After a successful 2017 Tabbie Awards Result for Contact Media and Communications’ Afropolitan Magazine last year, the dynamic and custom publishing house is at it again, taking Gold in the Tabbie Awards Best Single Issue Category for their custom B2B title Acumen Magazine. The Trade Association of Business Publications International (TABPI) unveiled the 2018 Tabbie […]
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Driving the in-store brand experience
By Cecil Ungerer, Chief Sales Officer of in-store advertising innovators Smart Media In the highly competitive environment of in-store advertising, brands are contesting limited market share. Consumers have become more discerning of what they buy owning to the availability of product information online. It is therefore imperative to cut through the clutter and create a […]
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Global collaboration on Let me Live
South African photographer and director, Chris Saunders is the creative talent behind the superb intercontinental music video ‘Let Me Live’, a collaboration between Rudimental and Major Lazer launching globally this month. Saunders says: “This project was a six month developmental process because we wanted to do something really disruptive; really different. We shot about 30% […]
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Technology: the challenge for marketers
By Andrew MacKenzie, MD of Boomtown I recall watching a movie called Groundhog Day in which a man wakes up to the same sequence of events, day after day. With the rapid changes the world is facing because of technology, nothing could be further from the truth today. We will almost certainly wake up […]
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Advances in technology and computing power make it possible to fuse multiple research surveys. Essentially there is no more need for outdated brand diaries in 2018. “Picture this,” says Peter Langschmidt, consultant to the PRC (Publisher Research Council). “It’s 1975 and paper diary research is state-of-the-art when conducting FMCG brand research. It’s now 2018, with […]
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Active engagement via mobile-only tech disrupts insurance industry
Ryan Barlow, Chief Technology officer, e4 says that when it comes to the insurance sector, it is mobile-only as insurance brands grapple with disruption from lighter, more agile technology rich cloud insurance products: “It is no longer just mobile-first, thanks to the dominance of technologies such as AI, ML and IoT and start-up companies taking […]
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ProActive™ launches Route to Market offerings
Peter KohlÖffel, ProActive™: Head of Sales – Africa, unpacks extended ProActive™ services now available to brands and marketers wanting to engage their audience and increase sales. As a leading activations agency in Africa, with our recent expansion both in footprint and capacity, what we discovered is that it is often difficult for brands and products […]
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When it comes to marketing, you should try playing pinball
“Wherever I click, tune, drive or page, there’s an ad being rammed down my throat!” This was the view of a product manager at a recent client meeting I had and, in essence, I agree. There is a lot of noise in the market at the moment. With consumers being constantly bombarded, is it causing […]
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The Journey For Inner Peace Continues For Chicken Licken
The latest Chicken Licken®’s Rock My Soul 3 Straight™ film in partnership with agency Joe Public United is said to be such a satisfying offering, it promises to, once again, bring a true sense of ‘inner peace’ to whoever enjoys it. While, previous Chicken Licken campaigns focused on a journey toward inner peace, this time a new perspective was […]
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The Lewis Group appoints Jupiter CT to launch its new brand, INspire
The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town was appointed by The Lewis Group at the end of 2017 to launch its new direct-to-consumer homeware brand called INspire. The new brand launched on 1 June 2018, and will see many South Africans turn to catalogue shopping as well as online to decorate their homes. Jupiter CT’s Executive […]
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