9 Jan 2012 |
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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Top stories
Special focus on media freedom & right to know
Banking & Finance
That's if you are in Zimbabwe, that is... Following the land grab, agriculture collapsed and the Zimbabwean economy also collapsed - and hyperinflation wiped out savings. Read more >>
Branding
[Naseem Javed] Last century business names were colourfully dressed with uniquely stylized lettering, colourful logos, slogans and contextual support. This century, such 'stylized dependency' has been pushed over the cliff by neo-socio-mobile-media-lingo. They're stripped and typed in black and white text as soundbite-sized 'bare naked words', blending into chat lines alongside abbreviations and numbing-mumbo-jumbo. Read more >>
Cinema
[Amel Gaaloul] The first ever Tunisian Film Festival hosted in Hollywood, California will be from January 10-12, 2012. Read more >>
Digital
Education & Training
[Walter Wafula] WRENmedia, a United Kingdom-based a specialist communications company is set to sharpen reporting skills of journalists covering climate change issues in Eastern Africa, according to Susanna Thorp, director of the firm. Read more >>
Events & Conferencing
African Utility Week (AUW), reportedly the biggest utility conference and exhibition in Africa, had a strong presence at COP17 in preparation for its May 2012 event in Johannesburg, South Africa, is expected to draw more than 5 000 participants and visitors from across Africa. Eskom will once again be a partner at the event. Read more >>
Media
[Herman Manson: @marklives] Tony Maddox, the executive vice president and MD of CNN International, is responsible for CNN's international news and information portfolio. On a visit to South Africa in December 2011, Maddox shared with Bizcommunity.com his views on social media and 'citizen reporting,' the recently signed 'secrecy bill' and CNN's editorial operations in Africa. [video] Read more >>
MIDEM, the music industry trade fair which brings together musicians, businesspeople, cultural policy makers and journalists from across the world and provides a forum for business talks, discussing political and legal issues and showcasing new artists, musical trends and music-related products, has ranked ROCKSTAR4000 as one of the Top 10 music companies globally for the most innovative and creative use of music in a marketing campaigns. Read more >>
[Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi] The Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has said 2011 saw Malawi's media environment deteriorate to the worst as observed from 2009. Read more >>
66 journalists were killed worldwide in 2011, many of them covering Arab revolutions, gang crime in Mexico or political turmoil in Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday. Read more >>
A legal battle looms between prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the state media following the publication of stories alleging that the MDC-T leader bribed private media editors to stop them from writing damaging articles about his party and love affairs. Read more >>
Mobile
[Vanessa Clark] Mobile, schmobile. Mobile marketing's just another buzzword thrown around by your agency, marketing department or publications like this one. Rather than being the next evolution in marketing, it's just a distraction from getting the basics right, and another way for your agency to charge you more. Read more >>
Following rumors that the Nigerian government had instructed telecom operators to shut down their Blackberry service in the country, the executive director and chief operating officer at Airtel Networks Limited, Deepak Srivastava, released a statement yesterday, 3 January 2012, to dispel the rumour. Read more >>
Telecommunication services provider, Airtel Nigeria has expanded its network of locations and platforms where international top-up service can be done across the world, with the appointment of three major international airtime top-up firms as partners. Read more >>
Newspapers
[Walter Wafula] The Kampala Sun, a new publication by Vision Group, is the latest addition to Uganda's newsstands. The tabloid has been revived seven years after the New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Limited (Vision Group), published and launched its first copy, although it didn't live to celebrate its first birthday. Read more >>
Packaging
Andrew Marshall had a clear strategy when he took over as Nampak's CEO in March 2009. He was tasked with putting SA's biggest packaging company back on a growth path, a path it wandered off a decade earlier. His approach was simple: if underperforming business units can't be fixed sell them or close them down. Read more >>
Printing
Uganda's oldest and largest institution of higher learning, Makerere University, has acquired a Xerox X700 Digital Color Press together with Xerox's advanced security software, FreeFlow Specialty Imaging Suite. Read more >>
Radio
[Simon Peter Emwamu] Drama ensued on Saturday [31 January 2011] after the state minister for disaster preparedness, Musa Ecweru, reportedly stormed a community radio station in Soroti and allegedly ordered the arrest of talk show panelists, accusing them of defaming him. Read more >>
Research
[Zeenat Moorad] SA has ranked 32nd in a report by CB Richard Ellis (CbrE) on how active retailers are expected to be in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) during 2012, Broll Property Group, part of the CbrE affiliate network said on Monday, 12 December. Read more >>
Retail
[Zeenat Moorad] The approval of the Wal-Mart/Massmart deal will go down as the highlight of the retail sector in 2011. Read more >>
MORONI, COMOROS: The Comoros has jailed one of the Indian Ocean archipelago's top Muslim clerics for attempting to bribe a government official into lifting a ban on alcohol, judicial sources said on Tuesday, 3 January 2012. Read more >>
Trends
Once connected, the internet is one of the last things that consumers would be willing to give up if they had to reduce their expenses. Women are driving mass-market adoption of smartphones and by 2016, users living on less than 1% of the Earth's total land area are set to generate around 60% of mobile traffic. Read more >>
TV
[Walter Wafula] Season 1 of Project Inspire Africa, a reality TV show aimed at transforming Africa by discovering and empowering the continent's budding entrepreneurs premiered in Kampala on Wednesday, 4 January 2011. Read more >>
