The new Board of Directors of the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) for the 2019/2020 fiscal were elected at the 72nd Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 25th July at the AAA School of Advertising campus in Johannesburg – they are: Wayne Naidoo: Chair CEO Duke Group Boniswa Pezisa: Vice Chair Group CEO Net#work […]
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Winners of the 2019 APEX awards and the end of an era announced
The highly anticipated annual APEX events were held on the 11th July in Johannesburg, where the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) hosted the NeXt Level of Thinking Masterclass in the morning followed by the APEX Awards Ceremony in the evening. Marketing moguls and brand barons converged on The Venue at The Houghton to attend […]
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The official industry body for the advertising profession, the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) has secured funding toward providing twenty academic bursaries to prospective students looking to enter the exciting world of Copywriting. The initiative has the full backing and support of the Creative Circle, an organisation dedicated to maintaining high levels of creativity […]
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First ACA ‘Future Ballers’ event a resounding success
There is a myth about age discrimination in advertising. Some say that while ‘ageism’ exists in all industries, in advertising it appears to be on ‘steroids’. It is true that if you look at the industry fleetingly, it appears to be flooded with young, hungry creative brilliance. But we all know, dig a little deeper […]
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On the 16th July, the highly valued annual APEX events were held in Sandton, where the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) hosted the NeXt Level of Thinking Masterclass in the morning followed by the APEX Awards Ceremony in the evening. Marketing moguls and brand barons converged on the Sandton Convention Centre to attend the […]
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There is no doubt that there is a countrywide and global sense and belief of new and inspired hope in terms of both political stability and policy certainty in South Africa. Within this context, Minister of Finance Mr Malusi Gigaba delivered both his first annual budget speech, and the first budget under the new Ramaphosa […]
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At a Board Meeting of the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) held at the ACA on the 27th July 2017, the Board noted the intention of the three sanctioned agencies’ intention to exercise their right to appeal in terms of the ACA Board decision to suspend their membership for a period of 12 months. […]
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