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HERMAN WASSERMAN & DANI MADRI-MORALES
African audiences have low levels of trust in the media, experience a high degree of exposure to misinformation, and contribute - often knowingly - to its spread... read
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AFRICA
LOUISE MARSLAND
The Africa Video Forum at #AfricaCom 2018, this year grappled with funding models for original content on the continent and the disruption that mobile brings...read
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AFRICA
A new book by McKinsey confirms that Africa is poised for economic acceleration, akin to the Asian boom...read
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AFRICA
The 2018 African Digital Media Awards finalists have been announced by WAN-IFRA ahead of the award ceremony on 23 November...read
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WEST AFRICA
The need for HD is rising in Sub-Saharan Africa with a growing demand for HD content specifically in Pay-TV... Read
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AFRICA
DISCOP Johannesburg played host to 487 independent film, television, digital and animated content producers from 35 Sub-Saharan African countries... Read
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NIGERIA
JCDecaux enters the Nigerian OOH market in partnership with local investment firm Grace Lake Partners... Read
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AFRICA
The Climate Reality Project's eighth annual 24 Hours of Reality broadcast will showcase South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa... Read
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TANZANIA
One year after disappearance, CPJ calls for credible investigation into Tanzanian journalist Azory Gwanda's fate... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JEDD COKAYNE
As consumers start to think about their Christmas purchases and where they're going to find the additional money to buy those presents the kids wrote to Father Christmas about, retailers start to realise that this is their last ditch effort to make target for the year. That is surely a daunting task in the current economy - stuff nightmares are made of... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Packaging that lasts as long as it's needed, not longer... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NEIL PURSEY
While brands have come under increasing scrutiny for funding fake news sites, however inadvertently, it's not the only online reputational risk they face... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY KANTAR TNS
Sir David Attenborough, one of the world's most famous naturalists, will bring the voice of millions of citizens to the UN Climate Change Conference later this year as part of a new UN campaign, the People's Seat... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JACQUES DU BRUYN
Communication is a fundamental pillar for the success of any business. Getting it wrong may set you up for failure from the very beginning... Read
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NIGERIA
ISSUED BY PROVANTAGE MEDIA GROUP
Global Out of Home Media (Global), one of the largest African out-of-home media owners, recently undertook a major refurbishment exercise of its holding in Abuja... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA TENNANT
Uri Levine, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Waze, spoke about disrupting inefficient markets and improving under-functioning services by focusing on solving big problems, at a breakfast event hosted by BusinessLive... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
AIMEÉ SERRÃO
The saying 'content is king' could not be truer, especially in the marketing industry. With a highly competitive market, creating interesting, effective and high-quality content is imperative... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The holiday season starts earlier every year, as three major shopping holidays originating in the US and China, namely Black Friday, Singles' Day and Cyber Monday, are extending to the rest of the world... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SUE CHARLTON APR
Public relations (PR) gets a bad rap and that's probably because so many people don't understand the concept at all... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Digital transformation and the Internet of Things (IoT) are widely discussed topics in business today. That said, many organisations are still slow in getting their transformation initiatives underway... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ZUBEIDA GOOLAM
We've seen a dramatic shift in power, with social media sometimes rendering other marketing platforms irrelevant... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
There is no doubt that the Internet of Things (IoT) can solve everyday challenges using technology... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Born between the early 1980s and 2000s, millennials are becoming a larger and more important part of South Africa's population... Read
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KENYA
Pan-African Payments company, Celulant, has built the first augmented reality powered try-on experiences in Facebook Messenger... Read
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GHANA
Multichoice will be airing the All Africa Music Awards live on DStv and GOtv on 21-24 November... Read
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ZIMBABWE
'Building a new Zimbabwe' is a flagship report launched by the African Development Bank to spark the country's economic development... Read
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AFRICA
MTV Base announced as Video Entertainment Brand Of The Year, wins five golds at PromaxBDA Africa Awards... Read
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DR CONGO
