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JOHANNA MCDOWELL
Johanna McDowell shares key learnings from the AdForum Worldwide Summit in Los Angeles, where she and other top players in the advertising industry visited various agencies and experienced how they are shaping the future... read
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AFRICA
Public voting is now open until April 28 for the 30 African creatives selected to compete at the Digital Lab Africa (DLA) Online Pitch Competition...read
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AFRICA
BCW Africa named African Network of the Year by the PRISM Awards for the fourth consecutive year and chairman and CEO, Robyn de Villiers, wins Lifetime Achievement Award...read
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AFRICA
Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge expands to Africa...read
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KENYA
MEST Africa and Microsoft announce 2019 Pan-African tech summit in Nairobi... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA TENNANT
Eyewitness News recently won a Bookmarks' Gold for its Poisonous Bullets: The Silent Betrayal of Sindiso Magaqa three-part podcast series... Read
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BENIN
The Republic of Benin and SES signed a new agreement, which will be providing 16 new FTA channels to viewers... Read
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GHANA
e.TV Ghana is bringing an array of exciting new shows this April... Read
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ZAMBIA
Netflix has inked a deal to team up with South Africa's Triggerfish Animation Studios and UK distributor CAKE on an African animated action-comedy series... Read
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NIGERIA
Unidentified men arrested Jones Abiri, the editor and publisher of the Weekly Source newspaper, in the Bayelsa state capital, Yenagoa... Read
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AFRICA
Discovery brings 'Real Time' and 'Discovery Family' to StarTimes subscribers across Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KONANANI LIPHADZI
Doing more with less is a theme that's found its way into the narratives of all our economic sectors, in one way or another. The agricultural sector - and the fruit industry - has certainly not been spared, especially when it comes to the dwindling natural resource of water... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Vodacom on Tuesday, 9 April, announced that it will no longer be issuing plastic bags to customers at its stores, replacing them with brown paper bags... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GENEVIEVE CONSIDINE
Outdoor ads are booming in the smartphone age - and for some brands, these ads are even generating engagement on social media. Why is outdoor advertising still making such a large impact in the digital age?... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LIAM FREEMAN
Naomi Campbell wants to see better representation among designers and more African-based designers reaching the international fashion arena... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
Boo-Yah! founder Carmen Murray walked away with the award for the 'Best Individual Contribution to Digital' at this year's Bookmarks and explains why she believes that the importance of digital is to be of service to humans first... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The new Edgars Beauty store format, the transition to which began last year July, has officially launched to the public... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LYNN ERASMUS
For companies that believe that the way they do business will remain unchanged by the power and influence of online activists should take heed from the lessons that some of South Africa's biggest brands have learnt over the past year... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ELIZMA NOLTE
When it comes to mobile video advertising, most marketers would intuitively think that what matters most is how long a viewer engages with the content. But new research shows that there is no correlation between total average view time and aided brand awareness... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
The striking textile and knitwear designs conceived by South African golden boy Laduma Ngxokolo are not simply stylish collectables, they're vehicles of cultural preservation... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EBEN ESTERHUIZEN
As Easter looms businesses are looking for powerful ways to promote their goods and activate more sales. This should include beefing up customer relationship management (CMR) systems to streamline communication with potential clients and encourage more sales. Here are six steps to sprucing up your CRM and captivating customers at every touch point along the way... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Over 100,000 visitors were treated to an outstanding display of South African design at the recent Milan Design Week, held from 9-14 April 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GERHARD HOPE
"Before you think the press release is dead, the truth is that because of the ever-growing information bubble and news jumping at you like 'pop-up' ads, there is a need for brands to create their own narrative like never before."... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
H&M has announced its first African collaboration with South African designer Palesa Mokubung and her fashion label, Mantsho. The collection will be made available from 15 August this year... Read
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COTE D'IVOIRE
As Easter approaches, all over the world orders ramp up for chocolate bunnies and Easter eggs. But, have you ever thought about where chocolate comes from and its environmental impact? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
WAYNE FLEMMING AND ZUBEIDA GOOLAM
