Hellocomputer Johannesburg Managing Director, Joey Khuvutlu, has issued a challenge to leaders of South Africa’s digital agencies: he wants them to join him in an initiative to fund 100 programming learnerships between September 2018 and August 2019. The learnership in question is a one-year computer programming learnership that prepares learner programmers for the creative industry […]
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Feminism, Mentors, Heroines and Women’s Month
by Hellocomputer Cape Town Managing Director, Robyn Campbell Did you know that there are more CEOs called ‘John’ on America’s Highest Paid 100 CEO list than there are women? And locally, there are more people called ‘Stephen’ than there are women on the country’s Top 50 Richest CEOs list? In fact, there is only one […]
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Data Protection in South Africa – sleep s little easier
Many facets of the digital ecosystem are complex and fragmented but, as the opaque and largely unverified world of data collection comes under scrutiny and the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force in Europe, ignoring a data’s source is no longer an option. This is a new era of transparency, verification and […]
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Recent appointments announced by Hellocomputer have again put the spotlight on the FCB Africa group agencies’ commitment to transformation and empowerment. Hellocomputer Joburg Managing Director, Joey Khuvutlu, announced that four senior management positions have been filled by talented women, two from within the digital agency. Bongi Mvuyana joins Hellocomputer Joburg as Head of Strategy from […]
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In a move that will strengthen the integrated offering from FCB Africa’s agencies in the Western Cape, Hellocomputer has appointed a new Chief Creative Officer and Associate Creative Director. Mike Barnwell, currently Executive Creative Director at FCB Cape Town becomes Chief Creative Officer for both FCB Cape Town and Hellocomputer while new arrival, Nthabiseng Lethoko, […]
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by Hellocomputer’s Cape Town Managing Director, Robyn Campbell. Just this week Google made headlines when an internal memo distributed by one of its engineers went public. His opinion on gender equality included this landmine: “Distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may […]
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Hellocomputer has appointed Marthinus van Loggerenberg as a senior digital strategist in its Cape Town agency. Here his main responsibility will be to combine the best audience insights, data, research, technology and distribution capabilities to connect Hellocomputer’s client brands to their audiences. Or, as he says, ‘solve problems that create narratives for brand stories across […]
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