The Democratic Republic of Congo-based Baziks will roll out a crowdfunding campaign by the end of this year as it bids to develop its offering and introduce paid services. Read
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KENYA
Kwesé iflix announced a slate of original programming marking its first foray into original content in a region with a large youth population and fast-growing internet and smartphone penetration... Read
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AFRICA
Zimbabwean-born media professional, Miriro Matema, appointed managing editor at Pan African and South Africa-based Nomad Africa magazine... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The winners of the fifth All Africa Music Awards (Afrima) were recently announced in Accra, Ghana. The annual music event celebrates and rewards African talents who have done exceedingly well in the year... Read
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NIGERIA
India's Zee collaborates with Nigerian agency MACE and two Ghanaian channels for a local version of a major drama... Read
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NORTH AMERICA
SMITH WILLAS
One of the hottest buzzwords in the business world, "entrepreneurship" is growing more than ever before... Read
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NORTH AMERICA
Marketing technology spending, customer experience, innovation and personalisation mark key trends in marketing leaders' budget and attention... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Alcoholic beverages giant Diageo is selling 19 of its non-priority brands, positioned in the lower-end segment of the US drinks market, to US firm Sazerac for $550m... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially signed the new - and up till now, much-criticised - National Minimum Wage Bill into law... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Black Friday and Cyber Monday induce a fever-pitched spending frenzy across shopping centres and online platforms countrywide. On these two days, the average spend... Read
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KENYA
WANDILE SIHLOBO
Celebrations were in order when Kenya recovered from the 2017 drought, when food price inflation was at double digits, causing political tension during the general election, however... Read
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NIGERIA
The Broll Property Intel Nigeria Snapshot Q3:2018 has been released, providing an overview of the country's current economic standing and the state of its retail, office and industrial markets... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
To stay ahead in a competitive landscape, organisations are increasingly focused on investment into new technologies, emerging markets and business models... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
THOMAS VOLLRATH
According to the annual Sanlam Benchmark Survey, 51% of South Africans cannot make ends meet after retirement... Read
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GHANA
Protea Hotels by Marriott has announced its second hotel signing in Ghana - the Protea Hotel by Marriott Accra, Kotoka Airport... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The finance required to close electricity gaps remain dramatically short of what is needed to meet global energy goals by 2030... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MICHEL PIMBERT AND COLIN ANDERSON
Most concede that there is an urgent need to radically transform our food systems. But the proposed innovations for more sustainable food systems are drastically different... Read
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AFRICA
Graça Machel has called on African women and policymakers to challenge gender inequality and inadequate female representation in the continent's business and economic, political and policy space... Read
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AFRICA
Renewable energy alone is not the solution to Africa's energy woes... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
"Systems thinking" can help deliver a framework to simulate solutions to pressing food concerns, like the presence of aflatoxins in groundnuts in Africa... Read
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AFRICA
MOOYOUNG HAN AND SHERVIN HASHEMI
About 23% of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa don't have access to toilets while 31% with toilets use one's that aren't connected to a formal sanitation system... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JAKE BICKNELL, ELEANOR SLADE AND MATTHEW STRUEBIG
Palm oil can be found in food and cosmetics everywhere: in fact, half of the world's population uses palm oil in food... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The champions of the South African economy were named at the 16th annual National Business Awards gala ceremony in Johannesburg late last week... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SIMON MCCULLOUGH
While the internet isn't technically centralised, it is monolithic and monopolised in practice... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Futureproof, sustainable and innovative - these are the terms that must define communication investment across the African continent... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As the buzz of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution gets louder, just what does it mean for your network? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JAY SANJAYAN
Construction is one of the largest industries in the world economy - worth A$10tn globally... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JOE PINDAR
When it was launched at Halloween in 2008, Bitcoin was practically worthless and all but invisible except to a select group of insiders... Read
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