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Pete Case The reality of effectively marketing through the line, has for many years been an incredibly complex discussion. Our industry is constantly adapting to the changing needs of the consumer landscape and there are huge pressures that everyone is feeling on both agency and client side to deliver...read |
| | | In Africa and the Middle East, the value of mergers and acquisitions transactions is expected to rise to $6.4 billion in 2018 and will continue to rise in 2019, to $6.6 billion...read |
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 | Natasha Fourie Local industry research has been turned on its head leaving many agencies and clients really scrambling to build benchmarks for success and establishing a new normal... read |
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 | By invitation from the Tanzania Tourist Board, Radio2000 will tour the country from 4-11 February 2018 to create content around the annual Sauti Za Busara Music Festival and tourism in Tanzania... read |
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 | Mall for Africa, an e-commerce and m-commerce platform present in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda, has expanded to 11 new countries in Africa... read |
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 | The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Kenyan government to obey a court order suspending a broadcasting ban on four privately owned television stations... read |
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 | eNitiate partners with Social Media Week Lagos - the only African city to host the event... read |
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 | Africanews has partnered with the L'Obs television network to strengthen its position in Senegal... read |
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 | Issued By Kantar Millward Brown New research from Kantar Millward Brown's annual AdReaction study shares five principles to help brands create successful integrated and customised campaigns that will avoid the pitfalls of fragmentation and maximise media synergies across channels... read |
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 | Gillian Rightford The truth is that almost everything has changed in the world of marketing communication - and those that own the data,
have the power... read |
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 | Pilira Mwambala Ad operations professionals are now under immense pressure to upskill and provide data driven insights... read |
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 | Thabiso Dlamini Thabiso Dlamini explores several reasons why marketers need to focus on developing their relationship with traditional media now more than ever... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant In the 1970s, people were served about 300 ads a day. Today it's about 5,000 ads a day. It's a product-polluted world with smart consumers, where it's no longer about differentiation, but about multiple and meaningful connections, says Carmen Murray, founder of Boo-Yah!... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Kenyan ride-hailing startup Mondo Ride has secured $2m in funding from investors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt to help it expand across the continent... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Last week, Disrupt Africa kicked off a new series, in which we have spoken to the great and the good from various African tech scenes to find out what it is that makes them tick... read |
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 | Alan Knott-Craig What is the one thing your kids can't live without? It's not water. It's not electricity. It's not school. It's the internet... read |
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 | Lynette Hundermark Eight years after the global "app-splosion", even in a country like South Africa where smartphone adoption took a little longer than the rest of the world to catch up, "app-overload" aka "app-fatigue" is now a thing... read |
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 | JCDecaux Sub-Saharan Africa, has announced three key appointments to their traditional and digital outdoor advertising team in Africa, as their network on the continent expands... read |
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 | Deutsche Welle has launched DW Freedom, a project to encourage and protect freedom of speech and media freedoms around the world... read |
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 | Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the harassment and detention of Willy Akonda, the Committee to Protect Journalists said... read |
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 | This February, the Institute for Creative Arts' (ICA) returns to the City of Cape Town with the launch of the inaugural Live Art Network Africa (Lana), which provides the continent with access to theorise live art from 17-20 February 2018. read |
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 | UJ's Africa Evidence Network is launching the first annual Africa Evidence Leadership Award, to recognise and honour people who have raised the awareness of evidence-informed decision-making in Africa... read |
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 | The actions of the United Nations on the continent of Africa was the subject of an exclusive television interview with Africanews this week... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This year, we'll see the 10th ever IAB Bookmark Awards taking place after the fourth Digital Summit on 1 March in Johannesburg. With award judging underway, I got some behind-the-scenes insights with Jade Amic. She's Native VML's creative group head and chair of the Bookmarks' 'innovative engineers' jury panel... read |
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 | Amanda Ramcharan Cassava is vulnerable to viruses and other plant diseases. A lack of infrastructure and engagement by trained plant disease experts with farmers means the farmers are not trained to recognise them in their early stages. That's why we set out to create a disease-recognition app... read |
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 | Authorities in Kenya should immediately allow four privately owned television stations to resume broadcasting after they were shut down by government... read |
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 | A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence expo, AI Expo Africa, will take place in Cape Town from 9-11 September 2018... read |
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 | A notorious Ugandan tabloid made its much anticipated return to news stands Monday after a two-month shutdown prompted by a story that Kampala was allegedly plotting to topple President Paul Kagame of neighbouring Rwanda... read |
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 | Gisela Seeley Those in leadership positions within the media industry face a daunting task. Technology has completely reshaped business and it's not done yet... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg If you're searching for proof that retail as we know it is changing, look no further than Shanghai's 24-hour, unstaffed, self-driving grocery store... read |
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 | Bronwyn Williams Perhaps as a reaction to the disillusionment of adulthood, the millennial generation is looking back to the comforts of childhood brands and media as a balm for their collective pre-mid-life-crisis... read |
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 | A nationwide innovation competition, Solve IT!, has been launched by the US Embassy in Addis Ababa to promote STEM, entrepreneurship, and encourage a new generation of young Ethiopians to solve problems in their communities using technology... read |
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 | Key decision makers from MTN, Vodacom, Econet Wireless, Safaricom, Millicom, Convergence Partners, Standard Bank, MainOne and Rand Merchant Bank are among the first speakers announced for TMT Finance Africa which is taking place on 15 March 2018 in Cape Town... read |
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 | In a statement by the African Editors' Forum on media freedom in Kenya, the recent actions by the government to curb media freedoms has been strongly condemned... read |
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 | Turner has appointed new leadership for Africa and French-speaking territories... read |
