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Source: © Campaign India Andy Jassy, President and CEO of Amazon, has been named the Cannes Lions 2025 Media Person of the Year

#Cannes2025 Media Person of the Year to Amazon president and CEO

The New York Festivals Advertising Awards (NYFA) 2025 winners have been announced (Image supplied)

Dentsu Digital Inc. awarded New York Festivals 2025 Best of Show Award

13 Jun 2025

Introducing the Effie Lions Foundation: Building a marketing industry for everyone

Introducing the Effie Lions Foundation: Building a marketing industry for everyone

13 Jun 2025

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Meta launches open-source AI accelerator across sub-Saharan Africa

Meta launches open-source AI accelerator across sub-Saharan Africa

17 Jun 2025

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Publicis unseats WPP on Mars’ $1.7bn media account

11 Jun 2025

Mark Read, WPP's CEO for the past seven years, will retire at the end of 2025 (Image: WPP)

End of an era as Mark Read announces retirement from WPP

9 Jun 2025

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Key insights from The One Show 2025 you can’t miss

6 Jun 2025

The Cannes Glass Lion for Change shortlist has been announced

#Cannes2025: The Glass Lion for Change shortlist revealed

Danette Breitenbach 5 Jun 2025

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MultiChoice cracks down on piracy in Malawi

2 Jun 2025

Ashish Williams (left) has been appointed senior vice president, media, for Publicis Groupe Africa, reporting directly to Koo Govender, CEO of Publicis Groupe Africa (right) (Image @ Bizcommuniy)

Publicis Groupe Africa appoints Ashish Williams as SVP, Media

2 Jun 2025

Ngugi wa Thiong'o has passed away at 87. Source: Reuters.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's remarkable journey ends at 87

George Obulutsa 30 May 2025

Six Middle East & Africa creatives have been selected for the Next Creative Leaders 2025 jury, part of the One Club for Creativity. L to R: Nnenna Onyewuchi - founder, The Barefoot Strategist, Lagos, Ali Rez - CCO, Impact BBDO, Dubai, Nayaab Rais - ECD, FP7 McCann, Dubai, Enas Rashwan - founder, CEO, Cairo Ad School and Saudi Ad School; president, The One Club-Cairo chapter, Cairo/Riyadh, Sands Mathura - ACD, Accenture Song South Africa, Cape Town, Rana Sadek, creative director, IMPACT BBDO, Dubai (Picture by Lesley Svenson, Bizcommunity)

The Next Creative Leaders 2025 jury includes six MEA creatives

29 May 2025

Danilo Acquisto, CEO and co-founder of video specialist digital agency, Special Effects Media South Africa gives the case for the untapped intra-African trade opportunity in media and marketing (Image supplied)

#AfricaMonth: Danilo Acquisto - Nurturing Africa’s creative economy

Danilo Acquisto 28 May 2025

Dentsu Africa crowned media network of the year; Nigeria, Kenya win big at Pitcher Awards 2025

Dentsu Africa crowned media network of the year; Nigeria, Kenya win big at Pitcher Awards 2025

Dentsu 23 May 2025

All about YOU! Putting YOU in YOUth Month on Biz!

All about YOU! Putting YOU in YOUth Month on Biz!

Bizcommunity.com 20 May 2025

Source: © Provoke Media Provoke Media has named the 10 Best Agencies in Africa, with Retroviral and the South African operation of global public relations agency We. Communications named PRovoke Media’s African Agencies of the Year for 2025

Provoke Media names Africa's 10 best agencies and leading campaigns

20 May 2025

Impact BBDO Dubai is the Middle East & Africa Agency of the Year in The One Show Global Creative Rankings (Image supplied)

One Show 2025: ME & Africa Agency of the Year - Impact BBDO Dubai

20 May 2025

Source: © Grey Advertising It has been reported that WPP is to move advertising agency Grey into Ogilvy Group

WPP to move advertising agency Grey into Ogilvy Group

14 May 2025

Source: © BBC The BBC is the most trusted international news provider amongst all audiences as well as the UK’s most recognised cultural export internationally

BBC the UK's most trusted news provider internationally

13 May 2025

Internal comms practitioners: Organisations misunderstand our role

Internal comms practitioners: Organisations misunderstand our role

12 May 2025

The Future of Measurement 2025, part of Warc’s Evolution of Marketing programme, highlights emerging trends in media and creative measurement (Image supplied)

3 Media and creative measurement trends from Warc

9 May 2025

Source: © 123rf The 2025 first half AdForum Summit will take place in New York between 12 and 16 May 2025 with one of the key meetings with the leadership of Omnicom Advertising Group

AdForum Summit includes key meeting with Omnicom Advertising Group leadership

6 May 2025

Source: © UNESCO
This year, World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, will focus on the profound influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on journalism and media under the theme: Reporting in the Brave New World – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media

World Press Freedom Day 2025: The impact of AI on media and press freedom

2 May 2025

Ogilvy SA won four Warc Awards 2025 - Middle East Africa including gold for its Bread of the Nation campaign for AB InBev SA

Ogilvy wins all SA’s Warc Awards 2025 - Middle East and Africa

29 Apr 2025

#Cannes2025 awarding juries include 20 creatives from Africa

Danette Breitenbach 23 Apr 2025

Warc research shows that globally, newsbrand ad spend is forecast to fall to $32.3bn this year, a 33.1% decrease from 2019, as hard news stories – from trade wars to armed conflicts – draw audiences but not ad dollars. (Image supplied)

Warc: News media struggles as brands favour softer content

16 Apr 2025

Lesotho grants operating licence to Musk's Starlink

Lesotho grants operating licence to Musk's Starlink

15 Apr 2025

Source: © Dubai Lynx Held after the Lynx Awards, the Winners’ Lunch celebrates the success and creativity of the teams that took home Awards for their work

All the 2025 Dubai Lynx Awards

14 Apr 2025

Daily Maverick won three categories in the Wan-Ifra Digital Media Awards Africa 2025, the most from South Africa and also the most of all the entries (Image supplied)

SA leads Wan-Ifra Digital Media Awards Africa 2025 winners list

7 Apr 2025

Meta can be sued in Kenya over posts related to Ethiopia violence, court rules

Hereward Holland 7 Apr 2025