Louise Hefer, Business Unit Manager at The MediaShop Do you know what I love most about South Africa other than our resilience? Our diversity. I love how we can have a conversation around bananas and hear five different ways of what to eat it with from five different people. I love how cultural traditions come […]
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Boomtown’s Bayeza internship programme listed as a finalist in the 2019 Future of HR awards
Boomtown’s innovative internship programme Bayeza, is a finalist in the 2019 Future of HR Awards in the Best Graduate Development Programme category. Hosted in partnership with Careers24, the Future of HR Awards celebrate industry leaders achieving exceptional standards in people management and showcase strategies that make a direct impact on business performance and reshape HR […]
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Farmer’s Weekly editor awarded international accolade
Denene Erasmus, editor of Caxton Magazines’ Farmer’s Weekly, has been awarded the inaugural IFAJ-Alltech International Award for Leadership in Agricultural Journalism at the Alltech Ideas Conference (ONE19) in Kentucky, USA. This accolade is a new award from the IFAJ (International Federation of Agricultural Journalists) that recognises excellence and leadership by young journalists. After a nomination […]
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#ROOTS2019 mapping the more economically active South Africa
Set in motion with in-field interviews in March 2018, South Africa’s largest quantitative community survey #ROOTS2019 is ready to be launched in June across South Africa. The all new ROOTS 2019 will unveil new and insightful stories coming out of local geographic areas. “The ROOTS survey has been conducted every three years since 2001 and […]
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Hive Digital Media announces management structure
Newly formed specialist digital media agency, Hive Digital Media, formerly the digital sales unit of SPARK Media, has announced the appointments of its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) Parmeshan Moodliar, Chief Operations Officer (COO) Kristin Louw and Group Programmatic and Data Manager Ashleigh Footit. “It gives me great pleasure to announce changes in the management structure […]
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Converse Brings The Female Narrative To The Fore
In 2018, Converse in partnership with brand and communication agency, Joe Public, launched their ‘All The Stories Are True’ campaign. A series of long-format 90” films featuring trailblazing Kwaito group, Trompies, and well-known South African personality, J’Something, who shared their real-life ‘Chuck’ stories – based on the brand’s most famous sneaker. In 2019 Converse then […]
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Spitfire Inbound Becomes A HubSpot Platinum Partner Agency
Spitfire Inbound, an inbound marketing, sales and services agency in Johannesburg, recently announced its HubSpot Platinum Partner status. HubSpot is a leading growth platform, and works hand-in-hand with agency partners to grow their businesses through inbound software, services and support. HubSpot awards Platinum status to agencies demonstrating inbound marketing,sales and services to the highest standards. […]
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Students get ‘Neon Runner’ game published on Google Play
Four second-year students from Vega (a brand of the Independent Institute of Education – The IIE) are well on their way to pursuing lucrative careers in the gaming world, after having their game, Neon Runner, successfully published on the Google Play store. Neon Runner is an endless runner game that becomes more challenging as it […]
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Boomtown to develop the IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship logos
IRONMAN, a Wanda Sports Holdings Company, have briefed Boomtown to develop the logos for the 2019 IRONMAN® World Championship held in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i on October 12 and the IRONMAN® 70.3® World Championship taking place in Nice, France on September 7 and 8. Following the collaborative work Boomtown participated in for the creative design of the […]
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Netwerk24, Ads24’s premium home for Afrikaans online journalism, proved itself a winning candidate in South Africa’s 2019 elections, by providing up-to-the-minute election results, analyses, commentary and video streaming of events as they unfolded over the week. Together with its sister site News24, the two digital stars reached stellar heights with an enormous spike in web […]
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