Founders of Brandtruth//DGTL Integrated Content Practice, Wayne Flemming and Zubeida Goolam discusses five key learnings from the SXSW talks they attended, from A$AP Rocky and Trevor Noah to Brené Brown and Gwyneth Paltrow... Read
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NIGERIA
Nigeria's Arcadia Premium Television will make its debut on StarTimes channel 176... Read
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ZAMBIA
ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA OUTDOOR
Primedia Outdoor continues to push boundaries in sub-Saharan Africa after recently joining forces with soft drink giant, Coca-Cola... Read
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NIGERIA
BBC and Channels Television launch new current affairs programme called 'Gist Nigeria' on Channels TV in Nigeria... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Global spending by retailers on artificial intelligence (AI) services will reach $12 billion by 2023, up from an estimated $3.6 billion in 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Campbell Soup Company will sell Bolthouse Farms to an affiliate of private equity firm Butterfly Equity, for $510 million... Read
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GLOBAL
The recently concluded 10th World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum emphasised the importance of the WSIS Action Lines as a key United Nations framework for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Euromonitor International's new report looks at how building an effective pricing strategy is critical to the successful sales and marketing of any product... Read
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AFRICA
Knight Frank has published its new Africa Horizons report highlighting that office yields remained largely stable in most African markets over the past two years, anchored by patient domestic capital... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As the backbone of developing economies, agriculture not only serves to feed a nation but creates employment and, often, contributes significantly to the GDP... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CHRIS SWEENEY
Some of the most important medications doctors have at their disposal have been rendered ineffective by parasites, viruses, and bacteria that have evolved resistance against them, and the problem is poised to get worse.... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MARIA SOTENKO
Solving environmental problems usually just means cleaning up the mess people have made. But scientists are increasingly interested in creating something valuable from pollution... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Sun Exchange has announced plans to solar power several Western Cape schools via its global funding platform... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Western Cape Government launched the Cradle of Human Culture - archaeological and paleontological heritage routes with three anchor sites in the Western Cape - alongside the World Travel Market Africa 2019 conference in Cape Town... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JENNY MCARTHUR AND TIM MOONEN
Every year, the world's most "liveable" cities are celebrated, in city rankings published by Mercer, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and Monocle Magazine... Read
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AFRICA
The World Bank has launched its Africa Human Capital Plan, a new plan to help African countries strengthen their human capital by enabling the continent's young people to grow up with optimal health and equipped with the right skills to compete in the digitising global economy... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
With new connection, continent-building deals and a sense of excitement about where African travel and tourism is headed, the final day of World Travel Market Africa 2019 ended its three days of travel trade on a high note... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Government is set to launch the Affiliate Centre which will ensure South African industries move at an enhanced speed towards the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
In the four years since the decolonisation debate took centre stage at South African universities, much of the focus has been on what decolonisation might look like in the humanities... Read
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NIGERIA
Botswana's Botho University has launched distance learning programmes in Nigeria, following on the success of its four campuses in three SADC region countries... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JULIA DEHM
Australian companies dominate African mining. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade counts 175 ASX-listed companies operating in 35 African countries... Read
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AFRICA
SERGE MANDIEFE PIABUO, DIVINE FOUNDJEM TITA AND PETER A MINANG
Forest communities have seen little or no change in improving livelihoods and stopping deforestation... Read
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MAURITIUS
MICHAEL DENENGA & NICOLE PAIGE
Not just the ultimate holiday stop, Mauritius is also a preferred jurisdiction for fund managers looking to establish African-focused funds... Read
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BOTSWANA
The biggest blue diamond discovery ever made in Botswana has been unveiled to the world by Okavango Diamond Company (ODC)... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DR MISHECK MUTIZE
The rising gap between developmental needs and available financial resources - including poor revenue collection - has pushed sub-Saharan African governments to consider different options to support their budgets... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The 2019 Trialogue Business in Society Conference took place last week, with the UN Sustainable Development Goals a key topic... Read
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