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#BizTrends2024: Nicola Cooper – The rise of African music and fashion globally continues
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#BizTrends2024: 2024 shopper marketing – how can we win?

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4 trends shaping the future of TV and entertainment

  31 Dec 2018

5 PR trends to look forward to in 2019
5 PR trends to look forward to in 2019

  31 Dec 2018

2019 Content trends
2019 Content trends

  13 Dec 2018

Publishers continue to hone their strategies around native advertising
Publishers continue to hone their strategies around native advertising

11 Dec 2018

Agency Scope UK 2018/2019: Early insights, possible trends
Agency Scope UK 2018/2019: Early insights, possible trends

10 Dec 2018

Unbox the festive season
Unbox the festive season

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BizTrendsLIVE! January 2019 speaker line up
BizTrendsLIVE! January 2019 speaker line up

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#ATFexpo2018: How to localise global trends for the SA consumer - Part 1
#ATFexpo2018: How to localise global trends for the SA consumer - Part 1

  4 Dec 2018

Pepe Marais, Jay Badza and Dion Chang. Image supplied.
Marketing the Future zooms in on digital disruption

3 Dec 2018

#MarketingFridays: Tapping into the African consumer
#MarketingFridays: Tapping into the African consumer

12 Oct 2018

Give your brand the space to grow on Bizcommunity
Give your brand the space to grow on Bizcommunity

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Cover image of Youth Report (2018). UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing & Instant Grass International.
#YouthReport2018: Who are those 'SA millennials' you're marketing to?

  6 Sep 2018

The Mann brothers - Mic, Shayne and Kevin.
How to leapfrog your industry's disruption and future-proof Africa

  4 Sep 2018

VR: From virtual to reality
VR: From virtual to reality

  17 Aug 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping, BRICS Summit, South Africa.
The next decade of BRICS

30 Jul 2018

#Apex2018: Are we human or are we brands?
#Apex2018: Are we human or are we brands?

  24 Jul 2018

How Africa can embrace an AI-enabled future
How Africa can embrace an AI-enabled future

  18 Jul 2018

'Africa Rising' is a global megatrend - Euromonitor
'Africa Rising' is a global megatrend - Euromonitor

  24 Apr 2018

The Soapbox Films team with Stein back-left.
VR and digital video storytelling as top marketing tools for 2018

  19 Apr 2018

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Why and how to add ephemeral content to your marketing strategy

  12 Apr 2018

#BizTrends2018: 18 trends for 2018
#BizTrends2018: 18 trends for 2018

  10 Apr 2018

Caroline Kende-Robb is chief advisor to Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, chair of the UK Education Commission.
These are the eight reasons why 2018 could be Africa's year

  27 Mar 2018

Consumer engagement today is shaped by technology
Consumer engagement today is shaped by technology

  15 Mar 2018

#BizTrends2018: Game-changing insights and trends
#BizTrends2018: Game-changing insights and trends

Ask Afrika  5 Feb 2018

Pete Case, chief creative officer, Ogilvy & Mather South Africa.
#BizTrends2018: The transformation of the advertising space

  5 Feb 2018

#BizTrends2018: How to manoeuvre through 2018 and come out the other side
#BizTrends2018: How to manoeuvre through 2018 and come out the other side

  5 Feb 2018

#BizTrends2018: It's not on top, it's inside
#BizTrends2018: It's not on top, it's inside

  2 Feb 2018

#BizTrends2018: Trends in ad ops and ad tech
#BizTrends2018: Trends in ad ops and ad tech

  2 Feb 2018

#BizTrends2018: Communication planning in a disruptive world
#BizTrends2018: Communication planning in a disruptive world

, Kantar  30 Jan 2018

#Newsmaker: F/NE CEO on partnering w/ GlobalHealthPR
#Newsmaker: F/NE CEO on partnering w/ GlobalHealthPR

  29 Jan 2018

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 13 Dec 2018

Publishers continue to hone their strategies around native advertising
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11 Dec 2018

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10 Dec 2018

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 7 Dec 2018

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 6 Dec 2018

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 4 Dec 2018

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 14 Sep 2018

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 6 Sep 2018

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30 Jul 2018

#Apex2018: Are we human or are we brands?
#Apex2018: Are we human or are we brands?

 24 Jul 2018

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 18 Jul 2018

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 24 Apr 2018

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 19 Apr 2018

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 12 Apr 2018

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#BizTrends2018: 18 trends for 2018

 10 Apr 2018

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 27 Mar 2018

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Consumer engagement today is shaped by technology

 15 Mar 2018

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#BizTrends2018: Game-changing insights and trends

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 5 Feb 2018

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 5 Feb 2018

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 2 Feb 2018

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#BizTrends2018: Communication planning in a disruptive world

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 29 Jan 2018

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 29 Jan 2018

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#BizTrends2018: Talking to Africa in 2018

 22 Jan 2018

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 22 Jan 2018

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 16 Jan 2018

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 15 Jan 2018

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 12 Jan 2018

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