Boomtown’s design interns for 2021 – members of its highly-successful BAYEZA Graduate Programme – have designed the new corporate identity for the Ubomi Foundation, an Eastern Cape NGO. Explaining the new design, the agency’s design group head, Jesse Sharkie, who worked alongside interns Afra Chinamasa, Tameron Karelse and Temba Mkosi, said that the fact that […]
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The Infinite Dial® 2022 South Africa to be presented on 24 February!
The Infinite Dial® 2022 South Africa, the leading study on digital audio from Edison Research, will be released and presented by Larry Rosin, President of Edison Research, in a webinar on Thursday, February 24 at 14:00. This second iteration, of what has become a global benchmark to compare digital media consumption trends, is once again […]
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It’s Random Acts of Kindness Week, and The Good Things Guy is named one of the world’s top 100 innovation success stories
This week, the 13th – 19th February is Random Acts of Kindness Week and international platform Innovations of the World.com has highlighted South Africa’s Good Things Guy, Brent Lindeque as one of the world’s top 100 innovation success stories and a shining example of the Random Acts of Kindness movement. The Good Things Guy will […]
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Hold off on the spring clean, there’s a new Boom coming!
While 2021 was a challenging year for most in the marketing services industries, some – like Boomtown – marked it down as a year of exceptional achievement, notching up milestones with respect to creative work as well as skills and process innovations. According to the agency’s CEO, Glen Meier, its progress on so many levels […]
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The Broadcast Research Council of South Africa (BRC) has announced that The Infinite Dial® South Africa, the leading study on digital audio from Edison Research, will be released in the coming weeks. This second iteration of what has become a global benchmark to compare digital media consumption trends is once again sponsored by Triton Digital®, […]
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RAPT Creative appoints Group Executive Creative Director
Anticipating an exceptionally busy year with its strong portfolio of brands, as well as embracing a more aggressive new business strategy this year than last, RAPT Creative has appointed Sanché van Rensburg as Group Executive Creative Director. Van Rensburg, who leaves Avatar where, as Executive Creative Director, she directed all creative and digital operations across […]
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Good Things Guy launches cancer fundraiser with new look
South Africa’s Good Things Guy Brent Lindeque has undergone a massive transformation in aid of Cancervive, shearing 40 centimetres of his trademark curly locks for a sleeker, shorter look. “Along with the hair donation for Cancervive, and because it’s my birthday month I really want to extend the kindness movement,” says Brent Lindeque. “I’ve done […]
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The MediaShop shares predictions for 2022
The latest South African economic outlook set for 2022 ranks a few key influencing factors for the year including loadshedding, municipal coalitions, lockdown restrictions and on-going vaccination impetus from government and private organisations who are stating for mandatory vaccinated employee policies. The hybrid working model of online and bricks and mortar seems to be settling into […]
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Google TV now even more accessible to South Africans
South Africans love their TV’s and home entertainment systems. In fact, according to Nielsen the average citizen is watching 165 minutes a day on top of working from home, home schooling and other adulting duties and that’s discounting the amount of time spent on mobile devices. With close on three hours of viewing time each […]
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South African Marketing Industry Alliance launches Results of the WFA Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Census
Results from the first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) census of the global marketing industry have identified key challenges around family status, age, and gender as well as ethnicity and disability. There are clear gaps in lived experience when these groups were compared to the industry average, both in individual markets and globally. For example, […]
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