Marketing & Media South Africa

Top company and news stories 18 February 2019 - 18 Feb 2019

By Leigh Andrews

  • Get your 2019 IAB Bookmark Awards tickets
  • FCB Africa wins best foreign film at The One Club's One Screen Film Festival
  • RIP Brendan Boyle and Terry Dempsey
  • Danette Breitenbach unpacks the ABCs Q4 2018 for newspapers and magazines
  • We have all the nominees for the 13th annual SAFTAs
  • I report back on John Maytham's #WorldRadioDay talk
  • Another small business accuses Woolies of plagiarism
  • Mastercard Love Index shows SA spends more on Valentine's experiences than traditional gifts
  • Lauren Hartzenberg details Zando's coming of age
  • Riaan Sunny introduces outstream video - goodbye five-second waiting period
  • Belinda Kayton explains the usefulness of factual comparative advertising
  • #NewBiz: Distell appoints WPP; Kagiso Media acquires Jacaranda FM, Mediamark
  • In Brendan Seery's #OrchidsandOnions, SA boykie's Super Bowl ad shines
  • Andy Walker shares the EskomSePush success story
  • Mike Sharman says 2019 is the year of 'internal-influence'
  • Jessica Barrett says the strategy debate rages on
  • Kelly McGillivray shares the 7 don'ts of event catering
  • Charlie Stewart explains how to boost your sales in a bear market
  • In #FairnessFirst, I welcome the most diverse emoji set yet
  • I also go #BehindtheSelfie with Leigh-Anne WIlliams, presenter on Good Hope FM and Expresso

    Leigh Andrews
    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 15 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