Facebook Marketing Partners has identified Bionic, powered in sub-Sahara by Primedia Unlimited, as its 2017 Innovation Spotlight Award winner in the Omnichannel: Online and Offline Sales category. The awards call for the year’s most exciting new technologies built on Facebook’s Application Programming Interface (API) to solve marketing challenges. “Bionic is a platform designed to manage and […]
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Brand Union develops Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra’s new brand identity
By Mathew Weiss: Managing Director of Brand Union Africa As I sat there enjoying Olga Kern’s virtuoso rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, I felt immensely proud to have contributed, in a small way, to the relaunch of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO). Brand Union, the company I lead, had developed the new brand identity. The […]
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San Francisco-based Brightplan has appointed leading South African digital creative consultancy Platinum Seed as its digital partner, preferring the local agency over others. The partnership will kick off with Platinum designing and developing the user-experience and user interface for BrightPlan’s launch website. They will also be responsible for developing a go-to-market strategy for the product, […]
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By: Keshia Patchiappen, Condriac CEO In a highly transformative and evolving industry, the South African advertising landscape is not as representative as one would expect from such a progressive and diverse nation. Digital marketing in South Africa is still demonstrating an imbalanced gender dynamic. In an industry where 45% of the workplace is female, a […]
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‘See the animal behind the commodity’ is the inspiration behind a new print campaign conceptualised by Artifact Advertising for their client, the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), whose current focus is on the growing illegal trade in wildlife. EWT Communication and Brand Manager Belinda Glenn says the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products is thought […]
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The ‘More Music You Love’ campaign was not only a winner amongst the Jacaranda FM listeners, it also earned its well-deserved place at the prestigious Loerie Awards that took place last weekend at the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC). This Jacaranda FM campaign, executed by Halo advertising, won Silver in the Outdoor Media category, adding […]
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This past weekend saw students from Vega, a brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE), take home eight Loeries at the 39th Annual Loerie Awards which took place on 19 August 2017 at the Durban ICC. Both gold awards for integrated campaign work were awarded to Vega students, which is the school’s strategic […]
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Now in its 29th year, the Entrepreneur of the Year® competition sponsored by Sanlam and Business/Partners has built up a stellar reputation of attracting and celebrating excellence in entrepreneurship. Following a tough preliminary round, a shortlist of 15 standout entrants has made it through to the final round of the 2017 edition of the competition. […]
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Eveready South Africa welcomes the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) decision to uphold its complaints relating to Duracell’s “10 x longer” claims. Following its investigation into the testing claims, statements made in advertising small print, Eveready South Africa (Eveready) referred a recent Duracell advertising campaign to the ASA to consider whether it breached five codes within the South […]
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The entrenchment of Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) in the South African media market, heralds a new era of audience-based advertising metrics where advertisers now know who, as opposed to just what, consumers engage with digital advertising across screens and publishers. DAR is powered by aggregated, anonymous information from the world’s largest third party, demographic […]
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