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) will not be issuing out private television licences any time soon despite mounting pressure to do so, saying its main focus is on meeting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) deadline on the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. Read more >>
Zuku TV, the East African home entertainment brand that provides a pay TV service, has reached over 35 000 subscribers after launching in Nairobi just five months ago. Read more >>
SAN FRANCISCO, US: Apple has announced that the latest version of its hot-selling iPhones will be released in China and 21 other countries on 13 January. It is already available in South Africa. Read more >>
YORK, US: Internet giant Yahoo! on Wednesday named former PayPal president Scott Thompson its new chief executive, four months after sacking Carol Bartz over her unsuccessful turnaround effort. Read more >>
MUMBAI, INDIA: India's richest man Mukesh Ambani announced this week plans to strengthen his Internet television venture, as he seeks to diversify his giant Reliance Industries group beyond the energy sector. Read more >>
BEIJING, CHINA: China's satellite broadcasters have cut the number of prime time entertainment shows they air by more than two-thirds, the state Xinhua news agency said, as Beijing seeks to stem Western influences. Read more >>
BERLIN, GERMANY: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers' (WAN-IFRA) 3rd annual Printing Summit, to be held in Berlin, Germany, in March, aims to provide publishers and printers with fresh insight into the best uses of the latest technologies, and will also explore how creativity in print advertising can maximise revenues. Read more >>
RESTON, US: comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, has reported holiday season US retail e-commerce spending for the first 56 days of the November - December 2011 holiday season. Read more >>
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending November 2011. Read more >>
LONDON, UK: The BRAVES is claimed to be the first awards to recognise and reward the use of video by brands. The BRAVES is dedicated to celebrating the very best work from brands, and the creative and technical industries that together create excellence in brand video. Read more >>
LONDON, UK: D&AD has announced its global line-up of judges for the 50th D&AD Awards. Among the judges are three industry experts from South Africa. Read more >>
DUBAI, UAE: The Dubai International Advertising Festival, the leading awards for creative excellence in advertising and communications in the Middle East and North Africa, is pleased to announce the jury presidents ahead of the 2012 festival taking place 4-7 March 2012. Read more >>
PARIS, FRANCE / DARMSTADT, GERMANY / PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: The 22nd World Newspaper Advertising Conference, to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, in March 2012, will provide publishers and advertising directors with strategies and advice for maximising advertising revenues at a time when doing so is essential to the future of the industry. Read more >> More International...
AFRICA Rising stars in the know < More
KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo has appealed to community healthcare interns, who are to be deployed in the province, to give their patients the respect and dignity they deserve. Read more >>
The Inkatha Freedom Party has criticised the decision by the department of basic education to restrict former Model C schools from paying teacher bonuses and other financial incentives. Read more >> More Government news...
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Indian manufacturer Bajaj Auto unveiled an ultra-low-cost car on Tuesday 3 January, its first foray into the four-wheel market, pitching the vehicle as a solution to urban pollution and congestion. Read more >>
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] My Festive Season transport was a rather big Japanese sleigh which was spacious enough to accommodate a large Father Christmas and three equally portly assistant present distributors and comfortable enough to bring them all the way from the North Pole to Cape Town - AND it had enough luggage space for all the presents for an entire suburb. Read more >>
Business Live warns that people buying new cars should be careful not to put in expensive accessories in the hope that this will boost the selling price when it comes to getting rid of the vehicle because accessories do not increase the vehicle's market value. Read more >>
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Route planning is essential for safe holiday journeys, particularly during the Festive Season when many people tend to wonder off to more remote and unusual destinations on secondary or gravel roads. Read more >> More Motoring news...
This residence originally named "Schoonder Sigt" ("Clear View") is deeply steeped in the history of South Africa. Read more >>
[Somaya Stockenstroom] You can't trust any airline or airport staff with your precious bags. Guaranteed, some sneaky handler will get into your luggage on at least one trip. Read more >> More Travel news...
[Eugene Yiga] Strange things happen when a group of Hollywood hotshots star in a film; either you get something like Contagion, a movie so brilliant that even a bowl of peanuts sent shivers down your spine, or you get something like New Year's Eve, a movie so bad that it makes you wonder how so many agents could be so blind. Read more >>
[Eugene Yiga] Twenty-five years, 50 awards, 149 cities, 100 million viewers. With numbers like these, you'd be a fool to miss Phantom of the Opera, showing at the Arstcape in Cape Town until 14 January and at Montecasino in Johannesburg from 31 January. Read more >>
[Sindy Peters] Air travelling this Summer? If yes, there's a chance you may find yourself sharing a plane ride with KONGOS - the Joburg-cum-London-cum-Phoenix rock band that's been the talk of the town of late. KONGOS are jet-setting around South Africa till early 2012; we stole their attention for 20 mins to find out, among other things, their plan of action should December 2012 herald the end of days! Read more >>
The nominees for the MK Awards 2012 have just been announced. Viewers will vote to determine which of SA's hottest acts, which will be going head to head in 11 categories, will win. The finale will be held on 23 March, 2012, at The State Theatre, Pretoria. Read more >> More BizLounge news...
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