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It’s D-day for the Assegai Awards 2025 – entries close at midnight!

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Source: © 123rf MRF has released the 19th edition Marketing All Product Survey with two significant updates

2 updates in released Maps survey

#HeritageMonth: Castle Milk Stout revitalises SA heritage with Songs to Savour

#HeritageMonth: Castle Milk Stout revitalises SA heritage with Songs to Savour

SA e-commerce market to surpass R130bn in 2025

SA e-commerce market to surpass R130bn in 2025

Absa won the Grand Prix Award. Source: YouTube.

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Source: © VML Parusha Partab, chief strategy officer, VML South Africa says leading with empathy – not noise – is how brands can get the balance right between grounded messaging and standout creativity

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Source: © 123rf Customer expectations are rising fast. They expect real-time answers on the channels they already use every day. In South Africa, that channel is WhatsApp

How and why WhatsApp is SA's biggest CX opportunity

FNB eBucks dominates South African Loyalty Awards 2025

FNB eBucks dominates South African Loyalty Awards 2025

Her Collective, a platform to inspire and elevate women in South Africa’s media and advertising sector, launched recently in Bryanston. At the event were (left to right:) Kirsten Dugmore - Independent: Kirelley, Celia Collins, Lerina Bierman - Dentsu, and Michelle Sharnock - Heed (Image supplied)

Her Collective: “When women get together with collective intention, magic happens"

Netflix opens ad inventory to Amazon DSP

Netflix opens ad inventory to Amazon DSP

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Meet the 2025 Prism Young Voices cohort

Meet the 2025 Prism Young Voices cohort

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Nike challenges Gen Z with reimagined Just Do It mantra

SA-born Pura Beverages secures major global investment

SA-born Pura Beverages secures major global investment

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#HeritageMonth | Vicks and artist Zee Feels wrap South Africa in relief

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It’s D-day for the Assegai Awards 2025 – entries close at midnight!

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Source: © 123rf The Broadcast Research Council of South Africa has appointed GfK (an NIQ company) to design and deploy the country’s new total video measurement service

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#HeritageMonth: Castle Milk Stout revitalises SA heritage with Songs to Savour

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Source: © 123rf Dustin Chick, chief executive at Razor Public Relations South Africa says clickbait should be keeping those of us responsible for managing organisational reputation wide awake at night. More importantly, we should be doing something about it – now

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Absa won the Grand Prix Award. Source: YouTube.

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Source: © VML Parusha Partab, chief strategy officer, VML South Africa says leading with empathy – not noise – is how brands can get the balance right between grounded messaging and standout creativity

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Source: © 123rf A new CMO Council thought leadership programme with Zeta Global, engages senior marketers in a benchmarking process to determine their company’s level of digital marketing maturity, organisational capacity and performance predictability

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Source: © Gerety Awards VML is the Gerety Awards Global Network of the Year. Pictured: VML's Thanks for Coke-Creating campaign from Coca-Cola that won gold at the Awards.

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Source: © 123rf Mariangela Caineri Zenati, marketing manager at social media management platform Loomly examines the implications of the controversial social media ban for teenagers in Australia

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Source: © 123rf Customer expectations are rising fast. They expect real-time answers on the channels they already use every day. In South Africa, that channel is WhatsApp

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