger on the pulse of the latest happenings in the marketing and media industry, this is an almost 24/7 role that involves keeping one eye on your inbox with the other on your social media feed, to write breaking news stories and interviewing key people in the B2B space.

    All made easier by 13 years of working for companies such as Microsoft, Kagiso Media, Fleet Street Publications, the Mail & Guardian Online, Caxton Community Newspapers and Newsclip's media, marketing and PR publications.

    Let's do Biz