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 | Issued By Ask Afrika Trust is important in an era where loyalty levels are diminishing globally and consumers no-longer want to be put in boxes, treated generically or given false promises... read |
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 | NEW YORK, US - US television network CBS announced on Thursday it will explore a possible merger with Viacom amid accelerating consolidation in the media industry... read |
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 | WASHINGTON, US - Facebook says it is banning all ads related to cryptocurrencies in an effort to fight scams... read |
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 | Registration for the Lisbon International Advertising Festival has officially opened and the new jury president of the executive jury panel is announced... read |
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 | LONDON, UK - Sky, the pan-European TV giant, announced Thursday a 40-percent increase in first-half net profit on higher revenues, while awaiting a takeover by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox... read |
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 | The long-awaited Free Trade Area (FTA) that aims to increase intra-regional trade within the continent, will be launched in March this year in Kigali... read |
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 | Radisson Blu, the iconic hotel brand driven by innovation and design, is proud to announce the opening of its third hotel in Nigeria read |
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 | Victor Kiprop East African countries are leading in implementing Africa's agricultural transformation policies. According to a report on the Malabo declaration, Southern Africa comes second... read |
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 | Andrew Slaughter and Sukhmani Mantel Rainfall in South Africa is naturally highly variable with total amount of precipitation very different between years and across the country... read |
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 | Hilton has made its debut in Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) with the opening a new resort on the Island of Sal... read |
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 | The prize celebrates Africans who are taking control of Africa's agriculture agenda. It puts a bright spotlight on bold initiatives and innovations that can be replicated across the continent to create a new era of food security and economic opportunity for all Africans... read |
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 | Pastoralists in arid and semi-arid areas in Kenya will now be able to use their mobile phones to find pasture and water for their livestock following the launch of a new mobile app... read |
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 | For a second consecutive month, motorists can expect further relief at the pumps with the price of all grades of petrol and diesel expected to drop when the minister of energy announces the final petrol price changes on 7 February 2018... read |
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 | Allan Seccombe Harmony Gold received overwhelming support for its $300m purchase of the Moab Khotsong gold mine and tailings project from AngloGold Ashanti... read |
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 | It is not sufficient for the pharmaceutical industry to say that the increase of 1,26% on single-exit price (SEP) is unfair and not related to market forces... read |
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 | Theto Mahlakoana The Department of Labour has conceded that it erred when it changed the wording of the definition of "worker" in the National Minimum Wage Bill... read |
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 | The Hawks in Newcastle have arrested two suspects in Vryheid for rental fraud and illegal land sales amounting to about R4 million... read |
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 | Hanna Ziady Viceroy Research's report contains a number of explosive allegations against Capitec, including that its bad debts are massively understated and it should be placed into curatorship... read |
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 | Xoliswa Hlongwane is about to take over as uShaka Marine World's chief financial officer (CFO). She shares her insights on working in the public sector... read |
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 | The nine members of a syndicate suspected of operating a large-scale value-added tax (VAT) fraud scam amounting to more than R90m are expected to appear in court this morning... read |
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 | Lee Mwiti According to the latest pan-African agreement, eligible airlines will now be able to transact their business in the region unfettered... read |
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 | Bluewater, a global water technology company based in Sweden, has partnered with I-Drop Water - a South African water solutions provider - to provide better access to clean drinking water and reduce single-use plastic bottle use... read |
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 | To fill To spur tourism growth and development, Ethiopia must improve the hotel industry and the infrastructure that supports it. It will take the cooperation of all stakeholders to achieve a competitive and sustainable sector... read |
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 | Tim Chesire As the United Kingdom and the European Union finalise on the withdrawal of the former from the bloc, where will the UK turn to replace the market it will lose from the Eurozone? read |
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 | The global unemployment rate is expected to tick down in 2018, the United Nations said Monday, 22 January, while warning that far too many workers still live in desperate poverty... read |
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 | René Garello The French National Centre for Space Research recently presented two projects for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 and methane) using satellite sensors... read |
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 | Seychelles' national carrier has announced the cancellation of two international flights in April, including its Paris flight, which accounts for 30% of the airline's passenger revenue... read |
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 | Safina Buhari Drip irrigation increases oxygen level at the root zone by more than 100 times aiding plants in absorbing nutrients and water. The crop to be grown is the first thing to consider when going into drip irrigation... read |
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 | Chinedu Eze Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) have kicked against the plan to deregulate the African airspace as an endorsement of Yamoussoukro Decision, which was agreed on by African states in Yamoussoukro, Cote'Ivoire in 1988... read |
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 | Smart food crops, so named because they are good for consumers, good for farmers and good for the planet, are at the heart of many strategies worldwide aimed at beating malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies... read |
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 | The Next Einstein Forum has launched a survey that hopes to measure the existing gender gap in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) education and research in Africa... read |
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 | Blessed with natural beauty, cultural attractions and sophisticated facilities, Cape Town has proven itself as a host of world-class events that draw in audiences and participants from across the world... read |
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 | Thin Lei Win "There are roughly 35 million hectares of maize planted per year in Africa and if (the worm is) not in all those maize fields now, it will be very soon..." read |
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Jackie Robinson "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." Antoine de Saint-Exupery "What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." H. L. Mencken "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." |
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Journos' writers gymIAJ - Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - 19 Jun 2018 to 21 Jun 2018, Johannesburg |
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