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Why? Because we Cannes! Last week saw the annual celebration of creativity in communications, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, take place in Cannes, France. Congratulations to all the South African agencies and production companies who were shortlisted and of course those who walked away with Grand Prix, Gold, Silver or Bronze Lions to add to, or begin, their Cannes Lions collection. Your hard work has paid off! Check out our Cannes Lions special section to see all the winning work. Other top stories from the past week include Louise Marsland's latest internet trends; Juliette Attwell's BizCareers column on the power of your LinkedIn profile; and eNCA's Africa Editor, Chris Maroleng, who resigned. Cuan Chelin gives some advice on building brands in emerging markets and reckons that the emerging market consumer exhibits characteristics that differ to that of the further developed economies. Last but not least, if you missed last week's Biz Takeouts episode with Mike Saunders from Digitlab, listen to the podcast which is now available. Have a great week! Cheers! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
| The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity announced the final winners of the 2014 awards on Saturday, 21 June 2014. South African agencies Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg and Net#work BBDO each walked away with a Bronze Lion. (video) Read more >>
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Cuan Chelin The growth in emerging markets gives millions of consumers new spending power, opening them up to a flood of product choices and communication channels, further exaggerated by the potential of digital platforms. Read more >> | | Tiffany Markman Yup, that's right. You heard us*. PowerPoint - mostly - stinks. And it's time to take back your PowerPoint power, because Microsoft is trying to take it away from you. Read more >> |
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 | Hando Sinisalu, Best Marketing International South Africa's 'Street Store' entry brought home Gold for SA in this year's Cannes Lions. Read more >>
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 | Pan-African brand consultancy, Wunderbrand, has expanded its offerings by acquiring television and animation production studio Voltaire. Read more >>
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 | Created by artist Jepchumba of African Digital Art, the new Arterial Network African Creative Economy Conference (ACEC) website is designed to facilitate the browsing of Arterial Network's past conferences and makes accessible the presentations of each edition. Read more >>
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 | Government leaders, policy makers, and technology industry players gathered recently in Maputo, Mozambique to develop policy recommendations that will drive down the cost of internet access in Mozambique - the first SADC country to be working with the Alliance for Affordable Internet. Read more >>
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 | Issued by PriceCheck PriceCheck CEO, André de Wet, and MTN Group Chief Commercial Officer, Pieter Verkade, have jointly announced a second co-branded app deal, this time for Nigeria. Read more >>
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|  | WASHINGTON, USA: Two arch rival US newspapers, the Washington Post and New York Times, agreed to work together to find ways to improve interaction with readers online. Read more >>
|  | Henry Buell RIXEYVILLE, US: The direct sales industry has changed very little over the last few decades, incorporating new technologies as they have developed, rather than evolving their business practices to capitalise further on existing markets. Read more >>
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|  | Jan-Jan Joubert Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has published policy proposals requiring commercial farmers to hand over half their farms to farmworkers. Read more >>
|  | University attendance for black South Africans remains low, says Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). Read more >>
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